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Invest in your financial future with this valuable, popular, and easy-to-use guide
This latest edition of Investing For Dummies is infused with new and updated material to help you ramp up your portfolio today! This includes time-tested advice, updates to investing recommendations, and strategies that reflect changing market conditions. Investing may be an intimidating prospect, but this resource will serve as your primer on all aspects
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2012
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2nd ed.
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1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Global diversity in the practice of public sector accounting continues to impede the reduction of bureaucracy and the creation of comparable standards in terms of accountability and transparency. The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) continues to engage in the ongoing process of harmonizing public sector accounting with their International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs). IPSAS Explained: A Summary of International...
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[FTPress]
Pub. Date
[Ã2011]
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1 online resource ([27] pages)
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English
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The four steps young professionals can take to "get on their feet" and establish real financial independence! You've been drawn by the idea of living independently, calling your own shots, climbing the career ladder. Now, how do you follow through on your plans, stay true to yourself, and keep your head above water in an economy that seems so uncompromising? College graduates face a blank canvas in this "new normal" economy. There are no absolutes...
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Turn your financial data into insightful decisions with this straightforward guide to financial modeling with Excel Interested in learning how to build practical financial models and forecasts but concerned that you don't have the math skills or technical know-how? We've got you covered! Financial decision-making has never been easier than with Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies. Whether you work at a mom-and-pop retail store or a multinational...
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Statistics for Finance develops students professional skills in statistics with applications in finance. Developed from the authors courses at the Technical University of Denmark and Lund University, the text bridges the gap between classical, rigorous treatments of financial mathematics that rarely connect concepts to data and books on econometrics and time series analysis that do not cover specific problems related to option valuation. The book...
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Academic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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Third edition.
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1 online resource (580 pages) : illustrations, charts, graphs
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English
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Targeting readers with backgrounds in economics, Intermediate Financial Theory, Third Edition includes new material on the asset pricing implications of behavioral finance perspectives, recent developments in portfolio choice, derivatives-risk neutral pricing research, and implications of the 2008 financial crisis. Each chapter concludes with questions, and for the first time a freely accessible website presents complementary and supplementary material...
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Pearson Education
Pub. Date
©2013
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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"Taking the mystery out of economics is a public service. Brilliant Economics achieves this with aplomb". Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times"Economics is vitally important in everyday life because we are all living with the consequences of the global crisis, but it's often confusing. Brilliant Economics is a crystal clear and illuminating guide through the maze of financial jargon and difficult concepts. It explains in straightforward...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
©2011
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3rd ed.
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1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations
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English
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"A comprehensive guide to the world's largest financial market. Foreign exchange is the world's largest financial market and continues to grow at a rapid pace. As economies intertwine and currencies fluctuate there is hardly a corporate entity that doesn't need to use options on foreign exchange to hedge risk or increase returns. Moreover, currency options, both vanilla and exotic, are part of standard toolkit of professional portfolio managers and...
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
2011
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1 online resource (264 pages)
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English
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Interest and Present ValueCompound Interest Annuities Bonds Rate of ReturnProbability SpacesSample Spaces and Events Discrete Probability Spaces General Probability Spaces Conditional Probability IndependenceRandom VariablesDefinition and General Properties Discrete Random Variables Continuous Random Variables Joint Distributions Independent Random Variables Sums of Independent Random VariablesOptions and ArbitrageArbitrage Classification of Derivatives...
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Pearson
Pub. Date
2012
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2nd ed.
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1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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Since the first edition of The Financial Times Guide to ETF s was published in 2009, the number of ETFs in issue has doubled and ETFs are now common both on investor platforms and increasingly amongst financial advisors. This massive increase in demand has highlighted an urgent debate - just how dangerous are ETFs and how much do investors and advisers understand about the structure of the index tracker? The second edition of this book attempts to...
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Provides a comprehensive and updated study of GARCH models and their applications in finance, covering new developments in the discipline This book provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to understanding GARCH time series models and their applications whilst presenting the most advanced results concerning the theory and practical aspects of GARCH. The probability structure of standard GARCH models is studied in detail as well as statistical...
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Derivatives are everywhere in the modern world and it is important for everyone in banking, investment and finance to have a good understanding of the subject. Derivatives Demystified provides a step-by-step guide to the subject, enabling the reader to have a solid, working understanding of key derivative products. Adopting a highly accessible approach, the author explains derivative products in straightforward terms and without the complex mathematics...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 online resource
Language
English
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An Introduction to Machine Learning in Finance, With Mathematical Background, Data Visualization, and R Nonparametric function estimation is an important part of machine learning, which is becoming increasingly important in quantitative finance. Nonparametric Finance provides graduate students and finance professionals with a foundation in nonparametric function estimation and the underlying mathematics. Combining practical applications, mathematically...
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Understanding the math behind the money Finance professionals are routinely faced with a variety of different challenges from clients across a number of industries. From projecting cash flows to modeling future pension benefits to pricing derivatives for hedging to valuing real options, analysts regularly find themselves seeking solutions to these diverse problems. The Mathematics of Financial Models presents real-world problems and shows how various...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
©2006
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1 online resource (xxviii, 930 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Robert Whaley has more than twenty-five years of experience in the world of finance, and with this book he shares his hard-won knowledge in the field of derivatives with you. Divided into ten information-packed parts, Derivatives shows you how this financial tool can be used in practice to create risk management, valuation, and investment solutions that are appropriate for a variety of market situations. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 online resource
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English
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A comprehensive introduction to various numerical methods used in computational finance today Quantitative skills are a prerequisite for anyone working in finance or beginning a career in the field, as well as risk managers. A thorough grounding in numerical methods is necessary, as is the ability to assess their quality, advantages, and limitations. This book offers a thorough introduction to each method, revealing the numerical traps that practitioners...
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FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2011
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1 online resource ([11] pages) : illustrations
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English
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"This Element is an excerpt from Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth (ISBN: 9780137011278) by Franklin Allen and Glenn Yago. How the housing bubble really happened: an explanation that's simple, clear, sensible, authoritative, and short!"--Resource description page.
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