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Excel Finance Trick #1: FV PV & Time Value Of Money

Monday, July 18th, 2011

FV = Future Value. PV = Present Value. Learn about the Time Value of Money. See how the concept of “Time Value of Money” is a fundamental idea in Finance. In ThisSeries learn 17 amazing Finance Tricks. Learn about the PMT, PV, FV, NPER, RATE, SLN, DB, EFFECT, NOMINAL, NPV, XNPV, and the CUMIPMT functions that can make your financing tasks much easier in Excel. See how to use the PMT function in the standard way, but also see how to use it while incorporating a Balloon payment or a delayed payment. Lean how to translate a Nominal interest rate into an Effective Interest rate. Learn how to calculate how long it takes to pay off a credit card balance. Lean how to calculate the Effect Rate on a Payday loan. And many more financing Tricks!! The Excel Finance Tricks 1-17 will show an assortment of Excel Financing Tricks! Formula
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12. Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Financial Markets (ECON 252) Real Estate is the biggest asset make money online class and of great importance for both individuals and institutional investors. An array of economic and psychological factors impact real estate investment decisions and the public has changing ideas of real estate as a profitable investment. People’s demand to buy a home by taking on long-term debt, called a mortgage, is often tied with the overall health of the economy and financial markets. In recessions, home buying tends to fall and the opposite holds in a strong economy. Commercial real estate, held indirectly by the public through partnerships and real estate investment trusts (REITs), is vulnerable to similar speculative activity. The most recent real estate boom illustrates the speculative nature of real estate, and its relation to financial and economic crises. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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1. Why Finance?

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Financial Theory (ECON 251) This lecture gives a brief history of the young field of financial theory, which began in business schools quite separate from economics, and of my growing interest in the field and in Wall Street. A cornerstone of standard financial theory is the efficient markets hypothesis, but that has been discredited by the financial crisis of 2007-09. This lecture describes the kinds of questions standard financial theory nevertheless answers well. It also introduces the leverage cycle as a critique of standard financial theory and as an explanation of the crisis. The lecture ends with a class experiment illustrating a situation in which the efficient markets hypothesis works surprisingly well. 00:00 – Chapter 1. Course Introduction 10:16 – Chapter 2. Collateral in the Standard Theory 17:54 – Chapter 3. Leverage in Housing Prices 33:47 – Chapter 4. Examples of Finance 46:13 – Chapter 5. Why Study Finance? 50:13 – Chapter 6. Logistics 58:22 – Chapter 7. A Experiment of the Financial Market Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.

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The Descent of Finance

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor, discusses the history — and future — of finance with Harvard Business Review editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius.

Financial Markets (ECON 252) Behavioral Finance is a relatively recent revolution in finance that applies insights from all of the social sciences to finance. New decision-making models incorporate psychology and sociology, among other disciplines, to explain economic and financial phenomenon, such as erratic stock price variations. Psychological patterns such as overconfidence and perceived kinks in the value function seem to impact financial decision-making, but are not included in classical theories such as the Expected Utility Theory. Kahneman and Tversky’s Prospect Theory addresses such issues and sheds light on irrational deviations from traditional decision-making models. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Finance: What Managers Need to Know

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Joe Knight, coauthor of the Financial Intelligence series, gives you a crash course in reading the numbers.

Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance and each key topic. Lecture topics will include: behavioral finance, financial technology, financial instruments, commercial banking, investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real estate, regulation, monetary policy, and democratization of finance. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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