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2 Part financial reporting problem

Intel Corporation Financial Statements

PART 1

The most recent financial reporting period for Intel Corporation is the period ended 31st December, 2013. As at 31st December, 2013, Intel Corporation’s total assets amounted to $92,358 Million (Intc.com, 2015). The information on total assets is important since it indicates the value of all things owned by the company as well as those due to the firm. It further shows the uses of funds advanced to the corporation by the creditors, financiers, and shareholders. The company uses the money from the above sources and uses it to purchase non-current Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper is intended to analyze the policy regarding to bank interest rates of Bank of England as the economy of the United Kingdom has outperformed the EU economy. Taking the risk regulation under consideration the government of UK now emphasizes the option that in order to stop the runaway inflation the proper time has come for the Bank of England to increase the interest rates higher. By discussing several topics such as what UK government should do in order to convince Bank of England to raise the interest rates higher, how Bank of England should tackle the circumstances Continue reading...

International Parity Conditions in Corporate Finance – Study of Theoretical Relationships

International Parity Conditions in Corporate Finance – Study of Theoretical Relationships

International Parity Conditions in Corporate Finance - An Introduction

Apart from factors like inflation and interest rates, there is another economic variable which is the critically most important determinant of the economic health and progress of every country. This is known as the exchange rate and its management. This rate plays a vital role in the free market economy all over the world by active influence on worldwide trade activity of every country.
In addition to the inflation and interest rate, an exchange rate is carefully watched, analyzed and mostly manipulated economic measure. The three economic variables identified Continue reading...

Introduction

Credit rating is the assessment of the creditworthiness of debt instruments based on credit rating agencies’ assumptions, analytical models, and expectations. It reflects the agency’s subjective judgment of the issuer’s management and business. In that respect and given that modern business and finance world is subject to numerous risk factors, rating agencies are becoming crucial players in the capital and financial markets. That owes to their ability to analyze the bulk and complex information necessary to provide a judgment on instruments or business risk. In that view, this discussion seeks to demonstrate that rating agencies can help Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction
The efficient market hypothesis had been a broadly accepted model by all the financial economists and financiers decades ago. They believed that the markets for securities are efficient in reflecting stocks’ prices information. A common view was that, coming up of news would be known fast to be incorporated in securities prices. In that view, technical or fundamental evaluation could not help investors in choosing undervalued stocks, that could be useful for investors to make returns greater than those gained by stocks portfolios randomly selected; at least without comparable standard deviation. However, by start of 21st-century, the Continue reading...

Abstract

Capital budgeting is the basis for planning and forecasting activities of any organization. Capital budgeting is the process of selecting and implementing nai-more efficient capital projects from the perspective of maximizing the rate of return and minimize the cost of their funding sources. Thus understand the need and importance of capital budgeting, both for business and for the economy as a whole. Planning - this attribute is not a single economic entity, not the requirements of today's business environment, it is a natural strategic and tactical business development.
The activities of businesses are so diverse that the goals and Continue reading...

Value Investing

Introduction:
In the business world knowing the essentials of investment shall lead to sure success. Evidently, the way the world’s economy has been changing was into a platform that would encourage even the common people to invest. The world’s economy has grown much bigger in the 20th century and more accessible than ever with the existence of the worldwide web. But seemingly targeting the market without prior knowledge would be going into a battle without ammunitions. And to have a better approach in value investing most especially in stocks, the three lessons discussed in this paper will Continue reading...

Can we beat the stock market?

Can an individual investor beat the market?
Before providing an answer to the above question, let us discuss basic financial theory that has ruled the financial community over decades now, Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). EMH is indisputably a widely recognized financial theory that states that stock markets are efficient and all the stocks are fairly valued, thus making it impossible for the investors to purchase undervalued stock or sell overvalued stocks. Accordingly, no investor can outperform the market through expert stock selection. Ironically, while many financial pundits believe that markets are efficient and EMH do hold, we have investors Continue reading...

Analysis of the banking systems of different countries shows that, in parallel with the development of the universalization of the growing trend towards specialization of commercial banks. In countries with developed market economies, including those which have a universal structure of the credit system, important places (despite a slight decline in their number) occupy specialized banks. Of these, the most interesting are the investment banks and credit institutions with specific tasks associated with the implementation of national interests.
It is considered that the investment banks emerged in the early 20th century, but the company, which they were later appeared Continue reading...

