...Analysis Economic Analysis Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Finance Portfolio Management Asset Valuation Total Percent 15 12 10 28 5 30 100 Minutes 27 21 18 51 9 54 180 QUESTIONS 1 THROUGH 18 RELATE TO ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND ARE ALLOCATED 27 MINUTES. 1. According to the CFA Institute Standards of Practice Handbook, insider trading is least likely to be prevented by establishing: Select exactly 1 answer(s) from the following: A . fire walls. B watch lists, C. selective disclosure. 2. William Wong, CFA, is an equity analyst with Hayswick Securities. Based on his fundamental analysis, Wong concludes that the stock of a company he follows, Nolvec Inc., is substantially undervalued and will experience a large price increase. He delays revising his recommendation on the stock from “hold” to “buy” to allow his brother to buy shares at a lower price. According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, Wong is least likely to have violated the CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct that relate to: Select exactly 1 answer(s) from the following: A. duty to clients. B. reasonable b asis. C. duty to his employer. 3. During an onsite company visit, Marsha Ward, CFA, accidentally overheard the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Stargazer, Inc., discussing the company’s pending tender offer to purchase Dynamica Enterprises, a retailer of Stargazer products According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, Ward may not use the information to take investment action...
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...CFA INSTITUTE RESEARCH CHALLENGE OFFICIAL RULES 2017 1 RULE 1: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS .................................................................................................. 3 1.1 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.2 PLAGIARISM .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS............................................................................................................... 4 1.4 USE OF REPORTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 RULE 2: TEAMS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 TEAM COMPOSITION ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.2 TEAM MEMBER REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 5 2.3 TEAM MEMBER INELIGIBILITY .......................................
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...the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing “the variety or architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the steamy edges- all that was and still available to the eye...
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...Development Best Practices Contents Values Principles Practices o o o o o o o o o o Testing Naming Conventions Client and Server-Side Architectural Patterns ImsCommonsUtil Database Access Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control Business (Domain) Objects GUI Refactoring Core Java Values Simplicity Use the simplest design for the current functionality; don't try to anticipate tomorrow's needs. Code should be easy for a new developer to understand (or yourself a year later). Don't optimize for performance unless there's empirical evidence that it is needed. Be wary of building or using frameworks that make the application harder to understand. If you do need a framework (e.g. Spring for dependency injection), make sure the application's business logic isn't tied to the framework in any way. Maintainability Good naming is crucial. You should be able to read the code aloud, and a person listening to you should be able to understand what the code you are reading does Put responsibilities in the right place. Enforce a clean separation of the application's layers. For example, the UI code should not know anything about the database structure. Use well-known patterns and common idioms for the language. Maintain consistency at the module, application, and team level. There's always more than one way to do something, but doing it consistently is more important than finding the absolute best way. Information Classification: Limited Access Refactor your application code aggressively...
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...get to the point of having a positive body image and even though I still have insecurities, for the most part I feel pretty good about myself. One of the biggest things that challenges me in having a positive body image is when I go shopping. A lot of the time I find clothes that I really like but they may not have my size or the clothes are in my size but for some reason they don’t look right on my body. This has been something that has always stressed me out from a young age because I have always felt bad when I don’t fit into certain types of clothes. Another thing that challenges me is when I see people on TV criticizing people because of their weight. I’ve watched numerous talk shows where they will be talking about a celebrity and mock them for gaining weight. In turn this makes me feel even more insecure about my weight, especially if I weigh more than the person they are mocking. However; with my body I have learned to embrace the fact that having curves isn’t a bad thing. Being short sometimes benefits me because clothes that might be too short on other people fit me perfectly. I’ve also just overall embraced the fact that my body is my own and as long as I’m happy in my own skin that is what...
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...Is Mac Flecknoe a lampoon or a satire? At a time when fiction from Grub Street hack writers (whom he called the “multitude of scribblers, who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff ”) was becoming widely read, courtly poets and dramatists like Dryden felt a need to play the public role of arbiters of literary taste. Dryden was actively engaged in contemporary debates which sought to lay down standards of what was considered high and low art. He published his “Essay of Dramatic Poesie” in 1667 and “Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry” in 1692. Both of these served as prescriptive texts for what passed muster as “good” art. In an age of a revived interest in the classics, many of the instructions on good satirical writing are based on the works of Horace, Persius and Juvenal. While he did not think highly of Horatian verse which used word-play like anagrams and “ackrosticks” and was favoured by Francophiles poets, he admired Juvenal and Persius for their unity of plot and their use of Wit, which he saw as a more masculine device than lampooning or raillery. In MacFlecknoe, Dryden’s definition of good art also comes to be strongly associated with class. When he says that bad poetry laden with “Pure Clinches” or puns is inspired by the “suburban Muse”, his implication is that it is only the genteel circles of London that produce and read good poetry – thus, Bun-hill and Watling Street are down-market parts of London which by virtue of their economic demography...
