Thursday, September 18, 2014

Residual Income Valuation Model

Residual income can be described as required return on common equity deducted from net income. If a company has its net profit margin lesser than equity capital cost, then it means the company does not have any economic profit regardless of its positive earnings.   

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Off-balance sheet Activities and Their Risk

Off-balance sheet risk refers to the risk associated with contingent assets and liabilities. Contingent asset or liability denotes that an item that becomes an asset or liability depending on the occurrence of future event. For example, if the company has a loan commitment of borrowing $10 million from a bank, the event becomes the liability only when the company decides to borrow the money. 

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Duration Model and Problems Associated with it

The Duration Model is based on market value and helps to manage interest rate risk. The market value approach helps to identify the true value of assets and liabilities. For example, if a bond was purchased at a 4% R sometime back, and if the R has fallen to 3% at present, the bond must be stated at the new price which is higher. 

Monday, September 8, 2014

Repricing Model, its Uses and Limitations

If  a security in a specific maturity category is repriced within that time period it is known as repricing. The rate at which the assets or liabilities are repriced it is known as rate sensitivity. 

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Does the Law of Negligence Apply to the Company Auditor?

Law of Negligence is applicable to certain situations where the failure occurs while performing duties. This law applies to professionals especially when due care is not taken while serving their clients. In such cases, negligence of professionals cause damage to the parties that obtain their services. 

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Market Models for Stock Analysis

The return on a security is dependent on the return of Market Portfolio and it depends on the unique conditions of a particular firm. The extent of responsiveness of security is measured by Beta and a graph line is plotted using asset returns against market portfolio returns. This describe the relationship between both of them and this can be termed as Single- Index Mod.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Analysis of Stock Returns

There are two popular methods for analyzing stock. One, technical analysis and two fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis is done on the historical data to evaluate the decision of the management of the company and calculate credit risk. Technical analysis is a  financial market technique that claims the ability to forecast the future directions of security prices through the study of past market data, primary price and volume.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How to Record Journal Entries in Accounting

Journal is otherwise known as the Book of Prime Entry as every accounting transaction primarily records in it. All accounting transactions are recorded here in chronological order.