《金融英语 Financial English》课件Chapter 10 Assessing investment system.pptVIP

Chapter 10 Assessing Investment System I. Teaching Objectives 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. Teaching Syllabus This chapter will cover 4 hours. 2 hours for the introduction of background information and explanations of terms and texts. And the other 2 hours for discussion and practice. III. Methodologies Translation: key sentences Paraphrasing: key words and expressions Summarizing: key passages Discussion: important issues Questions and answers: interaction between teachers and students. IV. Background Information 1. Investment system Qianlong, dazhihui, stockstar 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. 2. price-earning ratio ‘P/E’ for short, is a commonly used way to simplistically value a company (determine what a company’s stock should be worth). It is simply a company’s stock price divided by a company’s earnings per share. The price to earnings ratio, also known as ‘P/E’, is calculated by dividing the company’s stock price by the company’s earnings per share, or ‘EPS’. The P/E ratio gives you an indication of how many times you are paying for a company’s stock versus a company’s earnings. The reason why some companies have a high P/E is because investors believe that the company’s earnings will be higher in the future. P/E ratios can not be appli