CFA Level 1 Formulas Exams 245 Questions with Answers
Price change based on convexity - CORRECT ANSWER -duration(change in
... [Show More] yield)+1/2(convexity)(change in yield)^2
Effective Duration - CORRECT ANSWER Required if a bond has embedded options: [(v-)-(v+)]/[2V0(change in curve)]
Modified Duration - CORRECT ANSWER [(v-)-(v+)]/[2V0(change in yield)]
Future Value - CORRECT ANSWER PV(1+(I/Y)^N)
PV - CORRECT ANSWER FV/(1+r)^n
PV of perpetuity - CORRECT ANSWER PMT / discount rate
Approximate percentage price change of a bond - CORRECT ANSWER (-)(modified duration)(ΔYTM)
Nominal Risk Free - CORRECT ANSWER Real Risk Free + expected inflation
Required Return - CORRECT ANSWER Nominal risk free + liquidity premiums + default risk premium + maturity risk premium
EAR - CORRECT ANSWER [(1+periodic rate)^N ] - 1
EAR continuous - CORRECT ANSWER e^r - 1
Bank discount yield - CORRECT ANSWER (FV - Price)/(FV) * (360/T)
HPY - CORRECT ANSWER [(P1+D1)/P0] - 1
EAY - CORRECT ANSWER (1+HPY)^(365/T) - 1
HPY (MMY equation) - CORRECT ANSWER MMY * (T/360)
MMY - CORRECT ANSWER HPY * (360/T)
Geometric return - CORRECT ANSWER [(1+r1)(1+r2)(1+r3)]^(1/n) - 1
Time weighted return - CORRECT ANSWER [(1+HPY1)(1+HPY2)(1+HPY3)]^(1/n) - 1
Harmonic Mean - CORRECT ANSWER [N/(sum of (1/sample means))]
Position of observation - CORRECT ANSWER (n+1)*(k/100)
Excess kurtosis - CORRECT ANSWER Sample kurtosis - 3 (3 is normal kurtosis)
Mean absolute deviation - CORRECT ANSWER sum of: (mean - sample mean)/n-1
Variance - CORRECT ANSWER (x-mean)^2/N (population) and divided by (n-1) for a sample
Coefficient of Variation - CORRECT ANSWER Sample standard deviation/sample mean
Sharpe Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER Risk of portfolio - risk free / Standard deviation of portfolio
Joint Probability - CORRECT ANSWER P(AB) = P(A|B) * P(B)
Addition rule - CORRECT ANSWER P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(AB)
Multiplication rule - CORRECT ANSWER P(A and B) = P(A)*P(B)
Total Probability Rule - CORRECT ANSWER P(A) = P(A|B1)*P(B1)...+P(A|B2)*P(B2)
Expected Value - CORRECT ANSWER P(x)*(x)
Covariance - CORRECT ANSWER P[(Ra - E(Ra) * (Rb - E(Rb)] - sum for all probabilities that sum to 1 OR [SDa*SDb*correlation)
Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER Covariance(A,B) / SDa*SDb
Portfolio expected return - CORRECT ANSWER weight times the E(R) of each stock
Portfolio variance - CORRECT ANSWER Wa^2*SDa^2 + Wb^2*SDb^2 + 2WaWb*SDa*SDb*Corr(a,b)
Baye's formula - CORRECT ANSWER P(new info) / unconditional probability of new info*prior prob of event
Combination binomial - CORRECT ANSWER nCr - order doesn't matter
Permutation binomial - CORRECT ANSWER nPr - order matters
Binomial probability - CORRECT ANSWER nCx * p^x * (1-p)^(n-x)
Binomial Expected value - CORRECT ANSWER nP
Binomial variance - CORRECT ANSWER np(1-p)
90% confidence interval - CORRECT ANSWER +/- 1.645 SDs
95% confidence interval - CORRECT ANSWER +/- 1.96 SDs
99% confidence interval - CORRECT ANSWER +/- 2.58 SDs
Z score - CORRECT ANSWER (x-mean)/SD
Roy's safety first ratio - CORRECT ANSWER (E(Rp) - Rtarget)/SD
Mean sampling error - CORRECT ANSWER mean - miu
Standard error - CORRECT ANSWER SD/ sqrt (n)
Confidence interval - CORRECT ANSWER x+/- z*(SD/sqrt(n))
