Sunday, January 24, 2016

Chapter 27: The Basic Tools of Finance

Chapter 27 is all about identifying and applying the basic tools of finance in the American financial market. The first part of the chapter identified the variables of time and risk and how people tend to buy insurance in order to avoid the risk of the unknown future. Also, we are shown the mathematical way to compute the present value of dollars as well as the future value with the interest rate. In the second part of the chapter, the book discussed how diversification, fundamental analysis, and rule of 70 all talk about the value or price of a stock. During this part, they introduced standard deviation, which is a concept that I am a bit confused about. Overall, I would give the chapter a rating of 3 because it was a short read and it had a good explanation for the concepts. In addition, I worked on the questions already and they seem fairly to answer. What would really help would just to do a quick summary of the chapter as well as standard deviation. 

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