Course: Foundations of Finance
Date: April 27, 2026
Duration: 1h 21min
Type: Final Exam Preparation (Sample Final 1)
This session is a full exam-preparation session, focused on:
Solving Sample Final 1
Reinforcing core valuation frameworks
Training step-by-step problem solving
Clarifying what really matters for the exam
No new theory is introduced. Everything is integration.
āThe entire course reduces to one concept: present value of future cash flows.ā
All exercisesāequity, bonds, forwards, derivativesāare variations of this.
Given:
Earnings (Eā)
Plowback ratio (b = 40%)
ROE (short-term and long-term)
Required return (k = 10%)
Example:
\(E_0 = 2 \Rightarrow D_0 = 2 \times 0.6 = 1.2\)
Two regimes:
Year 1 (crisis):
\(g_1 = 4%\)
From Year 2 onward (steady state):
\(g = b \cdot ROE = 0.4 \times 0.15 = 6%\)
Build the timeline
Compute dividends step by step
Then discount
āYou donāt need to memorize formulas. Build the logic.ā
Instead of jumping to formulas:
Compute ( D_0 )
Compute ( D_1 )
Compute ( D_2 )
Compute ( P_1 )
Discount back
Use a calculator or Excel mindset
Think in time steps
Avoid shortcuts if you donāt understand them
Spot rate (1Y): 2%
Forward rate (1Yā2Y): 3%
Cash flows:
Year 1: 40
Year 2: 1040
First build the yield curve ā then discount cash flows.
Example:
\(k = 4% + 1.5 \times 4% = 10%\)
Everything grows at the same rate in steady state:
Dividends
Price
Earnings
Move between:
Spot rates
Forward rates
āThe hardest part is not solving. Itās understanding what the question is asking.ā
Today: 25
Future:
30 ā payoff = 900
20 ā payoff = 400
āGo to the future ā replicate ā come back to the present.ā
Duration
Forward rates
Equity valuation
Bond pricing
Binomial model
Immunization
Liquidity preference
HPR
Option intuition (delta)
Convexity (explicitly not required)
Advanced option technicalities
Waste time on excluded topics
Memorize blindly
Focus on irrelevant details
Build solutions step by step
Understand relationships
Practice variations
āThe course is one formula: present value.ā
āDonāt memorize. Build.ā
āForget what I wonāt ask.ā
āGo one step beyond the example.ā
āHave you started with the exercises?
Any questions? Any specific one you want to begin with?ā
āIf you are given earnings, this is an equity valuation problem.
Earnings are what the company generates.
You can either distribute them or retain them.
Dividend = Earnings Ć (1 ā plowback ratio).ā
āGrowth comes from reinvestment:
g = b Ć ROE
We have a short-term growth and a long-term steady growth.ā
āPrice today is the present value of future dividends.
Pā = Dā/(1+k) + Pā/(1+k)
Where:
Pā = Dā/(k ā g)ā
āYou donāt need formulas.
You can:
Compute dividends step by step
Then discountā
āFirst, construct the term structure.
Then discount cash flows.ā
āRequired return:
k = rf + beta Ć market premiumā
āAlways ask yourself:
What am I solving?
Spot or forward?ā
āYou go to the future, build the portfolio, and come back.ā
āFocus on what matters.
Bring questions next class.
And donāt worryāyouāre on track.ā
27 de abril de 2026, 5:01p.m.
1 h 21 min 3 s
Okay.
I will.
Have you, have you started with the exercises?
OK, any questions? Do you have any particular exercise that you want to start with?
Yeah.
Let me open here.
Do you like the last ones in New America ones?
As once, yeah, no ones, very.
You, if you donāt mind, today we will go through sample final one and they say through sample final two. I didnāt have any problem. I mean, I can go also to sample final two now, everyone.
A.
You are going out this question, no?
Great.
Let me do all.
A stoke.
At earnings over the last year ofā¦
Two.
You rush to the last person.
OK, earnings.
Play.
Dollars to.
Person, yes.
Iām gonna do all these exercises.
Let me call it the long way.
When I go through anything, yes?
And let me talk without reading. Let me think about all these things, yes?
So, if earnings are being told.
