Introduction to finance

Principles of Finance

  • How to value an investment
  • The importance of compounding in investments
  • Risk and return and how investors can reduce risk
  • Forward contracts and prices, and the difference between forward prices and spot prices

Introduction to Financial Institutions

  • How companies, banks and other borrowers need to buy money to finance their assets and/or working capital and how banks and investors need to invest their surplus capital
  • Currency is a store of value that helps to facilitate trade and investment
  • The factors that affect the exchange rate between currencies
  • Advantages and disadvantages of bonds
  • Advantages and disadvantages of stocks

Introduction to Financial Markets

  • How companies, banks and other borrowers need to buy money to finance their assets and/or working capital and how banks and investors need to invest their surplus capital
  • Currency is a store of value that helps to facilitate trade and investment
  • The factors that affect the exchange rate between currencies
  • The advantages of bonds
  • How bonds are bought and sold on the market
  • What stocks are
  • The advantages and disadvantages of stocks

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