Finance

About Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLO)
The new financial instrument in the industry that is backed by the pool of debts that often constitutes low rated corporate loans. These securities are similar to Collateralized Debt Obligations except for the different type of underlying loans pooled against the security issue. CLO’s were created with the objective of lowering the cost of borrowing for the businesses and also to reduce the risk of banks as the risk associated with underlying loans are distributed amongst the investors.
CLO’s payments are also made in tranches which are also known as cash waterfalls Continue reading...

Executive Summary

This paper investigates the efficient market hypothesis in extreme depth. It provides a comprehensive overview of the renowned literature on this particular subject. Comparison to real market problems as well as the limitation of this model is discussed. Moreover primary empirical research is also conducted during this study.

Introduction and Intended outcomes

The efficient market hypothesis is related with the performance of values in asset markets. The expression ‘efficient market’ was originally related to the stock market, but the notion was rapidly simplified to further asset markets. A while before, the efficient market hypothesis were quiet popular amongst the scholastic financial economists. This Continue reading...

Holding Period Return for each stock

Holding Period Return is the total return earned from holding a given stock or portfolio of stocks over a particular period of time.
Holding Period Return = Dividend income+(End of Period Share Price - Initial Share Price)Initial Share Price

HPR for Stock X

HPR for Stock Y
Expected returns
Expected return = Average HPR
Expected return for Stock X = 15+ 2.27+20.95+ -1.25+13.18+20+2.69+4+21.25+19.2610
= 117.3610
= 11.74%
Expected return for Stock Y = 7.5-1.82+ 3.33-5 + 4.09 + 4.35-3.46 + 0.8 + 9.58 + 1.4810
= 20.8610
= 2.09%

Standard deviation

Standard deviation =P(EiR-HPR)2
P is the probability of occurrence. In this case, each of the ten Continue reading...

ANALYSIS ON COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATIONS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ECONOMY

Financial institutions offer securities that are backed by a pool of debts mostly those that have low-interest rates. These financial products are called collateralized loan obligations (CLO). Collateralized loan obligations play an important role in influencing the economy. This is through the buying and selling of structured debt instruments by the investment banks and other financial institutions. The CLOs are popular since they can meet the desires of different investors in the economy. Both the conservative and high-risk investors are able to find the suitable debt for them since the tranches are tailored to meet their needs (Hunt 2002). Continue reading...

How to beat the stock market? Or can we actually do that?

Just like any other investor in the market, even my trades were guided by the psychology of ‘’Want to be Warren Buffet’’. However, by the end of my trades, again like any other investor in the market I found that, ‘’There is only one Warren Buffet’’, as eventually I ended up on no-profit-no-loss situation. Although I trade in high-notch stocks such as Amazon, Microsoft, General Electric, and even the big-shot-ever-lucrative, Apple’ stock, but all I could manage is the break even. So, now I need to find, how to beat the markets? Or is it possible to beat the Continue reading...

Adding alpha returns of all active investors while ignoring transaction costs such as fees and expenses does not guarantee positive returns. For active investors to realize positive returns, the market must be favorable as well as satisfy several factors. First, active investors should carefully select investment opportunities that lie above the market line. The market line provides a benchmark for evaluating the performance of an investment (Foster, 2010). The probability of getting positive returns also depends on chance. Therefore, an active investor may project that a particular investment will deliver positive returns but, selection strategies fail to deliver the Continue reading...

The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Stock Valuations Go under the Lens” on 28th September 2014. The article talks about the troubles experienced by stocks during valuation. One of the issues troubling stocks during that period was the pricing of stocks towards perfection. Pricing stocks towards perfection means that the prices of stocks are priced at a very high level such that the gains are dependent on the favorability of the investing environment (Browning, 2014). The investing environment should have low interest rates, continuous global growth, low inflation, and strong corporate profits. A less favorable environment weakens Continue reading...

Differences in approach to valuation by US GAAP and IFRS

There are several differences in approaches to valuation between US GAAP and IFRS. The general frameworks differ in that US GAAP is known to be a “rule based” system, while IFRS is known to be “principle based” and thus more flexible. With regards to the balance sheet, differences include the order of section, the treatment of inventories, and write-downs among others. Firstly, the way inventories can be measured differ, because US GAAP allows inventories to be measured using FIFO (First-in First-Out) or LIFO (Last-in First-Out) methods, while IFRS only allows the FIFO method. Secondly, inventory write-downs are definitive under Continue reading...

