Accounting for Monetary Value
What is Accounting? Accounting standardizes financial information. When thinking about tracking accounts, we can think in terms of an absolute number reported, a roll forward schedule that tracks a change, a driver that creates the change and a % that represents the
Introduction to Capital Markets
Understanding how the global capital market is evolving is essential for CEOs and CFOs raising capital, financial institutions seeking to shape the market, policy makers tasked with regulating it, and investors seeking to profit from it. McKinsey created a database of
Finance with Excel
Finance with Excel Express your decisions using Excel. Excel is the premier business computational tool Implement financial analysis using the tool for financial analysis, Excel Valuation process Heart of finance is time value of money and discounting Excel Concepts Needed for Finance Write down variables (defining
Analyzing Value with Models
Analyzing Value Strategics, financials, and entrepreneurs undertake investment with the expectation of NPV & IRR. They accept projects that have positive NPV and IRR higher than the cost of capital. They actively find and structure positive NPV projects and then match
Tracking Value with Accounts
Value The formula for value is: Perpetuity value = CF / Discount rate Accounts and Accounting In order to track valuation performance of the perpetuity (i..e business), companies create accounts for each item of it’s financial existence. These accounts are the basis of valuation.
Playing the Perpetuity Game
The name of the perpetuity game is to build as large and passive a benefit stream as possible. There are three sides that one can engage in in order to do so as mentioned in the last chapter; the build
Capitalism as a Perpetuity Game
In order to build benefit streams (wealth), individuals engage in the perpetuity game by building or buying perpetuities. In order to build a perpetuity, a single benefit stream must be created first and then that benefit stream is to be
What is a Perpetuity?
Nature does not provide for man, so he must use reason to obtain value. Since his task is both survival and pleasure, man must use philosophy and science to determine what is valuable and then to build something to obtain
What is Business?
Business is the bringing together of demand with a product in order to build a benefit stream. The demand can be purchased and the product can be built, purchased or merely sold. As demand transacts to obtain the product, the
What You Learn in Business School vs. What You Should Learn in Business School
The standard MBA curriculum at most business schools is broken down along siloed subjects such as accounting, finance, management, operations, and marketing and attempts to teach students how to be a mid-level manager at a large corporation for the rest