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1. Introduction

10. Market Regulation

10. Using Geometric and Arithmetic Means

101 concepts

2. Acquisition of Long-Lived Assets

2. Aggregate Output and Income

2. Alternative Investments

2. Analysis of Market Structures

2. Benefits of Securitization for Economies and Financial Markets

2. Bond Prices and the Time Value of Money

2. Bonds Payable

2. Capital Market Theory

2. Components and Format of the Cash Flow Statement

2. Corporate Governance Overview

2. Cost of Capital

2. Credit Risk

2. Demand Analysis: The Consumer

2. Discrete Random Variables

2. Fundamental Concepts of Derivative Pricing

2. Hypothesis Testing

2. Index Definition and Calculations of Value and Returns

2. International Trade

2. Investment Characteristics of Assets

2. Leverage

2. Managing and Measuring Liquidity

2. Monetary Policy

2. Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return

2. Overview of a Fixed Income Security

2. Overview of Global Fixed-Income Markets

2. Overview of the Business Cycle

2. Portfolio Planning

2. Probability, Expected Value, and Variance

2. Sampling

2. Some Fundamental Concepts

2. Technical Analysis: Definition and Scope

2. The Concept of Market Efficiency

2. The Financial Analysis Process

2. The Foreign Exchange Market

2. The Functions of the Financial System

3. Accounts and Financial Statements

3. Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Equilibrium

3. Analytical Tools and Techniques

3. Approaches to Identifying Similar Companies

3. Assets and Contracts

3. Business and Financial Risk

3. Capital Structure, Seniority Ranking and Recovery Rates

3. Company Stakeholders

3. Context for Assessing Financial Reporting Quality

3. Continuous Random Variables

3. Costs of the Different Sources of Capital

3. Currency Exchange Rate Calculations

3. Current Assets and Current Liabilities

3. Depreciation and Amortization of Long-Lived Tangible Assets

3. Determining the Tax Base of Assets and Liabilities

3. Distribution of the Sample Mean

3. Fiscal Policy

3. Forms of Market Efficiency

3. Hedge Funds

3. How Securitization Works

3. Hypothesis Tests Concerning the Mean

3. Index Construction and Management

3. Interest Rate Risk on Fixed-Rate Bonds

3. Inventory Valuation Methods

3. Leases

3. Legal, Regulatory, and Tax Considerations

3. Managing the Cash Position

3. Perfect Competition

3. Portfolio Construction

3. Portfolio Expected Return and Variance of Return

3. Portfolio Return Measurement

3. Prices and Yields: Conventions for Quotes and Calculations

3. Pricing and Valuation of Forward Commitments

3. Pricing of Risk and Computation of Expected Return

3. Primary and Secondary Bond Markets

3. Revenue Recognition

3. Risk Aversion and Portfolio Selection

3. Risk Governance

3. Summarizing Data Using Frequency Distributions

3. Supply Analysis: The Firm

3. Technical Analysis Tools

3. The Cash Flow Statement: Linkages and Preparation

3. The Future Value of a Single Cash Flow

3. The Structure of Derivatives Market

3. Theories of the Business Cycle

3. Trade and Capital Flows: Restrictions and Agreements

3. Types and Characteristics of Equity Securities

4. Cash Flow Statement Analysis

4. Common Ratios Used in Financial Analysis

4. Detection of Financial Reporting Quality Issues

4. Economic Growth and Sustainability

4. Elliot Wave Theory

4. Exchange Rate Regimes

4. Expense Recognition

4. Financial Intermediaries

4. Hypothesis Tests Concerning Variance

4. Identification of Risks

4. Industry Classification Systems

4. Interest Rate Risk and the Investment Horizon

4. Introduction to Pensions and Other Post-Employment Benefits

4. Investing Short-Term Funds

4. Investment Decision Criteria

4. Market Pricing Anomalies

4. Money Market Yields

4. Monopolistic Competition

4. Monte Carlo Simulation

4. Non-Current Assets

4. Point and Interval Estimates of the Population Mean

4. Portfolio Risk

4. Present Value Models: The Dividend Discount Model

4. Pricing and Valuation of Options

4. Private Equity

4. Private versus Public Equity Securities

4. Rating Agencies, Credit Rating and Their Role in Debt Markets

4. Residential Mortgage Loans

4. Sovereign Bonds

4. Stakeholder Management

4. Structure of a Bond’s Cash Flows

4. Temporary and Permanent Differences between Taxable and Accounting Profit

4. The Accounting Process

4. The Balance of Payments

4. The Capital Asset Pricing Model

4. The Future Value of a Series of Cash Flows

4. The Graphic Presentation of Data

4. The LIFO Method

4. The Maturity Structure of Interest Rates

4. The Relationship between Monetary and Fiscal Policy

4. The Revaluation Model

4. Topics in Cost of Capital Estimation

4. Topics in Probability

4. Types of Derivatives

4. Unemployment and Inflation

4. Uses of Market Indexes

5. Accruals and Valuation Adjustments

5. Behavioral Finance

5. Beyond the Capital Asset Pricing Model

5. Board of Directors and Committees

5. Bonds with Contingency Provisions

5. Conclusion

5. Credit and Liquidity Risk

5. Describing and Analyzing an Industry

5. Economic Indicators

5. Efficient Frontier and Investor’s Optimal Portfolio

5. Equity Analysis

5. Equity Indexes

5. Evaluating Solvency: Leverage and Coverage Ratios

5. Exchange Rates, International Trade, and Capital Flows

5. Impairment of Assets

5. Inter-market Analysis

5. Inventory Method Changes

5. Investing in Non-Domestic Equity Securities

5. Managing Accounts Receivable

5. Measures of Central Tendency

5. Measuring and Modifying Risks

5. More on Sampling

5. Multiplier Models

5. Non-Current Liabilities

5. Non-Recurring Items and Non-Operating Items