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An interest group is an organization where people with a common interest and work together in order to promote and protect that interest by influencing the government. Interest groups vary in tactics, aims, and size. According to political scientists, there are two major categories of interest groups: noneconomic interest groups and economic interest groups. There are four types of economic interest groups: professional associations, agricultural groups, labor groups, and business groups. Economic interest groups are the most common type of interest group; their main agenda is to seek economic advantage for their members. Economic Continue reading...

Introduction

There is a considerable difference found among the values and workability of Accounting and Finance, as accounting is the name of recording and interpreting the day to day transactions of a company, while finance is the name of utilizing the money and funds of a company at a perfect place particularly. The concept and field of finance is extremely broad and worthwhile because of its utilization and core implementation in different aspects of life.
Planning is the most crucial activity of the organizations as well as for an individual to accomplish a goal, and it is very effective to Continue reading...

Company’s business level strategy is that in which it is using the technology of internet to go beyond the limits. The company used a combined strategy to achieve greater heights (Jones, 2008). This combined strategy had two important components;
Be unique, i.e. sale and purchase of books through websites. It was a kind of differentiation strategy in which the company got the ability of online collection of books and confirming their availability to more and more customers.
Selling or providing products and services at low cost. This low cost is also afforded by handling of huge quantities of Continue reading...

Introduction

AT&T is a telecommunication services provider in the United States and internationally (Att.com, 2015). This paper uses a range of financial ratios to assess the financial health of the company and compare its performance against the industry benchmarks provided by Daily Finance. It also analyzes the corporate vision and explores the strategies for implementing the objectives.

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Liquidity analysis
i) Current ratio
Current ratio indicates the value of AT&T’s current assets for every dollar of its short-term obligations (Brigham & Ehrhardt, 2010). It is calculated by dividing the total current assets by the total current liabilities (Brigham & Ehrhardt, 2010). As Continue reading...

Introduction

In this report, we will illustrate the portfolio construction process where each stock or asset will be selected considering the client’s risk-return objective. Since, the client is risk-averse; we will not expose the portfolios to high risk, and will try to construct the portfolio composition with the core fundamentals of the portfolio management, i.e. a highly diversified portfolio where weights of each portfolio will be selected on the basis of maximum return-minimum risk profile.

Section 1

a)Five companies to be considered while optimizing the portfolio are Apple Inc., Starbucks Coffee, Caterpillar Inc., Nike Inc. and General Motors. While selecting Continue reading...

Scenario Description

Financial Institutions or banks are very important and valuable for the sake of the economic growth of an economy (Gup, 1999). Therefore, the government of almost every country of the world likes to execute their growth through the existence of financial institutions. Apart from the financial institutions, there is yet another thing that needed to be there in an economy known as Financial Markets (Gup, 2003). This assignment is a Financial Market based assignment in which different provisions and elements of the financial markets would have been acknowledged and analyzed. There are three different parts of the assignment which Continue reading...

Section 1: Five companies’ stocks selection

Rationale for the five stocks selection and analysis key information about each company’s background
BP p.l.c.
BP P.l.c. operate an integrated gas and oil company. It has three segments of operation: Upstream, Downstream, and Rosneft. The segment of Upstream engages in the exploration of oil and natural gas, development of the field, and production; transportation of midstream, and processing and storage; and trade and marketing of natural gas. The segment of Downstream manufacturers, refines, markets, supplies, transports and trades in petroleum, crude oil and petrochemicals products and services that are related to retail and wholesale customers. The segment Continue reading...

DateI choose to analyze Apple Inc. because it is one of the highest profit generators for the year and is growing at increasing speed. Also it has made its presence felt all around the globe. The company has beat competition and grown to be the highest seller of Iphones in 2014.
One of the reference article suggests that the stock of Apple Inc. is a best buy and should be bought now without wasting any time. Apple Inc. reached number four on the Dow Jones Industrial average and was one of the best buys of 2014. The share prices Continue reading...

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Engineering Economics – Enter course code here
Engineering Geology
Problem 1:
The amount of initial investment at a rate of interest of 10% and after 3 years to get $4000. This can be used to tell investor’s their return value.

Future value is give, interest rate and number of years.

