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Level 5 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Financial and money markets

AB503 · Financial Planning and Control — Week 5 of 16

CourseAB503
Week5 of 16
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This week’s topics

Financial and money markets

  1. Interest rate transmission mechanisms
  2. Foreign exchange market dynamics
  3. Capital market efficiency
  4. Central bank monetary policy impacts
  5. Kairong Xiao: Don’t Fight the Fed: Monetary Policy and Financial Markets
  6. 18. Monetary Policy
  7. Lecture 30: Functions of Foreign Exchange Market, Interest Rate, Relative Inflation Rate
  8. Economics 100B - 2014-10-09: Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand
  9. Economics 1 - Lecture 23: Exchange Rates and Balance of Paym

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Explain the influence of financial and money markets on financial planning and control.

Activity

Start with this week’s 5 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the influence of financial and money markets on financial planning and control.

Study materials

Videos

  • Kairong Xiao: Don’t Fight the Fed: Monetary Policy and Financial Markets · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 13 min · for registered students
  • Forecasting Foreign Currency Exchange rates - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 16 min · for registered students
  • Exchange rates risk - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 11 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 3: Economic Foundations: Money and Rates · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 79–112 · for registered students
  • Money and Banking, ch. 7: Rational Expectations, Efficient Markets, and the Valuation of Corporate Equities · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 131–156 · for registered students
  • Principles of Economics 3e, ch. 28: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 683–710 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Principles of corporate financial planning
  • Week 2: Formulating the corporate financial plan
  • Week 3: Sources of business finance
  • Week 4: Financing risks and capital structure
  • Week 5: Financial and money markets
  • Week 6: Investment appraisal and business strategy
  • Week 7: Global financial risk environment
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Global financial risk management and hedging
  • Week 10: Corporate governance and financial oversight
  • Week 11: Practical implications of governance on financial control
  • Week 12: Applying Financial Planning and Control in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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