Off-Line Education System

E-Learning

Finance and Capital Markets

• Accounting and financial stements
  • Cash Accounting
  • Accrual basis of accounting
  • Comparing accrual and cash accounting
  • Balance sheet and income statement relationship
  • Basic cashflow satement
  • Doing the example with accounts payable growing
  • Fair value accounting
  • Expensing a truck leads to inconsistant performance
  • Depreciating the truck
  • Dpreciation in cash flow
  • Amortiseation and depreciation

• Current economics
  • Unemployment
  • Unemployment rate primer
  • Unemployment rate primer 2
  • Simple analysys of cost per job saved from stimulus
  • The housing price conundrum
  • The housing price conundrum 2
  • The housing price conundrum 3
  • The housing price conundrum 4
  • Wealth destruction 1
  • Wealth destruction 2

• Housing
  • Intro to balance sheets
  • More on balance sheets and equity
  • Home equity loans
  • Renting Vs buying a home
  • Renting Vs buying a home 2
  • Renting Vs buying a home detailed analysys
  • Short sale basics
  • Adjustable rate mortgages ARMs
  • Hybrid ARM
  • Balloon payment mortgage
  • Geometric series sum to figure out mortgage payments
  • Title insurance
  • Making an offer on a home
  • Escrow
  • Types of escrow in real estate

• Inflation
  • What is inflation
  • CPI index
  • Stagflation
  • Hyperinflation
  • real and nominal return
  • Calculating real return in last year dollars
  • Relation between nominal and real returns and inflation
  • Economics of cupcake factory
  • Cupcake economics 2
  • Cupcake economics 3
  • Inflation, deflatioon and capacity utilisation
  • Inflation, deflatioon and capacity utilisation 2
  • Inflation and deflation 3 Obama stimulus plan
  • Deflation
  • Velocity of money
  • Deflation despite increases in money supply
  • Deflationary spiral

• Interest and Debt
  • Into to compound interest
  • The rule of 72
  • Intro to interest
  • Interest part 2
  • APR and effective APR
  • Institutional roles in credit cards
  • Payday loans
  • e and compound interest
  • e as a limit
  • Formular for continuous compound interest
  • Intro to present value
  • Present value 2
  • Present value 3
  • Present value 4
  • Personnal bankruptcy chapters 11 & 13 (USA)

• Investment vehicles, insurance and retirement
  • Open ended mutual fund 1
  • Open ended mutual fund 2
  • Closed en mutual funds
  • Exchange traded funds
  • Ponzi schemes
  • Traditional IRAs
  • Roth IRAs
  • 401(k)s
  • Term and whole life insurance policies 1
  • Term and whole life insurance policies 2
  • Term life insurance and death probability
  • Hedge funds intro
  • Are hedge funds bad
  • Hedge funds, venture capital and private equity
  • Hedge fund strategies long short 1
  • Hedge fund strategies long short 2
  • Hedge fund strategies merger arbitrage
  • Risk and reward Intro
  • Human capital
  • Return on capital
  • Investment consumption 1
  • Investment consumption 2
  • Back of envelope space conundrum

• Banking
  • Banking 1
  • Banking 2 A bank's income statement
  • Banking 3 Fractional reserve banking
  • Banking 4 Multiplier effect and the money supply
  • Banking 5 Introduction to bank notes
  • Banking 6 Bank notes and cheques
  • Banking 7 Giving out loans without giving out gold
  • Banking 8 Reserve ratios
  • Banking 9 More on reserve ratios (bad sound)
  • Banking 10 Introduction to leverage (bad sound)
  • Banking 11 A reserve bank
  • Banking 12 Treasuries (government debt)
  • Banking 13 Open market operations
  • Banking 14 Fed funds rate
  • Banking 15 More on the Fed funds rate
  • Banking 16 Why target rates vs money supply
  • Banking 17 What happened to the gold
  • Banking 18 Big picture discussion

• China
  • Floating exchange resolving trade imbalance
  • China pegs to dollar to keep trade imbalance
  • China buys US bonds
  • Review of China US currency situation
  • Data on Chinese M1 increase in 2010
  • Data on Chinese foreign assets increase in 2010
  • Chinese inflation
  • Floating exchange effect on China
  • Floating exchange effect on US

