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Startups: How to build a financial model and breathe life into it

Considering embarking on the road to entrepreneurship? Clueless about financial modeling? In this post we aim to provide a basic explanation of financial modeling and its importance for startups.

We begin by asking the following questions:

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Pricing Ladder Options using a Monte Carlo Simulator

Ladder options are options where the strike is reset whenever the price of the underlying asset reaches certain trigger levels or rungs during the tenor of the option. When the next strike or rung of the ladder option is triggered the profit between the old and new rungs/ strike prices are locked in. The rungs of a ladder option can be structured in one or both directions to allow…

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BASEL III – update March 2012

In preparation for Basel III and the requirements for banks and insurance companies to hold higher (and better quality) minimum amounts of tier-1 capital, various responses/ reactions to the regulatory regime changes are being witnessed in different countries.

Convertible Preferred Shares

Issuing new equity is an expensive source of capital for an entity. According to the Australian Prudential regulation authority, banks and insurance companies have devised a way to increase funding…

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Interest Rate Models: Building Black, Derman and Toy (BDT) in Excel: Define Output Cells

In the second stage of the construction of the Black-Derman-Toy (BDT) one factor interest rate model in EXCEL we will look at how the output cells to the model are assigned.

Define Output Cells

The median rates (except for the median rate at t =0) and sigmas are the solved for cells that result when the model outputs are calibrated to the observed inputs as defined by the…

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Interest Rate Models: Steps for building Black, Derman and Toy (BDT) model in Excel: Define Input Cells

This is the first of seven posts where we will be considering the step- by- step process of building the Black-Derman-Toy (BDT) one factor interest rate model in EXCEL. In this post we will see how the input cells to the model, among other things the initial yield rates and volatilities, are defined.

Define Input Cells

Assign Input cells on the excel sheet. These are:

Term = Tenor being…

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Interest Rate Models: Black, Derman and Toy (BDT): Building BDT in Excel: Introduction

In this post we consider the basic features of a Black-Derman-Toy (BDT) one factor interest rate model as well as some of the simplifying assumptions made in its construction.

Introduction

In order to value instruments whose cash flows are contingent on interest rates we would require a term structure of interest rates which define the evolution of spot rates over time. These term structures are in turn derived using term structure…

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Top 10 Active courses in October

The top 5 most active courses in October on the Learning Corporate Finance site so far:

Top 10 MBA: 15 months as a MBA student at Columbia Business School

Accounting Crash Course

Corporate Finance: First Course

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Learning Corporate Finance – APICTA and Manthan Awards nominations

Learning Corporate Finance, a side project at Alchemy that we started to support our learning practice picked up two awards last week. Learning Corporate Finance (LCF) will be representing Pakistan in the e-learning category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards being held in KL, Malaysia early next week. We were very lucky to be also nominated as the Pakistan country representative again in the e-learning category at…

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Feedback is a gift: Help us win at APICTA, the Delhi Manthan Awards and more

Learning Corporate Finance will be representing Pakistan in the e-learning category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards in KL later this month. Incidentally side by side with the APICTA Awards, LCF has also been nominated to the Delhi Manthan 2010 Awards later this year.

This request for feedback goes out to all users and readers who have helped us grow over the last 6 months to where we are now….

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Options Pricing Training: Interest Rate Options: Pricing Caps and Floors

Interest Rate Options Caps and Floors

Here is the second course on Advance Interest Rate Products. The perquisite for this course is the first course on pricing interest rate swaps.

Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) – Pricing Interest Rate Swaps – The valuation course

The second more advance course builds on the foundation laid in the introductory course…

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