🙋 Student Q&A (Lecture 1)

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As announced during the first lecture, the first section will be Tuesday Feb 3

📅 Questions covered Tuesday, Feb 3

🕣 7:41pm
❔ Proctorio Quiz - is it graded?

Do we need to do it?

✔ The Proctorio Readiness Quiz could have the largest impact on your total grade of anything in the entire class because it could determine whether or not you’re able to successfully take the exams, and the exams have a big impact.

So the question here is, “Is it graded?” No, it’s absolutely not graded. “Do we need to do it?” Absolutely, you need to do it. If you don’t do it and you have a bad experience on the exam, it’s your own darn fault. It’s not really your own darn fault, but it’s a lot closer to your own darn fault in a way that you do not want. It’s really not that bad to take, so just take it.

🕣 7:42pm
❔ When is Bruce lecture posted?

✔ I will ask.

🕣 8:09pm
❔ Couldn’t an example of physical capital such as a truck also be valued as working capital? Because they could liquify that asset quickly.

Or would you define stocks bonds for a companies working capital?

Probably a very silly question but on an exam I wouldn’t want to confuse the two.

✔ I suppose one could think of it that way, but we only use these terms because they are useful. So if that’s useful, you can think of it that way. Most of the time it’s easier to think of them as separate. Most firms don’t think of physical capital as something they would liquidate in order to pay their bills.

Stocks and bonds are securities that a company issues to raise financial capital.

🕣 8:10ish pm
❔ Please explain the 2.5% breakdown (flow of funds).

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🕣 8:21pm
❔ how would you define liquid assets and could you please provide an example of that?

✔ He will cover this in the very next lecture!!