Derivative Financial Instruments

1. Accounting for Financial Innovation
2. Derivatives
3. Strategic Use of Derivatives
4. Hedging
5. Risk Assumed with Derivatives
6. Liquidity, Solvency, Regulation, and the Accounting Profession
7. Types of Options
8. Pricing of Options
9. Option Traders, buyers and writers
10. The Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Kappa, and Rho
11. Credit Risk and Market Risk with Options
12. Futures and Forwards
13. Swaps
14. Interest Rate Management through Derivatives

Professor Dimitris N. Chorafas is an academic and consultant. He has been a Fulbright scholar and Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He taught in 10 universities in Europe and North America, of which: 2 in Switzerland, 1 in Germany, 6 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
The better known companies to which he has been advisor to the board are: General Electric-Bull, Univac, Honeywell, Digital Equipment, Olivetti, Nestlé, Omega, Italcementi, Italmobiliare, AEG-Telefunken, Olympia, Osram, Antar, Pechiney, the American Management Association.
Financial institutions which sought his assistance include the Union Bank of Switzerland, Bank Vontobel, CEDEL, the Bank of Scotland, Credit Agricole, Österreichische Länderbank (Bank Austria), First Austrian Bank, Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank, Demir Bank, Mid-Med Bank, Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, Istituto Bancario Italiano, Credito Commerciale and Banca Provinciale Lombarda.
More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives have participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Dr Chorafas is the author of 153 books, some of which have been translated into 16 languages and many got 5 stars out of 5 in rating.