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June 19, 2013
CFA Level II Exam - Sample Item Set Questions
June 19, 2013
PRM Exam 1 - Sample Questions
June 19, 2013 · Securities & Markets
What do Derivative Traders Do?
June 17, 2013
CFA Experience Requirements
June 12, 2013
CFA Study Plan in Excel (For Level 1)
June 12, 2013 · Financial Analysis
Why do companies manipulate their financial reports?
June 11, 2013
Career of a CFA
May 21, 2013
Most Common CFA Level 1 Questions and Topics
May 13, 2013
Common Issues Resulting in Data Errors
The data input and editing process is one of the most time consuming and interactive processes that can be prone to many data errors.
May 13, 2013
Creating Data Quality Scorecard: Motivation and Mechanics
This lesson describes the motivations and mechanics of creating a data quality scorecard.
May 13, 2013
Data Quality Inspection and Validation
This post differentiates between data quality inspection and data validation.
May 13, 2013
Data Quality Scorecard
The classification of the different areas of impact of poor data quality resulted in four different impact areas. Within each impact area several different parameters of impact can then be determined to generate what is called a data quality scorecard which contains complex data metrics. These can then be analyzed using three different view points.
May 13, 2013
Dimensions of Acceptable Data
Organizing the rules of data quality into dimensions not only improves the specification and measurement of the data quality, it also provides the framework under which quality can be measured and reported.
May 13, 2013
How Poor Quality Data Impacts Businesses
May 13, 2013
Operational Data Governance
The concept of data governance has come about because traditional methods of ensuring data quality are not living up to the expectations.
May 9, 2013 · Investment Management
Banking: How Bank Notes and Checks Work?
May 9, 2013 · Investment Management
Banking: How Banks Give Out Loans?
This simple video from Khan Academy explains how a bank gives out loans to people without actually losing their equity. The video provides an helicopter view of the core banking system which involves deposit taking and lending.
May 9, 2013 · Investment Management
Banking: Introduction to Bank Notes
A bank note is a note issued by a bank representing its promise to pay a specific sum to the bearer on demand and acceptable as money. It is often known as a bill, paper money or simply a note.
May 9, 2013 · Investment Management
Banking: Multiplier Effect and the Money Supply
The banking system as a whole can create an amount of money that is a multiple of deposits. The bank lending leads to new deposits in the banking system and a multiplier effect on the money supply. In a check-able deposits only system (no cash), the money supply equals bank reserves divided by the reserve ratio.
May 9, 2013 · Investment Management
Banking: Understanding Reserve Ratios
Reserve requirements are the amount of funds that a bank must hold in reserve against specified deposit liabilities.
May 6, 2013 · Investment Management
A Bank’s Income Statement