MONEY AND CREDIT
Double coincidence of wants is an essential feature
When both parties have to agree to sell and buy each others commodities. This is known as double coincidence of wants. What a person desires to sell is exactly what the other wishes to buy.
A barter system has deficiencies.
1. Barter exchanges become extremely difficult in a large economy because of the high costs people would have to incur looking for suitable persons to exchange their surpluses 2. It is difficult to carry forward one’s wealth under the barter system.
Importance of money/Money as medium of exchange.
Money acts as an intermediate in the exchange process, it is called a medium of
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the payer who has an account with the bank makes out a cheque for a specific amount. The money is transferred from one bank account to another bank account in a couple of days. The transaction is complete without any payment of cash. Monday, August 10, 2009
Banks use the major portion of the deposits to extend loans also.
Banks mediate between those who have surplus funds (the depositors) and those who are in need of these funds (the borrowers).
Banks keep only a small proportion of their deposits as cash with themselves. Banks in India these days hold about 15 per cent of their deposits as cash this is kept as provision to pay the depositors who might come to withdraw money from the bank on any given day. Since, on any particular day, only some of its many depositors come to withdraw cash, the bank is able to manage with this cash.
Banks make use of the deposits to meet the loan requirements of the people. In this way .Banks charge a higher interest rate on loans than what they offer on deposits.
The difference between what is charged from borrowers and what is paid to depositors is their main source of income.
Role-In India, the Reserve Bank of India 1. Issues currency notes on behalf of the central government. 2. As per Indian law, no other individual or organization is allowed to issue
Participants in competition with one another for scarce resources by exchanging things with others whenever
The bank rate is the interest rate at which the Bank of Canada stands ready to lend reserves to chartered banks. The banker 's deposit rate is the interest rate that the Bank of Canada pays banks on their deposits at the Bank of Canada. Changes to these rates by the Bank of Canada typically spread to other interest rates and therefore will influence the amount of lending done by the banks.
The U.S. banking system creates money by allocating the excess reserves from a deposit at creating a loan from the Home Bank. In other words, say I deposit a $100.00 in Bank #1, where Bank #1 is able to lend out some of my money to another customer. So, Bank #1by law needs to hold 10% of what I deposited which is known as required reserves. Therefore, the required reserves of my $100 is $10. So, Bank#1 is able to provide a $90 loan to another customer, which we will name Moe, from my $100. Then, Moe will turn around and spend that money which will eventually make its way to another bank, which we will call Bank #2. So, Bank #2 will be able to loan out $81 of Moe’s $90 yet, Bank #2 is still required to keep 10% which is required reserves, which is $9 of the $90.
The tendency of communities to specialize in some phase of economic activity made it necessary that they maintain commercial contact with other communities and countries in order to secure the things that they did not produce (Hope 16). Some villages, for example, specialized in fishing, others concentrated on metallurgy, while others made weapons, utensils, and so on. Traders traveled from place to place to barter and to purchase. Upon returning they were laden with goods that they sold within their own community (Hope 17).
The banking industry has over the years evolved from simple to large and complex organization. They have grown from one street building into having multiple branches some of which are international. Their clients range from individual and institutions to governments and other banks. Banks do not manufacture physical things. Their work is simply services for money (Koch & MacDonald 2010). Such services include storing, lending and managing money. All people and institutions, as well as governments, need money to operate accordingly.
Commerce is frequently thought of as the activity of buying or selling on a large scale, whether it be goods or not, but commerce can be thought of in a different manner, simply defining it as social dealings between people. If commerce is looked at as simply the social interactions between groups of people, it exists practically everywhere on nearly a daily basis. Whether it be the exchange of some sort of “good” on a mass scale from one group to another satirically seen in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, arranging marriages as seen in Moliere’s Tartuffe, or 3RD TEXT, it can all be considered some kind of commerce.
Banks are institutions in which people put their money for safekeeping, to save, to use to pay their bills, or to earn interest on. Banks are allowed to use that money to make loans and earn interest for the bank's’ owners. Different types of banks offer different types of services. For example, commercial banks originally just served businesses, and savings banks and credit unions were used by individuals, especially those who couldn’t qualify for loans at regular banks. This is no longer the case. Although commercial banks and thrift institutions used to serve different purposes, today they all offer many of the same types of services including bank accounts, loans, credit, certificates of deposits (CDs), and much more.
Throughout the times of man’s inhabitance on this planet, mankind has experimented with innumerable methods of trade and economics. Many believe that human restrictions on trade and a person’s desire for objects can create a utopian way of economic life. The following will examine two articles: The Market Didn’t Do It and A Good Conversation and the Marketplace. The goal of the following is to determine whether each is true and why based not only on the economic system of the world today, but also upon reason.
see, we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver or jewels... nor for any other
In the United States banks operate under the Fractional Reserve System. This means that the law requires banks to keep a percentage of their deposits as reserves in the form of vault cash or as deposits with the nearest Federal Reserve Bank. They loaned out the rest of their deposits to earn interest. Such banking practices formed the basis for the banking system's ability to "create" money. I think one of the important benefits of fractional reserve banking is it pools together a lot of smaller savings, and it's able to lend it out in a variety of markets, some of them to big business but also to smaller enterprise and to households—institutions that banks,
Banks take deposits from savers and pay interest on these accounts. They receive interest on loans when they pass these funds on to borrowers. The spread between the rate they pay for funds and the rate they receive from borrowers is where their profits are derived from. This practice of combining deposits from many sources which can be lent to many borrowers forms a interchange of funds
Simply putting, banks accept deposits from public; keep some of those deposits with them and lend the rest to businesses and individuals. Businesses and individuals in turn pay interest on
Finally, we also observed that the cashier deposits mail receipts in the bank weekly. The internal storage of cash on the premises of the Company is not advisable for obvious reasons- theft, robbery, and unauthorized access. Employees with other intentions can alert external cohorts to raid or rob the Company at night or at another time to gain access to the cash stored on the premises. Additionally, the storage of the cash on the premises presents a "working hazard" for the employees as outsiders wanting to gain access to the cash may subject them to unwanted raids. The use of a bank on a daily basis contributes significantly to good internal control over cash. The company can safeguard the cash on a daily basis by using a bank as a depository and
Definition: - A ‘bill of exchange’ is an instrument in Writing containing an unconditional order, singed by the maker, directing a certain person to pay a certain a sum of money only to, a certain person; or the order of a certain person; or the bearer of the instrument.