Then, this has to do with equity valuation, yes?
A good evaluation.
Um, earnings.
Has to do.
We did dance.
And.
Yeah.
Earnings is what the company gets, is what what the company.
Babe.
The company makes our earnings, yes.
And.
You remember B, the flowback ratio? What can I do with earnings? I can distribute these earnings to my shareholders, or I can keep earnings inside the company. Make sense?
Okay, Iām going to earnings. Earnings today, yes?
Blowback ratio.
Was 40%.
So, knowing earnings.
I can calculate.
Defense, no.
So, if I know earnings, I can calculate it.
For example, I can say that.
Digital 0, zero, yes, is equal to.
60%, 1 minus 40% times.
Two, and this is 1.2.
It is.
Yes, I am playing with the numbers.
Thatās gone.
In opportunity.
For final one.
Okay.
And this is expected toā¦
But then you have these rings for it.
Then.
You too, the financial crisis.
Return on EC.
over the next year is expected to be 10%.
No.
You been today, and year one, we donāt connect with you, yes?
Because on equity is expected to be 10%.
Okay.
But is.
I just got, we donāt let you be.
Has to do with performance mission, performance mission. There were two pieces of data important when talking about returns.
K.
Okay.
Pay has to do with something, and pay is what the market expect from me. Yes, pay is.
Resume rate plus beta times return on the market minus resume rate.
Getting paid from outside is what the market expects from it. And on the other hand, there is return on equity. What is return on equity?
You remember?
EB.
is the amount of money that will be paid in the company.
What are you going to do with me?
You will get a return and will be you will get no, yes, with the money that you keep inside.
You will get bro. Make sense?
No.
I know.
If I know.
Big, and I know we turn it with big. I got it, I know, bro.
Ohh.
Well, in this case, itās going to beā¦
One more person.
Make sense?
Over the next year is expected to be 10 person. So say one week from time one onwards, return on equity is expected.
Return to its normal level of 50%.
And also.
A is.
Is going to rate this 10%, yes?
Ace temper.
Okay.
And also, I am.
Do you understand all the formulas that are on the blackboard, all the ideas that are on the blackboard?
Yes, OK, now.
I should have written this in a more ordered way. I ran out of space.
I whatever B.
Please.
Forty percent.
One man used to be.
Primes T.
If you want to be.
Hi.
Learning 0 is 2 words, yes.
Okay.
What is the current price of the stock? Yes.
How are we going to calculate the current price of the stock?
By calculating present value of future limits.
I sense.
So, let me write here.
Price today?
Itās going to be equal to this than 1 / 1.
Plus, OK.
Plus, division two.
One plus a right into second plus.
You get three.
One plus K, right there, and so make sense.
Are you with me?
What Iām gonna do, Iām gonna calculate the price of the stock, calculating by calculating present value of future cash flow, future dividends, yes.
Who I need?
Bigger than zero? No, because bigger than 0 will be in my pocket.
But I know earnings here, yes?
There are several ways in order to solve this exercise. What Iām going to do isā¦
I know it early 0, Iām going to calculate dividend zero, and then once I know dividend zero, I will calculate dividend one, dividend two, dividend three, and so on.
Listens.
Okay.
Hey.
Ernie.
Zero is early, 0 * 1 plus.
Sorry, one.
Lines B.
Yes, the global operation formula makes sense.
How do I say it? How do you know you only did only do that? No, not three. All the negligence.
I will last be there for.
1 + k, right, the four, and so on. I need all of the dividends, but dividends will grow at a constant rate.
So, I canāt simplify that.
This is the two states dividend is combo.
But I want you first to get the intuition. And once you put the intuition, things are going to be simple. Yes, dividend 0 is equal to earnings 0 * 1 minus B.
And this isā¦
So.
Brianās.
One minus 40%, that is 60 and this is 1.2. I sense.
No.
Even what?
Okay.
Is going to be equal to zero times.
One plus the roadway.
The road ladies, 4%.
This is 1.2 times.
1.04.
Yes.
Except.
And what is the problem with what with this exercise?
That, because of the crisis.
Between year zero and year one, there is a growth rate.
But, from year one.
Onwards, there is a different growth rate.
