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Real Return - Rate of growth in purchasing power of goods and services Holding Period Return - Return over the entire period that an investor owns a financial security Beta - A measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. st...

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D076 Finance Skills for Managers WGU
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Real Return - ✔✔✔Rate of growth in purchasing power of goods and services



Holding Period Return - ✔✔✔Return over the entire period that an investor owns a financial security



Beta - ✔✔✔A measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to
the market as a whole.



standard deviation - ✔✔✔Used to measure the total risk of securities



annuity due - ✔✔✔an annuity whose payments occur at the beginning of each period, consecutively



Par Bond - ✔✔✔When the bond's coupon rate equals the market yield;

Bonds are typically issued near par value



Pi - ✔✔✔Profitability index. At 1, the PI means a internal return rate equal to the cost of capital



Irr - ✔✔✔Internal rate of return (IRR) is a discount rate at which the net present value (NPV) of an
investment is equal to zero.

If the IRR is higher than the cost of borrowing to fund the investment, the investment should be
profitable. Always shown as percentage.



Net Present Value (NPV) - ✔✔✔A method of ranking investment proposals using the NPV, which is
equal to the present value of the project's free cash flows discounted at the cost of capital. Shown as
dollar amount.. At $0 it means it will neither add nor subtract value.

, Inventory Turnover - ✔✔✔An activity ratio found by COGS divided by inventory



dividends in arrears - ✔✔✔Feature of preferred stock specifying that if a company ignores preferred
stock dividends it cannot pay anything to it's common stockholders



Agency Problem - ✔✔✔the possibility of conflict of interest between the owners and management of a
firm



Resolved by aligning interests, example giving shares to manangement



Operating Margin - ✔✔✔A profitability ratio found by EBIT profit divided by sales



Capital Structure - ✔✔✔the mixture of debt and equity maintained by a firm



Defensive Assets - ✔✔✔Companies or securities with betas less than 1.



Variable Expenditure - ✔✔✔an expense that you have direct control over and that can change from
period to period



Price Risk - ✔✔✔Potential for the decline in the price of a financial security or an asset relative to the
market



efficient market - ✔✔✔a market in which prices fully reflect all the available information about a
specific security



trend analysis - ✔✔✔Comparing a firms ratio across time

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