5. Non-Sovereign Government, Quasi-Government, and Supranational Bonds

5. Oligopoly

5. Other Issues: Nonparametric Inference

5. Pooled Investments

5. Positions

5. Real Estate

5. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

5. The Present Value of a Single Cash Flow

5. The Purposes and Benefits of Derivatives

5. Trade Organizations

5. Traditional Credit Analysis: Corporate Debt Securities

5. Unused Tax Losses and Tax Credits

5. Yield Spreads

6. Accounting Systems

6. Asset-Based Valuation

6. Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

6. Commodities

6. Company Analysis

6. Corporate Debt

6. Credit Analysis

6. Credit Risk vs. Return: Yields and Spreads

6. Criticisms and Misuses of Derivatives

6. Derecognition

6. Earnings per Share

6. Equity

6. Factors Affecting Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Governance

6. Fixed Income Indexes

6. Inventory Adjustments

6. Managing Inventory

6. Monopoly

6. Orders

6. Other Measures of Location: Quantiles

6. Recognition and Measurement of Current and Deferred Tax

6. Risk and Return Characteristics of Equity Securities

6. The Present Value of a Series of Cash Flows

7. Analysis of the Balance Sheet

7. Analysis of the Income Statement

7. Business and Geographic Segments

7. Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Management Risks and Benefits

7. Elementary Principles of Derivative Pricing

7. Equity Securities and Company Value

7. Evaluation of Inventory Management

7. Identification of Market Structure

7. Indexes for Alternative Investments

7. Infrastructure

7. Managing Accounts Payable

7. Measures of Dispersion

7. Non-Mortgage Asset-Backed Securities

7. Presentation and Disclosure

7. Presentation and Disclosures

7. Primary Security Markets

7. Solving for Rates, Number of Periods, or Size of Annuity Payments

7. Special Considerations of High Yield, Sovereign, and Non-Sovereign Credit Analysis

7. Structured Financial Instruments

7. Using Financial Statements in Security Analysis

8. Analyst Considerations in Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Management

8. Collateralized Debt Obligations

8. Comparison of US GAAP and IFRS

8. Comprehensive Income

8. Investment Property

8. Managing Short-Term Financing

8. Model Building and Forecasting

8. Other Alternative Investments

8. Secondary Security Market and Contract Market Structures

8. Short-Term Funding Alternatives Available to Banks

8. Symmetry and Skewness in Return Distributions

9. ESG Considerations for Investors

9. Kurtosis in Return Distributions

9. Leasing

9. Risk Management Overview

9. Well-Functioning Financial Systems

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All-Levels

Alternative Investments

Appendix

BookLet Top Level

Corporate Finance

Demystified Videos

Derivatives

Economics

Equity

Ethics

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Financial Reporting and Analysis

Fixed Income

Level I

Level I Corporate Finance Full Videos

Level I Economics Full Videos

Level I Ethics Full Videos

Level I FRA Full Videos

Level I Portfolio Management Full Videos

Level I Quantitative Methods Full Videos

Level II

Level III

Portfolio Management

Quantitative Methods

R01 Ethics and Trust in the Investment Profession

R02 Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct Profession

R03 Guidance for Standards I-VII

R04 Introduction to the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

R05 The GIPS Standard

R06 Time Value of Money

R07 Discounted Cash Flow Applications

R08 Statistical Concepts and Market Return

R09 Probability Concepts

R10 Common Probability Distributions

R11 Sampling and Estimation

R12 Hypothesis Testing

R13 Technical Analysis

R14 Topics in Demand and Supply Analysis

R15 The Firm and Market Structures

R16 Aggregate Output, Prices and Economic Growth

R17 Understanding Business Cycles

R18 Monetary and Fiscal Policy

R19 International Trade and Capital Flows

R20 Currency Exchange Rates

R21 Financial Statement Analysis

R22 Financial Reporting Mechanics

R23 Financial Reporting Standards

R24 Understanding Income Statements

R25 Understanding Balance Sheets

R26 Understanding Cash Flow Statements

R27 Financial Analysis Techniques

R28 Inventories

R29 Long Lived Assets

R30 Income Taxes

R31 Non-Current Liabilities

R32 Financial Reporting Quality

R33 Financial Statement Analysis Applications

R34 Corporate Governance and ESG - An Introduction

R35 Capital Budgeting

R36 Cost of Capital

R37 Measures of Leverage

R38 Working Capital Management

R39 Portfolio Management Overview

R40 Risk Management - An Introduction

R41 Portfolio Risk and Return Part I

R42 Portfolio Risk and Return Part II

R43 Basics of Portfolio Planning and Construction

R44 Market Organization and Structure

R45 Security Market Indexes

R46 Market Efficiency

R47 Overview of Equity Securities

R48 Introduction to Industry and Company Analysis

R49 Equity Valuation

R50 Fixed Income Securities - Defining Elements

R51 Fixed Income Markets - Issuance Trading and Funding

R52 Introduction to Fixed Income Valuation

R53 Introduction to Asset Backed Securities

R54 Understanding Fixed-Income Risk and Return

R55 Fundamentals of Credit Analysis

R56 Derivative Markets and Instruments

R57 Basics of Derivative Pricing and Valuation

R58 Introduction to Alternative Investments

Standard I: Professionalism

Standard II: Integrity of Capital Markets

Standard III: Duties to Clients

Standard IV: Duties to Employers

Standard V: Investment Analysis, Recommendations, and Actions

Standard VI: Conflicts of Interest

Standard VII: Responsibilities as a CFA Institute Member or CFA Candidate

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