Studies basic concepts of financial and managerial accounting. Viewpoint is that of the users of accounting information (especially managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant).
This 12-minute video lesson looks at alternate bailout plans and considers their moral hazard. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 10 of 15]
This 11-minute video lesson is the first in Kahn's Financial Bailout series. It provides a review of balance sheets and explains the difference between illiquidity and insolvency. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 1 of 15]
This 11-minute video lesson looks at a hypothetical bank balance sheet and explains what book value means. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 2 of 15]
This 11-minute video lesson explains what it means when the market value of a stock is different from its book value. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 3 of 15]
This 11-minute video lesson explains the different ways of accounting for an asset. It considers the mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 4 of 15]
This 11-minute video lesson looks at how the bank can liquidate assets to pay off debt that comes due. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 5 of 15]
This 12-minute video lesson looks at how the bank gets bailed out by an equity infusion from a sovereign wealth fund. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 6 of 15]
This 10-mintue video lesson looks at what happens when there is no equity infusion and the bank goes in to bankruptcy. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 7 of 15]
This 12-minute video lesson looks at how the banks are connected and what happens when one bank fails. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 8 of 15]
In this 11-minute video lesson Kahn considers what Paulson wants to do and explains why he does not like it. [Financial Bailout playlist: Lesson 9 of 15]
Technologies have profoundly transform the financial markets and in turn present new challenge to the financial education. For instance, as financial markets become more complex and generate more information, it also becomes more and more challenging for market participants to digest and manage the information overload. Upon completion of the course the students will develop a toolkit and will be conversant in current issues related to financial risk management including the dynamic market changes, new trends in financial analysis and a historical perspective on financial risk management.
Stocks and bonds offer potential gains for investors, but they can also help fuel the economy. The October 2016 issue of Page One Economics: Focus on Finance explains how stocks and bonds can help companies grow, entrepreneurs start businesses, and governments fund public projects.
This introductory unit covers definitions of terms used in the component, with an emphasis on paradigm shifts in healthcare, including the transition from physician-centric to patient-centric care, the transition from individual care to interdisciplinary team-based care, and the central role of technology in healthcare delivery. This unit also emphasizes the core values in US healthcare.
This unit continues the discussion of healthcare financing at the governmental, organizational, and consumer levels. It describes the revenue cycle for healthcare organizations, identifies the different reimbursement methodologies and standards developed for the billing (reimbursement) process. Finally, this unit reviews some of the factors responsible for the escalating healthcare expenditures in the US and discusses some methods for controlling rising medical costs.
Watch this video from our Personal Finance 101 Conversations series to examine the costs and benefits of various post-secondary education options including community colleges, technical colleges and universities, and more recently, for-profit colleges.
Lecture notes for an introduction to portfolio management lesson
Prepaid cards were invented to solve a problem: replacing coin usage in pay telephones. Since then, prepaid cards have evolved into a huge competitive market for general-purpose reloadable (GPR) prepaid cards. Read more about GPR prepaid cards in the May 2015 inaugural edition of Page One Economics Focus on Finance.
Students listen to the story, Glo Goes Shopping. They learn about saving, spending, decision making and opportunity cost. They learn to use a decision-making grid to make decisions. Mathematics skills include learning about rows and columns in a grid.
This resource is a useful glossary of mining terms provided from the Securities and Exchange Commission from the United States Government. Consider using this resource in combination with other resources from Colorado's historic Gold Rush and mining boom years.