Using the BA II Plus Calculator
Free CFA Level I lesson in Quantitative Methods. 21 min read, ~3,183 words.
Set it up once: four decimal places, P/Y and C/Y both equal to 1, END mode, and clear the TVM keys before every problem. These settings discount each cash flow exactly once per period. The five TVM keys ([N], [I/Y], [PV], [PMT], [FV]) solve any single cash flow or level...
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What this lesson covers
- Content
- Example 1
- Example 2
- Common Mistakes
- Check Your Understanding
- Exam Shortcuts
Learning objectives
- returns of financial assets and instruments
- types of financial returns
- benchmarking returns
- time value of money in finance
- statistical characteristics of asset returns
- statistical distributions for financial asset prices and returns
- estimation and hypothesis testing
- return and risk of a financial portfolio
- simulation of financial asset prices and returns
- applications of simple linear regression in finance
- introduction to financial data science
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