Type 1 error - CORRECT ANSWER rejection of null hypothesis when it is actually true
Type 2 error - CORRECT ANSWER Accepting the null when it is false
t-stat - CORRECT ANSWER t-statistic for tests involving the population mean (location of mean, difference in means, paired comparisons)
chi square test - CORRECT ANSWER Use chi-square statistic for tests of a single population variance ([(n-1)SD^2]/Variance - observed)
F stat - CORRECT ANSWER Use F-statistic for tests comparing two population variances. (SD1/SD2)
Price elasticity of demand - CORRECT ANSWER %Δ Qd/Δ% price
Income elasticity - CORRECT ANSWER %Δ Qd/%Δ income
Accounting profit - CORRECT ANSWER Total revenue - total explicit/acctg costs
Economic profit - CORRECT ANSWER Total revenue - explicit costs - implicit costs(opportunity costs)
Normal profit - CORRECT ANSWER Acctg profit - economic profit (equals 0)
Total revenue - CORRECT ANSWER Price * quantity
Avg total revenue - CORRECT ANSWER TR/Q
Marginal revenue - CORRECT ANSWER ΔTR/ΔQ
Marginal cost - CORRECT ANSWER ΔTC/ΔQ
Avg total cost - CORRECT ANSWER total costs/total product
Avg variable cost - CORRECT ANSWER total VC/total product
Shutdown point - CORRECT ANSWER TR < TVC
HHI - CORRECT ANSWER Sum of market shares of each firms squared
GDP Deflator - CORRECT ANSWER Nominal GDP/Real GDP * 100
Fiscal Multiplier - CORRECT ANSWER 1/[(1-Marginal propensity to consume)(1-t)
Money multiplier - CORRECT ANSWER 1/Reserve Requirement
GDP - CORRECT ANSWER consumption spending + investment + government spending + net exports (C+I+G+NX)
FX formula layout - CORRECT ANSWER FX rates are expressed as price currency / base currency and interpreted as the number of units of the price currency for each unit of the base currency.
CPI - CORRECT ANSWER (basket of good prices)/(basket of goods base year)*100
Real FX rate - CORRECT ANSWER Nominal FX rate * (base currency CPI/price currency CPI)
No-Arbitrage Forward Exchange Rate - CORRECT ANSWER (forward/sport) = (1+price currency interest rate)/(1+base currency interest rate)
Equation of exchange - CORRECT ANSWER money supply * velocity = Price * real output
Interest rate parity - CORRECT ANSWER Forward/spot = (1+domestic rate)/(1+foreign rate)
Receivables turnover - CORRECT ANSWER Sales/Average AR
Inventory turnover - CORRECT ANSWER Sales/Average inventory
Payables turnover - CORRECT ANSWER COGS/Average payables
Total Asset turnover - CORRECT ANSWER Sales/Average assets
Fixed Asset turnover - CORRECT ANSWER Sales/Average net fixed assets
Working capital turnover - CORRECT ANSWER Sales/Average working capital
Days outstanding formulas - CORRECT ANSWER 365/ratio
Current ratio - CORRECT ANSWER CA/CL
Quick ratio - CORRECT ANSWER Cash + marketable securities+receivables/current liabilities
Cash ratio - CORRECT ANSWER Cash + securities/current liabilities
Defense interval - CORRECT ANSWER Cash+securities+receivables/average daily expenditures
Cash conversion cycle - CORRECT ANSWER Days receivables + inventory days outstanding - days of paybales
Operating cycle - CORRECT ANSWER Average days inventory + average days receivables
Debt to equity - CORRECT ANSWER total debt/shareholder's equity
Debt to capital - CORRECT ANSWER total debt/debt+equity
Debt to assets - CORRECT ANSWER total debt/total assets