P = F/ (1+i)n i.e. P = 4000/(1.03)5 = 3005. Interest rate is in percentage

Using Time value of money equation for compound interest

This equation is used for the calculation if initial deposit for a return of 4000 after 3 years at 10% interest rate.
Rate of Interest and number of years are the variables.
We derive the formula from F = P(1+i)n. Placing Continue reading...

Summary

This report will walk you through the presentation of Ford Motor Company, the famous US car manufacturer. The first part of the report presents brief business overview and presentation of the company. The report also includes a discussion of recent news as well as a full financial statements analysis and ratio analysis.

After reviewing the business, I would not invest in a company like Ford for the following reasons:

Difficult industry with high fixed costs and high cyclicality: in essence business revenues are very volatile.
A struggle to remain competitive compared to other peers, who seem to outperform with regards to efficiency.
A unjustified valuation at a premium to peers, which is not rational given the Continue reading...

Explain the Concept of Linkage and its Significance for Democracy

The change to democracy necessitates costs other than the outlay needed for transition. While management reform does not aim for the democratic minimum, it aims to reduce constant costs of democratic institutions at the least possible. The most common management strategy on this cost lies on the decision of the parliament or congress. Accordingly, there are different rules within the democratic minimum so that an alteration of rules for change requires another set of costs and benefits. The want for a change to democracy calls for an onerous work, and accordingly, those groups whose core interests are strongly linked Continue reading...

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Accounting
Owner’s equity is the amount of capital that the owner invest in the business or the company. Owner’s equity is important for every business and this allows the owner to control a significant percentage of the business if not 100 percent of the business. Owner’s equity also comprise of paid in capital and earned in capital.
Paid in capital and earned capital are considered as equity but they are two forms of equity. Paid in capital is the same as contributed capital that is provided by investors after they purchase a company’s shares that Continue reading...

Part-1-Chapter Summary

Introduction
The section requires having a summary of each of the chapter found in the book that pertains to financial management.
Analysis & Findings
The first chapter of the book is on the topic of Time Value of Money (TVM). According to the summary from the book, Time Value of Money is basically a concept of Finance, which has been used specifically in the Capital Budgeting Process. It is found a method through which the future value of an investment or cash flow can be analyzed in the present term, like what the future cash flow or investment has the Continue reading...

Interest Rate Cuts and Stimulating Economy in China

Dear Mr. Zhou Xiaochuanh - The President of the Chinese Central Bank,
I am . , an economist who works on exploring the relationship between the economic growth and monetary policy. I am sending this letter to you to express my thoughts on your recent monetary policy strategy. I strongly disagree with your assumption on the negative relation between the interest rate and the economic growth. The occurrence of increasing expenditures of investment and consumption is not necessary as a result of decreasing interest rate in the economy. In fact, there is no certain relation between the interest rate, the economic Continue reading...

1.0 The money market and its transactions
The money market is the center of credit exchange in the United States and around the world. It is where businesses (local and global), governments (local and global), and individuals (local and global) borrow or lend short-term credit instruments usually for a term of 1 to 120 days (Kidwell & Peterson, 1987). Instruments include the U.S. Treasury securities (e.g. Treasury bills), negotiable certificates of deposit (time deposit), commercial paper (short-term unsecured promissory notes), banker’s acceptances (time drafts), and repurchase agreements (sale of short-term security or collateral). However, the U.S. Treasury bills are Continue reading...

Fidelity Large Cap Stock (FLCSX Fund)

Fidelity Large Cap Stock (FLCSX fund) is a mutual fund managed by Fidelity Investment. It targets investors who are keen on long-term growth of their capital. At least 80% of the fund portfolio is invested in common stocks of companies with large market capitalizations such as those or similar to companies in the Russell 1000® Index or the S&P 500® Index. The stocks coming from either domestic or foreign issuers are selected based on their prospects for "growth" or "value", or both. Fund managers use fundamental analysis of each holding’s financial condition, market/industry position, overall business and economic Continue reading...

Assignment 1: Full Disclosure in Financial Reporting – Verizon Communications

Assignment 1: Full Disclosure in Financial Reporting – Verizon Communications

Section 1 - Disclosure Requirement on Accounting Policies

Policies and procedures used by any business entity in preparation of its financial statements are known as accounting policies. Such policies represent procedures, methods or even measurement systems employed in the presentation and design of information in financial statements . Disclosure requirement provide a proper and detail understanding about the financial information contained in the financial statements. Such type of disclosure provides an insight into the management style of reporting earnings, whether aggressive or conservative. This disclosure of accounting policies is also made to ensure that no misleading policy is used Continue reading...

