Question

What are 10 things I can learn in consumer finance/investments?

Answer 1

The 10 things that you can learn are:

1. Analysing financial statements: Income Statement, Balance sheet and Cash flow statements

2. Time value of money: Present Value and Future Value

3. Bond valuation in terms of Bond price, yield to maturity, coupon payment and face value

4. Stock valuation in terms of capital asset pricing model (CAPM)

5. Capital budgeting techniques like Net present Value (NPV) and Internal rate of return (IRR)

6. Dividend Policy (Payment of dividend and affect on stock prices)

7. Behavioral finance (How people behave in terms of investing money and managing personal wealth)

8. International Finance in terms of exchange rate and transfer pricing

9. Ratio analysis: Analysing the various ratios for business and in personal finance

10 Risk and Return: The measure of risk and how the return is directly proportional to return.