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...sides use an expert it may lead to a battle of experts and as a result jurors may be confounded even more. It can therefore be seen how expert testimony should not be used often and by both sides, something which potentially trials can put into practice. Another strength of this type of research is that it’s generally quite cheap to carry out, as it usually uses self-reports to obtain results, so many can be carried out and thus vast amounts of data can be collected. This means we can apply these results to the area that we are investigating, in this case persuading a jury. On the other hand, all of the research that has been carried out into persuading a jury has been based on mock trials. For example in the Pennington & Hastie study 130 students listened to tape recordings of a mock trial, and although mock trials may resemble real trials, they are not the real thing which means the methodology lacks ecological validity as the settings are usually lab experiments, making the results less valid and thus less useful. Also, most of the research into persuading a jury uses students as participants who were paid to participate or...
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...Activity: Mock TrialUnit Planning TITLE: Mock Trial | TEACHER: | COURSE: LE/CSI | DURATION: 1 week | CONTENT—What will students learn? | CAREER/TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS | ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS | 21ST CENTURY SKILLS | The students will be able to: -Identify the types of mock trials. -Explore the roles of the players in a mock trial. -Examine the steps in preparing a mock trial. -Describe the order of the events in a mock trial. | -Students will demonstrate their understanding of courtroom demeanor and procedure. -Students will demonstrate their knowledge of criminal law. | -Teamwork -Written and verbal communications -Critical thinking | SCENARIO OR PROBLEM/ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS | -What does it take to perform each of the roles of the professionals in the court. -Students will perform a mock trial using the case goldilocks and the three bears. ASSESSMENT (Check all that apply) | FORMATIVE | SUMMATIVE | Quizzes/Tests | X | Multiple Choice/Short Answer Test | X | Notes/Graphic Representations | X | Essay Test | | Rough Draft | X | Written Product with Rubric | | Practice Presentation | X | Oral Presentation with Rubric | X | Preliminary Plans/Goals/Checklists of Progress | X | Other Product or Performance with Rubric | X | Journal/Learning Log | | Self-Evaluation or Reflection | ...
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...2016 Level I Mock Exam: Afternoon Session The afternoon session of the 2016 Level I Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Mock Examination has 120 questions. To best simulate the exam day experience, candidates are advised to allocate an average of 1.5 minutes per question for a total of 180 minutes (3 hours) for this session of the exam. Topic Minutes 1-18 Ethical and Professional Standards 27 19-32 Quantitative Methods 21 33-44 Economics 18 45-68 Financial Statement Analysis 36 69-76 Corporate Finance 12 77-88 Equity Investments 18 89-94 Derivative Investments 9 95-106 Fixed Income Investments 18 107-110 Alternative Investments 6 111-120 Portfolio Management 15 Total: 180 By accessing this mock exam, you agree to the following terms of use: This mock exam is provided to currentlyregistered CFA candidates. Candidates may view and print the exam for personal exam preparation only. The following activities are strictly prohibited and may result in disciplinary and/or legal action: accessing or permitting access by anyone other than currently-registered CFA candidates; copying, posting to any website, emailing, distributing and/or reprinting the mock exam for any purpose. © 2016 Copyrighted by CFA Institute. All rights reserved. 1. Richard Cardinal, CFA, is the founder of Volcano Capital Research, an investment management firm whose sole activity is short selling...
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...Level II Mock Exam: Afternoon Session The afternoon session of the 2012 Level II Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Mock Examination has 60 questions. To best simulate the exam day experience, candidates are advised to allocate an average of 18 minutes per item set (vignette and 6 multiple choice questions) for a total of 180 minutes (3 hours) for this session of the exam. By accessing this mock exam, you agree to the following terms of use: This mock exam is provided to currently registered CFA candidates. Candidates may view and print the exam for personal exam preparation only. The following activities are strictly prohibited and may result in disciplinary and/or legal action: accessing or permitting access by anyone other than currently registered CFA candidates and copying, posting to any website, e-mailing, distributing, and/or reprinting the mock exam for any purpose. Marcus Pinto Case Scenario A struggling asset management company recently hired Marcus Pinto, CFA, as chief operating officer (COO). Pinto’s first responsibility is to recommend to the Board of Directors how they can lower costs while still retaining the firm’s client base and how to increase assets under management. Pinto analyzes the firm, its clients’ needs, and general market conditions before presenting his findings to the Board of Directors. At the presentation, he makes the following statements: Statement 1: “If the company adopts the CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct, the CFA Institute...
