Let the Standard Deviants help your students make sense of the stock pages (and learn the rudiments of big business and personal finance in the process!) with this lively ten-DVD set.

• The Basics: The Standard Deviants jump into the role of financial manager, so prepare your students to roll up their sleeves and pick a type of business, choose a corporate structure, maximize shareholder wealth, and explore different kinds of markets.

• Assets and Liabilities: The Standard Deviants spill the beans about annual reports, interest rates, real rate, risk premium, the yield curve, the time value of money, and future value.

• Money Management: The Standard Deviants will show viewers how to plot a future path for their money by addressing annuity due, present value, opportunity cost rate, perpetuity, interest rates, and EAR.

• Investing: Focusing on risk, the Standard Deviants explain how to roll the dice the smart way—by understanding probability distribution, expected rate of return, distribution curves, risk and standard deviation, the coefficient of variation, and the correlation coefficient.

• Diversification: The Standard Deviants tell why diversification is music to an investor’s ears as they talk about CAPM, Beta, required rate of return, market risk premium, security market line, and risk-free rate.

• Bonds: The Standard Deviants will help your students bond with bonds by explaining par value, coupon payment, maturity, bond present value, discount and premium bonds, YTM, and preferred stock.

• Important Concepts: The Standard Deviants continue their mission to boldly explore strange new financial concepts as they inform viewers about common stock, dividends, present value, the Gordon Growth Model, expected value, supernormal growth, the cost of capital, WACC, and cost of debt.

• Cost: The Standard Deviants bravely face up to the costs of doing business, including the marginal cost of capital, the cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock, the cost of retained earnings, and WACC.

• Corporate Finance: The Standard Deviants show how big companies are really a lot like the average wage earner (and vice versa) as they talk about three types of capital projects, capital budgeting, payback methods, NPV, IRR, MIRR, and cash flow.

• Raising Capital: The Standard Deviants play pirate as they buy a new ship to go a-roving, making stops along the way to discuss NICO, operating cash flow, net disposal cash flow, depreciation, MACRS, evaluation, and capital budgeting for replacement.

Not available for preview. Recommended for grades 9+.

Ten 26-minute DVDs. © 2005.