Nyu Bloomberg Essays

Nyu Bloomberg Essays Nyu Bloomberg Essays Using the Bloomberg terminal for data Contents of Package 1.Getting information on your company 2.Getting information on comparable companies 3.Getting macro economic information Pages 2-31 Pages 32-39 Pages 40 1 Instructions for Getting Bloomberg Data Pick Equity Under Finding Securities, choose Ticker Symbol Look up (TK) Enter the name of your company. You will get all of the equity listings that the company has. Choose the one that you are interested in. For instance, if you look up Nestle, you will get Nestle’s local listings in Switzerland (Registered and Bearer Stock) as well as all of Nestle’s ADR listings around the world. You might have to work through the listings by trial and error until you get the listing that has all of the financial information that you want. (One quick test that seems to work is to try the DES page below. The right listing will have 10-11 pages. All the other listings will have only 2-4 pages) Once you are in equity screen for your company, Type HDS: Print page 1 off Choose Description (DES): Print first 10 pages off; Ignore beta on first page. Chose Debt Distibution (DDIS): Print off just first page Choose Financial Analysis (FA): The ful l report option that was available until last year is more difficult to get to now. Instead, print off the following subreports Enterprise Value (Will give you market value of equity, total book debt and cash for the last 10 years) Income Statement Summary Assets Liabilities Cashflow If you want quarterly data, you can change your preferences in FA and print quarterly data. Choose Earnings Estimates (EE) Choose Zacks Print off first page If you do not have a beta, pick Beta Calculations (BETA) Using the tab button, you can change the period to M Using the tab button, you can change the range to a 5-year range Using the tab button, you can also change the market index. Go back to the main menu (out of equity). Pick Corp Bond. Enter the name of your company You will get a list of corporate bonds issued by your company, if any. Choose a long-term bond (preferable without special features like convertibility) from the list. Choose Description 2 Using Bloomberg to get information on your company To get all other information Equity Finding Securities Ticker Symbol Look Up (TK) Enter the name of your company To get ratings information Corp 1. Finding Securities Ticker Symbol Look Up Enter the name of your company Choose the listing for your company that you are interested in Choose the listing for your company that you are interested in. If you have a company with multiple listings, this may take some work. Try the DES page (see below). If you get only 2 pages, you have the wrong listing. Pick a long term bond for the company Issue/Issuer Information Description Risk and Volatilitiy Beta Calculation (BETA) Historical Volatility (HVT) 2. Company Information /Description 1. Description (DES) 2. Debt Detail (DDIS) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Fundamentals and Earnings Analysis 1. Financial Analysis (FA) 13. Earnings Estimates (EE) Stockholder Information HDS (Just Pg 1) Enterprise Value Income Statement Assets Liabilities Cashflows 3) Zacks Change defaults: Period to M Starting point: 5 yrs ago Leave ending point as is Shadow: Indicates menu choices on Bloomberg Shadow Regular font: Indicates input that you have to provide or change 3 WHERE TO FIND THE DATA This is a listing of all of the financial data that you will need to analyze your company and where exactly on the Bloomberg output you will find the data. Once you have identified what you would like to look up, use the item number and go to the specified page number on Bloomberg to look it up. Item 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Input Beta Current EPS Payout Ratio Total Debt Book Value of Equity Number of Shares Outstanding Effective Tax Rate Chg in Non-Cash Working Capital Capital Expenditures Depreciation EPS - 5 years

Chaco Canyon, the Architectural Heart of the Anasazi

Chaco Canyon, the Architectural Heart of the Anasazi Chaco Canyon is a famous archaeological area in the American Southwest. It is located in the region known as the Four Corners, where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. This region was historically occupied by Ancestral Puebloan people (better known as Anasazi) and is now part of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Some of the most famous sites of Chaco Canyon are Pueblo Bonito, Peà ±asco Blanco, Pueblo del Arroyo, Pueblo Alto, Una Vida, and Chetro Kelt. Because of its well-preserved masonry architecture, Chaco Canyon was well known by later Native Americans (Navajo groups have been living at Chaco since at least 1500s), Spanish accounts, Mexican officers and early American travelers. Archaeological Investigations of Chaco Canyon Archaeological explorations at Chaco Canyon began at the end of the 19th century, when Richard Wetherill, a Colorado rancher, and George H. Pepper, an archaeology student from Harvard, began to dig at Pueblo Bonito. Since then, interest in the  area has grown exponentially and several archaeological projects have surveyed and excavated small and large sites in the region. National organizations like the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society have all sponsored excavations in the Chaco region. Among many prominent southwestern archaeologists who have worked at Chaco are Neil Judd, Jim W. Judge, Stephen Lekson, R. Gwinn Vivian, and Thomas Windes. Chaco Canyon Environment Chaco Canyon is a deep and dry canyon that runs in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. Vegetation and wood resources are scarce. Water is scarce too, but after the rains, the Chaco river receives runoff water coming from the top of the surrounding cliffs. This is clearly a difficult area for agricultural production. However, between AD 800 and 1200, ancestral Puebloan groups, the Chacoans, managed to create a complex regional system of small villages and large centers, with irrigation systems and inter-connecting roads. After AD 400, farming was well established in the Chaco region, especially after the cultivation of maize, beans and squash (the three sisters) became integrated with wild resources. The ancient inhabitants of Chaco Canyon adopted and developed a sophisticated method of irrigation collecting and managing runoff water from the cliffs into dams, canals, and terraces. This practice- especially after AD 900- allowed for the expansion of small villages and the creation of larger architectural complexes called great house sites. Small House and Great House Sites at Chaco Canyon Archaeologists working at Chaco Canyon call these small villages small house sites, and they call the large centers great house sites. Small house sites usually have less than 20 rooms and were single-story. They lack big kivas and enclosed plazas are rare. There are hundreds of small sites in Chaco Canyon and they began to be constructed earlier than great sites. Great House sites are large multi-storied constructions composed of adjoining ​rooms and enclosed plazas with one or more great kivas. The construction of the main great house sites like Pueblo Bonito, Peà ±asco Blanco, and Chetro Ketl occurred between AD 850 and 1150 (Pueblo periods II and III). Chaco Canyon has numerous kivas, below-ground ceremonial structures still used by modern Puebloan people today. Chaco Canyons kivas are rounded, but in other Puebloan sites, they can be squared. The better-known kivas (called Great Kivas, and associated with Great House sites) were constructed between AD 1000 and 1100, during the Classic Bonito phase. Read more about Kivas Chaco Road System Chaco Canyon is also famous for a system of roads connecting some of the great houses with some of the small sites as well as with areas beyond the canyon limits. This network, called by the archaeologists the Chaco Road System seems to have had a functional as well as a religious purpose. The construction, maintenance and use of the Chaco road system was a way to integrate people living over a large territory and giving them a sense of community as well as facilitating communication and seasonal gathering. Evidence from archaeology and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) indicates that a cycle of major droughts between 1130 and 1180 coincided with the decline of the Chacoan regional system. Lack of new construction, abandonment of some sites, and a sharp decrease in resources by AD 1200 prove that this system was no longer functioning as a central node. But the symbolism, architecture, and roads of the Chacoan culture continued for a few more centuries becoming, eventually, only a memory of a great past for later Puebloan societies. Sources Cordell, Linda 1997. Archaeology of the Southwest. Second Edition. Academic Press Pauketat, Timothy R. and Diana Di Paolo Loren 2005. North American Archaeology. Blackwell Publishing Vivian, R. Gwinn and Bruce Hilpert 2002. The Chaco Handbook, An Encyclopedic Guide. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City