Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

There you are in your introductory physics course. The course requirements say that you have to be in Calculus 101 (it's probably not called that) in order to enroll in Physics 101. Why? There are two ...

A derivative is a financial instrument that derives its value from an underlying asset. The underlying asset can be equity, currency, commodities, or interest rate. Thus, a change in the underlying ...

Unless you have been living on Mars for the last few years the acronym WMD or weapons of mass destruction has, thanks to George Bush and friends, become a well-known acronym. Another person fascinated ...

As the trend toward using equity derivatives in corporate finance sweeps Europe, the situation in the US couldnt be more different. Companies have long used equity derivatives to help manage ...

Derivative trading has been amongst us ever since the ancient times. Circa 1700 BC, Jacob purchased a type of derivative called an ‘option’ by paying seven year’s labour for the right to marry Laban’s ...

The first derivative transaction was recorded over 20 years ago and since then it has grown into a $60 trillion (Dh220.2 trillion) worldwide industry. Unless you have been living on Mars for the last ...