Cfa l1 exam formula & concepts sheet 2013

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QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Time Value of Money Basics
• Future Value: FV = PV(1+I/Y)N
• Present Value (PV): PV = FV/(1+I/Y)N
current value of some future cash flow
• Annuities: series of equal cash flows that
occur at evenly spaced intervals over time.
• Ordinary annuity: cash flow at end of period.
• Perpetuities: annuities with infinite lives.
PVperpetuity = PMT/(discount rate)
Required Rate of Return Components
1. Real risk-free rate (RFR).
2. Expected inflation rate premium (IP).
3. Risk premium.
Approximation formula for nominal required
rate:
Means
Arithmetic mean: sum of all observation
values in sample/population, divided by # of
observations.
Geometric mean: used when calculating
investment returns over multiple periods or to
measure compound growth rates.
Geometric mean return:
Variance and Standard Deviation
Variance: average of squared deviations from
mean.
Standard Deviation: square root of variance.
Holding Period Return (HPR)
Coefficient of Variation
Coefficient of variation (CV): expresses how
much variation exists relative to mean of a
distribution; allows for direct comparison of
dispersion across different data sets. CV is
calculated by dividing the SD of a distribution by
the mean (or expected value) of the distribution:
Sharpe Ratio
Sharpe ratio: measures excess return per unit
of risk.
For both ratios, large is better.
Expected Return/Standard Deviation
Probabilistic variance:
Standard Deviation: take square root of
variance.
Correlation and Covariance
Correlation: covariance divided by the product
of the two standard deviations.
Expected return, variance of 2-stock portfolio:
Normal Distributions
Normal distribution is completely described by
its mean and variance.
68% of observations fall within
90% fall within
95% fall within
Computing Z-scores
Z-score:“standardizes”observationfromnormal
distribution; represents # of standard deviations
a given observation is from population mean.
Binomial Models
Sampling Distribution
Central Limit Theorem
Standard Error
Standard error of the sample mean is the
standard deviation of the distribution of the
sample means.
Confidence Intervals
Confidence interval: gives range of values
the mean value will be between, with a given
probability (say 90% or 95%). With a known
variance, formula for a confidence interval is:
(significance level 10%, 5% in each tail)
(significance level 5%, 2.5% in each tail)
Null Hypothesis (H0)(significance level 1%,
0.5% in each tail)
Alternative Hypotheses: hypothesis the
researcher wants to reject; the Alternative
hypothesis (Ha) is actually tested; the basis for
the selection of the tests statistics. Alternative
hypothesis (Ha): concluded if there is sufficient
evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
One-tailed test: tests whether value is greater
than or less than a given number.
Two-tailed test: tests whether value is equal to
a given number.
One-tailed test:
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QUANTITATIVE METHODS continued…
Type I and Type II Errors
• Type I error: rejection of null hypothesis
when it is actually true.
• Type II error: failure to reject null.
Technical Analysis
Reversal patterns: head and shoulders, inverse
H&S, double/trip top or bottom.
Continuation patterns: triangles, rectangles,
pennants, flags.
Price-based indicators: moving averages,
Bollinger bands, momentum oscillators (rate of
change, RSI, stochastic, MACD).
Sentiment indicators: opinion polls, put/call
ratio, VIX, margin debt, short interest ratio.
Flow of funds indicators: TRIN, margin debt,
mutual fund cash position, new equity issuance,
secondary offerings.
ECONOMICS
Inflation
Inflation rate: rate of change in Consumer Price
Index over given period of time. Unexpected
inflation leads to uncertainty in the market and
thus less economic growth
Unemployment
• Structural: unemployed workers do not
have the skills to match newly created jobs.
• Cyclical: recession phase of business cycle,
economy producing at less than capacity.
Labor Demand and Supply
• A firm’s demand for labor is increased by:
Increase in price of the firm’s output.
• Increase in price of a productive input that
that is a substitute to labor.
• Decrease in price of a products that is a
complement to labor.
• The supply of labor is influenced by:
• Substitution effect: increase in wage rate
causes workers to substitute labor hours for
leisure hours.
• Income effect: increases in income increase
worker’s demand for leisure.
Schools of Macroeconomic Thought
• Classical: shifts in AD and AS driven by
technology changes; money changes adjust
rapidly to restore equilibrium.
• Keynesian: shifts in AD caused by changes
in expectations; wages are “downward
sticky”, use fiscal and monetary policy to
increase AD and restore equilibrium.
