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Business Finance: Risk Analysis

Accounting and Finance

Serebra Learning Corporation
Training Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation

Business Finance: Risk Analysis offers the student an overview of the information required to identify calculate and assess both individual investments and investment portfolios. The program details types of risks associated with investments gives equations used to calculate risk and provides information about how to assess the results of the equations.

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Duration:4 hours
Training Presented in:English
Business Finance: Risk Analysis

Audience

Managers and project managers who want to identify and calculate investment risk.

Objective

  • Calculate an expected rate of return.
  • Calculate the standard deviation on a potential investment.
  • Calculate the coefficient of variation.
  • Identify the purpose of a correlation coefficient.
  • Calculate the expected rate of return on a stock portfolio.
  • Identify impacts on rates of return.
  • Calculate financial ratios.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Stand-Alone Risk

  • Identify two types of risk.
  • Calculate an expected rate of return.
  • Calculate the standard deviation on a potential investment.
  • Calculate the coefficient of variation.
  • Simulation Overview:
  • In this simulation you will meet with Monica Washington one of Icon's Market Analysts. She will be giving you a series of exercises to identify your knowledge of stand-alone risk. Through her questions and your answers you will gain a better understanding of probability analysis and rate of return and calculating risk.

Unit 2: Portfolio Risk

  • Identify the purpose of a correlation coefficient.
  • Calculate the expected rate of return on a stock portfolio.
  • Identify the purpose of using beta coefficients.
  • Calculate a stock portfolio's beta coefficient.
  • Simulation Overview:
  • In this simulation you will meet with Caroline Harris one of Icon's Senior Budget Accountants. She will be giving you a series of exercises to identify your knowledge of portfolio risk. Through her questions and your answers you will gain a better understanding of risk and diversification rate of return on stock portfolios and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

Unit 3: Rates of Return and Risk

  • Identify impacts on rates of return.
  • Identify financial ratios.
  • Calculate financial ratios.
  • Simulation Overview:
  • In this simulation you will meet with Travis Peterson Icon's Director of Finance. He will be giving you a series of exercises to identify your knowledge of ratio analysis. Through his questions and your answers you will gain a better understanding of five different types of ratios: liquidity asset utilization debt management profitability and market value ratios.

Duration

4

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

  • At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
  • Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
  • At least 8MB RAM.
  • At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
  • At least a double speed CDROM drive.
  • An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
  • At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
  • Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
  • At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
  • At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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Serebra Learning Corporation - Serebra Learning Corporation provides technology-based training solutions through a combination of Cortex, its proprietary learning management system (LMS), and a curriculum catalog with over 1, 825 current courseware titles. Founded in 1987 (as FirstClass Systems, with a name change to Serebra in 2001), Serebra has over sixteen years" experience delivering e-learning solutions to both...
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