1. In most countries FIs report their balance sheet using market value accounting.

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2. Marking-to-market accounting is a market value accounting method that reflects the purchase prices of assets and liabilities.

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3. The difference between the changes in the market value of the assets and market value of liabilities for a given change in interest rates is, by definition, the change in the FI's net worth.

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4. Duration measures the average life of a financial asset.

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5. The economic meaning of duration is the interest elasticity of a financial assets price

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5. The economic meaning of duration is the interest elasticity of a financial assets price

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6. Duration considers the timing of all the cash flows of an asset by summing the product of the cash flows and the time of occurrence.

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7. A key assumption of Macaulay duration is that the yield curve is flat so that all cash flows are discounted at the same discount rate.

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8. Duration is the weighted-average present value of the cash flows using the timing of the cash flows as weights.

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9. In duration analysis, the times at which cash flows are received are weighted by the relative importance in present value terms of the cash flows arriving at each point in time.

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