Banking

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The primary mission of this course is to provide an understanding of the commercial bank management. We will talk on

daily problems and issues that management have to deal with and the tools needed to effectively struggle with them.

The course begins with the illustration how critical commercial banking are to the functioning of the economy and how

those it reflects our standard of living with special attention on specificity of banking industry.

Next, the services banks offer, how banks are organized and structured will be presented with special attention to the

principal laws and regulations governing the industry. Also, how to analyze banks’ financial statements and evaluate bank

performance. Students will be introduced to the topic of asset-liability management and with bank’s exposure to different

risks The liquidity problems banks must deal with as they manage their cash position will be presented.

The main emphasis during this lecture will be put on practical aspects on banking industry and presentation of positive

and negative behavior on the market. Some of them lead to the crisis as big as the one in year 2007.

Additionally, the lecture will be enriched with practical application of technological revolution. The technology of

information processing and communication is changing so rapidly that even relatively new techniques for processing and

transfer of financial information (money transfer) are becoming outdated.

1. Peter S. Rose, Commercial Bank Management, McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 5 editions, 2001

2. Timothy W. Koch, S. Scott MacDonald, Bank Management, Cengage Learning, 2010

3. Peter S. Rose, Sylvia Conway Hudgins, Bank Management and Financial Services,

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005

Final assessment will consist from three parts:

1. team assignment (presentation), and

2. individual assignment (homework),

3. final exam (written exam)

The student has to fulfil the first two conditions in order to be admitted to final exam.

The final score consist of two parts:

• 40% score of individual assignment,

• 60% score of final exam

Class participation (according with UW WNE rules).

Individual assignment (homework): answering to the questions presented on each course, response handwritten, one page

of A4 paper.

Team assignment (presentation): The description of assigned topic (in team of students) content into the broader

framework of banking, present by using slides in ppt format. The presentation will be 15-20 minutes long.