Mergers and acquisitions
Investorline Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities…
FIFO and LIFO accounting
FIFO and LIFO Methods are accounting techniques used in managing inventory and financial matters involving the amount of money a company has tied up within inventory of produced goods, raw…
Comparison of Cash Method and Accrual Method of accounting
The two primary accounting methods of the cash and the accruals basis (the difference being primarily one of timing) are used to calculate US public debt, as well as taxable…
Analytic techniques of Options
Binomial tree pricing model Closely following the derivation of Black and Scholes, John Cox, Stephen Ross and Mark Rubinstein developed the original version of the binomial options pricing model. It…
Valuation models
The value of an option can be estimated using a variety of quantitative techniques based on the concept of risk neutral pricing and using stochastic calculus. The most basic model…
Types of Options
The Options can be classified into following types: Exchange-traded options Exchange-traded options (also called "listed options") are a class of exchange-traded derivatives. Exchange traded options have standardized contracts, and are…
Option valuation
The theoretical value of an option is evaluated according to any of several mathematical models. These models, which are developed by quantitative analysts, attempt to predict how the value of…
Option (finance)
In finance, an option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of…
Financial market efficiency
In the 1970s Eugene Fama defined an efficient financial market as “one in which prices always fully reflect available information”.The most common type of efficiency referred to in financial markets…
Forex Trading Versus Equities
Forex market offers several advantages over equities trading. 24-Hour Trading Forex is a true 24-hour market, which offers a major advantage over equities trading. Whether it’s 6pm or 6am, somewhere…