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Put Call parity relationship

Ccaptmario12y ago
Can i know in what case do we have to use this? just in case it comes in exam
Rrouri12y ago#1
It has to do with option pricing, particularly the Black Scholes model. According to the formula you first compute the call option, and if the question asks to price a Put option, then you use the call option result and insert it in the put-call parity equation to compute the put option pricing. Essentially using one formula output (call) as input in the second formula (put).
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor12y ago#2
Rouri is correct (although she should not really be answering here because she is not the tutor :-) ). If you are asked to calculate the value of a put option then you need to calculate the value of a call option first and then use the put-call parity equation to get the value of the put option. However in some questions, the question itself has given a formula for calculating the value of the put option directly. If this formula is given in the question, then obviously you use that formula instead of put-call parity.
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