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100

The name of the person described as Warren Buffet's right-hand man, who recently passed away

Who is Charlie Munger?

100

The financial statement where yearly amortisation and depreciation is reflected

What is Income Statement?

100

The difference between 10-Q and 10-K reports

What is 10-Q is released 3x a year for the first three quarters, 10-K is released with the last financial quarter and summarises the year?

100

The formula for Enterprise Value

What is market cap + total debt - cash?

100

The risk-free rate normally used in our DCFs

What is the 10Y US Treasury Yield?

200

The names of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK and the Chair of the Federal Reserve

Who are Jeremy Hunt and Jerome Powell?

200

The reason that depreciation (a non-cash expense) affects the statement of cash flows

What is reducing the tax amount therefore saving the company a cash expense?

200

An explanation of hedging

What is a form of risk management designed to minimise loses by taking an opposite position in a comparable asset?

200

The difference between the quick and current ratio

What is less inventory?

200

The final calculation to reach the predicted share price in a DCF

What is equity value divided by number of shares?

300

One of the two weight-loss drugs that NovoNordisk created

What is Ozempic/Wegovy?

300

The difference between accounts receivable and deferred revenue

What is accounts receivable has not yet been collected in cash from customers whereas deferred revenue has?

300

The technical analysis pattern that predicts a bullish to bearish change, with an approximate 80% success rate

What is the head and shoulders pattern?

300

How we calculate Net Working Capital

What is Working Capital = Current Assets - Current Liabilities?

300

The formula for CAPM

What is risk free rate + beta * market risk premium (Expected Market Return - Risk free rate)?



400

The industry of the ETF that Michael Burry (of The Big Short fame) recently bought puts against

What is the semi conductor industry? (SOXX)

400

An explanation for goodwill

What is an overpayment of a firm's net assets at fair value during an acquisition? (Re-evaluated yearly)

400

One basic assumption of TA (compared to fundamental analysis) is ...

What is

(1) The market discounts everything?

(2) prices move in trends and countertrends?

(3) price action is repetitive, with certain patterns reoccurring?

(If you complain I got this from CFA Institute)

400

How we calculate interest coverage ratio?

What is EBIT divided by interest expense?

400

The formula for WACC

What is weighted equity * cost of equity + weighted debt * cost of debt * (1 - tax rate)?

E/V * Re + D/V * Rd * (1 - Tc)

500

The highest oil price per barrel reached in 2023 (must be within 3 dollars)

What is $93.89 a barrel?

500

2 examples of non-recurring charges to add back to a company's EBIT or EBITDA

What are restructuring charges, goodwill impairment, asset write-downs, bad debt expenses, legal expenses, disaster expenses?

500

The typical calculation to plot Bollinger Bands

What is 20DSMA +/- 2 standard deviations?

500

The formula for ROCE (Return on Capital Employed)

What is EBIT divided by capital employed?

(Capital employed = Total Assets - Current Liabilities)

500

The reason why you use Cost of Equity for levered free cash flow and not WACC

What is debt and preferred stock are not taken into account (calculating equity value not enterprise value)?

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