| Study Tip #47: Don’t Overlook the Balance Multiplier |
| This calculation, which is a spin-off
calculation of Collected Balances Required (CBR), is an important bank
relationship management tool that can be used where you are compensating your
banks for services with balances rather than with fees.
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5/9/2012
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| Study Tip # 45: Some Thoughts about Profit Margins |
| I thought it might be useful to discuss each of
the four profit margin ratios to help prepare you to answer potential exam
questions that are designed to test your understanding of their definitions and
more importantly, how each is differentiated from the others.
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4/25/2012
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| Study Tip #44: Some Tips for Studying Yield Equations |
| I’ll be suggesting some study tips to help
you prepare for exam questions where you will be required to recall and solve
yield equations.
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4/18/2012
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| Study Tip #43: The Ins and Outs of Options Pricing |
| You will most likely be faced with having to answer exam
questions that require an understanding of both "option-eze” (e.g. In-the-Money, Out-of-the-Money,
etc.) and the factors that determine the
value of an option.
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4/11/2012
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| Study Tip#32: What are all these questions? |
| Just in case you haven’t noticed, there are lots of questions, not only
in the BOK, but in the study stuff, the online study stuff, the
pre-test, the post test, the chapter tests, and even into your
nightmares and daydreams.
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11/7/2011
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| Study Tip #22: The Budgeting Process Endgame |
| The ritual of the annual budgeting process, as those of you who have
managerial responsibilities can attest, is a sometimes burdensome
activity that can go through several iterations before it’s “blessed” by
senior management.
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3/28/2011
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| Study Tip #19: Capital Budgeting Redux |
| ....using triage as a metaphor for capital budgeting helps build a better understanding of why senior management must employ a triage-like process when allocating the company’s, sometimes limited, resources to fund capital investment proposals....
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3/8/2011
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| Study Tip #18: Capital Budgeting: A Study in Triage |
| ...the subject of capital budgeting can be unfamiliar territory because of their limited exposure to this activity.
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2/28/2011
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| Study Tip #15: Preparing for a CTP Exam Review Course |
| This fast-paced course is designed to help you prepare for the exam by
strategically focusing on key terms, concepts and calculations found in
each chapter of the BOK and as such is not a page-by-page review of the
text.
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2/8/2011
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| Study Tip #14: Ready, Get Set, Go! |
| If you’re planning to take the CTP Exam in the June-July 2011 testing window, you might want to consider starting to study for the exam on Feb. 1st. At a minimum you should setup a three month study schedule, which in this case would be March – May.
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1/31/2011
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| Study Tip #13: How Do You Eat An Elephant? |
| I suspect that when some CTP candidates are confronted with the amount
of subject matter in the BOK that needs to be studied in order to pass
the CTP exam, they procrastinate and don’t start studying until just
before their exam date. If this is the case, they adopt a” cramming”
preparation strategy and for most people this is not a recipe for
successfully passing the exam.
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12/8/2010
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| Study Tip #12: Preparation Strategies for Basic Content Questions |
| Roughly 35% or 60 questions out of the 170 questions on the CTP exam test your knowledge of basic facts and terms.
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11/30/2010
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| Study Tip#7: An Options-ese Primer |
| Here’s a little Options-ese/English translation and some ideas for
remembering what Financial Risk Management terms mean in case you get an exam question that
uses this specialized language.
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9/27/2010
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| Study Tip #6: Lockbox Cost-Benefit Template |
| The ETM devotes a fair amount of time to lockbox processing systems in
general and specifically to determining the cost or benefit of moving
remittance processing from a company in-house processing center to a
bank lockbox
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9/14/2010
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| Study Tip #5: Clarifying Operating Cash Flow |
| Operating Cash Flow is, for many people, the most difficult to
understand and especially confusing is the section that shows sources
and uses of cash generated by changes in Current Assets and Liabilities
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9/8/2010
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| Study Tip #4: Connecting the Dots |
| Connecting the dots between higher order concepts and their associated topics can help you prepare for the CTP exam.
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8/30/2010
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| Study Tip #3: Doing a Financial Statements Walkabout |
| An understanding of how financial statements are structured and how to read them is critical to successfully answering potential exam questions ....
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8/24/2010
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