The course offers a comprehensive overview of accounting for financial instruments generally traded by hedge funds. This includes accounting for instruments - Equity, Bonds, Futures & Options, Spot & Forward contracts, and processing of Corporate Actions.
The course covers security set up, reference data, market data for portfolio pricing, reconciliation issues, P&L analysis, Trade Workflow, Position Lifecycle maintenance. The course briefly touches upon concepts necessary for a Hedge Fund Accountant to appreciate, to maintain accurate books of records - Tax lot accounting, Cost Basis, Realized and Unrealized Gain/Loss.
Course Key Concepts: Hedge fund, Investment fund, Net Asset Value, Investments, Portfolio accounting, Fund Accounting, investment accounting, Reconciliation, Valuation, Pricing, Equity, Bonds, Dividend, Interest, Loan, Coupon, Options, Futures, Listed, OTC, Derivatives, Forward, Spot, Prime Broker, security master, static data, reference data, market data, Long, short, controller, fund administrator, operations, cash activity, cash reconciliation, Currency, FX, Tax lot, Trial Balance.
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The course offers a deep dive into accounting for financial instruments generally traded by hedge funds.
Basic knowledge of what Hedge Funds are, how they work and what is Hedge Fund Accounting all about. Fundamental knowledge of Net Asset Valuation (NAV) concept, essentials of NAV calculation, NAV accounting and reporting process.
For more knowledge, examples, etc., It is recommended to take Other Hedge Fund Accounting courses by Rita Basumallick
Hedge Fund Accounting: Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Accounting (Basic)
Fundamentals of Hedge Fund NAV Accounting
- Explore the definition of commonly traded financial instruments - Equity, Bonds, Futures, Options, and Currency Forward contracts.
- Identify static data related to trade processing - security set up, trade economics, trade settlement.
- Recognize unique accounting issues - trade booking, processing corporate actions.
- Discover Cash and Position reconciliation process.
- Identify and understand P&L reconciliation, identify P&L line items on each security type.
- Recognize and review some common concepts of portfolio accounting - Tax lot accounting, Inventory Method, Cost basis, Trade date, Settlement date.
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