1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Investing for Beginners
photo of Joshua Kennon
Joshua's Beginner's Investing Blog September 2004 Archive

By Joshua Kennon, About.com Guide to Beginner's Investing since 2001

Basic vs. Diluted EPS

Wednesday September 29, 2004
What is the difference between basic and diluted earniings per share? Discover the answer. Read more...

Inventory Turn Ratio

Friday September 24, 2004
The inventory turn ratio lets investors calculate how fast a company is selling through its inventory and efficiently managing its resources. Discover how to calculate inventory turns using real-life ... Read More

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

Wednesday September 22, 2004
You hear it on the news and read about it in the paper, but just what is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Find out...

Frictional Expenses: The Hidden Investment Tax

Monday September 20, 2004
Few investors are aware of the tremendous damage so-called frictional expenses impose on investment performance. By merely reducing these expenses, you may be able to significantly increase your long-term rate ... Read More

Dollar Cost Averaging

Friday September 17, 2004
Investors can drastically reduce market risk by creating a dollar cost averaging plan for their portfolio. Discover how these plans work, and the three steps you can take to ... Read More

Buying on Bad News

Wednesday September 15, 2004
Even the best companies, industries, and sectors fall out of favor from time to time. A fully-informed investor, with a pocket full of cash and a firm understanding of the ... Read More

P/E Ratio: A Quick and Dirty Way to Determine Relative Value

Monday September 13, 2004
Value investors have long considered the price earnings ratio (p/e ratio for short) a useful metric for evaluating the relative attractiveness of a company's stock price. Made popular by the ... Read More

Adjusting Pension Assumptions to Manipulating Earnings

Wednesday September 8, 2004
One of the easiest ways for a company to inflate the reported GAAP earnings is to adjust the assumptions used in estimating pension expense. In this article, we are going ... Read More

Fidelity Cuts Cost of Funds

Friday September 3, 2004
Fund giant Fidelity has announced it is slashing the expense ratio of its index funds to 0.10% per year, compared with Vanguard's 0.18%. The move seems to be designed ... Read More
Explore Investing for Beginners
About.com Special Features

Start your new business on the right foot with these helpful tips. More >

Easy steps to take control of your credit card debt. More >

  1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Investing for Beginners

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.