This document contains 49 questions covering a wide range of topics in economics and finance including: motives for holding money, factors influencing a country's balance of payments, calculating return on capital, types of costs, how goods are exchanged in a barter economy, participants in the foreign exchange market, measuring a company's efficiency, the difference between debits and credits, accounts affecting the balance of payments, types of investment, functions of commercial banks, key areas of a company's business, fixed and variable costs, sources of equity finance, functions of money, handling global cash flows, what determines money demand, what international financial management involves, liquidity, clearing systems, gearing, the role of money in monetary economies, the role of banks
This document contains 49 questions covering a wide range of topics in economics and finance including: motives for holding money, factors influencing a country's balance of payments, calculating return on capital, types of costs, how goods are exchanged in a barter economy, participants in the foreign exchange market, measuring a company's efficiency, the difference between debits and credits, accounts affecting the balance of payments, types of investment, functions of commercial banks, key areas of a company's business, fixed and variable costs, sources of equity finance, functions of money, handling global cash flows, what determines money demand, what international financial management involves, liquidity, clearing systems, gearing, the role of money in monetary economies, the role of banks
This document contains 49 questions covering a wide range of topics in economics and finance including: motives for holding money, factors influencing a country's balance of payments, calculating return on capital, types of costs, how goods are exchanged in a barter economy, participants in the foreign exchange market, measuring a company's efficiency, the difference between debits and credits, accounts affecting the balance of payments, types of investment, functions of commercial banks, key areas of a company's business, fixed and variable costs, sources of equity finance, functions of money, handling global cash flows, what determines money demand, what international financial management involves, liquidity, clearing systems, gearing, the role of money in monetary economies, the role of banks
2. How is a country’s BOP influenced by merchandise trade?
3. How is return on capital commonly calculated? 4. How are costs over the long run? 5. How are goods exchanged in a barter economy? 6. How have IMF and the World Bank blurred the line between themselves? 7. How many kinds participants are there in the foreign exchange market? What are they? 8. In what way can a company’s efficiency be measured? 9. In what way is a debit different from a credit? 10. Name some accounts affecting the BOP? 11. Name three categories regarded as important instruments to affect money supply? 12. Originally, what was the difference between IMF and the World Bank? 13. Reasons for keeping money for Precautionary motive? 14. State two kinds of investment? 15. What are commercial banks? 16. What are considered to be the key areas of a company’s business? 17. What are constant costs? Give example? 18. What are different kinds of costs? 19. What are fixed costs? Give example? 20. What are marginal costs? Give example? 21. What are sources of equity finance? 22. What are the 4 functions of money? 23. What are the two most important ways to handle global cash flow? 24. What are variable costs? Give example? 25. What determines money demand? 26. What does international financial management involve? 27. What does liquidity refer to? 28. What is a clearing system? 29. What is Gearing? 30. What is international finance concerned with? 31. What is money used for in a monetary economy? 32. What is stated as a role of the bank? 33. What is the crucial feature of money? 34. What is the difference between spot transactions and forward transactions? 35. What is the effect of the Banking imposing a reserve requirement? 36. What is the objective of international financial management strategies? 37. What is the profit margin? 38. What is the reason for the existence of an entry for net errors and omissions in the reserve account? 39. What is the role of the foreign exchange market? 40. What is the significance of the BOP? 41. What is Unit of account? 42. When is it not worth banks lending as much as possible? 43. Why can banks not lose by lending as much as possible? 44. Why does a reserve requirement act like a tax on banks? 45. Why does money serve as a standard deferred payment? 46. Why is money used as a store of value? 47. Why is the BOP said to be a double-entry system? 48. Why is there a need for buying foreign exchange? 49. Why is trading expensive in a barter economy?