| Study Tip #40: FX Swap Re-Visited: Cash Flows Perspective |
| An approach you could use to learn how currency swaps
work is to identify the various cash flows that take place over the life of the
swap.
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3/21/2012
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| Study Tip #39: Non-Cash Charge Enigma |
A better understanding of the "non-cash charge" accounting concept and, more
importantly, how it is connected to other accounting subjects in the BOK that
you might find in the form of CTP exam questions.
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3/14/2012
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| Study Tip #38: Add This to Your CTP Exam Toolbox |
| Here's some hints on using the on-screen calculator at the testing site.
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3/7/2012
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| Study Tip# 36: Time for a brain dump |
| If you choose to practice the "brain dump", do so only after you've officially started the exam or you risk being locked out of the exam and forfeiting your appointment and testing fee.
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12/5/2011
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| Study Tip# 35: Ready for some alphabet soup? |
| It is a truism that every group or organization of people with a common
interest will create their own verbal “shorthand” with regard to ideas,
concepts, and practices considered typical in that common interest
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11/28/2011
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| Study Tip# 34: Another study tip: Focus! |
| Regardless of your experience, there are going to be topics and subjects that are unfamiliar, or less familiar, to you.
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11/14/2011
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| Study Tip #33: There’s soooooo much material, and so little time left, what can I do? |
| Was your study plan realistic, or were you ‘optimistic’ about yourself, your time, and your study habits, when you put it together?
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11/7/2011
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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 #31: Where am I? |
| When you get somewhere early, you can always use the extra time to
relax, review your note cards one more time, or practice your yoga.
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10/31/2011
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| Study Tip #30: 2 plus 2 equals 476,817.03 |
| When you have a calculation question, hopefully the formula will appear
in the air in front of you and show you the answer. If that doesn’t
happen, take your best estimate at it.
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10/24/2011
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| Study Tip #29: Who’s your buddy? |
| One thing I recommend to everyone studying for the exam is to find a ‘study buddy’ to work with.
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10/11/2011
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| Study Tip #28: Don’t sweat the small stuff |
| There are lots of calculations in Treasury and they're all different,
depending on what part of Treasury you find yourself working in.
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9/30/2011
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| Study Tip #27: Meet Your New Blogger |
| It is my intention to use this blog to share with you as much of what I
have learned as a CTP teacher, and as a practitioner in Treasury, as I
can squeeze into these postings
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9/21/2011
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| Study Tip #26: Going the Distance |
| If there is any lesson to be learned here, it might be “when you think
you’ve gone as far as you possibly can, go a little farther”.
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4/25/2011
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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 #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 #11: When in Doubt, Guess! |
| You will not be penalized for guessing on the CTP exam which means that
you should not leave any question unanswered. So here are some tips
about guessing.
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11/15/2010
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| Study Tip #10: The Dark Side of Data Surfing |
| Data surfing helps us in this daily information screening effort by
quickly reducing information to a manageable number of “data bites”.
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10/25/2010
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