BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Financial Instrument
- any contract that gives rise to both a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument of another entity. Financial instruments include both primary financial instruments, such as bonds, currency, and stocks, and derivative financial instruments, whose value derives from the underlying assets.
Additional Resources
- A Web-Based Instrument To Measure The Value Of Using e-Learning
- Many managers of institutions of higher education have to make decisions about investing resources in e-learning. A project group has developed a Web-based instrument that has been evaluated in a series of pilot studies and consequently adapted. The major idea behind the instrument is the assumption that decisions are based...
- White papers 2005-04-03
- Derivatives and Premiums
- This article discusses in general terms the new financial instruments called derivatives and the rationale for using them. Key to understanding this rationale and a point that is crucial to introduce early on is the notion of a premium. Some derivatives are compared to insurance. A derivative financial product is...
- White papers
- Credit Derivatives Financial Instrument
- A credit derivative is a financial instrument used to mitigate or to assume specific forms of credit risk by hedgers and speculators. These new products are particularly useful for institutions with widespread credit exposures. According to the report it suggests that credit derivatives may herald a new form of international...
- White papers
- Live Cinema: Designing an Instrument for Cinema Editing as a Live Performance
- This paper describes the design of an expressive tangible interface for cinema editing as a live performance. A short survey of live video practices is provided. The Live Cinema instrument is a cross between a musical instrument and a film-editing tool, tailored for improvisational control as well as performance presence....
- White papers 2004-04-29
- Derivatives Concepts A-Z
- This article presents a glossary of derivatives-related terminology. It is not an exhaustive list. One of the characteristics of new financial products is the proliferation of different terms used to describe the same instrument, as each financial institution tries to brand its product name onto the financial community's awareness.
- White papers
- Hedging Volatility Risk
- The objective of this paper is to introduce a new volatility instrument, an option on a straddle, which can be used to hedge volatility risk. The design and valuation of such an instrument are the basic ingredients of a successful financial product. Unlike the proposed volatility index option, the underlying...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Guarantor Instrument
- This is a template for guarantor instrument. Use can make changes in it as per their requirement.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Social Accountancy (Accountability): Social Balance as a (no) Instrument of Ethic Corporative Action
- This paper describes the recent historical events, especially the violent reactions of minorities against American hegemony, increased the academic debate on the social role of the organizations in building the so-called sustainable development. In this context, social accounting is seen as an instrument of management information that intends to guide...
- White papers 2004-10-22
- Granular Synthesis: Experiments in Live Performance
- This paper gives an overview of the making of a real-time granular synthesis instrument that can be used for live performances and improvisation with other instruments including traditional acoustic instruments. It outlines the design and performance of a musical instrument based upon this Synthesis method. The instrument, design, process, and...
- White papers 2002-06-21
- MIDI Versus Alternative: The Future of Music Instrument Control
- The musical digital interface MIDI is a widely used standard for remotely controlling musical devices and other performance equipment, having established the market dominance within the electronic instrument-sector for over two decades. This paper considers the inherent limitations of the MIDI protocol and seeks to reveal its current status through...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- ERP for Banking
- Complete insight into, and full control over, all the business processes are prerequisites for profitability in a rapidly changing world. A Bank's, as well as any company's, most important instrument of control is its financial system, which should allow the former to monitor financial activity as it occurs, analyze, and...
- White papers 2006-02-09
- How Is Foreign Aid Spent?: Evidence From A Compelling Natural Experiment
- We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Term Selection For Investors: The Winning Strategy
- Investors who use GICs as an investment instrument are continually faced with the dilemma of the appropriate term selection. Should they lock into a longer term such as a five-year GIC? Should they choose a short-term GIC instrument? The following analysis addresses the issue of what the optimal term selection...
- White papers
- Credit Where It’s Due
- The revolution in credit risk management means that financial institutions must increasingly look to the insurance markets for capacity and for more innovative solutions. The article cites a financial institution that was seeking to mitigate the risk within its portfolio of consumer loans. A typical answer would be to securitise...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Can Option Contracts and Forward Contracts with Optionality Features Qualify for the Normal Purchases and Normal Sales Exception
- Article talks about statement 133 implementation issue no. C10 for option contracts and forward contract with optionality features quality for the normal purchases and normal sales exceptions. Normal purchases and normal sales are contracts that provide for the purchase or sale of something other than a financial instrument or derivative...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Electronic Technician/Instrument Mechanic
- The Electronic Technician/Instrument Mechanic job description template includes the following job summary: Maintain, repair, and calibrate electronic and pneumatic instrumentation systems for industrial processes. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Canada Develops Sarbanes-Like Reporting Requirements
- The paper depicts that Canadian companies are following their American counterparts into the world of detailed reporting on internal control over financial reporting. It informs that the Canadian Securities Administrators CSA ended the comment period on Proposed Multilateral Instrument 52-111 Reporting on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. This is Canada's...
- White papers
- Gaining Credibility for Inflation Targets
- This whitepaper considers a simple model in which agents learn about the inflation target of a central bank over time by observing the policy instrument or inflation outcomes. Measuring credibility as the distance between the perceived target and the actual target, an increase in credibility is beneficial to the central...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- MidiGrid: Past, Present and Future
- MidiGrid is a computer-based musical instrument, primarily controlled with the computer mouse, which allows live performance of MIDI-based musical material by mapping 2-dimensional position onto musical events. Since its invention in 1987, it has gained a small, but enthusiastic, band of users, and has become the primary instrument for several...
- White papers 2003-05-18
- Reliability and Validity of the AGREE Instrument Used by Physical Therapists in Assessment of Clinical Practice Guidelines
- The AGREE instrument has been validated for evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines CPG pertaining to medical care. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of physical therapists using the AGREE to assess quality of CPGs relevant to physical therapy practice. Factor analysis with varimax rotation, produced a 4-factor solution that was...
- White papers 2005-03-02
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