• 10 Useful Excel Shortcuts

    This post features a list of useful Microsoft Excel shortcuts to help you save time and increase efficiency.   1. Protect Sheet: To protect a sheet, type Alt R PS followed by the password2. Protect Workbook: You can password protect the entire workbook by typing Alt R PW followed by the password. Note: Use the same short cuts to…

  • Here are 5 Things you Should Know before Investing in the Stock Markets

    A disciplined approach to stock market investing can bring you rich returns over time. The following is a list of the 5 things every beginner investor must know before investing into the stock markets. 1. Its a long term game Equity, like any other form of investment, will bring returns only when you hold them…

  • Top 10 Business Email Tips

    With emails taking over from letters, here is our collection of the top business email tips to ensure the effectiveness of all your business communications. 1. Use a pertinent subject line A subject line makes it easier for your readers to understand what your email pertains to. With a person receiving hundreds of emails in…

  • Being Disciplined Is the Precursor To Success

    While there may be a hundred and one ways of defining discipline, it is really this definition that has made a significant impact in my life. The definition goes like this: Discipline is the choice between what you want “now” and what you want “most” in your life. This definition is founded on the basis…

  • Are You Afraid Of Speaking To Your Customers?

    As a small business owner one of the questions that you should be asking yourself is whether you are afraid of speaking to your customers. If you answer to the question is yes, it shows but you are not confident of the fact that you services are living up to your customers expectations. It is…

  • What Is A Payments Bank?

    A traditional bank offers services that can be broadly categorized into three groups: acceptance of demand and time deposits from the public, extension of credit facilities to borrowers and payments and remittance services. A payments bank, as differentiated from a traditional bank, will offer only certain restricted banking services to its customers. A payments bank…

  • 21 Legal Terms And Their Meanings

    This post features a collection of 21 important legal terms and their meanings. After all its always good to know more. 1. Ad hoc – For this (purpose). 2. Ad interim – In the meantime. 3. Ad valorem – According to the estimated value. 4. Affidavit – A written statement made voluntarily under an oath…

  • A Discussion on Business Risk

    Risk is a possibility that a plan might fail or a situation goes against us. All of us face risks in our day to day lives. For a person commuting to work, the risk is that he might be caught up in a traffic and be late for office. For an investor the risk is…

  • What Is Repo and Reverse Repo?

    Repurchase Options or Repos are a mechanism through which the Reserve Bank Of India infuses liquidity into the banking system by lending money to the banking institutions. Repos are backed by a collateral – which generally takes the form of approved debt securities. A Reverse repo is similar to a repo transaction, however, in this…

  • Rolling Settlement – What Does It Mean

    A rolling settlement cycle is one in which trades executed on the trade date (T) are settled ‘X’ no. of days after. A rolling settlement is denoted in terms of ‘T+X’ days, where the settlement will take place ‘X’ business days after the Trade Date. In the Indian equity markets, we follow a T+2 settlement…

  • Concept of Arbitrage

    Arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of the ‘price-difference’ for a homogeneous commodity or a security in two or more markets by buying from the market where the price is low and simultaneously selling it in the market where the price is high.  Arbitrage is possible only when the profits made by buying and…

  • Market Order Vs Limit Order

    While buying or selling a security, you would have noticed that there are options for placing two different kinds of orders: Market Order and Limit Order.  In this post we will attempt to understand the basic differences between the two. 1. Market Order: Market order is one where you instruct your broker to buy or…