Finance 101
This three-letter abbreviation measures how much interest you earn (or owe) in a year.
What is APR (Annual Percentage Rate)?
This charging animal statue is a symbol of Wall Street.
What is the bull?
The year the Great Depression started.
What is 1929?
This rapper became the first artist to reach billionaire status largely through his stakes in Tidal, Armand de Brignac, and D’Ussé.
Who is Jay-Z?
This is the official mascot of Purdue.
What is the Boilermaker Special?
(The official mascot of the Boilermakers is a replica of a Victorian-era locomotive. -Purduesports.com)
This metric measures a firm's operating performance by adding back non-cash expenses to net income.
What is EBITDA?
This 3-letter index tracks 30 large U.S. companies and is often seen as a snapshot of the market.
What is the DOW?
What is NASDAQ?
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character famously delivers a speech saying, “I’m not leaving!” This was the real-life person he portrayed.
Who is Jordan Belfort?
If you walk under the Bell Tower before graduation, this superstition says you'll never do this.
What is graduate in 4 years?
This metric measures the sensitivity of a stock’s returns to movements in the overall market, and is a key input in the CAPM model.
What is Beta?
This investment bank advised Elon Musk during his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter (now X).
What is Morgan Stanley?
This 18th-century Scottish economist is often called the “father of modern capitalism” and authored The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
This TV show, centered on the Roy family’s media empire, became a cultural phenomenon for its portrayal of corporate power dynamics.
What is Succession?
Purdue's bell tower stands 160 ft tall and was built in 1995. The number of brick pavers around it matches this historically symbolic number for Purdue's founding.
What is 1869? (The year Purdue was founded)
When a company repurchases its own stock, this is usually done to...
What is the increase in earnings per share?
This financial scandal in the early 2000s led to the bankruptcy of a major energy company and the dissolution of accounting giant Arthur Andersen.
What is the Enron Scandal?
Following World War II, this U.S. program provided over $12 billion (around $150 billion today) to help rebuild Western Europe’s economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This hit Netflix series follows a hedge fund billionaire and a U.S. Attorney locked in a game of cat and mouse on Wall Street.
What is Billions?
The stone lion fountain outside Memorial Mall isn't actually a lion; it's this animal, according to Purdue archives.
What is a griffin (a mythological creature that inspired the Purdue seal)?
In private equity and real estate, this metric represents the discount rate that makes the net present value of all cash flows equal to zero.
What is the Internal Rate of Return (IRR)?
In 2021, this Wall Street firm became the first U.S. bank to report over $100 billion in annual revenue, solidifying its position as the largest bank in the country.
What is JPMorgan Chase?
In 1992, this international agreement officially created the European Union and laid the groundwork for the euro currency.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
In the 2010 film The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg shows him creating Facebook in a Harvard dorm. This acclaimed filmmaker directed the film.
Who is David Fincher?
One Purdue academic building skips a floor entirely on the elevator buttons, though it physically exists.
What is Beering Hall (no labeled "3rd floor" due to old classroom renumbering)?