dictionary of banking and finance terms

... Teaching Times and Locations 2.2 Units of Credit 6 UOC 2.3 Summary of Course The major focus of this course is in providing students with an understanding of international banking and finance in ... 1Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance FINS5550 I NTERNATIONAL B ANKING M ANAGEMENT COURSE OUTLINE SEMESTER 1, 2009 Trang 2TABLE OF CONTENTS Upon successful completion of this course ... international banking and debt crises, and offshore banking markets 2.4 Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses The major aim of this course is to equip students with the background and current

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... Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance MFIN6201 E MPIRICAL TECHNIQUES IN FINANCE C OURSE OUTLINE S EMESTER 2, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ... MFin6201 – Empirical Techniques in Finance 1 1. STAFF CONTACT DETAILS Coordinator: VT Alaganar Office: Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance Level 3, Room 349 Telephone: ... WebCT and in the class the week before. 2.2 Units of Credit This course has six units of credit and three contact hours per week. 2.3 Summary of Course This course is a fast-paced, hands-on

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... Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance MFINS6210 EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN FINANCE C OURSE OUTLINE S EMESTER 1, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ... clearer understanding of issues related to IPOs, in particular, underperformance and determinants of IPO failure; 6. Be able to evaluate the impact of takeovers on both shareholder value and implement ... investment strategies; 7. Have an understanding of alternative theories of takeovers, specifically the causes of merger waves; 8. Understand the determinants of capital structure policies, with

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... Corporate Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance Terry Walter Terry Walter is a Professor of Finance and Head of School in the School of Banking and Finance at the University of New South ... the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Banking and Finance, the Pacific Basin Finance Journal, the Australian Journal of Management, ... Journal of Futures Markets and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Professor Walter is a member of the Board of the Pooled Development Fund Registration Board and a former member of the

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... Handle The whole-dollar price of a bid or offer is referred to as the handle (ie if a security is quoted at 101.10 bid and 101.11 offered, 101 is the handle) Traders are assumed to know the handle ... spread The fraction of the gross proceeds of an underwritten securities offering that is paid as compensation to the underwriters of the offering Gross profit margin Gross profit divided by sales, ... Agreement between lender and borrower which details specific terms of the bond issuance Specifies legal obligations of bond issuer and rights of bondholders Incremental internal rate of return IRR on

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... of the package and the price of the security whose payoff it replicates must be equal. Law of large numbers The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population ... contribution of stockholders and creditors, and of the firm's ability to pa y financing charges. Value of firm's debt to the total value of the firm. Leverage clientele A g roup of shareholders ... resale. Letter of credit (L/C) A form of guarantee of payment issued by a bank used to guarantee the payment of interest and repayment of principal on bond issues. Letter of comment A communication

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... of stockholders and creditors, and of the firm's ability to pay financing charges Value of firm's debt to the total value of the firm Leverage clientele A group of shareholders who, because of ... price of the package and the price of the security whose payoff it replicates must be equal Law of large numbers The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population ... for resale Letter of credit (L/C) A form of guarantee of payment issued by a bank used to guarantee the payment of interest and repayment of principal on bond issues Letter of comment A communication

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... variations in profits Operating lease Short-term, cancelable lease A type of lease in which the period of contract is less than the life of the equipment and the lessor pays all maintenance and servicing ... tender offer by launching its own tender offer for the other firm PSA A prepayment model based on an assumed rate of prepayment each month of the then unpaid principal balance of a pool of mortgages ... Trang 4Paper Money market instruments, commercial paper and other Pairoff A buy-back to offset and effectively liquidate a prior sale of securities Pac-Man strategy Takeover defense strategy

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... upper and lower bounds on the cost of forei g n exchange. Range The high and low prices, or high and low bids and offers recorded during a specified time. Randomized strategy A strategy of introducing ... independent variable. 117 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br 118 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria ... the sale of shares valued at $1000 will result in payment 119 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br of $980 (or 98% of the

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... level of investment in current assets Shortfall risk The risk of falling short of any investment target Short-run operating activities Events and decisions concerning the short-term finance of ... the floor of an exchange in which traders execute orders Sometimes called a pit Risk Typically defined as the standard deviation of the return on total investment Degree of uncertainty of return ... lower expected returns on prospects with higher amounts of risk Risk management The process of identifying and evaluating risks and selecting and managing techniques to adapt to risk exposures Risk

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... of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 Standardized value Also called the normal deviate, the distance of one data point from the mean, divided by the standard deviation of the distribution Standby ... deviation The square root of the variance A measure of dispersion of a set of data from their mean. Standard error In statistics, a measure of the possible error in an estimate Standardized normal distribution ... by a trade-off of the value of tax shields against the costs of bankruptcy Statutory surplus The surplus of an insurance company determined by the accounting treatment of both assets and liabilities

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... mechanical rules to detect changes in the supply of and demand for a stock and capitalize on the expected change Technical condition of a market Demand and supply factors affecting price, in particular ... they seek to profit from the directional movement of prices or spread positions Trading Buying and selling securities Trading costs Costs of buying and selling marketable securities and borrowing ... value of a whole group of assets exactly equals the sum of the values of the individual assets that make up the group of assets Stated differently, the principle that the net present value of a

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... representation of an object and then control the manufacture ofthe object by automated machinery Some of the principles of CAM are three-dimen-the same as with computer-aided design (see CAD), and sometimes ... are ready to be pho-tographed and offset printed The camera will see only black and white,not shades of gray, so the camera-ready copy must be free of smudges,dust, and stray marks Usually, pale ... (usually 8) that stand for one character Memory is usually measured in units of kilobytes or megabytes See Trang 6One important measure of the capability of a microprocessor is thenumber of bits that

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... Users must respect software copyrights and licenses. The price of a piece of software is more than just the cost of the disk and manual; it’s also your share of the cost of developing the product. ... 7_4105_DO_CompInternetTerms_C 12/29/08 10:21 AM Page 108 is more than just training in the use of today’s computers and software; it includes preparation to understand the technology of the future and its ... mind that large numbers of people know how to use popular business software packages. If possible, use software that keeps records of changes—recording who made them and when—and requires validation

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... way of breaching the security of a system or using features that should be inaccessible Often written and pronounced sploit 2 A piece of software designed to make it easy for a large number of ... skill of someone who knows how to work withtype and how to produce a pleasing combination of graphics and text 2 the use of specialized computer-controlled equipment in the publish-ing and printpublish-ing ... IDE and SCSI See IDE; SCSI ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board (www.esrb.org) a non-profit, independent organization established in 1994 that reviews entertainmentsoftware and web sites and

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... human hand and allows you to move the picture around the screen. If there is a hand tool provided, there will usually not be a SCROLL BAR at the side and bottom of the viewing window. handle ... imitations) of it The IBM PC became the most popular standard for microcomputers, even though most of the computers were produced by other companies, and Intel microprocessors and Microsoft operating ... see SETI@HOME; TERAGRID; and www.grid.org. For con- trast, see CLUSTER COMPUTING. grid system a way of standardizing the layout of many related pages, such as the pages of a multipage document.

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