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- November 16, 2013 at 6:18 pm #146350
Exam tips are out! Enjoy but do not rely on them.
First Intuition
- Discussion of the economic environment and the impact on interest and exchange rates.
- Working capital management.
- Investment appraisal and cost of capital.
- Business valuations.
Kaplan
- Investment appraisal.
- Working capital management.
- Valuations.
- Business finance.
- Cost of capital.
- The financial management function and the financial management environment.
Becker Professional Education
- Rights issues.
- IRR.
- Capital rationing.
- Lease vs buy decisions.
- Debt factoring.
- Dividend policy.
- Efficient markets hypothesis.
LSBF
Investment appraisals:
NPV, lease or buy decision, capital rationing/asset replacement.Cost of capital:
WACC: calculating cost of equity using CAPM, cost of redeemable debt and bank loan/preference shares.
discussion of capital structure theory (traditional, both theories on M$M, and pecking order theory).Working capital management:
working capital policies relating to working capital financing/investment, factoring, EOQ or probably a cash budget.Business valuation
valuation of equity using; DVM, P/E ratio and asset basis. Valuation of convertible debt and calculation of conversion premium. explanation of weak/semi-strong and strong form of efficient market.Sources of finance
factors to consider in raising short/long-term capital or equity/debt capital.
right issues and calculation of TERP and effect on shareholders wealth.
Effect of raising debt/equity capital on some key ratios like EPS, Debt/equity ratio and interest cover.Risk management
A discussion question on interest rate risk.Opentuition
1 DCF – Lease & Buy and/or Replacement and/or Capital Rationing
2 WACC (including CAPM) + theories of gearing
3 Cash Management and Inventory Management. Written part on interest rate risk.
4 Share valuation + written on market efficiency + sources of finance._______________________________________
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Very best of luck with your exams!
ansiNovember 17, 2013 at 11:33 pm #146517What about other sources ?
November 18, 2013 at 10:57 pm #146678Dvm?
November 19, 2013 at 3:59 pm #146780What about tips from other tuition provier like Kaplan, BPP, First Intuition, Becker and De Montfort.?
November 19, 2013 at 5:02 pm #146810reload the page 🙂
November 22, 2013 at 7:47 am #147329what does TERP mean?
November 22, 2013 at 7:50 am #147331The new share price after the rights issue is know as the Theoreticsl Ex-Rights Price (TERP).
November 22, 2013 at 8:01 am #147333thank you am not good with abbreviations, hopefully in the exams the are asked in full.
November 22, 2013 at 8:03 am #147334No worries. Good luck for the exam.
November 22, 2013 at 1:48 pm #147388It is funny to read working capital and investment appraisal as a generic exam tip.
This is not a rocket science, every student who is well prepared will know they come up every exam..November 25, 2013 at 11:08 pm #147815AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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@jemma 2422: DVM is a Dividend growth model.
November 28, 2013 at 4:08 pm #148311Could someone please email mock question s for f9 dec13. To gmuana202@yahoo.com. Many thanks. George.
November 29, 2013 at 12:11 pm #148453AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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If somebody has mock exams for dec13 F9 could you please send them to ananine2001@yahoo.de.
Thank you in advance, AlexDecember 2, 2013 at 8:34 pm #149326thanks for the Mock exams oogabooga!
December 3, 2013 at 7:33 pm #149938i am hoping there will be some kind of NPV and WACC question (like there has been in nearly every other exam) and then the other 2 questions will be pot luck.
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