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Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python

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更新时间 2024年8月

Using Python and NumPy, learn the most fundamental financial concepts.

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PythonApplied Finance

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课程描述

Understanding the basic principles of finance is essential for making important financial decisions ranging from taking out a student loan to constructing an investment portfolio. Combining basic financial knowledge with Python will allow you to construct some very powerful tools. You'll come out of this course understanding the time value of money, how to compare potential projects and how to make rational, data-driven financial decisions.

先决条件

Intermediate Python for Finance

1

The Time Value of Money

Learn about fundamental financial concepts like the time value of money, growth and rate of return, discount factors, depreciation, and inflation.

Fundamental financial concepts

Growth and rate of return

Compound interest

Discount factors and depreciation

Present and future value

Present value

Future value

Adjusting future values for inflation

Net present value and cash flows

Discounting cash flows

Initial project costs

Diminishing cash flows

2

Making Data-Driven Financial Decisions

In this chapter, you will act as the CEO of a company, making important data-driven financial decisions about projects and financing using measures such as IRR and NPV.

A tale of two project proposals

Project proposals and cash flows projections

Internal Rate of Return

Make a decision based on IRR

The Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Debt and equity financing

Calculating WACC

Comparing project NPV with IRR

Comparing two projects of different life spans

Two project with different lifespans

Calculating IRR and NPV with different project lifespans

Using the equivalent annual annuity approach

Making a data-driven decision on projects of different lifespans

3

Simulating a Mortgage Loan

You just got married, and you're looking for a new home in Hoboken, New Jersey. You will build a mortgage payment simulator to estimate your mortgage payments and analyze different possible economic scenarios.

Mortgage basics

Taking out a mortgage loan

Calculating the monthly mortgage payment

Amortization, interest and principal

Calculating interest and principal payments

Simulating periodic payments (I)

Simulating periodic payments (II)

Home ownership, equity and forecasting

Cumulative payments and home equity

Rising housing prices

Falling housing prices and underwater mortgages

4

Budgeting Application

You just got a new job as a data scientist in San Francisco, and you're looking for an apartment. In this chapter, you'll be building your own budgeting application to plan out your financial future.

Budgeting project proposal

Salary and taxes

Monthly expenses and savings

Forecast salary growth and cost of living

Forecast growing expenses due to inflation

Net worth and valuation in your personal financial life

Calculate your net worth

So you want to be a millionaire?

Investing a percentage of your income (I)

Investing a percentage of your income (II)

The power of time and compound interest

Investing over time

Inflation-adjusted net worth

Financial concepts in your daily life

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