This AIB course explains macroeconomic principles with a focus on how those principles relate to the financial services industry. It will help students interpret economics news and apply economic principles to their work. Most applications in the text apply to the financial services indusrty.

   Audience:  Personnel who have not had a formal course in economics and who wish to increase their understanding of economics as it relates to banking.

    Learning Objectives

   At the conclusion of the program participants will be able to:

• Understand the meaning of economic terminology and the discipline of economic reasoning
• Follow economic news and analyze important economic questions
• Locate and obtain economic data and information and apply it to your bank's needs
• Apply economic principles to important questions in the financial services industry
• Use basic graphing and graph interpretation skills to examine economic questions
• Understand the major economic policy problems faced by government: economic growth, unemployment, inflation, and budget deficits and debt
• Understand the aggregate demand / aggregate supply model and its importance in examining major economic policy problems

Enrollment Form

(Download and print from SER-CFT website, complete and fax to 904-354-1834)