Программа дисциплины

8. Образовательные технологии

9. Оценочные средства для текущего контроля и аттестации студента

9.1 Тематика заданий текущего контроля

2. Вопросы и задания для оценки качества освоения дисциплины «Banking Transactions»

1. 
   How does a card transaction work?
   
2. 
   Describe different types of plastic cards.
   
3. 
   What type of plastic money is most popular among young people and why?
   
4. 
   What swindles with plastic cards are well-known in the world?
   
5. 
   How can a card-bearer protect his/her card against it (swindle)?
   

1. 
   Why is it important to glean as much information as possible about a potential customer’s financial status when opening the account?
   
2. 
   What opportunities are minors provided with when opening accounts?
   
3. 
   Do any barriers to opening personal accounts exist? If so, list them.
   

1. 
   Summarize the details that must be contained in a bank’s mandate form for a company account.
   
2. 
   Why is it important for a bank to examine a customer company’s memorandum and articles of association?
   

1. 
   Describe the steps a factor should undertake before a factoring agreement.
   
2. 
   What is needed to negotiate bills to a factor or a forfaitor (from a seller)?
   

3. 
   What is an aval? What does it serve for?
   
4. 
   In what way can factoring save money of a company?
   
5. 
   Explain the notions “recourse” and “without recourse factoring”.
   

1. 
   What factors does the way exporters choose to be paid depend on?
   
2. 
   Speak about advantages and disadvantages of payment by open account.
   
3. 
   How does the Documentary letter of Credit work?
   
4. 
   Why are revocable letter of credit seldom used in international trade?
   
5. 
   Speak about forfaiting. How would you differentiate between factoring and forfaiting?
   
6. 
   Give a full definition of the Bill of Exchange.
   
7. 
   Explain in what way can the Bill of Exchange be used in documentary collection method of payment.
   
8. 
   Differentiate between “an order” and “an indent”.
   

1. 
   Problems existing in the banking system and possible ways to solve them.
   
2. 
   Could the financial crisis of 1998 be predicted and prevented?
   
3. 
   Peculiarities of using plastic cards in the Russian economic environment.
   
4. 
   Specific character of factoring operations in Russia.
   
5. 
   Should individuals or governments be responsible for making people’s lifestyle healthy?
   
6. 
   Why do some people choose to do the same things every day? Are there any disadvantages in this?
   
7. 
   Have schools for young children become more or less competitive since you were that age? Why?
   
8. 
   What are the positive and the negative impacts of tourism?
   

1. 
   What is ‘descriptive statistics’ and how does it differ from ‘inferential’ one?
   
2. 
   Give your own examples of a sample from the population of your choice.
   
3. 
   Why do we investigate the sample, not the population?
   
4. 
   How are probability and statistics connected?
   

1. 
   What are the major areas of business activity where statistical techniques can be put to work?
   
2. 
   How can statistical techniques be applied to market testing?
   
3. 
   What are the principles of using statistical information in business?
   
4. 
   What are the two dimensions in the nature of statistical information?
   

1. 
   Give example of a situation where you have to describe trends; what information you need to do this?
   
2. 
   How do you decide which type of central tendency to use in your analysis?
   
3. 
   Give examples of cases when the median proves more accurate than the mean.
   

1. 
   What is a financial statement? What is it based on?
   
2. 
   How does accountant’s work differ from the one of statistical analyst’s?
   
3. 
   What is the real value of statistical techniques as related to estimates of the future?
   
4. 
   What does the analysis of the past/future include?
   

1. 
   Why is it necessary to express statistics visually?
   
2. 
   How can you keep your graph balanced?
   
3. 
   What are the rules for proper scaling?
   
4. 
   Enumerate the existing types of graphs.
   

2. Примерное задание для промежуточного контроля (может быть использовано позже для текущего и итогового контроля).

Задание для написания эссе, проводится в письменной форме

10. Учебно-методическое и информационное обеспечение дисциплины

10.1 Базовый учебник

10.2 Основная литература

10.3 Дополнительная литература

Аспект “Statistics”

1. 
   Сборник статей для внеаудиторного чтения студентами 2 курса факультета экономики отделения статистики, анализа данных и демографии, сост. Барановская Т.А., Ласточкина Т.И., Захарова А.В., ГУ ВШЭ 2009.
   
2. 
   Руденко В.И. Статистика. Краткий курс. – М., «Дашков и Ко», 2008.
   
3. 
   D. Downing, J. Clark. Statistics. The Easy Way. – Barron’s educational series Inc., 1997.
   

10.4 Справочники, словари, энциклопедии

5. Программные средства

10.6 Дистанционная поддержка дисциплины

11. Материально-техническое обеспечение дисциплины

1. 
   Компьютерные кабинеты для практических занятий (проведение аудирования, контрольных работ)
   
2. 
   Проекторы, магнитофоны
   
3. 
   Учебно-методический раздаточный материал для переводов, дискуссий, работы с лексикой