Preliminaries

Alex Backwell
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Alex Backwell: University of Cape Town

Chapter 1 in An Intuitive Introduction to Finance and Derivatives, 2023, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A working understanding of the first principles of finance is developed. This includes ideas such as investing, assets and liabilities, financial systems and institutions, various financial (sub-)markets, corporate finance versus investment finance, and others. The calculation of returns is addressed in detail.

Keywords: Investments; Financial markets; Financial system; Investment returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23453-8_1

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