Master Program in Finance – Exam Questions

1. Gross Domestic Product and Income
2. Policies for maintaining full employment
3. Policy formation towards inflation
4. Open market operations: types, advantages and disadvantages
5. Essence and functions of banking capital
6. Organizational structure of central bank; functions of central bank
7. Role of commercial banks in financial system functioning; organizational structures of commercial banks
8. Banking risks: types of risks, valuation and management (liquidity risks, market risks, legal risks, reputation risks, solvency risks)
9. Interest rate structure theory
10. Principle of current and future value
11. Time valuation application
12. What is corporate governance? Explain briefly.
13. what are the ways of fund flows in financial system and how can a company raise funds?
14. please explain broker and dealer with their differences?
15. explain money market and capital market.
16. Explain briefly main differences between debt financing and equity financing for companies to raise funds.
17. what are differences between preferred stock and common stocks.
18. explain why cash is important than accounting income for finance managers?
19. what is FCF (free cash flow) and how is calculated?

Recommended Literature:

• Principles of Managerial Finance by Lawrence J. Gitman, 12th Edition, Pearson Publishing (2007)
• Mishkin Frederic S. (2007) The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (8th ed.). Pearson, Addison Wesley