Category: Investments

Investopedia Video: What are Stocks?

A Stock is a share of the company. Steve doesn’t have enough money to open business so he sells stock, which means investors make profit when the business continues to grow.

Investing Basics: Stocks

Learning basics in order to feel confident when making investments. Most common investment is stock, which is owning a small portion of a company. The investor could either sell to another investor to make a profit or wait for a better return from the company. Stocks are forever not constant which makes them much more risky compared to other investments.


Common Stock ( what it is and how to record it)

This video gives examples of how the shares work and what happens in certain situations in the stock market world. Common stock is affected by the par value and how the shareholders are affected by all of this. They also show how to set it in a journal entry.

Preferred Stock (characteristics and Features)

What a preferred stock is and how every company can have multiple different preferred stocks. In most cases preferred stock is cumulative and participating. This video discusses all aspects of a prefered stock and its features.


What is Preferred Stock

Explains what a preferred share is and all characteristics of it. It performs as a bond, but it is not as risky as other shares. It operates more like a bond compared to others. Shows an example of how to calculate it and how they work.

Corporate Bonds

When companies need quick capital they offer corporate bonds. Which provides the company cash while it pays investors their money with interest unless they default. Explains what happens when a business is successful and unsuccessful and how corporate bonds differ from other investments.

Investing Basics: Bonds

What is a bond and how you can benefit from it. They are considered less risky than stocks. Gives examples of all situations that can occur with a bond.

What Are Municipal Bonds?/Fidelity Investments

Gives a scenario of a town and how this town goes about expanding and how investors help the town grow. They go through the whole process of how the municipal bond is accomplished.

Investopedia Video: What is a Municipal Bond?

Municipal bonds are made to be more attractive to the buyer by making them 3 times exempt form taxes. Municipal bonds are debt interest which promises to pay the coupon rate. These bonds are used to make local innovations like schools

The 3 Main Types of Municipal Bonds

Talks about the different municipal bonds, which are backed up by the city because they are low risk. They can be backed up by revenue or general obligation bonds. The least risky bond is the one that is backed by the U.S. treasury bond, which are AAA.