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No discussion of conservative methods vs. aggressive methods would be complete without a clear definition of what we mean by these two categories of methods.  Therefore, let’s start there: Conservative accounting methods are those that report lower net income in the current period, and (potentially) higher net income in future periods. Aggressive accounting methods are […]

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Various interest rate derivatives are, in fact, equivalent to each other; i.e., they can be structured to generate equivalent (though not necessarily identical) cash flows.  This article will explain how these derivatives can be structured to be equivalent to each other. First note that you will not be asked on an exam to create equivalent […]

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This article’s going to turn out to be fairly short, but, I hope, quite useful.  It has pictures. Floating-Rate Inflow: Rates are Expected to Decrease Here’s the situation: you own a portfolio of investments (floating-rate bonds) paying 6-month USD LIBOR + 100bp; payments are every 6 months for the next three years.  You’re concerned that interest […]

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When I was an undergraduate student in university, I was fortunate enough to have to have written only two term papers.  One was in the capstone business management class I took my last semester, and the other was in a class in mathematical modeling.  The term paper I wrote for the latter class was on […]

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