ROLE AND PURPOSE This subject aims to introduce to students a range of basic concepts and ideas in modern finance. After completing this subject‚ participants should know the principles involved in making investment and financing decisions‚ understand functions of financial markets and financial managers‚ and possess basic knowledge of option pricing and financial planning. This foundation course prepares students for more in‐depth studies at a later stage. LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon completion of the
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asset pricing model (CAPM) and the security market line Risk and Return M K Lai Page 2 Introduction to Risk and Return finance can be complicated‚ but it can be reduced to three basic concepts cash flows Risk and Return time value of money risk and return M K Lai building blocks in finance Page 3 Basic Assumptions in Finance people are rational people prefer more wealth to less (higher expected return) people are risk averse investors require compensation
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Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 was passed to: Establish auditing standards. 4) In general‚ what is changing as you read down the left hand side of a balance sheet? The assets are becoming less liquid. 5) Early in the history of finance‚ an important issue was: Liquidity 6) When shareholder A sells its Ford stock to shareholder B in the secondary market‚ such as on the New York Stock Exchange‚ how much money is received by Ford? Ford will receive nothing. 7) The appropriate
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------------------------------------------------- Finance de What’s and Why’s | * | | 1/19/2013 1/19/2013 Contents 1. Why finance? 2 2. Why banking? 2 3. Areas of banking 3 4. Corporate Banking 4 I. What is corporate banking? 4 II. Why corporate banking? 4 III. What are the roles in corporate banking? 4 5. Asset Management 5 I. What is Asset Management? 5 II. Why Asset Management? 6 III. What are the roles in Asset Management? 6 6. Transaction
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Faculty of Management Technology Accounting & Financial Control Department Corporate Finance for BI FINC505 Chapter -1- The Role of Managerial Finance Problem Sheet -1P1 True/False 1. Financial managers actively manage the financial affairs of many types of business— financial and non-financial‚ private and public‚ for-profit and not-for-profit. 2. In partnerships‚ owners have unlimited liability and may have to cover debts of other less financially sound partners. 3. The board of directors
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Oil prices continue lower after EIA supply data Stories You Might Like • Stock futures rise as jobs data supports Fed • The IBM earnings machine is stalling • 11 car insurance discounts worth asking for By Myra P. Saefong SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Oil futures continued to trade lower Wednesday‚ though pared some losses briefly after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a fall of 1.4 million barrels in crude stockpiles for the week ended Aug. 16. Analysts polled by Platts
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South East University Assignment Managerial finance (5133) Semester: Spring 2013 Problem-1 Warf Computers‚ Inc.‚ was founded 15 years ago by Nick Warf‚ a computer programmer. The small initial investment to start the company was made by Nick and his friends. Over the years‚ this same group has supplied the limited additional investment needed by the company in the form of both equity and short-and long-term debt. Recently the company has developed a virtual keyboard (VK). The VK uses sophisticated
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Question 1 Mark Sexton and Todd Story‚ the owners of S&S Air‚ have decided to expand their operations. They instructed their newly hired financial analyst‚ Chris Guthrie‚ to enlist an underwriter to help sell $35 million in new 10-year bonds to finance construction. Chris has entered into discussion with Kim McKenzie‚ an underwriter from the firm of Raines and Warren‚ about which bond features S&S Air should consider and what coupon rate the issue will likely have. Although Chris is aware of
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CECIL RICE EXPORT REPORT This report will focus on Cecil Rice Export and its aim is to develop more organized system which enhanced the productivity of each hour and for each three days. We discussed and calculated below the three questions. 1. In the Cecil Rice Export‚ to determine whether the process is in control or out of control we should use x-Charts and R-Charts. X-Charts are usually used when we know standard deviation of the sample. We calculate the upper and lower control limits based
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Planning at East Coast Yachts Dan Ervin was recently hired by East Coast Yachts to assist the company with its short-term financial planning and also to evaluate the company’s finished performance. Dan graduated from college five years ago with a Finance degree‚ and he has been employed in the treasury department of Fortune 500 company since then. East Coast Yachts was founded 10 years ago by Larissa Warren. The company’s operations are located hear Hilton Head Island‚ South Carolina‚ and the
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