This note will introduce
you to some fundamental aspects of financial systems generally. Topics covered
includes: Financial System, Types and Characteristics of Financial Assets,
International Financial System, Capital Market, Money Market, Nigerian Financial
System, Operations of Capital Market in Nigeria, Operations of Money Market in
Nigeria, Central Banking, Commercial Banking, Merchant Banks, Development Banks,
Universal Banks, Rural Banking, Marketing of Bank Services, Investment
Companies, Insurance Companies, and Comparative Banking and Financial System.
This note describes the following topics: Nature
and Scope of Financial Management, The Value of Money, Ratio Analysis, Cost of
Capital, Capital Structure Decisions and Leverages.
Author(s): Prof. Suhas Pednekar, Ravindra D.
Kulkarni and Prakash Mahanwar
Finance is a
broad term that is used regarding the management, creation, and study of money
and investment. This PDF book covers the following topics related to Business
Finance : Introduction to Finance, Time Value of Money, Interest Rates, Bonds,
Bankruptcy and Reoganization, Financial Statements and Free Cash Flow, Analysis
of Financial Statements, Stock Valuation, Risk and Return, Cost of Capital,
Capital Budgeting and Evaluating Cash Flows, Project Cash Flow Estimation,
Corporate Governance.
Author(s): Tim Murray, PhD Virginia Military Institute
This PDF book covers
the following topics related to Finance : Introduction, Payment Streams under
Certainty, Arbitrage pricing in a one-period model, Arbitrage pricing in the
multi-period model, Option pricing, The Black-Scholes formula, Stochastic
Interest Rates, Portfolio Theory, Factor Models of Returns: Arbitrage Pricing
Theory, Corporate Finance: Firms’ Financial Decisions, Efficient Capital
Markets.
This note explains
the following topics: The Present Position of the Rupee, The Gold–Exchange
Standard, Paper Currency, The Present Position of Gold in India and
Proposals for a Gold Currency, Council Bills and Remittance, The Secretary
of State’s Reserves and the Cash Balances, Indian Banking, The Indian Rate
of Discount.
This note covers the following topics: The Foreign Exchange Market,
Currency Derivatives and Options Markets, The Balance of Payments Accounts, The
Theory of Exchange Rates.
This lecture note explains the following topics: Modelling Financial Options,
Random Numbers, Uniform Deviates, Fibonacci Generators , Random Numbers from
Other Distributions, Normal Deviates, Sequences of Numbers with Low Discrepancy,
Monte Carlo Methods, Constructing Integrators for SDEs, Monte Carlo Methods for
European Options, Monte Carlo Methods for American Options, Finite-Difference
Methods for American Vanilla Options.
International Financial Management is a well-known
term in today’s world and it is also known as international finance. It means
financial management in an international business environment. This book covers
the following topics: Multinational Financial Management, Evolution Of
International Monetary and Financial System, Management Of Short-term Assets and
Liabilities, International Capital Budgeting Decision, Foreign Investment
Decision, Political and Country Risk Management, Cost Of Capital Of
Multinational Firm, Capital Structure of Multinational Firm, Dividend Policy of
a Multinational Firm, Taxation Of Multinational Firm and Long-term Sources of
Funds for A Multinational Company.
Author(s): Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and
Technology, Hisar - Haryana
This course note covers the key
quantitative methods of finance: financial econometrics and statistical
inference for financial applications, dynamic optimization, Monte Carlo
simulation, stochastic calculus. These techniques, along with their
computer implementation, are covered in depth.
This book covers the
following topics: Introductory Finance Issues: Current Patterns, Past
History, and International Institutions, National Income and the Balance of
Payments Accounts, The Whole Truth about Trade Imbalances, Foreign Exchange
Markets and Rates of Return, Interest Rate Parity, Purchasing Power Parity,
Interest Rate Determination, Policy Effects with Floating Exchange Rates,
Fixed Exchange Rates, Policy Effects with Fixed Exchange Rates.
This course note introduces the core theory of modern financial
economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and
investments. Topics include functions of capital markets and financial
intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed-income securities, common stocks,
capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium
pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction
to derivatives and options.