Financial leverage - CORRECT ANSWER Average total assets/average total equity
Interest coverage - CORRECT ANSWER EBIT/Interest payments
Fixed charge coverage - CORRECT ANSWER EBIT+lease payments/Interest + lease payments
CFO (direct) - CORRECT ANSWER Cash collections (cash equivalent of sales) - cash inputs (cash equivalent of COGS) - cash opex - cash interest exp - cash taxes
CFO (indirect) - CORRECT ANSWER NI - gains + losses +noncash charges (depr) - current asset accts + liability accts
FCF - CORRECT ANSWER NI+depr/amortization - ΔNWC+(interest expense(1-tax rate))
Growth rate - CORRECT ANSWER Retention Rate x ROE
Retention rate - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - [dividends declared/operating income after taxes] OR (1-Div payout ratio)
ROE (DuPont) - CORRECT ANSWER (NI/Sales)(Sales/Assets)(Assets/Equity) OR net margin*asset turnover*leverage ratio
ROE (extended DuPont) - CORRECT ANSWER (NI/EBT)(EBT/EBIT)(EBIT/Revenue)(Revenue/Avg Assets)(Avg Assets/Avg Equity) OR tax burden*interest burden*EBIT margin*asset turnover*leverage)
Fair Value security - CORRECT ANSWER Held for trading and available for sale
Amortized cost security - CORRECT ANSWER Held to maturity
Pretax Margin - CORRECT ANSWER EBT/Revenue
ROA - CORRECT ANSWER NI/avg total assets
ROTC - CORRECT ANSWER EBIT/average total capital
ROE - CORRECT ANSWER NI/avg total equity
ROCE - CORRECT ANSWER NIAC/Avg common equity
Basic EPS - CORRECT ANSWER (NI - Preferred dividends)/weighted average number of shares outstanding
Diluted EPS - CORRECT ANSWER [(NI - Preferred dividends)+convertible preferred dividends+(convertible debt interest(1-t))]
/
[(weighted average shares)+(shares from conversion of convertible preferreds)+(shares from conversion of convertible debt)+(shares issuable from stock options)]
Straight-line depreciation - CORRECT ANSWER (cost - SV)/ useful life
Double declining balance - CORRECT ANSWER (2/useful life)*(cost - accumulated depreciation)
Dilutive convertibles IF - CORRECT ANSWER (converted preferred dividends/common stock per share) < Basic EPS
OR
(Converted debt interest(1-t))/common stock per share < Basic EPS
Coefficient of Variation - CORRECT ANSWER Standard deviation / mean
Interest Expense of a bond - CORRECT ANSWER Beginning BV*market interest rate at issuance
FIFO COGS - CORRECT ANSWER LIFO COGS - (Δ LIFO Reserve)
Units of production depreciation - CORRECT ANSWER (Original cost - salvage value)/life in output units* output units in period
Average age - CORRECT ANSWER Accumulated depreciation/Annual depreciation expense
Total Useful Life - CORRECT ANSWER Historical cost/Annual depreciation expense
Remaining Useful life - CORRECT ANSWER Ending net PP&E/annual depreciation expense
WACC - CORRECT ANSWER (Wd)[Kd(1-t)]+(Wps)(Kps)+(Wce)(Ks)
Cost of preferred stock - CORRECT ANSWER Dps/P
Cost of equity capital - CORRECT ANSWER (D1/Po) +g
Cost of Equity (CAPM) - CORRECT ANSWER Risk free + Beta(Risk risk - Risk free)
NPV - CORRECT ANSWER CF/(1+r)^t
IRR - CORRECT ANSWER Discount rate that makes NPV equal to zero
Beta Unlevered - CORRECT ANSWER B * 1/[1+(1-t)D/E]
Beta Relevered - CORRECT ANSWER B * [1+[(1-t)D/E]]
Degree of Total Leverage - CORRECT ANSWER % Δ EPS / % Δ in sales or Gross margin / (Sales-TVC-FC-I) or DOL*DFL or Gross margin/EBT