• Monetarist: monetary policy is the main
factor leading to business cycles; central
bank should increase money supply at
predictable rate.
Timing of Fiscal Policy
Time Lags:
(1) Recognition. (2) Administrative.
(3) Impact.
Automatic Stabilizers:
Induced taxes. (2) Needs-tested spending
Monetary Policy
• Reserve requirements.
• Open market operations—most used.
• Discount rate.
Elasticity of Demand
If absolute value > 1, demand is elastic; if
absolute value < 1, demand is inelastic; if
absolute value = 1, demand is unit elastic. Price
elasticity has two main determinants:
• Availability of substitutes.
• Share of budget spent on product.
Elasticity of demand and supply is greater in the
long run.
On a straight-line demand curve, demand is
more elastic at high prices/low quantities, and
less elastic at low prices/high quantities.
• Elastic range: price increase will decrease
total revenues.
• Inelastic range: price increase will increase
total revenues.
Accounting Costs vs. Economic Costs
Accounting costs include firm’s explicit costs;
economic costs include both explicit/implicit
costs (opportunity cost of equity capital)
Short run vs. long run: in short run, size of plant/
equipment cannot be changed. In a long run, all
resources (costs) are available.
Competitive Models
Price taker accepts market price to sell product.
Price searcher seeks price that maximizes
profit.
Pure competition:
• Large number of independent firms.
• All firms produce a homogenous product.
• Each seller is small, relative to the market.
• No barriers to entry.
Monopolistic Competition:
• Large number of independent firms.
• Each firm produces a differentiated product.
• Low barriers to entry.
• Demand is highly elastic.
Monopoly is a market where one firm sells a well-
defined product that has no good substitutes
and high entry barriers. Oligopoly is a similar
structure but has a small number of firms.
Any firm will maximize profits by expanding
output until marginal revenue = marginal cost.
Marginal Revenue Product
If a firm uses an additional of an input, increase
in output is marginal product (MP) of last unit
of resource employed. Increase in revenue
from producing/selling marginal product is
the marginal revenue product (MRP). Profit
maximizing firms will increase use of each
resource until MRP = price of the resource.
FINANCIAL REPORTING AND
ANALYSIS
Revenue and Recognition
Revenue Recognition Methods
• Percentage-of-completion method.
• Completed contract method.
• Installment sales.
• Cost recovery method.
Unusual or Infrequent Items
• Gains/losses from disposal of a business
segment.
• Gains/losses from sale of assets or
investments in subsidiaries.

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
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• Provisions for environmental remediation.
• Impairments, write-offs, write-downs, and
restructuring costs.
• Integration expenses associated with
businesses recently acquired.
Extraordinary Items (U.S. GAAP only)
Both unusual and infrequent (e.g., losses from
expropriation of assets). IFRS does not allow
extraordinary items.
Discontinued Operations
To be accounted for as a discontinued operation,
a business—assets, operations, investing,
financing activities—must be physically/
operationally distinct from rest of firm. Income/
losses are reported net of tax after net income
from continuing operations.
Compute Cash Flows From Operations
Direct method: start with cash collections
(cash equivalent of sales); cash inputs (cash
equivalent of cost of goods sold); cash operating
expenses; cash interest expense; cash taxes.
Indirect method: start with net income,
subtracting back gains and adding back
losses resulting from financing or investment
cash flows, adding back all noncash charges,
and adding and subtracting asset and liability
accounts that result from operations.
Free Cash Flow
Free cash flow (FCF) measures cash available
fordiscretionarypurposes.Itisequaltooperating
cash flow less net capital expenditures.
Critical Ratios
Common-size financial statement analysis:
• Common-size cash flow statement
expresses each line item as a percentage
of total cash inflows (outflows), or as a
percentage of net revenue.
Horizontal common-size financial statement
analysis:
Expresses each line item relative to its value in
a common base period.
Liquidity ratios:
Receivables, inventory, payables turnover, and
days’ supply ratios—all of which are used in the
cash conversion cycle:
Total asset, fixed asset, and working capital
turnover ratios:
Gross, operating, and net profit margins:
Return of assets, [return on total capital
(ROTC)]:
Debt to equity ratio and total debt ratio:
Interest coverage and fixed charge coverage:
Liquidity ratios indicate company’s ability to pay
its short-term liabilities.
Operating performance ratios indicate how well
management operates the business.