Because I am told that.
With the first year is 10%.
Hi, we turn on Equity, here is gonna be.
The only liquidity is going to be the normal level of 50%.
Fifty percent.
Yes.
So, in return with this 50%?
Grow.
Please be that we donāt want it with you.
That is 40% times 50%.
Please?
The expression, any sense?
Good.
Make sense?
Okay.
Even too.
Ms.
Like.
Dividend one is even still times one plus over are we?
Open up.
I mean, we use, we turn on equity in order to complete the growth rate.
Yes.
Why is the game true?
Even one times.
One plus.
Make sense?
I will need a calculator. In order to solve this, I will need a calculator.
Careful, because.
This is 1 road break and this is a different road break. Make sense?
Yes.
If there were, if there were just one low rate.
I would be much more simple: if there were gas, one rd rate.
How will you calculate?
Nice today.
There were just one growth rate that today would be calculated by doing even in one year, year one over.
Yes.
If there were, yes, by growing rate, you will have great. The price of the snow, I considering that is such a everything that will grow at a constant rate. Make sense?
But what is the problem with what? At the constant, we will start in year two.
No.
Please.
Prance.
Yeah, what?
Is going to be equal to.
Even so.
Over car K. Nine G.
Excellence.
And how are we going to calculate?
Price today.
I do it.
Even one over.
One plus K.
Yes.
Yes.
Nice, youāre one.
Over K minus.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
If you do, the solution is so simple.
to play, to plug this formula. But in order to plug this formula, you should understand all these things we have done. Yes?
The number is so simple, butā¦
I meanā¦
Price you, Iām gonna run. Price you.
Is.
Even one.
Did you miss?
1.2 times 1.04
Over 1.1, one plus, yes.
This is present value, perfect.
Less.
He didnāt to.
1.2 times 1.04.
OnePlus.
One.
One plus one point.
Oh, 6, yes.
I.
Is he?
How is it?
No, EC.
One plus three-season mode.
Six months.
I mean.
Price zero.
The 0 is 1 / 1 plus K, yes?
What are we? What are we doing here?
The price today is present value of next year dividends plus present value of the price next year. Make sense?
Oh.
Thanks, Lady.
Please.
I.
The dividend that will be paid in present value, the dividend that will be paid in year one, over one plus K.
Plus the price you won.
Over 1 + 10. Make sense?
Yes.
Ana.
Price, year one.
Nice, your one is.
Even so.
Over.
Hey, now you sleep.
And then you can choose from this one.
Even one times 1 + g.
So, I can write this.
I can write this in terms of even one, even one over.
One plus, OK.
Thanks.
One plus.
Speak over.
Yes.
But the mathematical resolution is not the important thing. Why? Because you can construct this step by step. You donāt need to get me the formula. You can do the numbers itself. You can first.
Calculate dividend 0, then dividend one, then dividend two. Yes, Iām gonna do this.
With Excel.
With Excel, as if I were, as if I got a calculator.
Increase it, bringing justice.
I have. Yeah, D2. Here is D2 is D1 times. So that would be 1.2 times.
Ms.
Team.
6% is the growing rate from year two.
Let me dig that one 1.2% times 1 + 4%.
Yes.
And bigger than two is bigger than one.
Which is in the world?
Thanks.
But, what I will doā¦
But I will do if I were you, exam.
You will have one calculator, no?
Thank you.
Bernice.
Seal, all Maxis, all Max are earning seal.
Two.
No.
Maybe then, Steve.
All nights are bigger than zero.
zero, this times the blowback ratio, 1 minus blowback ratio, that is 60%, 40%, no?
Makes sense.
1.2.
Then I know that G is.
Or percent and from this year he becomes.
First.
Yes.
Once I know how much is bigger than one going to be.
Then, zero times.
One plus.
Four percent.
Yes, now.
We need to calculate dividend 2.
Oh, are we gonna go make it then, too?
Are you doing?
By doing?
Even one times.
One plus.
Six percent.
Makes sense.
Ana.
Itās going to be great.
Yes.
Iām gonna calculate now.
Price of the stock in year one.
How do you calculate the price of the stove in year one?
I believe he didnāt sue over a ninety.
