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100

The minimum amount of times for a trend line to be touched to be considered 'valid'

What is 3?

100

The three basic financial statements

What is the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows

100

This famous active investor recently encouraged McDonald's to improve its treatment of pigs

What is Carl Icahn?

100

The formula for ROA

What is net income divided by total assets

100

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

What is equity value over number of shares

200

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

What is

(1) The market discounts everything, (2) prices move in trends and countertrends, and (3) price action is repetitive, with certain patterns reoccurring.

(If you complain I got this from CFA Institute)

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 cash expense

200

This investment bank became the first to be investigated by Switzerland authorities

What is Credit Suisse?

200

The formula for the acid-test ratio

What is cash + marketable securities + accounts receivable divided by current liabilities

200

A way of calculating Cost of Equity without using CAPM (using dividends)

What is Cost of Equity = (Dividend per share / Share price) + Growth Rate of Dividends?

300

The typical calculation to plot Bollinger Bands

What is 20DSMA +/- 2 standard deviations?

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 name of Peloton's plan to cover up rust issues with their bikes

What is Operation Tinman?

300

The formula for ROCE

What is EBIT divided by total assets minus current liabilities

300

The elements changed to reach enterprise value from equity value

What is plus debt and minority interests (net debt) less cash

400

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

What is head and shoulders? 

400

The effect on the three primary statements of a $10 increase in depreciation?

What is profit increasing by $10 on the P&L, cash flow increasing by $10 on the statement of cash flows and a $10 reduction in asset value.

400

The new replacement for the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate)

What is the SONIA (Sterling Overnight Index Average)?

400

The calculation for interest coverage

What is EBIT divided by interest expense

400

The calculation for the debt portion of WACC

What is [debt market value /(sum of equity + debt market value)] * cost of debt * (1 - tax rate)?

AKA (D/V) * Rd * (1 - Tc)

500

The calculation for MACD

What is subtracting the 26-period exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-period exponential moving average?

500

Restructuring charges, goodwill impairment, asset write-downs, bad debt expenses, legal expenses, disaster expenses 

What are examples of non-recurring charges to add back to a company's EBIT/EBITDA

500

Name four of the seven companies (same sector) that recently announced a combined $38Bn share buy-back

What are Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, TotalEnergies, Eni and Equinor?

500

Dividend pay out ratio calculation

What is dividend per share divided by earning per share all multiplied by 100

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