DuPont Analysis
Traditional DuPont equation:
You may also see it presented as:
Extended DuPont equation further decomposes
net profit margin:
You may also see it presented as:
Inventory Accounting
In periods of rising prices and stable or
increasing inventory quantities.
Higher COGS Lower COGS
Lower gross profit Higher gross profit
Lower inventory Higher inventory
Basic and Diluted EPS
Basic EPS calculation does not consider effects
of any dilutive securities in computation of EPS:
Therefore, diluted EPS is:
Expensing: opposite effect
Depreciation
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Units of Production:
Revaluation of Long-Lived Assets
IFRS: revaluation gain recognized in net
income only to the extent it reverses previously
recognized impairment loss; further gains
recognized in equity as revaluation surplus.
U.S. GAAP: revaluation is not permitted.
Deferred Taxes
• Created when taxable income (on tax return)
≠ pretax income (on financial statements)
due to temporary differences.
• Deferred tax liabilities are created when
taxable income < pretax income. Treat DTL
as equity if not expected to reverse.
• Deferred tax assets are created when
taxable income > pretax income. Must
recognize valuation allowance if more likely
than not that DTA will not be realized.
Long-Term Liabilities
• Premium bond: coupon rate > market rate
at issuance.
• Discount bond: coupon rate < market rate at
issuance.
• Interest expense equals book value at
the beginning of the year multiplied by the
market rate of interest at the time the bonds
were issued.
Leases
Financial statement/ratio impact of lease
accounting from the lessee perspective: capital
leases results in:
• Higher: assets, liabilities, CFO, debt/equity.
Same: total cash flow.
Cost of Equity Capital
Cost of Equity using CAPM:
Capital Budgeting
Pure-Play Method Project Beta
Delivered asset beta for comparable company:
Relevered project beta for subject firm:
Measures of Leverage
Total leverage: percent change in net income
from a given percent change in sales.
Financial leverage: percent change in net
income from a given percent change in EBIT.
Dividends and Shares Repurchases
Cash dividend and share repurchase have
same effect on shareholder wealth.
Share repurchase with borrowed funds will
increase EPS if cost of debt < earnings yield,
decrease EPS if cost of debt > earnings yield.
Share repurchase will increase book value per
share if stock price < BVPS, decrease book
value per share if stock price > BVPS.
Working Capital Management
Primary sources of liquidity: cash balances
Corporate Governance
Favor shareholder interests: independent
board, strong code of ethics, confidential voting.
Harm shareholder interests: management-
aligned board, voting restrictions, takeover
defenses.
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Combining Preferences with the Optimal
Set of Portfolios
Markowitz efficient frontier is the set of portfolios
that have highest return for given level of risk.
Security Market Line (SML)
Investors should only be compensated for
risk relative to market. Unsystematic risk is
diversified away; investors are compensated
for systematic risk. The equation of the SML
is the CAPM, which is a return/systematic risk
equilibrium relationship.
The SML and Equilibrium
Identifying mispriced stocks:
Consider three stocks (A,B,C) and SML.
Estimated stock returns should plot on SML.
• A return plot over the line is underpriced.
• A return plot under the line is overpriced.
Pensions
Defined contribution: employer contribution
expensed in period incurred.
Defined benefit: overfunded plan recognized as
asset, underfunded plan recognized as liability.
Balance sheet value equals funded status of
plan under U.S. GAAP but not under IFRS.
Marketable Security Classifications
Held-for-trading: fair value on balance sheet;
dividends, interest, realized and unrealized G/L
is other comprehensive income.
Available-for-sale: fair value on balance sheet;
dividends, interest, realized G/L recognized
on income statement; unrealized G/L is other
comprehensive income.
Held-to-maturity: amortized cost on balance
sheet; interest, realized G/L recognized on
income statement.
Incorporate Investments
• 20% ownership: no significant influence;
use accounting methods for passive
investments.
• 20% to 50% ownership: significant influence;
use equity method.
• Joint control: proportionate consolidation
permitted under IFRS only, equity method
usually required under U.S. GAAP.
• 50% ownership: control of investee; use
consolidation method.
CORPORATE FINANCE
Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Cost of Preferred Stock
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Risk Adjusted Returns
Sharpe ratio and M-squared measure excess
return per unit of total risk.
Treynor measure and Jensen’s alpha measure
excess return per unit of systematic risk.
EQUITY INVESTMENTS
Well-Functioning Security Markets
• Operational efficiency (lowest possible
transaction costs).
• Informational efficiency (prices rapidly
adjust to new information).
