OPF:FIN904S Insurance A - Course Information
FIN904S Insurance A
School of Business Administration in KarvinaSummer 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Petra Růčková, Ph.D.
Department of Finance and Accounting – School of Business Administration in Karvina - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- The aim of the course is to introduce and explain the basic features of insurance system and insurance market in the Czech Republic. The student will gradually get acquainted with various types of insurance, why and how insurance is purchased and so with role of risk management of insurance. This course involves problems of reinsurance and investment of insurance company funds too.
- Syllabus (in Czech)
- Structure of the Course:
1. Insurance market, its characteristic and segmentation
Basic terms, historical evolution of system of insurance, present situation on the insurance market in the EU and in the Czech Republic.
2. Insurance law
Public insurance law, private insurance law, creation of technical reserves
3. Organization and proceedings of system of insurance
Authorities and institution including state supervision, risk management
4. The structure of insurance markets
5. Non-life insurance (general insurance)
Segmentation of non-life insurance, fire-insurance, theft insurance, household insurance, insurance of buildings, motor vehicle insurance, liability insurance.
6. Life insurance and health and casualty insurance
Segmentation of life insurance, health insurance and casualty insurance, life insurance as support of investments
7. The economics in the system of insurance
Premium and construction of premium, system of support of demand, economic equability of insurance, bancassurance, reinsurance.
8. Social insurance and pension schemes
Financing of systém of social security, method of pension schemes - government pension schemes, obligatory pension schemes and individual pension schemes, defined-benefit and defined-contributions plans, investments of pension funds.
- Structure of the Course:
- Literature
- recommended literature
- FABOZZI, FJ., MODIGLIANI, F., JONES, FJ., FERRI, M, G. Foundations Finacial Markets and Institutions. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 0-02-400581-9. info
- SKIPPER, HD. International Risk and Insurance. 1st ed. Boston: Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-256-23304-7. info
- DAVIS, DP. Pension Funds. 1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-829304-6. info
- DIACON, SR., CARTER, RL . Success in Insurance. 3rd ed. London: John Murray Ltd.,, 1995. ISBN 0-7195-5174-9. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2009, recent)
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