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...7 Guide for the CFA exam by TimePrep PREFACE Welcome to the world of the CFA program! Since you're reading this, it is likely that you are a CFA candidate, or you are considering becoming one. Either way, we hope that you will find this book helpful. The general idea behind this book is to offer CFA candidates useful advice, written by other CFA candidates and charter holders. There are several segments of the book and we recommend going through them all since it is not a heavy read, and it may prove useful for your preparation. The book starts with general information about the CFA program – the basics of the program, benefits of attending it, the complexity of the program in whole etc. In the second chapter we will provide you with some general advice in preparation – how to organize your time, what strategy elements to use, how to find time for studying and also an overview of the various prep tools that can help you. The following three chapters of the book are each related to one of the levels of the CFA Exam – here you can read various useful information regarding study materials, types of questions that appear on the exam, articles regarding the review phase etc. The sixth chapter gives you advice regarding your learning process in general, as well as handling one of the tougher periods of your life with your close ones. The book ends with our tips that will enhance your learning process and prepare you for the exam. i Guide for the CFA exam by TimePrep And...
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...引言 人生何其短暂，用两个月的生命去通过一项考试那绝对是种十足的浪费，但既然你已 经被骗入了 CFA 这个沼泽中，既然你已经做好了人财两空的准备，既然你已经 @# ￥ %& ， 那么请不要在查分时刻默默地留下那屈辱的眼泪。 低盛总裁王小三： “ 看过 3.5 的《 CFA 一级那些事》，那绝对是屋漏偏逢不下雨，船迟 只 觉背来风。 ” 摩根 . 华伦天奴全球高级副总裁迈克尔 . 贝克汉姆： “ 闹事呢？这不是砸 CFA 场子么？ ” 考试有风险，复习需谨慎 —— 张三点五丰 一、本文适用范围： 1 、 全文适用于准备 CFA1 的在校学生不限专业。 2 、 全文适用于准备 CFA1 有 3 个月以上准备时间的在职人员。 3 、 部分适用于准备 CFA1 不符合以上两条的考生 4 、 CFA2 、 3 级考生请绕道。 二、作者背景 1. 学历：低于北京 TP 二校的理工科本科 2. 复习时间： 2 个月左右的脱产复习 3. 复习方式：在南京某知名高校内与两名 candidate 一起复习 4. 复习遍数：大概 notes2.5 遍。习题 3 遍 5. 考试成绩：除 alternative investment B ，其余 A 6. 考试用时：上午 1 小时 20 分钟，下午 1 小时 30 分钟 三、正文 3.1 复习资料、习题 a) Schweser Notes 5 本（课本部分） 5 星推荐必看 b) Schweser Notes 5 本（习题部分） 5 星推荐必做 c) 某机构中文翻译（广告位招租） 5 星推荐必购 d) 官方 Reading （课本部分） 负 5 星推荐（学术型人才推荐） e) 官方 Reading （习题部分） 6 星推荐必做 f) 近两年官方 mock （俗称模拟题） 5 星推荐必做 g) 近两年官方 sample （俗称样题） 6 星推荐必做 h) 某机构百题预测（广告位招租） 4 星推荐选作 i) N otes 练习（也就是 6 、 7 两本） 1 星推荐蛋疼者做之 j) 官方 道德手册 3 星推荐选看 k) 辅导班视频（广告位招租） 3 星推荐选看 l) 老婆一只 自己看着办吧 m) 辅导班（广告位招租） 本 3.5 没上 n) 其他 本 3.5 没看 3.1.1 阅读资料 说到考试资料，那官方的 Reading 就是纯 TM 扯淡，如果在今年能够收到电子版的情况下，还去花着 N 百刀买那自己用着都心疼的铜版纸教材，绝对是烧包的表现，一来不 支 持低碳生活，二来过于支持 CFA 的宗旨 —— 骗钱第一，考试第二。 在官网注册完，直奔万能的 Taobao ，在搜索栏 baidu 一下 “ CFA Notes ” 你就能看到 一 个真正的完全竞争市场。具体书的颜色每年不一样，但要用的是哪本，哥们你懂的。 同时某些机构的中文翻译教材，绝对是上佳之选，不要和我 zhuangbility 说兄弟你的 英文能力多么销魂，就是再 TM 销魂，你告诉我什么是 qualified 和 unqualified ，如果告诉 我是 “ 合格 ” 和 “ 不合格 ” 的，本 3.5 告诉你， S+B 离你已经不是太远了。 此外有许多朋友会推荐官方的道德手册（网购 notes 的时候一般会送你），这个问题 下 一章节会提及。 作为补充，辅导班的 “ 免费 ” 视频同样是可以用来借鉴的， 3000 多块钱白给，不要 白 不要。 另外某机构的百题预测也是可以用来把玩的，相当于在最后，对知识点做一个大致...
