It can be difficult to earn a consistent return on your invested funds. In the Investing Guidebook, we cover how to set up a structured approach to investing that improves your ability to gain a good return on your investments. It addresses the basic investment types, the sequence of investing activities, individual retirement accounts, and how to invest in stocks, bonds, and funds. It also reveals a number of ways to extract useful information from company financial statements, and how to measure your investing performance. The tips included in this course can be of great assistance in improving your investing skill.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify the different types of investments.
Specify how to calculate the return on investment.
Describe the investing goals associated with a high marginal tax rate.
Identify the investing goals associated with someone approaching retirement age.
Specify the investing actions to take when the market appears to be overheated.
Identify the characteristics of an individual retirement account.
Recall the characteristics of the most common stock indices.
Specify the strategies most commonly followed by hedge funds.
Describe the best practices for investing in stocks and funds.
Identify the investment criteria for a money market fund.
Specify the differences between a market order and a limit order.
Recall how the accounting equation is used.
Specify the scenarios in which a business may report a cash balance of zero.
Identify the businesses in which inventory is more or less likely to be a consideration.
Recall the competitive strategies that require a reduced inventory investment.
Recall the circumstances under which financial leverage is more beneficial.
Specify the threshold at which debt levels are considered to be minor.
Recall how to calculate book value.
Specify the type of investor that is attracted to rapid sales growth.
Identify the situation in which a business experiences highly-reliable sales.
Recall the methods used to improve gross margin.
Specify which expenses are classified as operating expenses.
Identify the business model that tends to experience high operating expenses.
Recall how the net profit margin can be improved.
Specify what may happen when a company's price/earnings ratio is high.
Identify the contents of the total shareholder return calculation.
Major Topics
Investing Basics
Baseline Investing Activities
Individual Retirement Accounts
Investing in Stocks
Investing in Lending Arrangements
Investing in Funds
Working with Brokerage Firms
The Interpretation of Financial Statements
Investing Metrics
