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Basics of Banking

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is one difference between Banks and Credit Unions?
a)
Banks have Checking accounts and Credit Unions have Savings Accounts
b)
Banks are for profit.  Credit Unions are Non-profit.
c)
Banks can give loans and Credit Unions cannot
d)
Credit Unions allow everyone to join and Banks are selective
2.

What is the amount of money banks are required to keep for liquidity?

a)

loans from customers

b)

bank reserves

c)
Minimum Deposit
d)

cash in valut

3.
What is the name of a legal document that functions like cash?
a)
Check
b)
ATM
c)
Deposit slip
d)
PIN
4.
How do financial institutions make most of their money?
a)
Fees
b)
Interest
c)
Mutual Funds
d)
Loan Payments
5.
The tools and strategies the Federal Reserve uses to stabilize the economy is called?
a)
Fiscal Policy
b)
Monetary Policy
c)
Tight Money
d)
Easy Money
6.

Banks create money by taking in deposits, making _______, and charging _______.

a)
interest, payments
b)
loans, interest
c)
payments, loans
d)
debt, loans
7.

All financial institutions and banks charge the same types of fees.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

DEFINE interest.

a)

Money paid at a rate for money lent, delaying repayment

b)

Money paid for paying a debt in a timely manner

c)

Money paid for investment success

d)

Money paid for investment failure

9.

When a bank receives initial deposits, it gains an equal amount of reserves, thus, deposit liabilities always equal the reserves.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Checkable deposits are also called

a)

transaction deposits.

b)

non transaction deposits.

c)

daily transaction deposits.

d)

none of the choices

11.

Which of the following is a bank asset?

a)

savings deposit account

b)

loans from banks

c)

checkable deposits

d)

loans to customers

12.

Most liquid asset of the bank

a)

cash in vault

b)

cash in BSP

c)

cash in other banks

d)

all of the above

13.

Banks make profits through asset transformation.

a)

They borrow short and lend long.

b)

They borrow long and lend short.

c)

They borrow high and lend low.

d)

They don't do anything with their assets.

14.

The most important bank liabilities are

a)

accounts payable

b)

deposit liabilities

c)

loans from other banks

d)

none of the choices

15.

Off balance sheet activities are illegal and should be avoided.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

16.

How do banks compute return on assets (ROA)?

a)

divide the net income of the bank by the amount of its assets

b)

divide the total assets of the bank by the its net income

c)

get the average capital and divide it by the income

d)

none of the choices

17.

Reserves that the bank keep in vault

a)

pay no interest

b)

is not a good cash management

c)

all of the choices

d)

none of the choices