Financial Markets And Treasury Instruments (Full Course)

Financial Markets And Treasury Instruments (Full Course)
Last updated 4/2022
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A Guide to the Most Commonly Used Financial Instruments, and How Businesses Use Them to Maximize Financial Efficiency

What you’ll learn
Working Capital Management
Knowledge of treasury products (in terms of features, benefits, risks and their use in risk mitigation strategies)
Money market instruments, pricing & market conventions for trading (Negotiable Certificates of Deposit, Treasury Bills, The Repo Market, and Commercial Paper)..
Debt: the main types of debt facilities and their characteristics
Equity: Introduction to the Capital Asset Pricing Methodology (CAPM), and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
The Business Lifecycle (launch, growth, maturity, and decline) and its effect on revenue, debt, and working capital
Business day conventions, and day-count conventions used by traders in financial markets
Simple and compound interest and discount rates
Central or Reserve banks, their functions and how they operate
An introduction to derivative products (forwards, futures, options, and structured products combining all of the above)
An introduction to replicating portfolios and no-arbitrage pricing assumptions
The fixed-income market (forward-rate agreements, interest rate swaps, and bonds)
Foreign exchange markets (market conventions, cross exchange rates, forward exchange contracts, and cross currency swaps)
Requirements
Basic financial literacy and basic mathematical ability
Description
Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Working Capital Management

Lecture 2 Working Capital Management

Section 3: Debt

Lecture 3 Debt

Section 4: Equity

Lecture 4 Equity

Lecture 5 Bonus Lesson 1: Characteristics of Betas

Lecture 6 Bonus Lesson 2: Levered vs Unlevered Betas in Company Valuations

Lecture 7 Case Study: WACC, Share buy-backs and Government Stimulus

Section 5: The Business Life Cycle

Lecture 8 The Business Life Cycle

Section 6: Financial Markets

Section 7: Money Market Instruments

Section 9: Arbitrage

Lecture 15 Arbitrage

Section 10: Derivative Products

Section 11: The Fixed-income Market

Section 12: Foreign Exchange Markets