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Corporate Finance, Kenneth S. Bigel Dec 2023

Corporate Finance, Kenneth S. Bigel

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Corporate Finance is a comprehensive guide covering the three fundamental topics in Corporate Finance, including Capital Budgeting under Certainty, Capital Structure Theory, and Short-term Financial Management and Operating Leverage. In-depth explanations of topics and terms are provided as well as key illustration in the manner of problem sets and solutions, tables, and diagrams. Review problems are also included so that students can conduct self-assessments. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.


Introduction To Financial Analysis, Kenneth S. Bigel Mar 2022

Introduction To Financial Analysis, Kenneth S. Bigel

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This Open Textbook is a dynamic guide incorporating the essential skills needed to build a foundation in Financial Analysis. Students and readers will learn how to insightfully read a Financial Statement, utilize key financial ratios in order to derive forward-looking investment-related inferences from the accounting data, engage in elementary forecasting and modeling, master the theory of the Time Value of Money, and learn to price stocks and bonds in an environment in which interest rates constantly change. Ample problems and solutions, and review questions are provided to the student so that s/he can gauge his/her progress. This text will be …


Do Investors Still Gravitate To Preferred Habitats On The Us Treasury Yield Curve?, Kenneth S. Dreifus, Angelo Decandia, Elliott Goldberg, Mohammed Chowdhury Jan 2018

Do Investors Still Gravitate To Preferred Habitats On The Us Treasury Yield Curve?, Kenneth S. Dreifus, Angelo Decandia, Elliott Goldberg, Mohammed Chowdhury

New York School for Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Publications and Research

The purpose of this study is to test the preferred habitat theory non-econometrically using interviews with the help of a questionnaire for self-guidance on a group of focused investors. Frequencies and simple percentages were used to analyze data. Though many generations of post-World War II economics and finance students were taught that the nature of the liabilities on the balance sheet and the desire to avoid mismatches against assets caused particular classes of investors to gravitate to a preferred habitat on the yield curve, our study based on the responses to questionnaires by a group of U.S. based bond traders …