Scott Clark

Scott Clark

ACCA Qualified Finance Professional

Biography

I’m Scott Clark, an ACCA qualified Finance Professional with an interest in Financial Markets, Analytics and R Programming.

The purpose of this blog is to share solutions to problems I have encountered, hopefully it will be of benefit to you if you are facing similar issues.

Also, it’s somewhere I can share some of the landscape photography I have taken over the years.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out via LinkedIn.

Interests

  • R Programming
  • Finance
  • Photography

Education

  • Fully Qualified Accountant, 2022

    ACCA

  • BSc(Hons) Finance & Investment, 2017

    University of Brighton

Recent Posts

Reconciliation Tool Explanation

Reconciliation Tool This post will briefly explain how the reconciliation tool works which can be found here https://scottclark.shinyapps.io/Reconciliation_Tool/. The purpose of the app is to provide a simple and efficient way to take one or more files which contain transaction data and match any equal but opposite transactions, for example matching a positive 100 to a negative 100 would mean that those transactions have been successfully reconciled.

Downloading the FTSE All Share in R

Introduction Due to the recent corona crash I thought it would be an interesting time to take a look at the FTSE All Share and have a look at the impact the crash has had on the components prices.

Creating simulated data from a time series model in R

Introduction This post discusses how to simulate data with similar statistical properties to a real financial time series. This is useful if you have a limited data source and you wish to generate more data in order to reduce the likelihood of overfitting.