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Any mnemonics about Corporate governance? Never seem to remember the committee responsibilities, corporate governance attributes and objectives.
 
Old thread but never irrelevant…
To get underlying earnings I remember to use a RAAG-PC to clean up earnings from nonrecurring stuff
Restructuring costs
Amortization of intangibles acquired
Asset write-downs
Goodwill impairment
Provision for future losses
Changes in accounting methods
“No Share Lit Green” + “Pac-Cap-Crown” + WW
…for post-takeover bid defense strategies
Just say NO
Share repurchase
LIT - igation
Green - mail
Pacman defense
Leveraged recapitalization
Crown jewel
White knight
White squire
 
Oldie, but goodie for hypothesis testing with p-values:
alpha > p-value – reject Ho
alpha < p-value – FTR Ho
Here’s where it gets “crazy”– read the following without the words in the brackets at first, then clarify with brackets if needed:
If the p [value] is too low, reject that Ho(e) — Never again will you forget that p-value < alpha (too low, less than alpha) means reject Ho
Think about it… let it marinate… I can’t take credit for this, though, as it’s not mine…
Edit: I’ll add the G-rated version as well
The alpha symbol looks like a fish and p-value stands for pond…
If the fish is bigger than the pond, reject Ho (alpha>p-value)
If the fish is smaller than the pond, FTR Ho (alpha < p-value)
 
Durbin Watson was american psycho, a handsome serial killer.
Breusch Pagan was a homo hating white supremecist.
For pensions- Benefits of taking BCAAs- Benefits= Beggining + Contributions + Actual - Assets
For port mgmt- Optimal Risk- errrr too risky .. IR/2*risk coefficient
all really stupid stuff but it helps me remember it so whatever works i guess.
 
“Two energetic homos Who Know their shit” has all I need to deal with heteroskedasticity
test stat is : nR^2 (two n-r-getic):
homos: we want to make sure we’re not dealing with heteroskedasticity
who: White standard errors for correction
know : k degrees of freedom
shit: stat follows a Chi-square distribution
 
“Two energetic homos Who Know their shit” has all I need to deal with heteroskedasticity
test stat is : nR^2 (two n-r-getic):
homos: we want to make sure we’re not dealing with heteroskedasticity
who: White standard errors for correction
know : k degrees of freedom
shit: stat follows a Chi-square distribution
 
Goodwill:
Full Good will = Fair Value - Fair value of net identifiable assets
Partial Good will = Purchase Price - Proportion of net identifiable assets.
 
BIDE
Beginning (retained earnings + (net) Income - Dividends = Ending Retained Earnings
RIG (or Trig)
for temporal calculate Retain earnings, net income, remeasurement Gain
ET (or CET)
foi current- retained earnings translational adjustment
 
You guys have really complicated mnemonics. I mean, if i were to learn by heart a whole sentence or poem, I better learn the thing like it is.
For my part, I do it as simple as alphabetical order :
S -> E
T -> I
=> Means available for Sale in Equity, held for Trading in Income/S
Greeks for options (C=call, P=put, D=delta, R=rho, T=time, V=vega, X=exercise)
C P
D + -
R + -
T - -
V + +
X - +
And so on..
 
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