The two over.
A minus.
E.
This is a constant rate that we will go for.
And I have 33.072. And once I know price, year one, I can calculate price today by doing.
Present value of what?
Even in your what?
Plus the price year one.
Present value of peace.
Iām calculating.
Present value of the price in year one and the delivery in year one, yes?
Itās over.
List value: 1 + 10%.
Exam.
And the price will be 31.2.
So, if you want to calculate like the value of the stock for like year one, you would also need the deputation of year two.
Yes. And so, for example, if you had to do like two years and then they would have different growth, like they could go for two years and 30 years, you would need like 3 dividends and then calculate. Yeah, I mean, if there are three growth rates or four growth rates, you will need one dividend, another dividend, another one.
And then, once you have a constant growth, it will be there. OK, and then, and then thatās where we use the formula of the P equals P by the PMX from where it is constant. Yes, and then this we discount it back at the end.
You will need lasting, yeah?
And by knowing give them in year, so you can calculate price in year six.
Right, and then you need dividend one, dividend two, dividend three, dividend four, dividend 5, until the year six plus price in year six. One exercise much more simple than this is the Starbucks exercise. Starbucks exercise that you got.
On this lights.
The one that we saw when talking about that with evaluation too.
Yes.
Okay.
But I mean, if I go, this one is so we did it in class. I mean, okay, Iām going to, I donāt have any problem in going through this one, but we have, we need this time.
E, where isā¦
Yes, say this somewhat.
Yeah.
Okay.
E.
And.
Silence.
Anyone remember when is when was?
Equivaluation is 16, 17.
Oh, sorry. Oh, I have one fast.
EC.
Perfect.
What I have just done is the two states in this como. Yes, this is this is what you were asking me: bigger than one and bigger than two plus.
And then Starbucks exercise.
What is the idea of this exercise?
Year 2006.
Todayās 5.
8789 Yes.
No dividends.
Ana.
One year, 2010.
That would be one of 0.5.
Yes.
And from year five onwards.
It will grow at a constant rate of.
Nine percent, yes.
Itās going to be great, K.
Please, yes.
All of these dividends are zero, but we need to calculate present value in case there were dividends. We would need to calculate present value in case there were dividends.
What is the price of Starbucks?
Year 4.
That will be.
The reason over 39 G.
Ten percent minus 9%, yes.
This will be 0.5 over.
One percent, and this is 50, yes?
This is the price in year 4, by calculating the perpetuity that will start in year 5. I sense.
And now, once I know price in year four, how do I calculate price today?
By doing price year 4 / 1 plus the discounted rate A price to the 4th.
Myself.
Thatās.
Right now, weāre just doing this because there are no dividends, right? But there are no dividends, then you have to⦠Mind that, mind that there will beā¦
One, one, three.
Three, yes? Yeah.
We should.
Yes.
Let me call this one seven this plus 3 / 1 10 percent.
Right, Mister, last.
Say then.
One plus.
Ten percent, right? Stupid.
What do you?
Good.
This is not a problem.
Itās 6 questions.
Find Sadhvi.
Oh.
In.
Listens.
So, if we calculate the price price for the year four, um, and we donāt really use the like last.
Who is it?
I mean, in year 4? Yeah, thatās all. In year 4?
This dividend in year 4 will be in your pocket. Yes. Not inside the company. Yes. And we donāt know anything about the year 5. Yes. And so, I mean, here there is one dividend in year 5, and this dividend will grow at a good standard rate. Yeah, so, and thatās taken care of in the price. Yes.
But I want to go quick because there are more, much more things I would like.
There are five more exercises.
It.
I mean, this exercise you have all the exercise solving the.
Here, here there is one extra, and I donāt know why I donāt want five.
And then you can try, butā¦
Double final, what?
No, no, no.
What?
Bruce.
Ohh no, sorry.
Big.
Okay.
When I cry, I have to load, I have to load some over 5.
Whatever, let me go.
Where you?
We just take the sources, but I donāt like to go through this to read the sources.
Whatever, as though has some, this is the one that we have already done.
Iām 31.2, I got the correct answer, yes?
Let me move to the next one, yes?
Current one year risk-free deal is 2%.