Investment Fraud

Investment Fraud
Persons investing in securities need protection against fraud. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission securities act of 1933 outlines two basic principles. First investors ought to receive financial and any other relevant information on securities on offer for public sale and secondly the law prohibits any kind of deceit, misinterpretations and any other fraud during the process of acquiring securities. But this is not to brush aside the fact that fraud occurs in sale of securities to investors.
Through registration of securities, investors get access to important financial information about securities. This plays a big role Continue reading...

About the company:

Founded in the year 1926, Schlumberger is the world’s largest oil-field service company. Headquartered in Texas, United States, the company has its principal offices in other areas such as Paris, London and Hague with a total workforce of 120000 employees. The company operates through three business through business segments, Reservoir Characterization Group, Drilling Group, and Production Group.
Schlumeberger is represented by its board of directors headed by Chairman, Mr. Paal Kibsgard and CEO, Mr. Simon Ayat.

About the industry: Oil and Gas equipment services

Schlumberger operates in Oil and Gas field services industry which is also known as the ‘’Unsung masters of the oil industry’’. The Continue reading...

Don’t buy all at once (Rule 3). This rule is based on prudency concept and is probably willingly followed by the traders who are risk averse. The staging of stock purchase, per Cramer’s advice, can ensure the trader against fluctuations if the company value goes down significantly and rapidly. Buying in increments with careful analysis when and how much to buy, can ensure the highest deal value and the optimal prices. Still, the dark side of the issue is the risks associated with significant price fluctuations, especially when the purchase is spread in time: for a relatively Continue reading...

Incentives, Investment Decisions & Firm Performance

In financial management, the agency dilemma or principal–agent problem occurs in an event when one entity or person (the agent) makes decisions on behalf of another entity or person (the principal). This dilemma exists because the manager (agent), sometimes, is motivated to make decisions in his own best interests instead of those in favor of his principal authority . Common examples of Principal-Agent relationship include corporate management of any organization (agent) and all of its shareholders (principal). This relationship is also found when politicians (agent) are obliged, as representatives, to work for the benefit and welfare of their voters ( Continue reading...

Mini Case: Emerging Market Carry Trades

The world faced the economic crisis at different period of time. After the global economy suffered the depression arising from the credit crisis in 2008, the governments of America and European country injected a huge quantity of capital in their economy or financial system. During the period of crisis, the central bank of Europe and America reduced their interest rate to the lowest possible level. This step was taken so that they could maintain the certain liquidity level in the market so that the weak banking system of the country would not fall into the prey of credit crisis Continue reading...

Introduction

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest equities-based exchange in the world dealing with the buying and selling of its capital securities listed on the market. NYSE has a lot of companies trading on it worldwide. One of these companies is the Global operating Coca –Cola Company, which began trading on NYSE since 1919. Coca-Cola deals on non-alcoholic soft drinks and it market its product worldwide (Parker, 2014).
Like any other trade, risk is part and parcel of the system only the degree of risk is what differs. The same is applied to the case of NYSE. Continue reading...

The stock market works pretty much like a jungle. If a person does not know which way to go or what the right things to do are, then chances are that person is going to get lost. In the stock market, however, being lost equates to losing money, often a huge chunk of it. Suppose that an individual fund manager was entrusted with $250,000 worth of client’s money. The client who entrusted this fund expects that he would be able to generate at least a 14% return over the next year. This example is somewhat similar to Continue reading...

The paper focuses on an examination of the article Same Returns, Less Risk by Levisohn and Light. It occurs through a summary of the article and subsequent comparison of its contents to the chapter on risk and return.

Article Summary

The article depicts investors’ current hesitation to invest in various assets. It follows the impacts of risks associated with the recent financial crisis and other complications. The authors highlight the need to avoid hesitation in times of uncertainty in the market. Investors should take advantage of the market’s volatility; in such times, there is a high chance of ordinary investors Continue reading...

