Duration:
One day
Description:
This ILT Series course introduces students to the fundamentals of business finance. Students learn how to identify, calculate, and assess individual
investments and investment portfolios, identify types of investment risks, calculate risk, and analyze the results. Students also learn how to calculate
the future and present values of individual cash flows, ordinary annuities, annuities due, perpetuities, and investments with uneven cash flows. Course
activities also cover calculating interest rates and maturity dates, establishing an amortization table, and calculating payments on amortized loans.
Students also learn about the bond and stock markets, identifying characteristics of various types of stocks and bonds and their risks, and how to evaluate
and invest in stocks and bonds. This instructor's edition is designed for quick scanning in the classroom, and filled with interactive exercises.
Table Of Contents:
Unit 1: Stand-alone risk
Topic A: Risk basics
Topic B: Probability analysis and rate of return
Topic C: Risk calculation
Unit 2: Portfolio risk
Topic A: Diversification principle
Topic B: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Topic C: Ratio analysis
Unit 3: Future and present value of money
Topic A: Time value of money
Topic B: Compounding and discounting
Unit 4: Even and uneven cash flows
Topic A: Annuities
Topic B: Calculating financial values
Unit 5: Bonds and stocks
Topic A: Bond fundamentals
Topic B: Stock fundamentals
Topic C: Valuation of bonds and stocks
