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Career of a CFA

Hopefuls on the lookout for careers in Finance, particularly financial investment and research  would be advised to earn...

Most Common CFA Level 1 Questions and Topics

As the exam date approaches, we all want to make the best use of our time. The focus shifts to attempting practice exams...

Creating Data Quality Scorecard: Motivation and Mechanics

Motivation The data quality scorecard is meant to present a picture of the data quality levels and as to where they are...

Data Quality Scorecard

The classification of the different areas of impact of poor data quality resulted in four different impact areas. Within...

Data Quality Inspection and Validation

Data quality inspection is another word for assessment and is a means by which one can establish good and bad data. This...

Operational Data Governance

The concept of data governance has come about because traditional methods of ensuring data quality are not living up to ...

Dimensions of Acceptable Data

Organizing the rules of data quality into dimensions not only improves the specification and measurement of the data qua...

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...

How Poor Quality Data Impacts Businesses

In cases where the analysis is done on reasons for project failures and a decision is made to invest resources into miti...

Banking: Understanding Reserve Ratios

Reserve requirements are the amount of funds that a bank must hold in reserve against specified deposit liabilities. ...

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. ...

Banking: How Bank Notes and Checks Work?

This video explores how bank notes and checks are used as a unit of exchange as an alternative to gold. It explains, in ...

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 accept...

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 ne...

A Bank’s Income Statement

This short video provides an introduction to a bank’s income statement and the concept of income statement in general. ...

How a Bank Works?

This video provides an introduction to how a bank works and how they make money. It takes simple examples to explain th...

Understanding the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer P...

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, or BAPCPA, was an important piece of legislation that ...

Corporate Debt Securities and Rights of Bondholders

Apart from raising capital in the form of equity, corporates also borrow money to run their business. The most common fo...

Key Dimensions that Characterize Acceptable Data

Organizing the rules of data quality into dimensions not only improves the specification and measurement of the data qua...

Explained: The difference between bankruptcy and an IVA

Bankruptcy and an IVA are both debt solution options for people who are in severe financial difficulty. On paper, the pr...

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