High-Interest Rates

Every investor would like to earn big returns on his or her investments. High-interest rates normally yield high returns and would normally attract most investors. However, high-interest rates are associated with high-risk investments (Bekaert & Hodrick, 2009). Such investments would require risk-averse investors who need extra incentive to take the high risks. One of the advantages of high-interest rates is that investors will not have to seek volatile investment opportunities in order to reap big. In other words, general high-interest rate in the market reduces the market's volatility for the investors. They do not have to take high risks in Continue reading...

Forecasting Share Price and Alternative Investments

Expected Future Price
The stock of the company is at present trading at $126.41, while it has already touched the 52-week high range of $133.60/share. Important to note that just before the announcement of its first quarter result, stock was trading at $109.51/ share, and with the company announcing blockbuster profit of $18 Billion and sale of 74.5 million handsets, stock price rose to $114.83/share. Thus, we believe that the price of the company is moving fundamentally and not on any speculation.
As for the future price, 1 year down the line, we expect the stock price to breach $ Continue reading...

Abstract

There are three different options of investment are available for Mr. A, and he is likely to have the analysis in the current scenario. Mr. A has around 1.5 Million Singaporean Dollar (SGD) in cash which is available exclusively for the cash investment particularly. From this entire analysis, it is clear that the proposal of Mr. Michael is the most productive and effective one for Mr. A to finance all of their future expenses and having substantial amount of money in their hands after a period of 3 years.

Introductory Scenario

Management of Investment is extremely important to experiment effectiveness in Continue reading...

Overview

Government refers to a financial document that the government uses to estimate the expected revenue from taxes and other investments as well as the expected expenses that the government would incur during the year. The document serves the basis for the government to match the government’s investment plans as well assist in developing policies that would safeguard the country’s economy from unforeseen events. There are three categories of a state budget that include a surplus, balanced or a deficit budget. Due to the unexpected nature of the economy, the government may be prompted to replenish estimated budget Continue reading...

The article entitled The Wall Street Crash, 1929 appears in the website of EyeWitness to History authored by Jonathan Norton Leonard. This article also appears in the books entitled Three Years Down in 1994 and in the book entitled Since Yesterday: the 30’s in America in 1972 (EyeWitness of History). It is understood that this article is created to describe the activities in the Wall Street during the crash in 1929. Also, this will show how the financial downfall occurs, the reactions of the investors, the business establishments and even people around. Millions of dollars are involved to Continue reading...

The statement that “athletics industry is highly profitable” can be looked upon from several perspectives. First, “athletics industry” is an umbrella term which covers a wide range of this industry segments\sectors. Different sectors, e.g. fitness centre and sports equipment manufacturer, will have different profitability, and as the investment decisions are sector-based, the evaluation should be limited to the specific sector. By Sageworks definition, most profitable industries are those which show net profit margins of 10-20%, and provide rather services than products which allow them keeping overhead costs low and profit margins more predictable. The Bloomsberg industry benchmarks for Continue reading...

1. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is a model used to compute the required rate of return of a specific investment. This required rate of return is also referred to as the cost of capital. The CAPM allows to compute a risk-adjusted rate of return, meaning that it takes into account the standard deviation of a stock price into the calculation, consistent with the fact that taking more risk should yield higher returns. The determinants of the required return are the market required rate of return, the risk-free rate and the beta (which measures the correlation of the Continue reading...

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP)

These refer the framework of accounting standards, rules, and procedures used in the United States to record and report financial statements of entities (Fasb.org, 2015). They are applied by both privately held and publicly traded companies, non-profit organizations and the government. The rules must be adhered to so to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial statements. The GAAPs act as a common means of communication among accounting and finance professionals hence enables interested parties to compare financial statements with those of other corporations (Aicpa.org, 2015).

International Accounting Standards/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are set of accounting standards developed by the Continue reading...

The 2007-2008 economic and financial crisis was the worst and greatest to grip United States since the 1930' Great Depression. The crisis resulted in 26 million Americans losing their jobs or unable to find permanent employment or just not ready to engage in job hunting because of the gloomy employment prospects (Angelides et al, 15). Moreover, 4 million Americans lost the ownership of their homes due to foreclosure and about 4.5 million others reneged on their mortgage payments thus fell in the foreclosure process. The amount of wealth that households lost totaled to about $11 trillion with savings and Continue reading...

