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FIS 260 Week 1 Assignment The Monetary System
FIS 260 Week 1 CheckPoint The Four Pillars and the
Components of Finance Appendix B
FIS 260 Week 2 CheckPoint Functions of the Banking
System
FIS 260 Week 2 DQ 1 And DQ 2
FIS 260 Week 3 Assignment The Federal Reserve System
FIS 260 Week 3 CheckPoint The Fed Discount Rate and
Federal Funds Rate

FIS 260 Week 4 CheckPoint The U.S. Treasury
FIS 260 Week 5 Assignment International Trade
FIS 260 Week 5 CheckPoint Development of the
International Monetary System
FIS 260 Week 6 CheckPoint The Interest Rate
FIS 260 Week 7 Assignment Risk and Diversification
Appendix C
FIS 260 Week 7 CheckPoint Rates of Return
FIS 260 Week 8 CheckPoint Capital Budgeting
FIS 260 Week 9 Capstone Checkpoint
FIS 260 Week 9 Final Project The Current Financial
Environment

Week-1-Assignment-The-Monetary-System
Assignment: The Monetary System
· Resource: Ch. 2 in the text
· Write a 500- to 700-word paper on the monetary
system, focusing on the relationship between the money
supply and economic activity. Include in your paper the
following points:
o The three ways money is transferred from savers to
businesses
o Why depository institutions are important

o The functions of money
o M1, M2 and M3 definitions
o Links between money supply and economic activity
o A definition of the GDP
o What monetarists believe
o An explanation of the velocity of money
o A definition of inflation
o What Keynesians believe
o How other monetary systems can affect the U.S.
monetary system
· Post your paper to the Assignments section as an
attachment

Week-1-CheckPoint-The-Four-Pillars-and-the-
Components-of-Finance-Appendix-B
CheckPoint: The Four Pillars and the Components of
Finance · Complete Appendix B, Parts I and II.
· Post your response to the Assignments section as an
attachment

System
Week-2-CheckPoint-Functions-of-the-Banking-System
System
CheckPoint: Functions of the Banking System
• Answer each of the following questions: What are the
differences between commercial and investment
banking? What types of services and products do
commercial banks provide? What types of services and
products do investment banks provide? What are the
five functions that the banking system performs? What
is universal banking? What types of charters can U.S.
banks obtain? What types of depository protection exist
for U.S. banks? What are two ways banks can fail?

• Post your response to the Assignment section as an
attachment

Week-2-DQ-1-And-DQ-2
Week 2 DQ 1
Financial institutions serve various functions and
roles. You are probably familiar with the services and
functions of commercial banks and other depository
institutions, but what about contractual savings
organizations, securities firms and finance
companies? Why do you think these institutions are
important to the financial system? Why are insurance
companies and pension funds necessary? How do
investment companies and brokerage firms
operate? What do you think would happen if there were
no finance companies?

Week 2 DQ 2
Why do you think international banking is
important? What are some of the differences between
banks in the United States and those in other
countries? Why did the United States pass the
International Banking Act in 1978, and then the Foreign
Bank Supervision Enhancement Act in 1991? Do you
think these laws are a good idea, or do you think that the
banking system in this country should more closely
resemble the banking systems of other
countries? Explain your answer.

Week-3-Assignment-The-Federal-Reserve-System
Assignment: The Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the
United States and, as such, plays an important role in
our financial system. The monetary policy implemented
by the Federal Reserve System can affect individual
financial matters as well as the economy as a whole.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word research paper explaining
the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve
System. Include in your paper a discussion of the basic
structure of the Fed, the primary responsibility of the
Fed, and a thorough explanation of the basic policy

instruments of the Fed:
a. Reserve requirements
i. Bank reserves
ii. Fractional reserve system
iii. Required reserves ratio
b. The discount rate
i. The discount rate’s relation to banks’ prime rate
c. Open market operations
i. The federal funds rate
ii. Federal reserve notes
Cite at least three sources.
Post your paper to the Assignments section as an
attachment.

Federal Funds Rate
Week-3-CheckPoint-The-Fed-Discount-Rate-and-
Federal-Funds-Rate
Federal Funds Rate
CheckPoint: The Fed Discount Rate and Federal Funds
Rate
Complete the Internet Activity on p. 86 in Introduction
to Institutions.
Research, at www.stls.frb.org, the historical changes in
the federal funds rate, and answer the following
questions: What are the changes in basis points and the

targeted level on September 17, 2001? June 25, 2003?
June 29, 2006?
Post the activity and your answers to the Assignments
section as an attachment.

Week-4-CheckPoint-The-US-Treasury
CheckPoint: The U.S. Treasury
Complete the Internet Activity on p. 105 of the text.
Identify the mission and goals of the U.S. Department of
the Treasury located at www.treas.gov. Write a brief
summary of the information. 10. Post your summary to
the Assignments section.

Week 4 DQ 1
Recall from Ch. 1 that policy makers are one of the key
components of the financial system. The objectives of
these policy makers include economic growth, high
employment and price stability. How do you think you
are personally affected when one or more of these
objectives are not met? What do you think would
happen if there was a downturn in the GDP? What
would happen to the economy if unemployment
increased? What would be the effects of rising inflation
on the overall financial system and on you as an
individual?

Week 4 DQ 2
Why do you think it is important to control the money
supply? Why do you think banks are required to keep a
fraction of deposits in reserve? What would happen if
there were no required reserves for depository or
lending institutions? What are some of the factors
affecting these bank reserves? Explain your answers.

