What you'll learn?

  • Calculating and assessing individual investments and investment portfolios, identify types of investment risks, calculate risk, and analyze the results.
  • Calculating the future and present values of individual cash flows, ordinary annuities, annuities due, perpetuities, and investments with uneven cash flows.
  • Calculating interest rates and maturity dates, establishing an amortization table, and calculating payments on amortized loans.
  • Learning 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.

Description

This course introduces the fundamentals of business finance. It discusses the investment concepts including personal investments, bonds, and stocks. The main purpose of this course is to help participants to acquire the skills, knowledge & attitudes required to plan, calculate & evaluate monetary, financial & investment decisions through a group of practice activities & case studies.

Audience :

Individuals University & Institute students. University & Institute fresh graduates. Post graduate students. Corporate Corporate professionals, managerial positions, future managers, junior finance personnel and entrepreneurs seeking personal professional development. Corporate training departments seeking employee development. Small & medium size businesses/investors.

Topics :

Stand-alone risk

o  Risk basics

o  Probability analysis and rate of return

o  Risk calculations

Portfolio risk

o  Diversification principle

o  The capital asset pricing model

o  Ratio analysis

Future and present value of money

o  Future value of money

o  Compounding and discounting

Even and uneven cash flows

o  Annuities

o  Calculating financial values

Bonds and stocks

o  Bond fundamentals

o  Stock fundamentals

o  Valuation of bonds and stocks

Prerequisities :

Recommended Knowledge :

No special prerequisites applied. Basic financial background preferred.

Category :

  • Business

Training Materials :

Thomson Course Technology

Labs :

This course includes several labs to ensure you will gain the targeted skills and experience.

Credential :

This course is both a stand alone skills based certificate & also part of the "YAT Business Diplomas"; "Project Management Skills Diploma – Advanced Level", "Finance & Quality Management Skills Diploma – Advanced Level".

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