Degree of Operating Leverage - CORRECT ANSWER % Δ EBIT / % Δ sales or Gross margin/(gross margin - FC)
Degree of Financial Leverage - CORRECT ANSWER % Δ EPS /% Δ EBIT or EBIT/(EBIT-Interest)
Breakeven quantity of sales - CORRECT ANSWER fixed operating & financing costs/price-VC per unit
operating breakeven quantity of sales - CORRECT ANSWER fixed operating costs/price-VC per unit
Profitability index - CORRECT ANSWER 1+(NPV/CFo)
Cost of equity (volatile market) - CORRECT ANSWER Rf + B(Rm-Rf+country risk premium)
Payback period - CORRECT ANSWER full year payment until recovery +(uncovered cost at beginning of the year/cash flow during past year)
Cost of trade credit - CORRECT ANSWER [1+(%discount/1-%discount)]^(365/days past discount) - 1
EPS after stock buyback - CORRECT ANSWER Total earnings - after tax cost of funds / shares outstanding after buy back
Bond equivalent yield - CORRECT ANSWER (FV-PV)/PV * (365/t) or (Add-on yield) * (n/365)
Diversification ratio - CORRECT ANSWER standard deviation of equally weighted investments / standard deviation of a randomly chosen security
IPS Investment objectives - CORRECT ANSWER Return objectives and risk tolerance
IPS Constraints - CORRECT ANSWER Liquidity needs, time horizon, tax concerns, legal/regulatory factors, unique needs and preferences
Markowitz Efficient fronteir - CORRECT ANSWER Set of portfolios with highest return for given level of risk
Security Market Line - CORRECT ANSWER Total risk = systematic + unsystematic risk --> CAPM: E(R) = Rf +B(Rm-Rf) - under the SML is underpriced and above is overpriced
Unsystematic risk - CORRECT ANSWER Can be diversified away - not related to market
Systematic risk - CORRECT ANSWER market risk - investors are compensated for this kind of risk
Beta of stock - CORRECT ANSWER Covariance/variance of market
Treynor measure - CORRECT ANSWER Measures excess return per unit of risk - (Rportfolio-Rf)/beta of portfolio
Sharpe ratio - CORRECT ANSWER Measures total portfolio risk: (Rp-Rf)/SD porfolio
Jensen's alpha - CORRECT ANSWER Measures excess return per unit of risk: Rp - (Rf + B(MRP))
Margin call price - CORRECT ANSWER Po * [(1-initial margin)/(1-maintainance margin)]
Price weighted index - CORRECT ANSWER Sum of stock prices/number of stocks in index
Market weighted index - CORRECT ANSWER Sum of current market values/sum of base year market values (base year is usually 100)
Leverage factor - CORRECT ANSWER 1/margin percentage
Levered return - CORRECT ANSWER HPR * leverage factor
Margin Return % - CORRECT ANSWER [((Ending Value - Loan Payoff) / Beginning Equity Position) - 1] * 100
DOL - CORRECT ANSWER (sales - variable costs) / (sales - variable costs - fixed costs)
DFL - CORRECT ANSWER EBIT / (EBIT - interest)
Equity one period valuation model - CORRECT ANSWER (D/(1+k))+(P/(1+k))
Preferred equity stock valuation model - CORRECT ANSWER Dp/Kp
Equity constant growth valuation model - CORRECT ANSWER D/r-g OR D(1+g)/(r-g)
Equity multi-stage growth valuation model - CORRECT ANSWER Dn/(1+Kn) + Pn/(1+Kn) where Pn = D(n+1)/(r-g)
P/E multiplier - CORRECT ANSWER (Dividends/Earnings)/(k-g) where D/E = dividend payout ratio
Leading/trailing P/E ratio - CORRECT ANSWER Price per share/(EPS forecast or previous 12 mo)
