Digital Default Swap (DDS) and Credit Recovery Swaps (CRS) belong to the family of credit derivatives and are advanced cousins of the plain vanilla Credit Default Swap (CDS). 1-DIGITAL DEFAULT SWAP (DDS): 1.1) Nature: A Digital CDS, also called a Digital Default Swap (DDS), is a simplified version of a regular CDS. DDS is simply […]
In this scenario, we are assuming that the company pays out all of its $889,000 net income after tax as dividends; thus, classified as fully franked dividends. Also, due to the absence of investment allowance (which permits businesses to deduct a specified percentage of certain capital costs from their taxable income) and other investment allowances […]
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Get help with your assignmentCapital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is based on the Markowitz’ portfolio model, and its development is associated with the work of Sharpe, Lintner, and Mossin, is mostly used to in finance to measure the stock returns. It requires estimates of risk-free rate, expected rate of return on market portfolio and estimate of beta to measure […]
An Investment Analysis of Great Portland Estates, Plc. Chapter 1 – Introduction Great Portland Estates, Plc. – To Buy Or Not To Buy? A glance at the price movement of the common stock of Great Portland Estates in the past year is enough to excite any investor who was fortunate enough to catch the great […]
In this report it has been critically done the analysis of financial statements of PepsiCo along with the comparison of close and distant competitors existing in the industry. In this report it has also been tried the way how to calculate financial statements ratios with definitions and their calculated ratios interpretations in an easy language […]
The Central Bank of Greece is called the Bank of Greece. Its head quarter is in Athens. It is established in 1927. It is preceded by National Bank of Greece (1928) and succeeded by European Central Bank (2001). The Bank of Greece is still exists but most of the functions are performed by the ECB.The […]
Imperial Tobacco Company Plc is the world’s fourth largest tobacco company in the world with a market share of over 5%. The UK market share for 2010 was 45%. The group primarily operates in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asian regions. It has a presence in over 160 countries worldwide, operates 51 manufacturing sites and […]
5.1 What is the significance of Islamic Banking in a post recession world? Islamic banking is gaining popularity in emerging markets after helping some financial institutions avoid the worst of the economic meltdown. [1] Islamic banks have been less affected than many conventional banks in the current global recession. [2] This is mainly because unlike conventional banks, […]
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a United States telecommunications corporation headquartered in Texas. Founded in 1983 as SBC Communications, it became AT&T Inc. upon purchase of AT&T Corporation in 2005. It is the leading U.S. provider of wire-line and wireless communications. AT&T delivers 3G wireless services through AT&T Mobility LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Other major […]
The objective of this report is to monitor and analyse the trading performance of Westpac Banking Corporation 3 weeks prior and three weeks after adjacent to its media release of its 2009 Profit Announcement for the year ending 4th November 2009. This data recorded will be used to calculate the effect that Westpac’s accounting announcement […]
The provisional title of this research project work is: Consolidation and bank performance; an analysis of Nigerian banks. The choice of this topic emanates from the fact that the magnitude of banks’ inability to meet up their obligation in the nation’s banking industry has became an issue of concern to both the government, regulatory authorities, […]
Corporate Finance, in a nut shell is the effective management of the monetary support of any enterprise. It deals with the financial decisions of the company whereby providing enough tools and analysis for the organization to make strong financial decisions. This is not that simple as it is explained. This forms the base of any […]
The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) was developed primarily by Ross (1976a, 1976b). Indeed, it is a one-period model in which every investor believes that the stochastic properties of returns of capital assets are consistent with a factor structure. The basis of arbitrage pricing theory is the idea that the price of a security is driven […]
Islam considers the problem of economic development very seriously and views this as an important part of total human development. The fundamental aim of Islamic religion is to lead human development in the right direction. Islam deals economic development as part of total human development and never deviated from this perspective [1] . Islam does not encourage […]
As the trends in development of financial management increases, none bears more weight than working capital. The possibility of every business activity rests on daily changes in receivables, inventory, and payables. It’s the lifeblood of the business, and every financial manager’s primary task is to keep it moving and put capital to work efficiently and […]
