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FIS 260 Week 1 Assignment:

The Monetary System
FIS 260 Week 1 Check Point:
The Four Pillars and the
Components of Finance
FIS 260 Week 2 Check Point:
Functions of the Banking
System
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FIS 260 Capstone CheckPoint

31. Resource: Career profiles

and career opportunities in
finance sections in
Introduction to Institutions
32. 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

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FIS 260 Final Project The Current
Financial Environment

33. 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 30year fixed mortgage.
34. List the depository
institutions and each separate

FIS 260 Week 1 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:

The three ways money is

transferred from savers to

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FIS 260 Week 1 CheckPoint The
Four Pillars and the

Complete Appendix B, Parts I

and II.

Post your response to the

Assignments section as an
attachment

FIS 260 Week 2 CheckPoint

Functions of the Banking

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

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FIS 260 Week 3 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.

FIS 260 Week 3 CheckPoint The

Fed Discount Rate and Federal

1. Complete the Internet

Activity on p. 86 in
Introduction to Institutions.
2. 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?

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FIS 260 Week 4 CheckPoint The
U.S. Treasury

9. 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.

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FIS 260 Week 5 Assignment
International Trade

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13. Resource: The Internet

Activity on p. 130 of
Introduction to Institutions
14. 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.
15. Complete the Internet
Activity located in the text at
http://money.cnn.com

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FIS 260 Week 5 CheckPoint
Development of the

11. Define briefly each of the

following terms, and arrange
them in an appropriate
chronological order:
a. Euro
b. Breton Woods System
c. World Bank
d. Flexible Exchange Rates
e. International Monetary
Fund

FIS 260 Week 6 CheckPoint The

Interest Rate

20. Answer the following

questions regarding interest
rates: What is the interest
rate? Explain the loan able
funds theory of interest rates.
What are the two basic
sources of loan able funds?
What are some of the major
factors affecting the supply of
loan able funds? What are the
determinants of market
interest rates? Describe the
three types of U.S. Treasury

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FIS 260 Week 7 Assignment Risk
and Diversification

25. Complete Appendix C.

26. Post your calculations and
summary to the Assignments
section as an attachment

FIS 260 Week 7 CheckPoint Rates

of Return

23. 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?

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FIS 260 Week 8 CheckPoint Capital
Budgeting

29. Answer the following

questions: 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?

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