Fundamental Financial Math

A guide to the building blocks of Financial Math, with in-depth analysis and examples

What you’ll learn:
The relationship between price and yield on fixed income securities
What are the interest rate and pricing conventions for fixed income instruments
How to explain different day count and compounding conventions used in fixed income securities
The dramatic difference between yield to maturity and realized rate of return
How to determine the price of both coupon bearing and zero coupon bonds
Financial math applications as it is used in finance, banking, securities and insurance markets and jobs

Requirements
A financial calculator is recommended to get the most out of this course.
Knowledge of the English language.

Description
This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a wide variety of applications – calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed.

This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections:

Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money
Debt Security Pricing
Bond Yields and Rates of Return
The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor’s presentation are included to help participants follow along.

Who this course is for
All levels of participants are encouraged to take this course.