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About this book
Elements of Banking: Made Simple discusses the fundamental concepts of banking. The book covers the various banking services, such as saving, lending, and investment. In the first two chapters, the text reviews the history of banking and money system. The succeeding four chapters deal with customers. These chapters cover types of customers and the accounts available to them. Next, the legal bases of banking are discussed, while the British banking systems are primarily concerned in Chapters 8 to 11. The next four chapters cover the banking services, which include lending, savings, and investment. Chapters 16 to 18 discuss banking and international trade. The next chapter deals with promoting banking services, and the last chapter tackles the Institute of Bankers. The book will be of great interest to the undergraduate students of accountancy, business administration, and management.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Elements of Banking: Made Simple
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. The origin and development of banking
- Chapter 2. The development of the money system
- Chapter 3. The types of account available to customers
- Chapter 4. Types of customers
- Chapter 5. Customer services 1: money transfer and finance
- Chapter 6. Customer services 2: other services
- Chapter 7. The legal bases of banking
- Chapter 8. The British banking system 1: the Bank of England
- Chapter 9. The British banking system 2: the main institutions
- Chapter 10. The London money market
- Chapter 11. The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and other legislation
- Chapter 12. Bank lending
- Chapter 13. Savings and investment
- Chapter 14. Assessing the accounts of business customers
- Chapter 15. The accounts of an imaginary clearing bank
- Chapter 16. Foreign dealings 1 : Foreign exchange and travel facilities
- Chapter 17. Foreign dealings 2: payments in international trade
- Chapter 18. Other schemes to help exporters
- Chapter 19. Marketing customer services
- Chapter 20. The Institute of Bankers
- Rapid revision 1: The history of banking 1: the origin and development of banking to 1760
- Rapid revision 2: The history of banking 2: the country banks 1760ā1914
- Rapid revision 3: The history of banking 3: the Bank of England since 1844
- Rapid revision 4: The development of the money system
- Rapid revision 5: The supply of money
- Rapid revision 6: Banking and the creation of credit
- Rapid revision 8: More detailed points about the operation of customers' accounts
- Rapid revision 9: Some special types of customers 1
- Rapid revision 10: Some special types of customers 2
- Rapid revision 11: Personal customer services
- Rapid revision 12: The legal bases of banking 1 : the banker-customerārelationship
- Rapid revision 13: The legal bases of banking 2: More about the contract between banker and customer
- Rapid revision 14: The structure of banking1 : the Bank of England
- Rapid revision 15: The structure of banking 2: the chief financial institutions
- Rapid revision 16: The structure of banking 3: the London money market
- Rapid revision 17: Assessing the accounts of an ordinary business customer 1: theTrading Account
- Rapid revision 18: Assessing the accounts of an ordinary business customer 2: the Profit and Loss Account
- Rapid revision 19: Assessing the accounts of an ordinary business customer 3: the Balance Sheet
- Rapid revision 20: The accounts of a commercial bank
- Rapid revision 21: Bank lending
- Rapid revision 22: Savings and investment
- Rapid revision 23: Services to business customers
- Rapid revision 24: Foreign dealings 1: principles of foreign exchange
- Rapid revision 25: Foreign dealings 2: negotiable instruments
- Rapid revision 26: Payments in international trade 1: cash with order and open account terms
- Rapid revision 27: Payments in international trade 2: letters of credit
- Rapid revision 28: Payments in international trade 3: documentary collections
- Rapid revision 29: Other schemes to help exporters
- Rapid revision 30: Consumer credit and banking
- Rapid revision 31: Marketing customer services
- Glossary
- Index