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Financial Engineering is the application of mathematics and computer programming skills to solve certain problems in finance drawing on tools of statistics, economics, computer science and applied mathematics.
Investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies, corporate treasuries and regulatory agencies employ financial engineering in USA, Britain and other countries with robust financial markets.
- What is financial engineering.
- What are credit default swaps and their role in the financial crisis/near collapse of 2008?
- Describe the roles of investment bankers, commercial banks, bond credit rating agencies, and Congressional Legislation in the crisis.
- Describe the impact on this entire scenario of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
- Describe what financial leverage is, and its role in leading up to the collapse.
- Describe how investment and commercial banks apply the methods of financial engineering to problems such as (i) new product development, (ii) derivative securities valuation, (iii) portfolio structuring, and (iv) risk management.
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Explain how much cash does a company have
: Explain How much cash does a company have if the firm has a current ratio of 2.5, a quick ratio of 1.2, and current liabilities of $12,000?
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Formulate and test appropriate set of hypotheses
: Formulate and test an appropriate set of hypotheses to determine if the machine can be qualified. Use a = 0.05. Find the P-value.
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Assets liabilities and equity
: WACC The Patrick Company's year-end balance sheet is shown below. Its cost of common equity is 16%, its before-tax cost of debt is 13%, and its marginal tax rate is 40%.
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Describe how the mcdonalds prices its revenues and costs
: Describe how the McDonalds prices its revenues and costs. For MNE's with multiple foreign operations, consider any two of those operations and the contribution they are making to the parent firm's profits.
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Application of mathematics and computer programming
: Financial Engineering is the application of mathematics and computer programming skills to solve certain problems in finance drawing on tools of statistics, economics, computer science and applied mathematics.
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What is the thickness of the gold leaf in cm
: Pure gold can be made into extremely thin sheets called gold leaf. Suppose that 5.0 x 102 kg of gold is made into gold leaf having an area of 3620 m2.
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Elucidate advantages might socialist system have in respond
: Elucidate advantages might a socialist system have in responding to the needs of people struck by an emergency situation like the earthquake that occurred in Haiti in January of 2010?
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Graphical-computer-based methods-solving lp problems differ
: How do the graphical and computer-based methods of solving LP problems differ? In what ways are they the same? Under what circumstances would you prefer to use the graphical approach?
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Determining number of sales using algebra
: A Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop sells sundaes for $3.60 and banana splits for $4.25. The shop sells four times as many sundaes as banana splits. If total sales amounted to $3,730 last weekend, how many banana splits were sold?
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