ACC501 Midterm Short Notes

ACC501 SHORT NOTES

Capital Market Line :

Efficient set, of all portfolios, that provides the investor with the best possible investment opportunities when a riskfree asset is available. It describes the equilibrium riskreturn relationship for efficient portfolios, where the expected return is a function of the risk-free interest rate, the expected market risk premium, and the proportionate risk of the efficient portfolio to the risk of the market portfolio.

Carrying costs :

Costs of holding a commodity from one time period to another.

Cash Flow :

Payment (cash outflow) or receipt (cash inflow) of money.

Certificate of deposit :

In this context, a marketable fixed rate debt instrument issued by a bank in exchange for a deposit of funds.

Compound Interest :

Interest calculated each period on the principal amount and on any interest earned on the investment up to that point.

Compound Option :

Option on an option (e. g. an option to buy an option).

Conglomerate Takeover :

Takeover of a target company in an unrelated type of business.

Consistency Principle :

In applying the NPV model, the net cash flows in the numerator should be defined and measured in a way that is consistent with the measurement of the discount rate in the denominator.

Constant Chain of

Replacement Assumption :

May be used to evaluate projects of unequal lives; in this case, each project is assumed to be replaced at the end of its economic life by an identical project.

Consumer Credit :

Credit extended to individuals by suppliers of goods and services, or by financial institutions through credit cards.

Contingent Claim :

Asset whose value depends on the value of some other asset.

Conversion Ratio :

Relationship that determines how many ordinary shares will be received in exchange for each convertible or converting security when the conversion occurs.

Corporate Raiders :

Aggressive corporate or individual investors who purchase a company’s shares with the intention of achieving a controlling interest and replacing the existing management.

Cost of Capital :

Minimum rate of return needed to compensate suppliers of capital for committing resources to an investment.

Coupons :

Fixed interest payments made on bonds and debentures.

Covenant :

Provision in a loan agreement to protect lenders’ interests by requiring certain actions to be taken and others refrained from.

Credit Foncier Loan :

Type of load that involves regular repayments which include principal and interest.

Credit Risk :

Possibility of loss because a party fails to meet its obligations.

Cross Rates :

Exchange rate between two currencies derived from the exchange rates between the currencies and a third currency.

Cum Dividend Period :

Period during which the purchaser of a share is qualified to receive a previously announced dividend. The cum dividend period ends on the ex-dividend date.

Cum Rights :

When shares are traded cum rights the buyer is entitled to participate in the forthcoming rights issue.

Currency Swap :

Simultaneous borrowing and lending operation in which two parties initially exchange specific amounts of two currencies at the spot rate. Interest payments in the two currencies are also exchanged and the parties agree to reverse the initial exchange after a fixed term at a fixed exchange rate.

Current Assets :

Cash, inventory, accounts receivable and other assets that will normally be converted into cash within a year.

Current Liabilities :

Debt or other obligations due for payment within a year.

Drawee :

The party upon whom an order, draft, check or bill of exchange is drawn.

Equivalent Annual Value

Method :

Involves calculating the annual cash flow of an annuity that has the same life as the project and whose present value equals the net present value of the project.

Eurobond :

Medium to long-term international bearer security sold in countries other than the country of the currency in which the bond is denominated.

Euronote :

Short-term note sold in countries other than the country of the currency in which it is denominated.

Event Study :

Research method that analysis the behavior of a security's price around the time of a significant even such as the public announcement of the company's profit.

Exchange Risk :

Variability of an entity's value that is due to changes in exchange rates.

Ex-Dividend Date :

The date on which a share begins trading ex-dividend. A share purchases ex-dividend does not include a right to the forthcoming dividend payment.

Exercise Price :

Fixed Price at which an underlying asset can be traded, pursuant to the terms of an option contract; also known as strike price.

Expetations Theory :

Of the term structure is that interest rates are set such that investors in bonds or other debt securities can expect, on average, to achieve the same return over any future period, regardless of the security in which they invest.