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"Passing the Uniform Combined State Law Examination (Series 66) qualifies an individual to represent both a broker-dealer and an investment adviser. It covers such topics as client investment strategies and ethical business practices. Taken as a corequisite with the Series 7 Exam, candidates must complete the Series 66 Exam in order to register as an agent with a state securities administrator." --

Limited Partnership Analysis -- Tax Deductions vs. Tax Credits -- Other Tax Considerations -- Dissolving a Partnership -- Pretest -- Chapter 2 Brokerage Office Procedures and Back-Office Operations -- Hiring New Employees -- Resignation of a Registered Representative -- Registration Exemptions -- Persons Ineligible to Register -- Disciplinary Actions Against a Registered Representative -- Termination for Cause -- Outside Employment -- Private Securities Transactions -- Gift Rule -- Sharing in a Customer's Account -- Borrowing and Lending Money -- Order Tickets -- Executing an Order -- Sales Department -- Order Room/Wire Room -- Purchase and Sales Department -- Margin Department -- Cashiering Department -- Custody Department -- Corporate Action Department -- Becoming a Stockholder -- Trade Date -- Settlement Date -- Payment Date -- Violation -- Clearly Erroneous Reports -- Execution Errors -- Unconfirmed Trades -- Corporate and Municipal Securities Settlement Options -- Cash -- Next Day -- Seller's Option -- Buyer's Option -- RVP/DVP/COD -- When-Issued Securities -- Government Securities Settlement Options -- Accrued Interest -- Calculating Accrued Interest -- Close Outs -- Customer Confirmations -- Rules for Good Delivery -- Delivery of Round Lots -- Delivery of Bond Certificates -- Rejection of Delivery -- Reclamation -- Marking to the Market -- Customer Account Statements -- Dividend Distribution -- Declaration Date -- Ex-Dividend Date -- Record Date -- Payment Date -- Stock Price and the Ex-Dividend Date -- Dividend Disbursement Process -- Due Bills -- Proxies -- Operations Professionals Covered Persons -- Operational Red Flags -- Pretest -- Chapter 3 Record Keeping, Financial Requirements, and Clearing -- Blotters -- General Ledger -- Customer Accounts -- Suspense Account -- Subsidiary (Secondary) Records

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Tax Equivalent Yield -- Purchasing a Municipal Bond Issued in the State in which the Investor Resides -- Triple Tax Free -- Original Issue Discount (OID) and Secondary Market Discounts -- Amortization of a Municipal Bond's Premium -- Bond Swaps -- Analyzing Municipal Bonds -- Analyzing General Obligation Bonds -- The Debt Statement -- Self-Supporting Debt -- Net Direct Debt -- Net Total Debt -- Community Factors -- Sources of Tax Revenue -- Determining Property Taxes -- Important Financial Ratios for General Obligation Bonds -- Analyzing Revenue Bonds -- Types of Revenue Pledge -- Municipal Fund Securities -- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) -- Pretest -- Chapter 5 The Money Market -- Money Market Instruments -- Corporate Money Market Instruments -- Bankers' Acceptances -- Negotiable Certificates of Deposit -- Commercial Paper -- Federal Fund Loans -- Repurchase Agreements -- Reverse Repurchase Agreement -- Fixed vs. Open Repurchase Agreements -- Government Money Market Instruments -- Municipal Money Market Instruments -- International Money Market Instruments -- Interest Rates -- The Discount Rate -- Federal Funds Rate -- Broker Call Loan Rate -- Prime Rate -- London Interbank Offered Rate/LIBOR -- Pretest -- Chapter 6 Economic Fundamentals -- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) -- Expansion -- Peak -- Contraction -- Trough -- Recession -- Depression -- Economic Indicators -- Leading Indicators -- Coincident Indicators -- Lagging Indicators -- Schools of Economic Thought -- Clasical Economics -- Keynesian Economics -- The Monetarists -- Economic Policy -- Tools of The Federal Reserve Board -- Reserve Requirement -- Changing the Discount Rate -- Federal Open Market Committee -- Money Supply -- Disintermediation -- Moral Suasion -- Fiscal Policy -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- Inflation/Deflation -- Real GDP

Simplified Arbitration -- Larger Disputes -- Awards Under Arbitration -- Investor Information -- Violations and Complaints -- Resolution of Allegations -- Minor Rule Violation -- Firm Element Continuing Education -- Regulatory Element -- Circuit Breakers -- Limit up Limit down (LULD) -- Pretest -- Answer Keys -- Chapter 1: Option Basics -- Chapter 2: Option Strategies -- Chapter 3: Index, Interest Rate, and Currency Options -- Chapter 4: The Options MarketPlace -- Chapter 5: Option Taxation and Margin Requirements -- Chapter 6: Option Compliance and Account Supervision -- Chapter 7: Securities Industry Rules and Regulations -- Glossary of Exam Terms -- Index -- Advert -- Access Code -- EULA

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