Financial Mathematics: Concepts, Calculations and Applications

Congratulations! Welcome to this course.

This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a wide variety of applications - calculating prices, rates of return, and yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed.

This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections:

• Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money
• Debt Security Pricing
• Bond Yields and Rates of Return

The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor's presentation are included to help participants follow along.

Learning Objectives (At the end of this course, you will be able to...):

• Determine the relationship between price and yield on fixed income securities
• Explain the interest rate and pricing conventions for fixed income instruments
• Describe different day count and compounding conventions used in fixed income securities
• Evaluate the dramatic difference between yield to maturity and realized rate of return
• Calculate price of both coupon bearing and zero coupon bonds
• Apply financial math applications as it is used in finance, banking, securities and insurance markets and jobs

Target Audience

• All levels of participants are encouraged to take this course.

Best wishes to you for a successful program.