Poll: Intro to Cash Flow
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View ArticleUnderstanding “Present” Value
The financial markets are based upon differences of opinion. That is, you think a stock is a bargain, and I think it’s over priced. So we agree to make a trade: your cash for my stock. Given the...
View ArticleTo Buy or Lease a Car? That is the question…
Suze Orman writes a column for O, The Oprah Magazine on personal finance, so presumably she knows something that Oprah Winfrey‘s readers don’t. Here’s what she says about the question of whether to...
View ArticleUnderstanding Depreciation & Taxes
The post comparing the cost of buying versus leasing a new car introduced the term “book value” to refer to the value of the car as an asset, that the leasing car will carry on their books, but never...
View ArticleRenting vs. Buying a Home
Salman Khan calls this next video, “probably the single most important video that anyone can watch.” Khan is paraphrasing the cliché about how buying a home is “the single largest, important investment...
View ArticleStop Doing Homework?
The convention wisdom in Higher Education is that engineering students must do some minimum amount of homework to be successful mastering mathematical problem-solving. This wisdom mostly feels right...
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