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...引言 人生何其短暂，用两个月的生命去通过一项考试那绝对是种十足的浪费，但既然你已 经被骗入了 CFA 这个沼泽中，既然你已经做好了人财两空的准备，既然你已经@#￥%&， 那么请不要在查分时刻默默地留下那屈辱的眼泪。 低盛总裁王小三： “看过 3.5 的《CFA 一级那些事》 ，那绝对是屋漏偏逢不下雨，船迟只 觉背来风。 ” 摩根.华伦天奴全球高级副总裁迈克尔.贝 克 汉 姆 ： “闹事呢？这不是砸 CFA 场子么？” 考试有风险，复习需谨慎 ——张三点五丰 3.5feng@gmail.com 一、本文适用范围： 1、 全文适用于准备 CFA1 的在校学生不限专业。 2、 全文适用于准备 CFA1 有 3 个月以上准备时间的在职人员。 3、 部分适用于准备 CFA1 不符合以上两条的考生 4、 CFA2、3 级考生请绕道。 二、作者背景 1. 学历：低于北京 TP 二校的理工科本科 2. 复习时间：2 个月左右的脱产复习 3. 复习方式：在南京某知名高校内与两名 candidate 一起复习 4. 复习遍数：大概 notes2.5 遍。习题 3 遍 5. 考试成绩：除 alternative investment B，其余 A 6. 考试用时：上午 1 小时 20 分钟，下午 1 小时 30 分钟 三、正文 3.1 复习资料、习题 5 星推荐必看 a) Schweser Notes 5 本（课本部分） Schweser Notes 5 本（习题部分） 5 星推荐必做 b) 5 星推荐必购 c) 某机构中文翻译（广告位招租） 负 5 星推荐（学术型人才推荐） d) 官方 Reading（课本部分） 6 星推荐必做 e) 官方 Reading（习题部分） 5 星推荐必做 f) 近两年官方 mock （俗称模拟题） g) 近两年官方 sample （俗称样题） 6 星推荐必做 4 星推荐选作 h) 某机构百题预测（广告位招租） 1 星推荐蛋疼者做之 i) Notes 练习（也就是 6、7 两本） 3 星推荐选看 j) 官方 道德手册 3 星推荐选看 k) 辅导班视频（广告位招租） 老婆一只 自己看着办吧 l) 本 3.5 没上 m) 辅导班（广告位招租） 本 3.5 没看 n) 其他 3.1.1 阅读资料 说到考试资料，那官方的 Reading 就是纯 TM 扯淡，如果在今年能够收到电子版的情 况下，还去花着 N 百刀买那自己用着都心疼的铜版纸教材，绝对是烧包的表现，一来不支 持低碳生活，二来过于支持 CFA 的宗旨——骗钱第一，考试第二。 在官网注册完，直奔万能的 Taobao，在搜索栏 baidu 一下“CFA Notes”你就能看到一 个真正的完全竞争市场。具体书的颜色每年不一样，但要用的是哪本，哥们你懂的。 同时某些机构的中文翻译教材，绝对是上佳之选，不要和我 zhuangbility 说兄弟你的 英文能力多么销魂，就是再 TM 销魂，你告诉我什么是 qualified 和 unqualified，如果告诉 我是“合格”和“不合格”的，本 3.5 告诉你，S+B 离你已经不是太远了。 此外有许多朋友会推荐官方的道德手册（网购 notes 的时候一般会送你） ，这个问题下 一章节会提及。 作为补充，辅导班的“免费”视频同样是可以用来借鉴的，3000 多块钱白给，不要白 不要。 另外某机构的百题预测也是可以用来把玩的，相当于在最后，对知识点做一个大致的 温习，不过里面有些题目的答案并不完全正确，当然已经通读 notes 的你肯定能够判断出 的。...
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...CFA Level I June 2010 - Mock Exam Questions 1. Which of the following least likely violates Standard VII (B): Reference to CFA Institute, the CFA Designation and the CFA Program? A. Joe Smith, C.F.A. B. Joe Smith, CFA C. Joe Smith, Chartered Financial Analyst Answer: C According to Standard VII (B), an analyst must not exaggerate the meaning or implications of membership of CFA Institute, holding the CFA designation, or candidacy in the CFA Program. A member cannot use a bold or larger font for the letters CFA. 2. Which of the following is least likely a characteristic of GIPS? A. The investment management firm must define the entity that claims compliance. B. All fee-paying discretionary portfolios are required to be included in composites defined according to a similar strategy or investment objective. C. After presenting 5 years of compliant history, a firm must add annual performance each year going forward up to a maximum of 10 years. Answer: C A firm is initially required to present at least five years of compliant history and must add annual performance each year going forward up to 10 years at a minimum. 3. A rock band plans to visit 15 cities all over the world in one year. They will visit 3 of these 15 cities in January. The number of possible combinations of venues for January is closest to: A. 455 B. 2,730 C. 45 Answer: A The order in which the three cities are visited during January is not important so we use the combinations formula. © Élan Guides...
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