FINANCE

​Investment -  Bond Seniority Ranking

Investment -  Bond Seniority Ranking  The bond indenture offers bondholders the right to take legal action if the issuer fails to fulfill the promised payments or fails to satisfy other requirements mentioned in the contract. If the bond issuer fails to m


​Investment - Normal Distribution

Investment - Normal Distribution The arithmetic mean and standard deviation are two useful techniques of representing numerous distributions of data. A distribution is just a group of values, representing their actual or hypothesized frequency of occurren


​Investment-Measures of Dispersion

Measures of Dispersion Whereas measures of central tendency are used to estimate representative or center values of a data collection, measurements of dispersion are crucial for describing the spread of the data or its variation around a central value. Tw


​Investment - Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics As the name suggests, descriptive statistics are used to characterize data. Often, you are confronted by data that you need to structure in order to understand. Let's take everyday commute time as an example. You have the sensatio


​Investment - Introduction to Debt Securities

Investment - Introduction to Debt Securities  Debt securities, bonds, and fixed-income securities are synonymous terminology, and they can be issued by enterprises and governments. Companies and governments raise external cash to finance their operation


​Investment - Company Actions That Affect Equity Outstanding

Investment - Company Actions That Affect Equity Outstanding  Companies undertake big changes as they expand, evolve, mature, or merge with another company. Some of these adjustments result in changes to the number of common shares outstanding -- that is, t


​Investment - Risks of Investing in Equity Securities

Investment - Risks of Investing in Equity Securities  There are two primary hazards inherent with equities investing: Specific risk, also referred to as unsystematic risk Market risk, commonly referred to as systematic risk Specific risk (unsystematic


​Investment - Valuation of Common Shares

Investment - Valuation of Common Shares  Valuing common shares is a hard process because of their endless life and the difficulties of projecting future corporate success. There are three fundamental ways to evaluating common shares: Discounted cash f


​Investment - Introduction to Equity Securities

Investment - Introduction to Equity Securities  Companies may issue numerous types of equity securities. The types of equity instruments, or equity-like securities, that firms generally issue include common stock (sometimes called common shares or ordinar


​Investment - Introduction to Investment Instruments

Investment - Introduction to Investment Instruments When we invest, we must understand the risks we are incurring with our money as well as the level of return we need or expect. This understanding may help us individually in accomplishing our own fina