Administrator Guide

Administrator guide is a guide for administrators of the Kodiak Derivatives system, including setup instructions and schematic overview of the composing components making up the system.

Kodiak Derivatives is composed by following components:

1. Client
   Front end WPF client for creating and handling forward contracts with options including closing, partially closing, rolling, term change and cancelling contracts. 
2. Web components
   1. DataService
      Entity Framework datalayer between all components of the Derivatives system and the database
   2. Backoffice 
      ASP.NET web page for inserting dividends payments and stock split events
   3. Reports
      ASP.NET web application for displaying reports and receipts for forward contracts
3. Batch Jobs / Corporate Actions
   Console application that is run daily to perform various corporate actions on the forward contracts dataset. Corporate actions include the following actions:
   
   1. Dividends
      Attaches dividends payments to open contracts with underlying shares.
   2. Bonds
      Calculates and attaches interests payments on all open contracts with underlying bonds. 
   3. Stock split
      Recalculates each open contract with underlying share that has unprocessed stock split attached.
   4. Daily Reporting
      Creates a pdf report showing open contracts and sends to customer via email
   5. Bulk
      Creates, rollover, partially close and closes contracts with given criteria
4. Setup
   
   1. Client Setup
      clickonce or .msi file to setup client 
   2. Server Setup
      .msi file to setup all server components