12/05/2025
MONEY AND BANKING
Definition of Money: It refers to anything generally accepted for the purchase of goods and services or for settlement of debt.
The drawbacks or limitations of the trade by barter system led to the invention of money 💸 to serve as a legal tender.
A legal tender refers to anything declared by law to be money. For example the legal tender in Cameroon is FCFA, Nigeria is Naira, Japan is Yen etc.
Money in Cameroon is divided into banknote and coins of different denominations.
Qualities of money
1] Acceptability
2] Portability
3] Recognizability
4] Divisibility
5] Durability
6] Scarcity
7] Non- Counterfeitability
Functions of money
1] Medium of exchange
2] Store of value
3] Unit of account
4] Payment of salaries or wages to workers
Demand for money
This is the desire of people to hold money in liquid form or cash rather than to purchase goods and services or to keep it in banks.
People hold money in liquid form for three reasons
1] For transactionary motives
2] For precautionary motive
3] For speculative motives
Active balance= Transactionary motives+ Precautionary motive
Idle balance= Speculative motives
Demand for money= Transactionary motives+Precautionary motive+ Speculative motives
For example
The budget of a household for the month is as follows:
•Speculative motives= 6,00,000frs
•Transactionary motives= 8,00,000frs
•Precautionary motives= 400,000frs.
Calculate
I] The idle balance
II] Active balance
III] Demand for money.
Solution
I] Idle balance= 600,000frs(Speculative motives)
II] Active balance= Transactionary motives+ Precautionary motive
=800,000frs+400,000frs= 1,200,000frs
III] Demand for money= Transactionary motives+Precautionary motive+Speculative motives
= 600,000frs+800,000+400,000frs
Demand for money= 1,800,000frs
Tutor ENOW MARTIN EGBE.
Economics (Money and Banking)
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