Professors Russell Lundholm and Richard Sloan have a unique corporate finance text book titled “Equity Valuation and Analysis with eVal”. This has become a text book we now recommend to those who are interested in learning valuation but not in a formal MBA program or finance or valuation course because of its approach, structure and the […] Read more
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Modeling Leveraged Buyouts – Simplified! – Book or Workshop?
The book Modeling Leveraged Buyouts – Simplified is available as an Amazon Kindle edition! A leveraged buyout (LBO) is the acquisition of a company by a private equity firm or a group of investors using a significant quantity of debt or leverage. It is very similar to buying a house using a combination of a […] Read more
Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management by Louis C. Gapenski
Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management by Louis C. Gapenski is an introductory accounting and finance text book focusing on various nuances in healthcare and finance. Our corporate finance tutors have use this book to tutor many doctors and registered nurses who have chose to do an MBA with a health care […] Read more
Managing Bond Portfolios: Strategies, Duration, Modified Duration, Convexity…..
CFA students and MBA students that specialize in corporate finance will learn about managing fixed income or bond portfolios. This article is one part of a series on fixed income portfolios. Other articles in this series are 1) Time Value of Money – A Quick Overview, 2) An Introduction to Bonds, Bond Valuation & Bond Pricing and […] Read more
Term Structures, Interest Rates and Yield Curves
The terms “Term Structure of Interest Rates” and “Yield Curves” intimidates most MBA students. We believe the concepts of term structure of interest rates and yield curves intimidates MBA students is because almost all MBA students encounter it in their finance courses but do not go deep into understanding what the term structure or yield curve ares, how […] Read more
An Introduction to Bonds, Bond Valuation & Bond Pricing
Bonds form a significant portion of the financial market and are a key source of capital for the corporate world. Therefore every corporate finance course in the MBA program will introduce students to bonds at varying depth. We have provided a quick outline of what a student will need to know to understand bonds and the pricing or […] Read more
Letter to a CFA Level I Student
One of our CFA tutors typed up a long email to his student to wish him a happy new year! We thought it is worth sharing his advice as it may be beneficial to most CFA Level 1 students. My dear CFA Student, Happy New Year! You have less than 6 months left for your CFA […] Read more
Signaling in Corporate Finance: What is Tesla really saying?
Tesla just announced a $500 Million Common Stock Offering. In other words Tesla is issuing new shares in return for $500 million of cash. This money is to be used for expanding its business including Tesla Energy, the development of its next car – Model 3 and building a giga-factory. The announcement also said “Elon Musk, […] Read more
Tutoring for HBS Case Studies: American Chemical Corporation & Dixon Corporation: The Collinsville Plant
“American Chemical Corp.” and the “Dixon Corporation: The Collinsville Plant.” are two wonderful HBS corporate finance case studies that covers the same Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transaction situation in the Chemical Industry in 1979. American Chemical Corp which is a large chemical manufacturer wants divests a sodium chlorate manufacturing plant in Collinsville, Alabama due to […] Read more
Understanding Fixed Income Securities
Fixed income securities is a term used to describe securities that have a fixed stream of payments. This is usually referring to bonds where the borrower is promising to pay a fixed interest payment at specified intervals and the principal at the end of a specified period. The opposite category can be called Variable income securities […] Read more