An investment growth calculator is a great investment tool that investors can use to set their goal and to calculate the future growth of their investment.
Investment Growth Calculator
An investment growth calculator is use to determine the revenue or growth of an initial investment over a certain period of time or years. It can even take [...]
The Forex market is a near 24-hour market. Unlike stock trading, currency traders can usually get in or out of the market at any time without waiting for an opening bell or encountering a market gap. The following article discusses some of the basic differences between Forex and the stock markets.
Basic Differences Between Forex and [...]
Foreign exchange or forex (FX) is the largest financial market in the world. However, it is relatively unfamiliar to retail traders. FX was primarily the domain of large financial institutions, multinational corporations and secretive hedge funds so far. However, if you search the Internet, you will know that individual investors are now hungry for information [...]
A business is only worth the profit that it will generate for its owners from now until doomsday, discounted back to the present, adjusted for inflation. As the “report card” of those earnings, income statement will help determining the price you should be willing to pay for a business.
Income statement, also called profit and loss [...]
A balance sheet is a summary of a person’s or organization’s balances. Along with the income and cash flow statements, balance sheet is an important tool for investors to gain insight into a company and its operations.
In balance sheet, assets, liabilities and ownership equity are listed as of a specific date, such as the end [...]
Revenue does not come in at the same time as costs have to go out. This is the main problem facing by most of business companies and the whole point about cash flow. Proper management of cash flow is important in the smooth running, survival and success of a business.
The statement of cash flow is [...]
Gross margin is one of several profit margin measures. It is the amount of contribution to the business after paying for the costs that it incurs for producing its products and/or services.
Basically,
Gross Margin = (Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold)/Revenue
Cost of goods sold includes variable and fixed costs directly linked to the product, such as [...]
Basically the stock market tends to decline on news of rate increases.
When a country raises the interest rate for its currency, we would expect that currency to gain in value relative to other currencies. This is because an increase in a currency’s interest rate makes it more valuable to hold as an investment, due to [...]
The Price Earnings Ratio (PER) is a measure uses in valuing both the stock market as a whole and individual stocks.
PER is calculated as the ratio of a company’s share price to its earnings per-share. The value is the same whether the calculation is done for the whole company or on a per-share basis.
PER = [...]
Earnings per Share allows us to compare different companies’ power to make money. It is the portion of a company’s profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. A positive trend of EPS shows that the company is finding more ways to make more money.
Earnings per Share can be calculated by subtracting the dividends [...]
