Finance

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the various types of bonds, including the associated terminology, ways to define a bond's value, and types of bond yields.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to estimate rates of return using capital-budgeting techniques and explain capital-budgeting in terms of project investment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe cash flows in terms of capital budgeting, including how to calculate cash flows, various options in capital budgeting for a project, and risk considerations for investment decisions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe dividend policies and evaluate their impacts.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define the various rates of return in financial markets and define the different financial markets.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain ways to analyze a company's financial health, including measuring key financial relationships, determining adequacy of operating profits, analyzing ways a firm is financing assets, determining ROE, and determining shareholder value.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose and elements of an income statement, explain the purpose and elements of a balance sheet, describe the importance of cash flow, how companies are financed, and the purpose of the cash flows statement, define the purpose and power of GAAP, FASB, and IFRS, and explain the terms associated with income taxes, including taxable income, capital gains, computable taxable income, and types of tax rates.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to use break-even analysis to calculate break-even outputs and calculate earnings at various output levels.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic principles that form the foundations of finance including those that help avoid financial crisis, including the legal forms of business structure.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe various types of foreign investment, including foreign exchange markets and foreign exchange rates, describe foreign interest rates and purchasing-power parity, and explain the risks associated with direct foreign investment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the goals and considerations needed for short-term financial planning, define financial forecasting, including forecasting financial variables, methods, and ways to analyze the effects of profitability, dividend policy, and sales growth, and explain how to construct and use a cash budget.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the various types of stock, including how it is valued.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the cost of capital, including benefits and disadvantages of going public, the weighted average cost of capital, and divisional costs of capital.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain ways to evaluate the time value of money, including determining compound interest, future value, simple interest, time periods, present value, and types of annuities.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define working-capital management, including associated terms, the risk-return trade-off, how to determine the appropriate level of working capital, the cash conversion cycle, short-term credit, and ways to trim accounts receivable.