CEU stands for Continuing Education Unit. A CEU is a unit of credit equal to ten hours of participation in an. accredited program designed for professionals with certificates or licenses to practice various professions . Examples of people who need CEUs include engineers, lawyers, CPAs, educators, nurses, architects, mental.
Investors can use duration to help estimate how a bond or bond fund's value would be affected by a change in interest rates. For example, a bond with a duration of 5 years would be expected to rise 5% in value for every 1-percentage-point decline in interest rates (remember that interest rates and bond prices move in opposite directions). If interest rates go up by one percentage point, the bond's value would be expected to drop 5%.
In finance, the duration of a financial asset that consists of fixed cash flows, for example a bond, is the weighted average of the times until those fixed cash flows are received.