FINANCIAL MARKET: Mechanism that allows people to buy and sell financial securities(such as stock and bonds) and items of value at low transaction cost. Market works by placing many interested buyer and seller in one ‘place’‚ thus making easier for them to find each other. PURPOSES: Financial market facilitate; 1. Raising of capital 2. Transfer of risk 3. International trade HOW FINANCIAL MARKET WORKS: Borrower: issue a receipt to lender promising to payback the
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Southwest Financial Reports FIN/571 April 6‚ 2015 John Triplett‚ CPA Southwest Financial Reports Efficiency Ratios: There are a number of ways for companies to determine the efficiency of their operations. It is a good way for investors to see if a company is doing a good job with their operations as well. There are a number of different ratios that can be used to come up with different measures of efficiency. Most of these ratios deal with the turnover of cash. Additionally‚ most
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Fin 370 Week 2 Individual Assignment Chap. 14 Questions 14-1‚ 14-3‚ 14-4 Chap. 15 Questions 15-12A‚ 15-13A Question 14-1 What are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them? Financial markets report price for each good; they are institutions and procedures that facilitate transactions in all types of financial claims (securities). They exist in order to allocate the supply of savings from those economic units with a surplus to those
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Financial Markets Introduction 1 Financial Markets & Flow of Funds Financial Markets M k t Lenders Households Firms Governments Foreigners Borrowers Households Firms Governments Foreigners Financial Institutions Note that lenders are suppliers of funds (surplus units) while borrowers are demanders/users of funds (deficit units) 2 1 Flow of Funds Financial institutions perform the essential function of channeling funds from surplus units to deficit units. Agents (e.g. brokers)
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FIN 370 FINAL EXAMS visit: www.finalexamguideline.com 1. One year ago‚ you purchased 200 shares of stock for $29 a share. The stock pays $.60 a share in dividends each year. Today‚ you sold your shares for $31.60 a share. What is your total dollar return on this investment? a. $480 b. $670 c. $610 d. $640 e. $520 2. The amount of systematic risk present in a particular risky asset relative to that in an average risky asset is called the: a. mean. b. beta coefficient
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A financial market is a market in which people and entities can trade financial securities‚ commodities‚ and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand. Securities include stocks and bonds‚ and commodities include precious metals or agricultural goods. There are both general markets (where many commodities are traded) and specialized markets (where only one commodity is traded). Markets work by placing many interested buyers and sellers‚ including
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to financial markets ------------------------------------------------- Essay questions 1. Direct finance: Surplus economic units lend their funds “direct” to deficit economic units which are the ultimate borrowers. Financial institutions may facilitate this process by providing financial services in return for fees and commissions. The financial assets issued by the deficit units are held by the surplus units. Indirect finance: Surplus economic units lend their funds to financial institutions
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FIN370 WK3 Solutions Guide: 1. We focus on free cash flows rather than accounting profits because these are the flows that the firm receives and can reinvest. Only by examining cash flows are we able to correctly analyze the timing of the benefit or cost. Also‚ we are only interested in these cash flows on an after tax basis as only those flows are available to the shareholder. In addition‚ it is only the incremental cash flows that interest us‚ because‚ looking at the project from the point
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Jason Hurley FINA 3144‚ Dr. Glegg Financial Markets Excel Project Part 1: 1. The bond prices are all different due to the coupon payments and the years left to maturity all being different for each bond. Since each bond’s coupon rate is different‚ it has a direct effect on the coupon payments for each bond‚ which makes each bond price different. 2. The duration for each bond tells you what is the total percentage increase or decrease each year for the weighted values of each bond
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World War I had quite recently finished. The United States was in a time of monetary flourishing. Soldier were at long last going to their homes and families‚ and a period of extravagance was coming to them. A burst of mechanical progressions had detonated‚ for example‚ the innovations of radios and automobiles. Americans were anxious to buy these items to live to their fullest. This era was known as "The Roaring Twenties." Many individuals amid this time had begun to utilize credit‚ or borrow money
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