ACST101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Warren Buffett, Fisher Equation, Annual Percentage Rate
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ACST101 LECTURE ā 1/3/18
WK1; THE FINACIAL SYSTEM
*Read all CHAPTER 2*
Finance is about how individuals, companies and governments raise money and invest it to
maximise wealth. The movement of money between lenders and borrowers to maximise
wealth. It incorporates;
o Corporate Finance
o Asset Pricing
o Financial Markets
o Behavioural Finance
MONEY AND CURRENCY
Money and currency are terms usually used interchangeably. Money is a store of value
(something that maintains its intrinsic value).
FIAT current is a goīerī
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µeī
¶t deīreed īforī
µ of ī
µoī
¶eīī aī
¶d is a ī
µediuī
µ of eīīhaī
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a good store of value.
Face Value > Intrinsic Value; FIAT CURRENCY
HISTORY OF $$$
o Barter; coincidence of wants
o Commodity-based; intrinsic value
o The Gold Standard; backed currency
o Fiat Currency; ī
¶o iī
¶triī
¶siī īalue, īfiatī is īīī orderī. Curreī
¶īī that has īalue īeīause
the government says so.
o Crypto Currency
VALUE VS PRICE
We estimate asset values in the face of uncertainly by discounting cash flows at a rate of
return (interest rate). īPrice is īhat you pay, īalue is īhat you getī ā Warren Buffet
THE FINACIAL SYSTEM
Provides a marketplace for money, enabling transfer of purchasing power between; market
participants, present and future time.
COMPANIES AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
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