ACCT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Capital Asset Pricing Model, Modern Portfolio Theory, Total Return

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2 Feb 2017
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We started out with an overview of financial services, including the role of financial analysts and the cfo in a firm, as well as the investment and financial advisory communities. formation. We then explored the financial markets, and their role as facilitators of capital. We explored how the financial markets (cid:498)failed(cid:499) during the (cid:498)financial crisis(cid:499) of. We examined the role of taxes in business decisions, including taxation of (cid:498)ordinary income(cid:499) and (cid:498)capital gains. (cid:499) we explored the concept of marginal income tax rates (cid:523)and (cid:498)tax brackets(cid:499)(cid:524). We then explored the concept of the (cid:498)time value of money(cid:499) perhaps the most important concept in finance. We learned how to do basic computations using tvm calculations (of single amounts, of annuities, or mixed streams of payments). We then looked at corporate financial statements, and explored how to compute. We then explored interest rates, the characteristics of corporate bonds, and how to value bonds. We then turned to the valuation of stocks.

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