The one year forward rate is 3%. These type of exercises are also really, really important, yes?
The sport?
The current deal for these two person.
This call is true person.
Then, one year forward rate isā¦
Three percent.
Three person, OK.
What is the price of a two-year annual pay 4% to combine with a face amount of 1000?
Yes.
This isā¦
One way in order to get the deal proof, yes?
I have.
For one year is 2%?
And the sport.
For year two, I donāt know, but I know that for what year is.
Two percent, and between year one and year two, the forward rate isā¦
Three percent, so I can calculate the spot in year three or the spot in year two.
How can I calculate the sport in year two?
One plus the sport in year two.
Price with the second, yes?
Is going to be equal to 1 + 2% * 1 plus.
Regressing.
Except.
You know what Iām doing?
From here, I can help me.
And then what Iām told, what is the price today of a two year annual pay for person to combine with face amount of 1000? I am told to calculate the price of what?
Please try to think by yourself what Iām told to calculate.
Iām going to drink some water and I will come in 2 minutes. Try to think about this exercise, because there is no point in me doing this exercise. There is no point, because this exercise is so, so, so simple.
And probably what you will find in the final will be a little bit more complicated than this one.
And I donāt want just to do the simple thing here. What you should do in the final is going one step further.
Bing.
Iām trying to get a lot.
Sing a song.
I.
Bing.
What do you need to calculate?
The price of the home.
What are the gas flows of this ball?
That 4% coupon bond with a value of 1000. So I need to calculate 40 + 1000 40, yes.
40 over.
One plus.
Two percent.
One 1040 over.
One plus.
Raise to the square.
Oh, again.
One plus percent times 1 plus.
Make sense?
Once you see the solution, all these exercises are so simple.
Once you see the solutions, tell me these exercises are so simple.
This exercise has two levels. First thing you should understand.
Adding spoke rates and power rates to calculate the other power or spoke rates. Once you know all the spoke rates.
What you should do?
Oblique pressing.
Yes.
What are you gonna find in the final?
Riley, one home win.
People.
Instead of one, one would get to Google, as well.
Make sense?
Yes.
Understood.
Okay.
And the price will be 1,029.1.
Exercise twenty-three, yes.
Assume.
That the risk rate is 4%.
A market premium is 4%.
A stock with a beta of 1.5 and an expected perpetual growth rate of 5% has a current dividend of 1.
If cabin holds.
And the stock is priority price. What is the expected stock price in one year?
I think that this exercise is so, so simple.
Nope.
Iām gonna go through this, but quickly, just because I have told you I was gonna do all, yes?
Let me.
First thing I need to know.
OK, OK, I need to know, Kate, the spected reader.
Beta of 1.5.
Yeah.
Respiration rate is 4% plus beta.
1.5.
Yeah.
Thanks, Marcus.
Yes.
Four plus 4 1/2 of four.
Eight.
And suit that person.
And the store will have an expected perpetual growth rate of.
A person.
You can see Ruiz.
Whatās going on there?
Thanks.
And there is a perpetual growth rate of 5%.
Yes.
And what Iām asked to calculate, what isā¦
Thatās in year one.
I only know one formula. The formula that I know is that price 2 days given in year one over.
A.
Yeah.
What is bigger than in year one?
Yeah, in your way, you didnāt see your times.
1 + 3.
License. Let me do this then. So.
Even 0 * 1 + E.
Yep.
Then.
Price today is.
Here, 1 / k - g.
Make sense?
Alright.
Price 01 is price 0 * 1 + 8.
So, now we know all these things, I can say that.
Rising your wife.
Yes.
0 times 1 + d is bigger than one.
Over.
Yeah.
OK, this is price zero times.
This is the formula for the price in year one.
Yep.
Make sense?
There are now 3 equivalent approaches.
Yeah.
This.
They are on, they are sitting on this. Youāre the the.
Anybody else preventing this one? The second equation for people.
Singh.
Indiaās Gurgaon.
But you have two equations here before.
**.
I have the means.
Rice.
In case the dividend will grow at a constant rate.
Price, they will be the different year one over high 90?
Yes.
This from?
Letās even in here in even next year with the price today. Make sense?
Big.
