Basics of Finance
Basics of Finance
Basics of Finance
Finance is defined as the management of money and includes activities such as investing, borrowing, lending,
budgeting, saving, and forecasting. There are three main types of finance: (1) personal, (2) corporate, and (3)
public/government.
The easiest way to define finance is by providing examples of the activities it includes. Below is a list of the most
common examples:
•Investing personal money in stocks, bonds, or Mutual funds etc or Saving personal money in a high-interest
savings account- Risk & Returns- maximize the returns and minimizing the risk
•Financial Markets- NSE, BSE, Equity markets, Bond Markets etc.- secondary markets
•Borrowing money from institutions by issuing bonds on behalf of a public company or issuing shares to the
public in an IPO – Financing decisions of corporate finance- Primary markets and the secondary markets.
•Accepting or rejecting a Investment project- Investing decisions of corporate finance- Risk & Returns- maximize
the returns and minimizing the risk- Core finance
•Borrowings & Lending by a Bank- Banking operations- How to understand interest rates- Risk and returms
•Developing a forecast for government spending and revenue collection- Monetary policies by RBI, Exchange
rates, Inflation management and taxation related issues – Govt. Finance
1. Interest rates, Yields & Dividends
concepts in 5. PMT/Annuity
7. Risk
Types of returns
For example , if you hold 100 shares with a starting price of Rs 20, then starting value is
100*20= 2000Rs. If you collect Rs 0.60 per share as cash dividends, and then the ending
price per share is Rs 20.80, then the end value you have is 100*0.60= Rs 60 in cash plus the
100*20.80= Rs 2080 in shares giving total end value as Rs 2140. The change in value is
2140-2000 = Rs 140, so the return is 140/2000 = 0.07 or 7%.
2. Returns over multi period-
IF the return over n successive time sub periods are r1, r2 r3 ……., rn , then
the cumulative return or overall return over the time is :-
(1+r1)(1+r2)…….(1+rn)-1
For example, if the last three years return on an investment are 10%, 15%, 18%, then the
total return for three years would be
(1+ 10%)(1+15%)(1+18%)-1 = 0.4927= 49.27%
Compounded Annual Growth rate
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is the rate of return that would be
required for an investment to grow from its beginning balance to its ending
balance, assuming the profits were reinvested at the end of each year of
the investment's lifespan.
For example, if the investment portfolio has grown from Rs 10000 to Rs 16000
over 5 years, what is the CAGR?
PV= -10000
FV= 16000
N= 5 years
R=?
Time Value of money
Q1) Find the future value of $1,800 in 3 years at 8%.
Q2) Find the future value of a 3-year, $300 per year annuity at 6%
Q3) How much would you have to deposit now to have $15,000 in 8 years if interest is 7%?
Q5) If you borrow $20,000 and pay back in four equal annual instalments of $5,640,
what interest rate are you paying?
Q6) You have take a loan of $100000 at 18% per annum and agree to pay EMI for 3 year.
What will your EMI be?
• Risk is defined in financial terms as the chance that an
outcome or investment's actual gains will differ from an
expected outcome