Comparatives
Determining the Quality of Earnings
Assessing Investment Performance
Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances
Seeing with Analytical Eyes
Viewing the Past as New
Seeing the Future Unclouded: Forecasting
Chapter 20: Getting the Deets on M&A
Dissecting M&A
Moving Beyond the M and the A
Divesting Is Investing
Measuring What a Business Is Worth to You
Financing M&A
10 Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance There’s No Such Thing as a Trade Imbalance Purchasing Power and Exchange Rates Are Different Things Interest Rates and Exchange Rates Have a Muddled Relationship Spot Rate Isn’t the Only Type of Currency Transaction Diversification Can’t Completely Eliminate Risk Exposure Cross-Listing Allows Companies to Tap the World’s Resources Outsourcing Is a Taxing Issue Politics Complicate Your Life Cultural Understanding Is Vital Cryptocurrencies Come with Risk Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance Making Financial Decisions Is Never Rational Being Irrational Can Be Entirely Rational Framing Affects Your Decision-Making Prowess Making Sound Financial Decisions Involves Identifying Logical Fallacies Getting Emotional about Financial Decisions Can Leave You Crying Financial Stampeding Can Get You Trampled Letting Relationships Influence Finances Can Be Ruinous Satisficing Is Good Enough Prospect Theory Explains the Improbable Being Biased Is Human Nature
11 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2TABLE 2-1 Differences between Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds
2 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 Bond Credit Ratings
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Efficient frontier.
2 Chapter 19FIGURE 19-1: Box plots and Bollinger bands. FIGURE 19-2: Normal distribution. FIGURE 19-3: Regression analysis.
Guide
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6 Index
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