Some Student Resources

Pages on this Web Site

• Problems Sets
• Math Review Slides
• Non-Technical Bibliography
• Financial Formulae
• The Value of Securities at Expiration

Student Help Files:

    Help with Data Downloads

• Using Money Central
• Using Fred 2
• Using EdgarScan

    Help with Excel Functions

• Using Excel to Build a Histogram
• Using Excel for Linear Regression
• Using the Excel Goal Seek Function
• Using the Excel Solver Function
• Using the Excel Naming Function

    Some Key Concepts

• Comparative Statics
• Non-Linearity

 

Collections of Links and General Sites

• Wachowicz's Web World (many, many finance links!)
• Good Academics' Web Sites (web pages from finance professors)
• Damodaran Online (corporate finance and valuation)
• Financial Toolbox (modules on various topics)
• Java Finance Tools (modules on various topics)
• Financial Management of the Firm (web materials for a course at FSU)

Fundamentals

• Interactive Finance Tutorials
• Basic Finance Tutorials
• How to Read The Wall Street Journal
• A Primer on Present Value
• Time Value of Money
• Value of Compounding
• Annuity Problems
• Growing Annuities
• Valuation Tutorials
• Business Ratios
• The DuPont Model
• Forecasting Principles
• Sensitivity Analysis
• U.S. Tax Code On-Line

Statistics

• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
• Correlation and Regression Calculator

Corporate Finance

• After the [Miller-Modigliani] Revolution
• Alcar: Cost of Capital Calculator
• Standard & Poor's Rating Service: Ratings Definitions
• The Basics of Leasing
• Corporate Bankruptcy

Investments

• An Introduction to Investment Theory (Hyper-Textbook)
• An Investment Risk Primer
• The Efficient Market Hypothesis
• The Work Of The SEC
• That Thing Venture Capitalists Do
• All About the Foreign Exchange Market in the United States

Derivative Securities and Risk Management

• The Derivatives 'Zine
• A Short Course on Commodity Markets and Futures Trading

• Mastering Risk
• The Real Power of Real Options
• Contingency Analysis
• NumaWeb: Derivatives Calculators
• Robert's Online Applications (e.g., financial option calculations)
• Value-at-Risk Resources

Glossaries, Dictionaries, etc.

• Hypertext Finance Glossary
• Bank One [Invest Online] -- Investment Glossary
• Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology
• CBS MarketWatch: Financial Glossary
• Derivatives Dictionary™
• Financial Encyclopedia
• Forbes Financial Glossary
  

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