Financial Management
Debt Securities - Pricing, Valuations and Risk | CPD
Bond Auctions, Yield Calculations, Price-Yield Relationships, and Interest Rate Risk
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OVERVIEW Course Information Certificate on Completion This course provides accounting and finance professionals with a practical and comprehensive introduction to debt securities. Through real-world examples and hands-on calculations, you will explore the key principles of pricing, valuation, and yield determination for bills, notes, and bonds. You will learn how auctions function, how clean and dirty prices are calculated, and how fixed and floating-rate instruments are assessed. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with critical insights into how debt securities are priced, how returns are earned, and how market risks are evaluated. This is a 3 unit CPD course that is made up of following sections: Understanding Debt Securities: Auctions, Pricing, and Yields (video, interactive contents, and quiz) Navigating Bonds: Valuations, Coupons, and Interest Dynamics (video, interactive contents, and quiz) Additional readings
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What You Will Learn
- Describe how government debt securities are priced through auction mechanisms, including uniform price and multiple price formats
- Calculate the yield on Treasury bills using day-count conventions and annualisation methods
- Explain the inverse relationship between bond prices and yields, and how coupon rates affect price sensitivity
- Distinguish between bills, notes, bonds, TIPS, and floating rate notes based on maturity and coupon structure
- Evaluate how changes in issuer creditworthiness and market interest rates cause bond prices to fluctuate
- Describe how interest rate swaps and credit default swaps are used to manage bond portfolio risk
Who This Course Is For
- Finance professionals working with fixed income instruments who want to deepen their understanding of bond pricing mechanics
- Accountants and treasury professionals who encounter debt securities in their organisations' investment portfolios
- Professionals preparing for CFA Fixed Income or similar exams covering bond valuation and risk
Prerequisites
- A working knowledge of time value of money and basic present value calculations
- Some familiarity with financial markets is helpful, as the course uses real-world auction data from multiple countries
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