• Bailout
  • Bailout 1 Liquidity vs. solvency
  • Bailout 2 Book value
  • Bailout 3 Book value vs. market value
  • Bailout 4 Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market
  • Bailout 5 Paying off the debt
  • Bailout 6 Getting an equity infusion
  • Bailout 7 Bank goes into bankruptcy
  • Bailout 8 Systemic risk
  • Bailout 9 Paulson's plan
  • Bailout 10 Moral hazard
  • Bailout 11 Why these CDOs could be worth nothing
  • Bailout 12 Lone Star transaction
  • Bailout13oes the bailout have achance of working
  • Bailout 13 Does the bailout have a chance of working
  • Bailout 15 More on the solution
  • CNN Understanding the crisis

• Geithner Plan
  • Geithner Plan 1
  • Geithner Plan 2
  • Geithner Plan 3
  • Geithner Plan 4
  • Geithner Plan 5
  • Geithner Plan 6 a better solution

• Greece
  • Greek debt 1
  • Greek crises 2
  • Greek crises 3
  • Greek crises 4

• Quantitative Easing
  • FED open market operations
  • Quantitative easing
  • Quantitative easing 2
  • Open market operations and quantitative easing overview
  • Another quantitative easing videop
  • US and Japanese quantitative easing

• Options, Swaps, Futures, MBO's, CDO's etc.
  • American call options
  • Basic shorting
  • American put options
  • Call option as leverage
  • Put Vs short and leverage
  • Call payoff diagram
  • Put as insurance
  • Put-call parity
  • Long straddle
  • Put writer payoff diagrams
  • Call writer payoff diagram
  • Arbitrage basics
  • Put-call parity arbitrage 1
  • Put-call parity arbitrage 2
  • Put-call parity clarification
  • Actual option quotes
  • Option expiration and price

• Stocks & Bonds
  • What it means to buy a companies stock
  • Bonds Vs stocks
  • Basic shorting
  • Shorting stock
  • Shorting stock 2
  • Is short selling bad
  • Gross and operating profit
  • Basic capital structure differences
  • market capitalisation
  • Market value of assets
  • Price and market capitalisation
  • Intro to the price to earnings ratio
  • PE discussion 1
  • PE discussion 2
  • PE discussion 3
  • Depreciation
  • Amortisation
  • PE conundrum
  • Enterprise value
  • EBITDA

• Stocks & Bonds 2
  • Raising money for a start-up
  • Seed from a VC
  • Back to the till
  • An IPO
  • More on IPOs
  • Equity Vs debt
  • Bonds Vs stocks
  • Chapter 7 (USA)
  • Chapter 11 (USA)
  • Stock dilution
  • Aquisitions with shares
  • Price behaviour after announced aquisition
  • Simple merger arbitrage
  • Basic leveraged buyout
  • Corporate debt Vs traditional mortgage
  • Intro to bonds
  • Intro to the yield curve
  • Bond prices and interest rates
  • Treasury bond prices and yields
  • The yield curve

• Taxes
  • Basics of US income tax rate schedule
  • Tax deductions intro
  • AMT overview
  • Alternative minimum tax
  • Estate tax intro
  • Tax brackets and progressive taxation
  • Calculating federal taxes and take home pay
  • Calculating state taxes and take home pay
  • Marriage penalty
  • Married taxes clarification
  • Corporations and limited liability
  • Is limited liability or double taxation fair
  • Transfer pricing and tax havens

• Microeconomics

• Macroeconomics

• Example questions with answers
  • Simple fractional reserve accounting 1
  • 2010 exam economics
  • 2010 exam business studies
  • business studies answers
  • mid year practice
  • mid year practice
  • practical final
  • economics sample answers
  • fin sample test
  • finance interview questions
  • economics sample questions
  • Microeconomics practice
• Tests
  • set 1
  • set 2
  • set 3
  • set 4
  • set 5
  • set 6
  • set 7
• General help files
  • Economics methodology
  • How markets and prices allocate resources
  • Market structures
  • Production & productivity
  • The determinants for the demand of goods and services
  • A year is a long time in forcasting
  • Price, income and cross elasticies of demand
  • Specialisation, division of labour and exchange
  • The meaning of market failure
  • The nature & purpose of economic activity
  • Competitive markets
  • Costs of production
  • Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods
  • Economics and diseconomics of scale
  • Monopoly and power
  • Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production

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