Margin Purchases
For margin transactions:
• Leverage factor = 1/margin percentage.
• Levered return = HPR x leverage factor.
Margin Call Price
Computing Index Prices
Value weighted-Index
Types of Orders
Execution instructions: how to trade; e.g.,
market orders, limit orders.
Validity instructions: when to execute; e.g., stop
orders, day orders, fill-or-kill orders.
Clearing instructions: how to clear and settle;
for sell orders, specify short sale or long sale.
Five Competitive Forces
1. Rivalry among existing competitors.
2. Threat of new entrants.
3. Threat of substitute products.
4. Bargaining power of buyers.
5. Bargaining power of suppliers.
One-Period Valuation Model
Be sure to use expected dividend in calculation.
Infinite Period Dividend Discount Model
Supernormal growth model (multi-stage) DDM:
Constant growth model:
Critical relationship
• As difference between and widens,
value of stock falls.
• As difference between and narrows,
value of stock rises.
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and
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cause large changes in stock’s value.
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must be greater than gc
(or math will not
work).
Earnings Multiplier Model
• Indenture. Agreement containing the terms
under which money is borrowed.
• Term to Maturity. Length of time until loan
contract or agreement expires.
• Par value. Amount borrower promises to
pay on or before maturity date of the issue.
Market Structures
Quote-driven markets: investors trade with
dealers.
Order-driven markets: buyers and sellers
matched by rules.
Brokered markets: brokers find counterparties.
Forms of EMH
• Weak form. Current stock prices fully reflect
available security market info. Volume
information/ past price do not relate to future
direction of security prices. Investor cannot
achieve excess returns using tech analysis.
• Semi-strong form. Security prices instantly
adjust to new public information. Investor
cannot achieve excess returns using
fundamental analysis.
• Strong form. Stock prices fully reflect all
information from public and private sources.
Assumes perfect markets in which all
information is cost free and available to
everyone at the same time. Even with inside
info, investor cannot achieve excess returns.
Industry Life Cycle Stages
Embryonic: slow growth, high prices, large
investment needed, high risk of failure.
Growth: rapid growth, falling prices, limited
competition, increasing profitability.
Shakeout: slower growth, intense competition,
declining profitability, cost cutting, weaker firms
fail or merge.
Mature: slow growth, consolidation, stable
prices, high barriers to entry.
Decline: negative growth, declining prices,
consolidation.
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Repayment/Prepayment Provisions
• Bullet bonds. Lump sum at maturity pays
entire principal.
• Serial bonds. Pay off principal through
series of payments over time.
• Amortizing securities. Periodic principal and
interest payments.
• Sinking fund provisions. Provide for bond
retirement through predefined principal
payments over life of the issue.
• Call provisions. Issuer has right (but not
obligation) to retire all or part of issue prior
to maturity. Issuer owns option to call the
bonds away from investor.
• Refunding provisions. Nonrefundable
bonds prohibit premature retirement of an
issue from proceeds of a lower coupon
bond. Bonds that carry these provisions can
be freely callable but nonrefundable.
Basics of Floating Rate Bonds
• These securities pay variable rate of
interest.
• Common procedure for setting coupon rates
on floating-rate bonds starts with reference
rate; then adds/subtracts a stated margin.
Interest Rate Risk
Key point: there is an inverse relationship
between interest rates and bond prices.
How bond’s feature affect interest rate risk:
• Longer maturity bonds. Higher interest rate
risk (all else same)
• Smaller coupon bonds. Higher interest rate
risk (all else same).
• Discount at constant rate applied to all cash
flows (YTM) to find all future cash flows’ PV.
• Treat each cash flows as a single zero-
coupon bond and find PV of each “zero”
using appropriate spot rates for each cash
flow.
Price must be the same to prevent arbitrage.
Accrued Interest and Clean Prices
Bond price without accrued interest is clean
price. Full price includes accrued interest.
Yield Calculations
Annual Equivalent Yield
Converting a bond-equivalent yield (BEY) to an
equivalent annual yield (EAY) or vice versa:
Spot Rates
To derive a bond’s value using spot rates,
discount the individual cash flows at appropriate
for each flow’s time horizon; sum PV of the cash
flows to get bond’s current value. This value is
the arbitrage-free value.
Duration and Convexity
Duration is the slope of a bond’s price yield
function. It is steeper at low interest rates, flatter
at high interest rates. So, duration (interest rate
•
Convexity is a measure of degree of curvature
or convexity in the price/yield relationship.
