Chapter 3 Flashcards
A company goes public when shares are offered to the public for the first time
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Risks of Share Ownership
- Price risk
- Liquidity Risk
- Issuer Risk
- Foreign Exchange Risk
investors can lose capital even when dividends are paid
Price Risk
Shares may be difficult to sell at a reasonable price or sold quickly enough to prevent a loss
Liquidity risk
Issuing company may collapse – ordinary share may become worthless
Issuer Risk
Currency price movements
Foreign exchange risk
Classification of Equity Securities
- Investment in Subsidiary
- Investment in Associate
- Other equity securities
ownership interest is more than 50%
Investment in Subsidiary
when the investor has significant influence over the investee
Investment in Associate
without controlling or significant influence in the investee’s equity
Other equity securities
Designation of Investment in Equity Securities
- Investment security to profit or loss
- Investment in equity through other comprehensive income
- acquired for the purpose of selling or repurchasing it in the near term
-part of the portfolio of identified financial instruments that are managed together
- debt and equity securities that are actively traded by the entity
Investment security to profit or loss
purchased strategically to realize profit from the increase in the value of these instrument
Investment in equity through other comprehensive income
Initial Measurement of Equity Investment (Investment security to profit or loss (trading))
- Recorded at acquisition cost.
- Any cost incurred related to the acquisition of the instrument is recognized outright as an expense
Initial Measurement of Equity Investment (Investment in equity through other comprehensive)
- Measured at historical cost plus any transactions costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition costs
Trading Costs
- Broker’s Commission
*full-service broker
*discount broker - Bid-Ask Spread
- Price concession
instructions of an investor to the broker on how he wants to trade
Orders
buy or sell orders that are to be executed immediately at current prices
Market Orders
place orders specifying prices at which they are willing to buy or sell a security
Pre-Contingent Orders
may buy at or below a stipulated price
Limited buy order
sell if and when the stock price rises above specified limit
Limited sell order
a collection of limit orders waiting to be executed
Limit order book
the stock is to be sold if its price falls below a stipulated level
stop-loss orders
a stock should be bought when its price rises above a limit
stop-buy orders