《《ASSESSING INVESTMENT SYSTEM》.pdf

Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Assessing Investment Systems Assessing Investment Systems I. 教学目的 By the end of the chapter, students should be able to know about: the way in which investment systems work; problems with some of the investment systems; II. 教学计划 This chapter will cover 3 hours. 2 hours for the introduction of background information and explanations of terms and the texts. And the other 1 hour for discussion and practice. III. 教学方法 III. 教学方法 Translation: key sentences. Paraphrasing: key words and expressions Summarizing: key passages. Discussion: important issues. Questions and answers: interaction between teachers and students. IV. 背景知识 Investment system is a kind of software which offers portfolio analysis and evaluates the performance of various securities. It collects real- time information and data of all kinds of investment instruments , such as bonds, stocks, futures, options, funds, etc. ►These data cover prices, sales volumes, other news about the company, and the outside investment climate. ►The investment assessing software would provide a system to draw an overall conclusion based upon the above mentioned indices - data and information. ►Then users or clients of the system could make their investment decision according to the conclusion of the system. Price-earning ratio P/E for short, is a commonly used way to simplistically value a company (determine what a companys stock should be worth). It is simply a companys stock price divided by a companys earnings per share. The price to earnings ratio, also known as P/E, is calculated by dividing the companys stock price by the companys earnings per share, or EPS. The P/E ratio gives you an indication of how many times you are paying for a companys stock verse