 8.1 Using Present Value Formulas to Value Known Flows  8.2 The Basic Building Blocks: Pure Discount Bonds  8.3 Coupon Bonds, Current Yield, and Yield-to-Maturity  8.4 Reading Bond Listings  8.5 Why Yields for the same Maturity Differ  8.6 The Behavior of Bond Prices Over Time

 7.1 The relationship between an asset’s value & its price  7.2 Value maximization & financial decisions  7.3 The law of one price & arbitrage  7.4 Arbitrage & the law of one price  7.5 Interest rates & the law of one price  7.6 Exchange rates & triangular arbitrage  7.7 Valuation using comparables  7.8 Valuation Models  7.9 Accounting measures of value  7.10 How information is reflected in security prices  7.11 The efficient markets hypothesis

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The term adverse selection comes originally from insurance applications. An insurance contract may attract high-risk individuals, with the result that the pool of insured customers may be riskier than the population at large Adverse selection is now used generically to describe situations of asymmet ric information, particularly market settings in which some individuals have private information about their characteristics and where the individuals

 4.1 compounding  4.2 the frequency of compounding  4.3 present value and discounting  4.4 alternative discounted cash flow decision rules  4.5 multiple cash flows  4.6 annuities  4.7 perpetual annuities  4.8 loan amortization  4.9 exchange rates and time value of money  4.10 inflation and discounted cash flow analysis  4.11 taxes and investment decision

 3.1 Functions of Financial Statements  3.2 Review of Financial Statement  3.3 Market values v. Book Values  3.4 Accounting v. Economic Measures of Income  3.5 Return on Shareholders v. Return on Book Equity  3.6 Analysis Using Financial Ratios  3.7 The Financial Planning Process  3.8 Constructing a Financial Planning Model  3.9 Growth & the Need for External Financing  3.10 Working Capital Mgmt.  3.11 Liquidity & Cash Mgmt

 2.1 What is a Financial System?  2.2 The Flow of Funds  2.3 The Functional Perspective  2.4 Financial Innovation & the “Invisible Hand”  2.5 Financial Markets  2.6 Financial Market Rates  2.7 Financial Intermediaries  2.8 Financial Infrastructure and Regulation  2.9 Governmental & Quasi- Governmental Organizations

Consumption over the Life Cycle You are currently 35 years old, expect to retire in 30 years at age 65, and then to live for 15 more years until age 80 u You current income is $30,000 per year, and you real labor income adjusted for inflation remains at $30,000 per year until age 65 u The real rate of interest is 3% per year u Assume you plan to consume a constant stream of the same amount in each of the next 45 years, denoted by

说明如何使用现金流贴现分析法来进行相关决策如: 是否进入新的行业(line of business) 一是否对设备进行投资以降低成本 项目分析的特性

投资组合( P o r t f o l i o )管理的目的是：按照投资者的需求，选择各种各样的证券和其他资产 组成投资组合，然后管理这些投资组合，以实现投资的目标。投资者的需求往往是根据风险 （r i s k）来定义的，而投资组合管理者的任务则是在承担一定风险的条件下，使投资回报率 （r e t u r n）实现最大化