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LUMS Faculty Mark Shackleton (+44 1524 594131)

11-15th September 2014

  • The Midas Touch: BBC Horizon Video on Black, Scholes Merton and LTCM and transcript

    Scott Adams' "Dilbert" on Finance etc.

  • Accounting transparency
  • Accounting complexity
  • Stock options and information
  • Stock picking
  • Compensation committees
  • Governance and directorships
  • Return on investment (ROI)
  • Project uncertainty (real options?)
  • The costs of leasing or buying
  • Product pricing
  • Savings and pension rewards
  • Diversification
  • Gambling!
  • Managing project(name)s
  • Project objectives
  • Customer feedback!

    • How many pennies?

    Materials and Excel Spreadsheets (use right hand mouse key to "save target as")

  • Returns from Bodie & Merton p44
  • Random Index
  • Continuous compounding
  • Cash flow types
  • Car loan
  • Yield v Gain
  • N i PV PMT FV
  • Human capital
  • Consumption calculator
  • Lifetime consumption
  • Cashflows from accounting statements
  • Small and big projects
  • Inflation
  • Decision criteria
  • Exchange rates
  • Differing Means and Variances
  • Diversification
  • Portfolio effect
  • Efficient frontier
  • Scatter graph
  • Market regression
  • Beta regression
  • ABM Random Walks
  • Normal density
  • Black Scholes
  • Black Scholes Simulation
  • Implied Volatility