Outcomes

1- Successful students will be able to Analyse in depth basic fixed interest

financial transactions like Loan Valuation, Fixed Interest securities (eg. Bonds)

and employ the skills developed in this course to evaluate such transactions.

Incorporate the effects of taxation on such financial transactions;

2- Successful students will be able to describe in detail the various types of

annuities and perpetuities and use them to solve financial transaction

problems;

3- Develop in students computational skills.

4- Successful students will be able to ability to apply mathematics to real-world

problems.

5- a Successful students will be able to calculate the present value and

accumulated value of a cash flow of equal or unequal payments, at a specified

rate of interest.

6- Successful students will be able to analysis straightforward compound interest

problems, and solve resulting equations of value,

7- Successful students will be able to describe how a loan may be repaid by

regular installments of interest and capital.

8- Successful students will be able to think critically by recognizing patterns and

determining and appropriate techniques for solving a variety of annuity and

interest theory problems.