Iām going to complicate things. Iām going to make things more complicated. Mind that instead of knowing dividends, you will get earnings.
You will have good eyes.
They is equal to be the one.
Over K minus E, yes.
And also, you will haveā¦
You will haveā¦
That needed it.
For example, year one is going to be equal to earnings, year one, 1 - b. Make sense?
This is the formula that relates price with dividend, and this is the formula that relates dividend with targets.
Then, weāll go. Price today.
Price in year one.
Rise and gear.
By 0 * 1 plus alone.
price 0 times 1 plus the growing rate price to the second. And instead of price, I can have.
Dividends, dividends, dividends.
Or I can have earnings. What I mean is all. Everything will grow at a constant rate. Price, earnings and details.
What Iām saying is, what are the three different ways?
Calculating price or going backwards, you can calculate dividend and then price, or you can calculate price and then price soon. There are different ways. And what we are doing is now in dividend next year, we can calculate price today.
And then move backwards or forward in that.
Makes sense.
Yep.
What is this money?
OK, there is an important day in order to come to class.
But.
I won, and of course.
Take the money.
I donāt know why Iām pointing at you, probably because of gender.
Sofia, weāre talking now about these.
Do you?
OK, makes sense.
Play.
Okay, a one year risk-free 0 coupon bond with a face amount of 1000.
Sales for 970.87.
At 2 year annual pay, 4% coupon, risk free on sales at par.
Under the expectation hypothesis, what is the expected one year ride rate at time one?
These exercises.
Is the same exercise that we have gone?
But from a different perspective, Iām going to go through this. Do you remember the one that the one with the bond with face value of for rate? One that I have to leave you thinking about when going to water, the water?
Exercise is the same from another perspective.
What I need to calculate is conference.
I have a zero.
Wait, the price is 970.87.
I mean, what year time I will get?
One country, yes?
What can I get from there?
Sporting year one.
Ohh.
Present value is equal until short value over 1 plus.
You spoke to your wife.
Soā¦
I, if your experience, your wife is future value.
Over 970, oh, 87 minus what?
The whole course is about one formula. This is valuable from one perspective and another one. Make sense?
Okay, I know this code right.
Then, at 2 year.
Iām not 4%, 4% coupon, this remote sales at 5 if it if it is being sold.
Alba, Alba.
For the prices.
Sold, big sold at far means that the price is equal to phase value.
101,000.
Price is 1000 and the idea is.
One 1000.
One, two.
A 2 year is equal to.
Body.
Hold on.
OnePlus.
The new one is called in year one, yes.
Thatās.
One 1040.
Over one class, then you, you, you are true.
Rise to the same. Make sense?
Well, you know this one.
Do I know this one?
This is called great, yes, because I have calculated here.
So.
The only one that I donāt know is this one.
Important thing to know what?
The question is asking for.
Is the question asking for the spot in here soon?
No EC.
Thank you. Welcome. I didnāt answer you back, but I think itās OK.
Great.
I am not asking for the spot in year two. I am not asking for the spot in year two. Iām asking for the forward.
So, once you calculate the school in year two?
You can come late and go already with previous for me.
Once you calculate this.
Well, we are looking forā¦
This, this one, yes?
And you know, this one and this one, you can EC calculate that one. Make sense?
This exercise.
G.
Oh.
This exercise isā¦
Itās working, but I will be more complicated.
Instead of going from here to here.
is going from here to there, but the formulas and the path is the same. Make sense?
So, where it is?
OK, there are.
Do you understand that exercise?
Let me move to exercise 25. Oh, yes.
This type of exercises are so, so simple once you know how to do it.
In problem set 6, all of you have the legal problem set 6?
You have one binomial exercise.
Yeah.
I want to go quickly, quickly.
Consider a stock with a current price of twenty-five.
This price is 25 and it will worth the scenarios 20 or. Make sense?
Recent rabies.
So, the ball will work.
Hundred, no matter what will happen with.
Stock price.
And they pay you off.
Is the stock price square?
The prices work, so pay you.
I donāt know what.
Sorry, who am you refer?
No, no, Iām gonna call it.
Yes, yes.
Are you?
Will it be this square, so 900?
Four.