Investors are in constant search for the companies, whose stocks look undervalued and could generate abnormal returns in the future. Fundamental analysis is one of the most widely used techniques for this purpose, entailing investment in stocks of companies with the best financial ratios.
For this study I have chosen Google Inc., the biggest American software multinational corporation, which specializes in development of Internet-based products such as search engines, cloud computing, online advertising, social networking etc. While originally its business had been primarily oriented on PC-users, Google acquired a range of small software companies during recent years in order Continue reading...

Business

Business

Abstract

Foreign direct investment is another type of exporting method. This is in contrast to portfolio investments. There are a number of steps to consider for planning a successful export strategy using the basic steps to essential success. Then the export organization has varied methods for exports to a market which is studied in detail. Two entry strategies are compared and contrasted for Sony and Pepsico industries.

Business

Compare and contrast Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and other forms of International Business.

Foreign direct investment is investment in acquisitions of foreign assets with control and managing them through financial or other means. According to Shawn (n.d.), FDI can be implemented using purchase, investment, Continue reading...

Business Law

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Business Law
The owner of a manufacturing business has grown significantly and looking at making some necessary business decisions as profit increases, along with risk and liability. The company produces a number of items that require carpentry and wood work. These products include wood moldings, hardwood doors, high-end kitchen cabinets, specialty cabinets and bookcases for dens, home libraries, offices, and any merchandise made of wood. As a sole proprietor of his growing business with in house employees, as well occasionally hiring outside subcontractors, he is considering the type of business operation most suitable for his company. In Continue reading...

Abstract

Investors prefer to derive quick profits for their investments. And, to managers, meeting such expectation requires close monitoring the indicators of profitability, such return of investment (ROI) and costs, whether hard or soft. The ROI may be analyzed in various manners, including such tools as net present value (NPV), payback period (PP), and profitability index (PI). Oftentimes a Post Implementation Audit (PIA) should be conducted, including the monitoring of deliverables and internal performance targets. These are crucial activities that any management worthy of their investors’ trust should ensure of implementing.
In any business undertaking, the investor wants to ensure Continue reading...

Business Law

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The owner of a manufacturing business has grown significantly and looking at making some necessary business decisions as profit increases, along with risk and liability. The company produces a number of items that require carpentry and wood work. These products include wood moldings, hardwood doors, high-end kitchen cabinets, specialty cabinets and bookcases for dens, home libraries, offices, and any merchandise made of wood. As a sole proprietor of his growing business with in house employees, as well occasionally hiring outside subcontractors, he is considering the type of business operation most suitable for his company. In Continue reading...

As of December 31, 2014, Danone had non-current financial debt of €6,598 million and current financial debt of €4,544 million. Looking at the cash-flow statement, we learn that €150 million of this debt was issued during the year 2014, and that detailed informations about debt financing are available in note 10.3. This debt does not entirely consist of bonds, as can be seen p. 127 of the Registration Document 2014. It also includes derivatives and commercial paper, I will thus only look at the bonds financing.
As of December 31, 2014, Danone had €603 million short-term bonds Continue reading...

I have always wanted to become a financial advisor since I was in the elementary school. Financial advisors in my neighborhood seemed successful and happy with their lives. They drove expensive vehicles and built big, beautiful houses that made me admire working in the financial sector. However, majoring in business gave me an opportunity to get closer to my dreams. I always read the business section of newspapers and magazines to educate myself in the current business environment in the country. However, my primary interest is advising companies and individuals on foreign direct investments (FDI). I have studied how Continue reading...

About the company

Headquartered in California, United States, Apple Inc. is an American multinational organization that operates in the consumer electronic industry, and design, develop and sells consumer electronic devices. The company was founded in April, 1976 as Apple Computer Inc., and was later incorporated in 1977 as Apple Inc. It is globally renowned for its innovative product line that includes smartphones, media players, laptops and tablets. The company was founded in April, 1976 as Apple Computer Inc., and was later incorporated in 1977 as Apple Inc. Some of the popular products of the company are, IPhone IPad, Macbook and IPod.
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The ROI (Return On Investment) is an especially important efficiency metric utilized to assess the performance of an investment or to relate the performance among a handful of investments. In order to compute ROI, the profit (return) of such an investment for our purposes the formula used is ROI= (Gain from Investment - Cost of the Investment) while in the original formula the upper result is divided by the price of the investment and then the outcome is written as a percentage. Return on investment is a highly widespread numerical method due to its flexibility and ease in use. Continue reading...