Convexity accounts for amount of error in
estimated price (based on duration).
• Expectations analysis. Yield curve shape
reflects investor expectations about future
behavior of short-term interest rates.
Forward rates computed using today’s spot
rates are best guess of future interest rates.
• Liquidity preference theory. Investors prefer
greater liquidity; will demand premium
(higher yields to invest in longer-term
issues).
• Market segmentation theory. Market for debt
securities is segmented on basis of investor
maturity preferences. Each segment’s
interest rate level is determined by supply/
demand.
• Credit rating of the issue is different from the
credit rating of the corporate
• Ratings from rating agencies are updated
less frequently that makes them less reliable
• Charater, Collateral, Capacity or Covenants
• Economic factors & Stock Fundamentals
affects spread volatility
• If market interest rates are high, price
volatility will be lower than if market interest
rates are low.
Floating rate securities have very low levels
of price volatility in relation to interest rate
changes.
Reinvestment Risk
If interest rates decline, investors are forced to
reinvest at lower yields.
Bonds with high coupons have greater risk.
Greatest risk is with callable bonds, where all/
part of principal can be repaid in low interest
rate environment.
Credit Risk
• Default risk. Issuer may not take payments.
• Credit spread risk. Difference in bond’s
yield from yield on risk-free security. All else
equal, the riskier the bond, the higher the
spread.
• Downgrade risk. Bond may be reclassified
as riskier security by a major rating agency.
Basic Bond Pricing
To value a semi-annual pay bond using a
financial calculator:
There are two equivalent ways to price a bond:

DERIVATIVES
Futures vs. Forwards
Arbitrage
• Law of one price: two assets with identical
cash flows in the future, regardless of future
events, should have the same price. If A
and B have identical future payoffs, and A is
priced lower than B, buy A and sell B.
• Second type of arbitrage: two assets with
uncertain returns can be combined in a
portfolio that have a certain payoff. If a
portfolio of A and B has a certain payoff, the
portfolio should yield the risk-free rate.
Forward Contracts
• Long must pay a certain amount at specific
future date to short, who will deliver the
underlying asset.
• A cash settlement forward does not require
actual delivery of the underlying asset, but a
cash payment to the party disadvantaged by
the difference between market price of the
asset and contract price at settlement date.
• Early termination can be achieved by entering
into a new forward contract with the opposite
position, at the then-current expected future
price. This will fix the amount of payment to
be made/received at settlement date.
Each security in the put-call parity relationship
can be expressed as:
• Buyer of a call option—long position.
• Writer (seller) of a call option—short position.
• Buyer of a put option—long position.
• Writer (seller) of a call option—short position.
intrinsic value of a call option =
Max[0,S-X]
intrinsic value of a put option =
Max[0,X-S]
ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
Features of Alternative investments
Significance for Portfolio Management
Risk Management
• Valuation methods: cost method, sales
comparison method, and income method.
• Income method uses a discounted cash flow
model similar to that of a perpetuity:
• Net operating income (NOI) equals gross
operating income less estimated vacancy,
collections, and other operating expenses,
(including property taxes, but excluding
income taxes. NOI does not include
depreciation or financing costs.
• Illiquidity.
• Potential for mispricing. Investments
in esoteric, infrequently traded securities may
lead to difficulty determining true value.
• Counterparty credit risk.
• Short covering. Risk that managers who
short sell as a strategy will have to cover their
shorts and repurchase securities at price
higher than where they original sold.
• Margin calls. Can result in forced selling of
assets, possibly at a loss, on an already
highly leveraged position.
• Price return: due to change in futures price.
• Roll yield: positive for backwardation,
negative for contango.
Forward Rate Agreements (FRA)
Can be viewed as a forward contract to borrow/
lend money at a certain rate at some future
date. Formula for payment to the long at
settlement is:
Futures vs. Forwards
Forwards
Private contracts
Unique contracts
Default risk
Futures
Exchange –traded
Standardized contracts
Guaranteed by clearinghouse
American vs. European Options
American options let the owner exercise
the option any time before or at expiration.
European options can be exercised only at
expiration. Value of the American option will
equal/exceed value of the European option.
Lower and Upper Bounds for Options
Note: t=time to expiration.
Put-Call Parity
Put-call parity holds that portfolios with identical
payoffs must sell for the same price to prevent
arbitrage. The put-call parity relationship:
European
call (c)
American
call (C)
European
put (p)
American
put (P)
Option Minimum Maximum
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