About this book
Foundations of finance in 6 laminated pages for business students and professionals alike. Quick access to the essentials provides an opportunity for review throughout an entire course, daily, weekly or before exams. Review often, after a lecture or textbook chapter to step back and see how that knowledge fits into the big picture. Also a great reference tool for any non-finance related business professionals to understand what keeps the company running and profitable. Suggested uses:
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- A dollar is worth more now than that same dollar will be worth in the future
- Inflation reduces the purchasing power of the dollar
- Because of the uncertainty surrounding the receipt of the dollar, an agreement to receive it sooner rather than later will increase the value
- Time values involve the importance of opportunity costs. A dollar today is worth more than a dollar in one year because the dollar today can be productively invested and will become more than a dollar in one year
- Time values of money calculations are used in capital budgeting, real estate planning, investing, banking, insurance, retirement planning, and other areas of personal finance
- Compounding
- The process of determining the future value of a present sum
- For multiple periods, compounding results in interest producing more interest (interest “giving birth” to more interest)
- Discounting
- The opposite of compounding, it is the process of determining the present value of a future sum
- Single amount: Present value (PV) of a lump sum (FVn) given at the end of n periods at an interest rate of r%
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- Ordinary Annuity: Present value of an ordinary annuity (PVA) of PMT per period for n periods at r% per period:
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t=1 |
PMT |
(1 + r)n |
PMT |
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(1 − r)n |
- Annuity Due: Present value of an annuity due (PVD) of n cash flows (PMT) at r% per per...
Table of contents
- Corporation
- Financial Statements
- Financial Ratios
- Working Capital
- Short-Term Financing
- Time Value Of Money
- Risk & Return
- Financial Market
- Valuation
- Capital Budgeting
- Cost Of Capital
- Capital Structure Theories
- Break-Even & Leverage
- Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Leasing
- Working Capital Management
- Cash Cycle
- Cash Collection Time
- Dividends
- Accounts Receivable (A/R)
- Inventory
- International Finance
