Business Finance Training
Business Finance: Valuation of Stocks and Bonds
 Business Finance: Valuation of Stocks and Bonds offers the
student an overview of the bond and stock markets, as well as the information needed to evaluate and invest in various types of stocks and bonds.
The program also details characteristics of the various types of stocks and bonds and their risks.
Business Finance Training on CD-ROM Course teaches you to
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of the types of bonds
- Calculate the coupon interest payment for a bond.
- Identify bond-rating criteria.
- Calculate the value of a bond.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates rise.
- Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates fall.
- Evaluate bonds with semi-annual coupons.
- Match common symbols with their appropriate terms.
- Calculate the value of a constant growth stock.
- Calculate the horizon value.
- Calculate the value of a nonconstant growth stock
Audience: Managers and project managers who want to understand stocks and bonds in order to make sound business decisions.
Total Learning Time: 2 to 4 hours on interactive CD-ROM
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Business Finance: Valuation of Stocks and Bond
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$110.00
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Course Contents
Unit 1: Bonds
0.5 - 1 hour
• Differentiate among the four main types of bonds.
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of the types of bonds.
• Recognize types of specialized bonds.
• Calculate the coupon interest payment for a bond.
• Differentiate between a discount bond and a premium bond.
• Differentiate between the two categories of rated bonds.
• Identify bond rating criteria.
• Simulation Overview:
In this simulation, you will meet with Carla Jackson, a Financial Analyst in Icon's Financial Services Division in New York. As a Financial Analyst, Carla is familiar
with both stocks and bonds. Today, she is going to help you determine the strengths and weaknesses of your understanding of bonds. She will ask you a
series of questions relating to the different types of bonds, the advantages and disadvantages of those bonds, and bond characteristics.
Unit 2: Stocks
0.5 - 1 hour
• Differentiate among the types of stocks.
• Calculate the new value of a stock after it has been split.
• Identify types of stock markets.
• Simulation Overview:
In this simulation, you will meet with Caroline Harris, a Financial Analyst in Icon's Financial Services Division in New York. Caroline wants to make sure you fully
understand the fundamentals of stocks, so she is going to ask you a series of questions about the different types of stocks and stock markets. Her questions will
test your knowledge of stocks and help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in this area of business finance.
Unit 3: The Value of Stocks and Bonds
1 - 2 hours
• Identify the equation used to calculate the present value of a bond.
• Calculate the present value of a bond.
• Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates rise.
• Calculate the effects on the price of a bond when interest rates fall.
• Calculate a bond's yield to maturity.
• Calculate a bond's yield to call.
• Calculate a bond's current yield.
• Evaluate bonds with semi-annual coupons.
• Match common symbols with their appropriate terms.
• Calculate the expected value of future dividends for a constant growth stock.
• Calculate the expected rate of return on a constant growth stock.
• Identify the equation for calculating the horizon value of a nonconstant growth stock.
• Calculate the horizon value.
• Calculate the required value of stock with a nonconstant growth rate.
• Simulation Overview:
In this simulation, you will meet with Roger McAlister, a Funds Manager in Icon's
Financial Services Division in New York. In his position, Roger works with stocks and bonds on a daily basis. He has agreed to meet with you to take you through
some exercises that will test your knowledge of calculating the values of stocks and bonds. He will ask you to demonstrate your ability to use the appropriate
equations to calculate such things as the yield to maturity, yield to call, and the current yield of bonds. You should also expect to perform calculations about the
value of constant and nonconstant growth stocks.
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