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US Credit Rating Downgrade: Commodities price impact: Using gold to price oil

Downgrade impact: Looking at historical correlations across Asset types

In the short term we believe that as markets adjust to the US credit rating downgrade news historical correlations are likely to break down. Eventually though they would likely return to around historical levels as the world economies adjusts to what analysts are calling the “new normal” for US sovereign debt. Which allow us to answer my questions about the price…

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ICAAP – Strategic Risk – Estimating ICAAP Capital reserve for Strategic Risk

ICAAP Strategic Risk Capital Charge Estimation

Estimating the ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process) capital charge for Strategic Risk has been possibly the most under covered topic since ICAAP submissions became a regulatory requirement under Pillar II disclosures. The only other topic also required for ICAAP submissions to receive similar disservice is capital integration across multiple risk categories (market, credit, op, liquidity, interest rate mismatch, strategic and other residual risks)….

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Small Business Financing: Investors due diligence and pre-investment audits

Whether you deal with Angels, Venture Capital investors or your local banker as a small business owner you need to understand the documentation requirements of fund raising as well as the due diligence and pre-investment audit process. While the process is cumbersome and awkward the primary issue with small business owners is preparation, generating the required information and presenting it in the right format to the investor and financer….

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Accounting for Trading profits: Inventory valuation models and determination of trading gains and losses

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Small Business Accounting: Inventory Valuation models and profitability: Working Example

In our previous post we covered the three basic inventory valuation models. We now illustrate a simple example of the average cost model in the table below:

 

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Small Business Accounting: Inventory Valuation models and profitability

Inventory valuation models and profitability

In order to value inventory, there is a physical count of inventory that takes place at the end of the year which can be a tedious task. This is because even though a business may have an inventory where all the units are identical, the prices on these units could vary. Some units could be priced higher than others due to increases in price over…

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Small Business Credit: Analyzing Cash Flows: Bringing it all together

Cash after financing costs

Cash Flow Summary

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Actuarial Mathematics – Introduction to Commutation Functions

Commutation Functions

While our generation of actuaries grew up with continuous time mathematics, my first exposure to actuarial functions and actuarial mathematics came through a chapter on commutation functions. A computational tool for easing the mathematics associated with repetitive calculations I grew so hooked to them that even today I use them as my first pass on a pricing function.

Commutation functions are a tool used by pricing and valuation actuaries….

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Top courses, posts and pages in November

Welcome to the new home of Learning Corporate Finance. Here are the top courses, pages and post views as of November 2010. Given the volume of posts we have now introduced a new Post Index feature that allows you to easily browse through all the posts and pages on Learning Corporate Finance without going through search or a category by category dig.

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Asset Liability Management – Course List

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