BU111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Local-Loop Unbundling, North American Free Trade Agreement, Great Depression

• School: WLU
• Department: Business
• Course: BU111
• Professor: Sofy Carayannopoulos

Document Summary

Bonds characteristics (return, term, priority over stockholders), types, features, factors affecting price, calculating approximate yield to maturity, relationship between prevailing interest rates and bond prices, reading bond quotations: represents debt. For issuing corporation or government: characteristics, types, features: Fixed term ( principal paid at maturity) The coupon rate at bond issue: factors affecting price: Amount paid common stocks and preferred stocks characteristics (return/dividends, term, Rate x face value + (1000- amount paid)/ years to maturity: bond prices very inversely with interest rates. Amount paid common stocks and preferred stocks characteristics (return/dividends, term, priority in bankruptcy situations, voting rights), features, factors affecting price, reading stock quotations: stocks: show equity/capital for issuing company, characteristics, factors affecting stock price. Supply and demand of stock due to good or bad facts. Market conditions bull and bear appropriate investing strategies. Time value of money application of appropriate formulae to problems. Connection between individual ethics, managerial ethics, and corporate social responsibility.