P/B - CORRECT ANSWER Price per share/book value per share
P/S - CORRECT ANSWER Price per share/sales per share
P/CF - CORRECT ANSWER Price per share/cash flow per share
Enterprise Value - CORRECT ANSWER Market value of common stock + market value of preferred stock + market value of debt - cash and short-term investments
Bond Price - CORRECT ANSWER Coupon / (1+s)^n
Full/dirty price - CORRECT ANSWER PV * (1+YTM)^ (days since last coupon/days between coupons)
Full/clean price - CORRECT ANSWER Full price - accrued interest
Accrued itnerest - CORRECT ANSWER Coupon * (days since last coupon/days between coupons)
Current yield - CORRECT ANSWER Annual coupon payment/current bond price
Effective Yield/EaR - CORRECT ANSWER [1+(YTM/N)]^N - 1
Semi-annual bond basis - CORRECT ANSWER 2 * semi-annual discount rate
Repo Rate - CORRECT ANSWER (future exchange/current value of exchange)^(360/n) - 1
Discount price - CORRECT ANSWER (%discount/(360/n)) * Face Value
Add-on yield - CORRECT ANSWER [(Face-price)/price]*(360/n)
Forward and spot rates - CORRECT ANSWER (1+S)^2 = (1+S)(1+1y1y)
1y3y meaning - CORRECT ANSWER 3-year forward rate 1 year from today
LTV ratio - CORRECT ANSWER loan amount/appraised value of asset
Option adjusted spread - CORRECT ANSWER Z spread - option value
Bullet cash flow - CORRECT ANSWER All principal repaid at maturity
Fully amortizing - CORRECT ANSWER Equal periodic payments include both interest and principal
Partially amortizing - CORRECT ANSWER Periodic payments include interest and principal with a balloon payment at maturity to repay remaining principal
Sinking fund - CORRECT ANSWER Schedule for early redemption
Floating-rate - CORRECT ANSWER Coupon payments based on reference rate + margin
Flat price of a bond - CORRECT ANSWER Doesn't include accrued interest
Full price of a bond - CORRECT ANSWER PV at last coupon date * (1+YTM)^t/T
Accrued interest = coupon payment * (days from most recent coupon payment to trade settlement/days in coupon payment period)
Includes accrued interest
Approximate Modified Duration - CORRECT ANSWER (V_ - V+)/2Vo * ΔYTM
Money Duration - CORRECT ANSWER Modified duration * full price of bond position
Price value of a basis point - CORRECT ANSWER [[(V_-V+)/2]* Face value * 0.01
Approximate convexity - CORRECT ANSWER V_+V+-2Vo / (ΔYTM)^2*Vo
Approximate effective convexity - CORRECT ANSWER V_+V+-2Vo / (Δcurve)^2*Vo
%Δ full bond price - CORRECT ANSWER [-modified duration * ΔYTM] + [1/2 * annual convexity * ΔYTM^2
Duration gap - CORRECT ANSWER Macaulay duration - investment horizon
Risk free asset (derivatives) - CORRECT ANSWER Risky asset + derivative position
Derivative position - CORRECT ANSWER Risk free asset - risky asset
Risky asset - CORRECT ANSWER Risk free asset - derivative position
No-arbitrage forward price - CORRECT ANSWER So(1+Rf)^t
Payoff to loans forward at expiration - CORRECT ANSWER S(t) - F(t)
Intrinsic call value - CORRECT ANSWER MAX [ 0, S-X]
Intrinsic put value - CORRECT ANSWER MAX [0, X-S]
Option value - CORRECT ANSWER Intrinsic value + time value
Put-call parity - CORRECT ANSWER Stock Price = call price + [x/(1+r)^t] - put price
Put-call forward parity - CORRECT ANSWER Fo/(1+R)^t = Co + (x/(1+r)^t) - Po
Callable bond - CORRECT ANSWER ISSUER benefits - may repay principal early. Increases yield and decreases duration
