- CFA Exams
- CFA Level I Exam
- Study Session 7. Corporate Finance (1)
- Reading 19. Capital Budgeting
- Subject 3. Risk analysis of capital investments - stand-alone methods
CFA Practice Question
Monte Carlo simulation is:
A. Equivalent to doing an analysis of the best-case scenario.
B. A risk analysis technique in which probable future events are simulated on a computer, generating estimated rates of return and risk indexes.
C. A risk analysis technique in which the best-case and worst-case scenario are compared to the base-case scenario.
Explanation: In Monte Carlo analysis a computer is used to simulate many different values for key input variables to calculate different estimates of the rates of return and risk indexes.
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