Blog Category: Financial Terms
Get definitions and guidance on all the terms you need to know within accountancy and finance.
Porter’s Five Forces: Analyzing Industry Competition
Learn how to use Porter's Five Forces to evaluate the competitive forces in your industry and develop a winning busin...
Unlock Competitive Advantage with Value Chain Analysis
Understand how to identify cost savings, differentiate your offerings, and form strategic partnerships through value ...
SWOT Analysis: A Complete Guide with Examples
Learn how to conduct a SWOT analysis to identify your organisation's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
How Does Money Laundering Work?
The act of concealing or disguising money's true origin and making it appear as if it is legitimate can be defined as...
What is marked to market?
Market to Market is one of the most critical aspects of financial markets these days. By definition, MTM is an accrua...
Ho Lee Model
The Ho-Lee model improves upon the drift to incorporate time-dependency which means that the drift in time 1 will be ...
Basic Indicator Approach
The basic indicator approach, is a set of operational risk monitoring techniques institutions under Basel II capital ...
Knightian Uncertainty
One of the critical aspects of Risk Management is to identify risk. Part of the risk identification process is to fil...
Value at Risk (VaR)
Given a particular likelihood of occurrence, the value at risk (VaR) determines an estimated loss amount at a given c...
Realised Returns
Using the initial investment value and its final value, we can calculate the bond's realised return.This calculation ...
Covariance Stationary
The relationships between its current and previous values stay constant. A time series that is covariance stationary ...
Jensen’s Alpha
Jensen's Alpha is a risk-adjusted performance metric representing the average return on a portfolio or investment abo...