Establishment: It was founded in 1903 in Georgia as a manufacturing of disposable paper cones for the growing textile industry. Employees: Westfield employed more than 1000 person in operations throughout the United States. Position: Westfield was the leading manufacturing of paper tubes for the paper industry, the 3rd largest manufacturing of composite cans, and one […]
Every organization has its financing strategies to operate their business. The term capital structure and leverage are the similar terms that how the investments should utilize to manipulate the assets and the whole business in the long run. The essay covers determinants of capital structure with the help of trade off theory (Kim,1978; Kraus and […]
Ford’s Value Enhancement Plan aims to align the interests of various shareholders by offering them different options – the choice of $20 in cash, additional new common shares or a combination of cash and new share. Based on the following analysis, Ford should go ahead with Value Enhancement Plan. Characteristic of VEP The Value Enhancement […]
1.What are agency costs, and how are agency costs of financial distress different from agency benefits of leverage? Explain their impact on calculating the value of a firm with financial distress. Agency costs arise when conflicts of interest occur among stakeholders and must be paid out to an agent acting on behalf of a principal. […]
Some of the well known Brands from the house of Murugappa are ; BSA and Hercules for bicycles , Ajax and ballmaster are known for abrasives , Parryware is a market leader in sanitaryware , gromor and framos are known for fertilizers .One of their product , neem Azal (made from neem) is a market […]
Kamdar Sdn Bhd was established in Malaysia since 1972, and has since achieved a dominant position in the garment and textile departmental store industry. The Kamdar brand stands for quality of service, history and value for money. Kamdar stores specialize in textile fabric, furnishing fabric, in-house designed garments for ladies, men and children’s clothes, Indian […]
Derivatives It is a kind of financial Security whose price is derived from or dependent upon one or more underlying assets.A The derivative itself is simply a contract between two or more parties. ItsA value is determinedA by variationsA in the underlying asset.A Some common underlying assets includeA stocks, bonds,A commodities,A currencies and interest rates. Derivatives are mostly characterized by high leverage.A Forward contracts, […]
Most well- run companies make extensive use of ratios internally, to monitor and to ensure efficient running of the organisation. To analyse Burberry plc on manager’s perspective, first of all explain the role of the managers. Managers are people in charge of the day to day running of the business for maximum profitability and efficient […]
Over the last ten years, Islamic banking has developed significantly. It has evolveded global rates of 10-15 % per year and has gotten an increasing number of conventional financial systems. At present Islamic financial institutions have stretched through 51 countries all over the world. As a result, the modern banking system was introduced to Islamic […]
Diversification refers to the strategies of reducing economic risk by investing in assets whose performance is not affected by the same economic variables. A group of assets forms a portfolio. A company can have two types of economic risks; financial risks and total operating risks. Financial risk results from use of debt capital in the […]
JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) is one the biggest financial institutions in the United States and is one of the respected in the whole world. JP Morgan Chase & Co stand today for over 200 year back history and here’s JP Morgan Chase stand today:A Leading world financial services institution with assets of […]
John, Teresa A. Financial Management. Tampa: Autumn 1993. Vol. 22, Iss. 3; pg. 91 Abstract (Summary) The costs of financial distress are those resulting from the costs of asset restructuring or the costs of informal or formal debt restructuring. The costs of financial distress will have important implications for the liquidity and leverage policies of […]
Abstract This study is based on the original M3-Competition. (The M3 competition was a competition designed to examine the forecasting capabilities of several forecasting organisations). The project, which uses the M3 data, replicates the results obtained by the original researchers and confirms the calculations of their study in terms of a SMAPE (Symmetric Mean Percentage […]
Financial institutions exist to improve the efficiency of the financial markets. If savers and investors, buyers and sellers, could locate each other efficiently, purchase any and all assets costless, and make their decisions with freely available perfect information, then financial institutions would have little scope for replacing or mediating direct transactions. However, this is not […]
Critically analyse the relative merits of capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and empirical approaches to asset pricing such as Fama and French model. People always search for new tools or better techniques that allow a job to be completed faster and better. It applies to every field including the finance field. Capital Asset Pricing Model […]