Week-5-Assignment-International-Trade
Assignment: International Trade
Resource: The Internet Activity on p. 130 of Introduction
to Institutions
Imagine that you are a financial advisor for a
multinational corporation, and that one of your duties is
to compile current information on currency exchange
rates and trade relationships.
Complete the Internet Activity located in the text at
http://money.cnn.com
Research the current trade relationship between the
U.S. and Canada.

Prepare a five- to seven-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®
presentation on your findings; Include in your
presentation the following points:
a. The Internet Activity
b. A brief history of the trade relationship between the
U.S. and Canada
c. The current size of this trade relationship
d. The percentages of imports and exports exchanged
between the two countries
18. Post your presentation to the Assignments section as
an attachment

Week-5-Checkpoint-Development-of-the-International-
Monetary-System
CheckPoint: Development of the International Monetary
System
Define briefly each of the following terms, and arrange
them in an appropriate chronological order:
a. Euro
b. Bretton Woods System

c. World Bank
d. Flexible Exchange Rates
e. International Monetary Fund
f. Special Drawing Rights
g. Gold Standard
h. European Monetary Union
i. International Monetary System
Post your response to the Assignments section as an
attachment.

Week-6-CheckPoint-The-Interest-Rate
CheckPoint: The Interest Rate
Answer the following questions regarding interest rates:
What is the interest rate? Explain the loanable funds
theory of interest rates. What are the two basic sources
of loanable funds? What are some of the major factors
affecting the supply of loanable funds? What are the
determinants of market interest rates? Describe the
three types of U.S. Treasury securities. How do interest
rates affect your personal finances?

attachment

Week 6 DQ 1
Budgetary deficits, whether on an individual or national
scale, occur when expenditures surpass
revenues. Currently and for many years now, the
federal government has been operating with annual
budgetary deficits; the US is currently a debtor
nation. Explain why this is either good or bad. If bad,
suggest some plausible solutions to eradicating the
budgetary deficits. Finally, link this discussion of the
federal budgetary deficit with an individual's savings-to-
debt ratio.

Week 6 DQ 2
There is a fairly predictable chronology of stages for
individual savers, which in turn influences economic
cycles. Do you believe these listed stages accurately
reflect your own savings timeline? What do you think
would occur if the majority of the population entered a
conservative savings period at the same time? A
spending period at the same time? When overall savings
decrease, what do you think happens to investments and
the lending abilities of financial institutions?

Appendix C
Week-7-Assignment-Risk-and-Diversification-Appendix-
C
Appendix C
Assignment: Risk and Diversification
Complete Appendix C.
Post your calculations and summary to the Assignments
section as an attachment

Week-7-CheckPoint-Rates-of-Return
Answer the following questions: Explain the differences
between historical and expected rates of return. What is
variance and standard deviation? How are they used as
measures of risk? What are states of nature and how are
they used for expected measures of risk and return?
What are some characteristics of an efficient market?
attachment

Week-8-CheckPoint-Capital-Budgeting
What is capital budgeting? Where must firms look for
beneficial capital budgeting projects? What must firms
avoid when seeking capital budgeting projects? Briefly
describe the five stages of the capital budgeting process.
What are some capital budgeting considerations unique
to multinational corporations?
attachment.

Week 8 DQ 1
Why do you think capital budgeting is important for
firms? What happens if a firm's capital is not budgeted
wisely? Of the four capital budgeting techniques, which
do you believe is most preferable? Explain your answer.
Week 8 DQ 2
Why do you think it is important for a firm to choose an
optimum debt to equity mix? What happens if a firm
chooses a nonoptimal capital structure? Why do you

think it is necessary to find the weighted average cost of
capital? Explain your answers.

Week-9-Capstone-Checkpoint
Resource: Career profiles and career opportunities in
finance sections in Introduction to Institutions
Post your response to the Assignment section of the
following: Each chapter of the text includes career
profiles of men and women in finance, and most
chapters include sections on career opportunities in
finance. Using these sections, answer the following
questions:

a. Of the various jobs and skill sets discussed, which to
you seemed the most appealing as a possible future
career? Why?
b. What level of education or training does this job
require?
c. Do you think you want to pursue this career in
particular?
d. Are there any other careers that seemed appealing?
Why?

Environment
Week-9-Final-Project-The-Current-Financial-
Environment
Environment
Final Project: The Current Financial Environment
Research and compare the following services provided
by three different commercial banks or other depository
institutions: the current interest charged on a variable
credit card account, the current annual percentage rate
for a new car, and the current interest rate on a year
fixed mortgage.

List the depository institutions and each separate rate.
Research and answer the following questions: What is
the current prime rate? What is the current federal
funds rate? What is the current Fed discount rate? What
is the current GDP?
Discuss, in a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of your
findings, the current financial situation, and explain in
detail how the federal funds rate and discount rate are
related to the prime rate, and how the prime rate in turn
is related to the services provided by the banks you
researched. Address the following points in particular:
a. The date of the last federal funds rate increase or
decrease
b. The amount of the increase or decrease
c. The rational behind the latest increase or decrease
d. The effect of the increase or decrease on the overall
economy and upon you as an individual. Do not include
any specific personal financial data.
Cite your sources. Post your analysis to the Assignment
section as an attachment.

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