FINANCE FOR NON-FINANCIAL PERSONNEL Specialist Program Area Knowing how to read financial statements will be invaluable throughout your career‚ in analyzing business opportunities‚ assessing financial risks‚ and communicating your ideas to others. Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Personnel teaches how financial data is generated and reported‚ as well as how it is used for decision making and analysis. Program Overview Finance for Non-Financial Personnel will help participants
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exam‚ the reviewee has the option of not reading them. Banking and Finance in General Two types of financing 1. equity 2. debt-financing • A cross-breed of the two may also occur. Intermediaries 1. Banks 2. Non-bank financial intermediaries 3. Exchanges 4. Others i.e. secondary markets Function of intermediaries 1. “Brokering” or matching investors with those in need of financing 2. Help in diminishing risks to investors 3. Provide liquidity New
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classification and modes of investment. • Secondly: Influencing factors‚ process‚ feature‚ source of risk‚ recent trends and problems of investment. • Thirdly: Meaning‚ characteristics‚ difference in speculation‚ investment and gambling. 2 Investment Management MEANING AND CONCEPT OF INVESTMENT Investment is a term for several closely related meanings in finance and economics. Investment according to Theoretical Economics Investment means the production of capital goods - goods which are
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Harnischfeger Corporation* Company Business and Products Harnischfeger Corporation was a machinery company based in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. The company had originally been started as a partnership in 1884 and was incorporated in Wisconsin in 1910 under the name Pawling and Harnischfeger. Its name was changed to the present one in 1924. The company went public in 1929 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s two major segments were the P&H Heavy Equipment Group‚ consisting
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1 Bonds (3 points) A company aims to takeover one of its suppliers valued at 2 million Euros and is planning to fund the takeover by issuing three-year zero coupon bonds‚ each with face value C1000. After having their credit rating checked‚ executives have decided that they need to issue 2400 of these bonds to raise the 2 million needed to fund this takeover. What is the YTM of the bonds issued by the company? (a) 5.79% (b) 7.13% (c) 6.27% (d) 5.34% If the company’s credit rating changes due to
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Behavioural finance Understanding how the mind can help or hinder investment success By Alistair Byrne With Stephen P Utkus For investment professionals only – not for retail investors. 1 Why bother with behavioural finance? This document aims to provide a practical introduction to general tenents of behavioural finance and highlights the potential lessons for successful investing. The behavioural biases discussed in this guide are ingrained aspects of human decision-making
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END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Globalization and the Multinational Firm Suggested Answers to End-of-Chapter Questions 3 2. International Monetary System Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 12 3. Balance of Payments Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 17 4. The Market for Foreign
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Questions 1. In this context‚ an opportunity cost refers to the value of an asset or other input that will be used in a project. The relevant cost is what the asset or input is actually worth today‚ not‚ for example‚ what it cost to acquire. 2. a. Yes‚ the reduction in the sales of the company’s other products‚ referred to as erosion‚ should be treated as an incremental cash flow. These lost sales are included because they are a cost (a revenue reduction) that the firm must bear if it chooses
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Essay Louise Pettiford What must be done to improve ethics in finance and corporate governance? Corporate governance can be referred to the rules‚ processes‚ or laws by which businesses are operated‚ regulated and controlled. It can also refer to internal factors defined by the officers‚ stockholders or constitution of a corporation. After finding the meaning of Corporate governance‚ which can also be referred to corporate responsibility‚ I thought about the policies in which the company I
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$240.20 2. a. PV = $100 4.279 = $427.90 b. PV = $100 4.580 = $458.00 c. We can think of cash flows in this problem as being the difference between two separate streams of cash flows. The first stream is $100 per year received in years 1 through 12; the second is $100 per year paid in years 1 through 2. The PV of $100 received in years 1 to 12 is: PV = $100 [Annuity factor‚ 12 time periods‚ 9%] PV = $100 [7.161] = $716.10 The PV of $100 paid in years 1 to 2 is: PV =
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