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What the syllabus expects

  • Exchange rates quotations
  • Cross rates
  • Interbank foreign currency quotations
  • Trading in foreign exchange rates: spot rates and forward rates

Exchange quotations and trading

Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Fourth Year

Subject: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FIN 250)

Unit 8: International Corporate Finance

Academic Year: 2083/84

Topic Objectives

After studying this topic, students should be able to:

  • Explain the scope and key elements of exchange quotations and trading.
  • Apply the relevant financial concepts or calculations and explain their assumptions, risks and analytical limits.

Curriculum Scope

  • Exchange rates quotations
  • Cross rates
  • Interbank foreign currency quotations
  • Trading in foreign exchange rates: spot rates and forward rates

Detailed Microsyllabus

  1. Exchange quotations

    1. Direct and indirect quotation conventions.
    2. Cross-rate calculations.
    3. Interbank quoted bid and offer information.
  2. Spot and forward

    1. Immediate versus future exchange arrangements.
    2. Calculate under a consistent quotation basis.
    3. Explain spread, timing and contractual assumptions.

Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 80–82.

Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here. Examples involving current laws, rates, institutional products or Nepalese status must identify the relevant period and official materials; no changing numerical or legal requirements are invented here.