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CB1 – Business Finance
4 sections available · 21 chapters available
Free CB1 – Business Finance study notes for IFoA (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Corporate governance and organisation
How corporates are financed
Structure and methods of financing a company
Principles of personal and corporate taxation
Principal forms of financial instrument issued or used by private companies and the ways in which they may be issued
Factors a company should consider when deciding on its capital structure and dividend policy
Corporate growth, restructuring and divestment
Evaluating projects
A company's cost of capital
The calculation of a company's weighted average cost of capital
Principal methods used to determine the viability of a capital project
Cash flow projections and the application of techniques to estimate cashflows
Methods used to evaluate risky investments including simulation, scenario planning and certainty equivalents
Determination of the required rate of return for a capital project
Factors underlying the choice of discount rate within project assessment
Methods to identify risks present for different types of projects
Techniques to identify the probability and financial impact of different risks occurring over varying timescales
Techniques to ascertain the distribution of possible financial outcomes of a capital project
Constructing and interpreting company accounts
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