Hedge Fund Accounting: Portfolio Accounting for Hedge Funds (Intermediate)

The course offers a comprehensive overview of accounting for financial instruments generally traded by hedge funds. This includes accounting for instruments – Equity, Bonds, Futures & Options, Spot & Forward contracts, and processing of Corporate Actions.

The course covers security set up, reference data, market data for portfolio pricing, reconciliation issues, P&L analysis, Trade Workflow, Position Lifecycle maintenance. The course briefly touches upon concepts necessary for a Hedge Fund Accountant to appreciate, to maintain accurate books of records – Tax lot accounting, Cost Basis, Realized and Unrealized Gain/Loss.

Course Key Concepts: Hedge fund, Investment fund, Net Asset Value, Investments, Portfolio accounting, Fund Accounting, investment accounting, Reconciliation, Valuation, Pricing, Equity, Bonds, Dividend, Interest, Loan, Coupon, Options, Futures, Listed, OTC, Derivatives, Forward, Spot, Prime Broker, security master, static data, reference data, market data, Long, short, controller, fund administrator, operations, cash activity, cash reconciliation, Currency, FX, Tax lot, Trial Balance.