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Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation
Business Finance: Valuation of Stocks and Bonds offers the student an overview of the bond and stock markets as well as the information needed to evaluate and invest in various types of stocks and bonds. The program also details characteristics of the various types of stocks and bonds and their risks.
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Business Finance: Valuation of Stocks and Bonds
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
Audience
Managers and project managers who want to understand stocks and bonds in order to make sound business decisions.
Objective
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of the types of bonds.
- Calculate the coupon interest payment for a bond.
- Identify bondrating criteria.
- Calculate the value of a bond.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates rise.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates fall.
- Evaluate bonds with semiannual coupons.
- Match common symbols with their appropriate terms.
- Calculate the value of a constant growth stock.
- Calculate the horizon value.
- Calculate the value of a nonconstant growth stock.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Bonds
- Differentiate among the four main types of bonds.
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of the types of bonds.
- Recognize types of specialized bonds.
- Calculate the coupon interest payment for a bond.
- Differentiate between a discount bond and a premium bond.
- Differentiate between the two categories of rated bonds.
- Identify bond rating criteria.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will meet with Carla Jackson a Financial Analyst in Icon's Financial Services Division in New York. As a Financial Analyst Carla is familiar with both stocks and bonds. Today she is going to help you determine the strengths and weaknesses of your understanding of bonds. She will ask you a series of questions relating to the different types of bonds the advantages and disadvantages of those bonds and bond characteristics.
Unit 2: Stocks
- Differentiate among the types of stocks.
- Calculate the new value of a stock after it has been split.
- Identify types of stock markets.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will meet with Caroline Harris a Financial Analyst in Icon's Financial Services Division in New York. Caroline wants to make sure you fully understand the fundamentals of stocks so she is going to ask you a series of questions about the different types of stocks and stock markets. Her questions will test your knowledge of stocks and help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in this area of business finance.
Unit 3: The Value of Stocks and Bonds
- Identify the equation used to calculate the present value of a bond.
- Calculate the present value of a bond.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates rise.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates fall.
- Calculate a bond's yield to maturity.
- Calculate a bond's yield to call.
- Calculate a bond's current yield.
- Evaluate bonds with semi-annual coupons.
- Match common symbols with their appropriate terms.
- Calculate the expected value of future dividends for a constant growth stock.
- Calculate the expected rate of return on a constant growth stock.
- Identify the equation for calculating the horizon value of a nonconstant growth stock.
- Calculate the horizon value.
- Calculate the required value of stock with a nonconstant growth rate.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will meet with Roger McAlister a Funds Manager in Icon's Financial Services Division in New York. In his position Roger works with stocks and bonds on a daily basis. He has agreed to meet with you to take you through some exercises that will test your knowledge of calculating the values of stocks and bonds. He will ask you to demonstrate your ability to use the appropriate equations to calculate such things as the yield to maturity yield to call and the current yield of bonds. You should also expect to perform calculations about the value of constant and nonconstant growth stocks.
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).
- 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 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
About The Training Provider: Serebra Learning Corporation
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...
