Fundamental Financial Math
This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a wide variety of applications - calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. Much more...
Overview
This course includes:
- 2+ hours of on-demand video
- 3 modules
- Core level
- Direct access/chat with the instructor
- 100% self-paced online
- Many downloadable resources
- Shareable certificate of completion
This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a wide variety of applications - calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed.
This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections:
- Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money
- Debt Security Pricing
- Bond Yields and Rates of Return
The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor's presentation are included to help participants follow along.
Skills You Will Gain
Learning Outcomes (At The End Of This Program, You Will Be Able To...)
- The relationship between price and yield on fixed income securities
- What are the interest rate and pricing conventions for fixed income instruments
- How to explain different day count and compounding conventions used in fixed income securities
- The dramatic difference between yield to maturity and realized rate of return
- How to determine the price of both coupon bearing and zero coupon bonds
- Financial math applications as it is used in finance, banking, securities and insurance markets and jobs
Prerequisites
- A financial calculator is recommended to get the most out of this course.
- Knowledge of the English language.
Who Should Attend
- All levels of participants are encouraged to take this course.