Putable bond - CORRECT ANSWER BONDHOLDER benefits - can sell back to issuer - decreases yield and duration
Embedded warrants - CORRECT ANSWER BONDHOLER may be issuer's common stock at exercise price
Current Yield - CORRECT ANSWER Annual coupon/price
Simple yield - CORRECT ANSWER Current yield +/- amortization
Yield to worst - CORRECT ANSWER Lowest of bonds YTC or YTM
Money market yields - CORRECT ANSWER Discount or add-on basis yield and use 360 or 365 day
G-spread - CORRECT ANSWER Basis points above government yield
I-spread - CORRECT ANSWER Basis points above swap rate
Z-spread - CORRECT ANSWER Accounts for shape of yield curve
Option-adjusted spread - CORRECT ANSWER Adjusts Z-spread for effects of embedded option
Definition of Macaulay Duration - CORRECT ANSWER The horizon at which market price risk and reinvestment risk just offset - The weighted average of times until a bond's cash flows are scheduled to be paid
Definition of Modified Duration - CORRECT ANSWER The approximate change in a bond's price given a 1% change in its YTM
Residential MBS - CORRECT ANSWER Home mortgages are collateral
Agency RMBS - CORRECT ANSWER Include only conforming loans
Nonagency RMBS - CORRECT ANSWER May include nonconforming loans and need credit enhancement
Prepayment risk - CORRECT ANSWER Contraction risk from faster prepayments and extension risk from slower prepayments
CMO - CORRECT ANSWER Pass-through MBS are collateral - may have sequential pay or PAC/support structure
Non-recourse loans - CORRECT ANSWER if the borrower defaults, the loan owner can seek out the underlying collateral
CDO - CORRECT ANSWER Bonds, bank loans, MBS, ABS, or other are collateral
Internal credit enhancement - CORRECT ANSWER Excess spread, overcollateralization, waterfall structure
External credit enhancement - CORRECT ANSWER Surety bonds, letters of credit, bank guarantees
Investment grade - CORRECT ANSWER Baa3/BBB- or above
Non-investment grade - CORRECT ANSWER Ba1 - BB+ or below
Corporate family rating - CORRECT ANSWER Issuer rating
Corporate credit rating - CORRECT ANSWER Security rating
Four C's - CORRECT ANSWER Capacity, collateral, covenants, character
Expected loss - CORRECT ANSWER Default risk * loss secerity
Recovery rate - CORRECT ANSWER 1 - expected loss percentage
Law of one price - CORRECT ANSWER Two assets with identical cash flows in future, regardless of future events, should have the same price
Forward Contract value - CORRECT ANSWER Value of zero at initiation
St + PV(cost) - PV(benefit) - F(T) / [(1+Rf)^T-t]
Payoff to long = St - F(T)
Futures contracts - CORRECT ANSWER Exchange-traded, standardized contracts, guaranteed by clearinghouse, regulated
Forward contracts - CORRECT ANSWER Private contracts, unique contracts, default risk, little to no regulation
Forward Rate Agreements (FRA) - CORRECT ANSWER Can be viewed as a forward contract to borrow/lend money at a certain rate at some future date
Put-call parity for European options - CORRECT ANSWER Ct + X/(1+rf)^T = St + Pt
Futures price of commodity - CORRECT ANSWER spot price (1+Rf) + storage costs - convenience yield
Contango - CORRECT ANSWER Futures price > spot price
Backwardation - CORRECT ANSWER Futures price < spot price [Show Less]