Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Specialised master in financial risk management | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Meaning of the course :
- to make the student familiar with the sphere of the finance sector
- to analyse the organisation of credit institutions from the legislation in force (Royal Decree of 03/22/1993 and the circulars of the Banking,Finance and Insurance Commission);
- to explain the balance sheet specific to finance institutions;
- to introduce the main ratios used in the sector.
Contents :
- Introduction to the banking sector
- Evolution of the sphere of the finance sector
- Structure of the resources and of employments
- Profitability, solvency, liquidity
- Legislation concerning the legal status and supervision of credit institutions
- Law of March 22, 1993
- Main intervening parties
- Prescribed coefficients (equity, liquidity,....)
- Analysis of the balance sheet and of the results account
- Table of management control and main ratios
- Current topics
- Money laundering
- National and international payment systems
- Savings fiscal system
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course the students will be able to:
- give proof of their acquired knowledge about the working and the organisation of the institutions (C1);
- to explain the contents of the different items of the balance sheet and of the results account of the credit institutions (C1-P2);
- to analyse, on the basis of cases, the strategies developed by different banks and their impacts on the main financial ratios (C3-C4);
- to analyse some specific topics in the finance sector from a documentary research (C4).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
A1 Teaching
A1 Research on current topics with the writing of a report (feed-back)
A2 'Assistant questioning' hours : questions and answers to prepare the cases and their presentations
A3 Cases study: preparation of cases by the students and report (feed-back)
A4 Reports writing: reports written in group
Recommended or required readings
Compendium available at the Centre
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Titular professor : J. Berwart
Main assistant : A. Bils