Chapter 14 - The Basic Tools of Finance

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________- the path of a variable whose changes are impossible to predict.

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Firm

________- specific risk- the risk that affects only a single company.

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Fundamental analysis

________- The study of a companys accounting statements and future prospects to determine its value.

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Finance

________- the field that studies how people make decisions regarding the allocation of resources over time and the handling of risk.

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Risk aversion

________- A dislike of uncertainty.

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Present value

________- the amount of money today that would be needed, using prevailing interest rates, to produce a given future amount of money.

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Informational

________ efficiency- the description of asset prices that rationally reflect all available information.

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Efficient markets hypothesis

________- The theory that asset prices reflect all publicly available information about the value of an asset.

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Diversification

________- The reduction of risk achieved by replacing a single risk with a large number of smaller, unrelated risks.

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