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| Preface | |
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| An introduction to the Texas Instruments BA II Plus | |
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| Choosing a calculator | |
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| Font convention | |
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| BA II Plus basics | |
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| Problems, Chapter 0 | |
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| The growth of money | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is interest? | |
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| Accumulation and amount functions | |
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| Simple interest / Linear accumulation functions | |
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| Compound interest (The usual case!) | |
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| Interest in advance / The effective discount rate | |
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| Discount functions / The time value of money | |
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| Simple discount | |
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| Compound discount | |
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| Nominal rates of interest and discount | |
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| A friendly competition (Constant force of interest) | |
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| Force of interest | |
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| Note for those who skipped Sections (1.11) and (1.12) | |
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| Inflation | |
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| Problems, Chapter 1 | |
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| Equations of value and yield rates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Equations of value for investments involving a single deposit made under compound interest | |
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| Equations of value for investments with multiple contributions | |
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| Investment return | |
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| Reinvestment considerations | |
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| Approximate dollar-weighted yield rates | |
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| Fund performance | |
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| Problems, Chapter 2 | |
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| Annuities (annuities certain) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Annuities - immediate | |
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| Annuities - due | |
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| Perpetuities | |
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| Deferred annuities and values on any date | |
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| Outstanding loan balances | |
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| Nonlevel annuities | |
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| Annuities with payments in geometric progression | |
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| Annuities with payments in arithmetic progression | |
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| Yield rate examples involving annuities | |
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| Annuity symbols for nonintegral terms | |
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| Annuities governed by general accumulation functions | |
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| The investment year method | |
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| Problems, Chapter 3 | |
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| Annuities with different payment and conversion periods | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Level annuities with payments less frequent than each interest period | |
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| Level annuities with payments more frequent than each interest period | |
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| Annuities with payments less frequent than each interest period and payments in arithmetic progression | |
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| Annuities with payments more frequent than each interest period and payments in arithmetic progression | |
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| Continuously paying annuities | |
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| A yield rate example | |
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| Problems, Chapter 4 | |
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| Loan repayment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Amortized loans and amortization schedules | |
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| The Sinking Fund method | |
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| Loans with other repayment patterns | |
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| Yield rate examples and replacement of capital | |
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| Problems, Chapter 5 | |
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| Bonds | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bond alphabet soup and the basic price formula | |
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| The premium-discount formula | |
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| Other pricing formulas for bonds | |
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| Bond amortization schedules | |
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| Valuing a bond after its date of issue | |
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| Selling a bond after its date of issue | |
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| Yield rate examples | |
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| Callable bonds | |
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| Floating-rate bonds | |
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| The BA II Plus calculator Bond worksheet | |
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| Problems, Chapter 6 | |
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| Stocks and financial markets | |
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| Common and preferred stock | |
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| Brokerage accounts | |
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| Going long: buying stock with borrowed money | |
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| Selling short: selling borrowed stocks | |
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| Problems, Chapter 7 | |
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| Arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, and derivatives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arbitrage | |
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| The term structure of interest rates | |
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| Forward contracts | |
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| Commodity futures held until delivery | |
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| Offsetting positions and liquidity of futures contracts | |
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| Price discovery and more kinds of futures | |
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| Options | |
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| Using replicating portfolios to price options | |
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| Using weighted averages to price options | |
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| Swaps | |
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| Problems, Chapter 8 | |
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| Interest rate sensitivity | |
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| Overview | |
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| Duration | |
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| Convexity | |
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| Immunization | |
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| Other types of duration | |
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| Problems, Chapter 9 | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Some useful formulas | |
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| Answers to end of chapter problems | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |