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Finance: How Are Risks and Rewards Related?

How are risk and reward related? Take more risk, expect more reward. A lottery ticket might be worth a billion dollars, but if the odds are one in ten billion that you win, then it's a bad bet, ten times over.


Principles of Finance Videos 156 videos

Principles of Finance: Unit 1, Company Formation, Structure, Inception
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How is a company... born? Can it be performed via C-section? Is there a midwife present? Do its parents get in a fight over what to name it? In thi...

Principles of Finance: Unit 1, Pros and Cons of IPOs, The Secondary & Primary Market
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What are the pros and cons of IPOs, and of the secondary and primary market? Why might a company want to go public, and what's the best way to go a...

Principles of Finance: Unit 1, The IPO Process
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We'll walk you through the IPO process, using the example of our good friends at the Sauce Company. Well, they're acquaintances, really.

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Terms and Concepts Videos 799 videos

Finance: How Are Risks and Rewards Related?
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How are risk and reward related? Take more risk, expect more reward. A lottery ticket might be worth a billion dollars, but if the odds are one in...

Finance: How Do Some Accountants "Cook the Books"?
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How do some accountants “cook the books”? Cooking the books refers to accountants making company’s financials look much better than they are....

Finance: How Do You Become Incorporated?
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How do you become incorporated? Go to Legal Zoom. Pay $150, file with the state of Delaware or whoever each year. Pay another $150. Most file as LL...

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