Firstly, we need to define the word of portfolio in order to get more understanding about the portfolio theory and portfolio development. Portfolio is refers to a group of financial assets such as stocks, bonds and cash. The portfolios are mostly hold by investors according to their risk tolerance, time taken and investment objectives and/or […]
The short-run underpricing and long-run underperformance of initial public offerings (IPOs) are the best documented anomalies in finance. This paper investigates if these anomalies exist in the aftermarket performance of the IPO of an internet-based company, Lastminute.com plc. Further analyses are then carried out to explain the performance results. Evidence are presented that the company’s […]
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Get help with your assignmentSince 1991 till date Indian economy has gone through many phases. It has seen many contemporary developments in terms of changing trends in economic growth, inflation, fiscal deficits, capital investment flows (FDI & FIIs),current account and capital accounts convertibility, foreign exchanges reserves etc. In 1991 when India faced major crunch of foreign exchange reserves, it […]
Financial reports should meet the information needs of various users. These users could be ‘shareholders, investors, security analysts, managers, employees, lenders, suppliers, customers and government regulatory agencies. However, if auditors fail to identify users who will actually be relying on the report and if, for example, the company fails in its operation, then the assigned […]
Here are some guidelines for that beginner who interest to invest in gold. Gold is hot topic for investment recently. Gold is stated as safer for investment. The gold possess some rare features which are gold could as a medium of exchange, as a store of wealth to increase and store of its power. Normally, […]
How Central Banks Control Money Definition of Money Supply: The whole supply of coin and other fluid instruments in a nation’s economy. The money supply may incorporate money, coins and parities held in checking and investment accounts. Financial specialists investigate the cash supply and make arrangements flowing around it through controlling premium rates and expanding or […]
Nortel Networks is a telecommunication equipment manufacturer. Its corporate life in 1895, Nortel produce the traditional phone in Canada, as few years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Originally part of the Bell Telephone, it morphed into Northern Telecom and finally Nortel. Figure 1: The telephone that born in Canada, 1894 Major changes began […]
SME, self-employed and business ownership are used interchangeably in our context. There are many definitions for SME and according to SPRING Singapore; an SME refers to enterprises with fixed asset investment of lesser than S$15 million for manufacturing sector and less than 200 employees for non-manufacturing sectors. There is little published information on business ownership […]
Introduction After the collapse of the twin towers and the tech bubble the American economy was in dire need of a stimulus. The Fed under Alan Greenspan reacted to this crisis by pumping liquidity into the system. This response would have worked well under normal circumstances, since it helps in the growth of the economy, […]
A firms earning capability and financial position can be predicted, compared and evaluated with the help of analysis of information available in the major financial statements i.e., balance sheet and income sheet. Balance sheet indicates the firms’ financial condition or the state of affairs of the business where as Income sheet reflects earning capacity and […]
In Greece the government dept and the money owed to pension funds, summing up to 1,2 trillion was becoming a huge burden . All the national services were running on a deficit and they were showing great inefficiency. In addition to this, corruption was obvious in every sector and tax evasion was more than a […]
I have chosen this company because it has a universal image and British petroleum is involved in dirt free cities movement in Europe. BP took very bigger steps for addressing towards type of weather changes which is a major concern in European countries. British petroleum is trying new pioneering new solar and airstream businesses and […]
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION In the past few decades many performance evaluation studies indicated that actively managed mutual funds, which seek to obtain excess returns than the market by actively forecasting returns on individual stocks, do not actually obtain statistically significant excess returns (Jensen, 1968; Grinblatt and Titman, 1989; Elton et al., 1993; Malkiel, 1995; Gruber, […]
In order to support a borrowing request, the directors of a limited company may offer to provide personal guarantees. What issues should you be aware of when taking these guarantees and how would you address any concerns? The support for guarantees provided by directors has changed a lot since the early days of banking. Whilst […]
A financial crisis is interruption to financial markets that disrupt the market’s capacity to allocate capital – financial intermediation and hence assets come to a cut short. Recently in 2008 the world has been affected with financial crisis. In this paper we are going to see the cause of financial crisis, how it started and […]
Employer Branding Question: Comment on the following statement; “Developing and Managing the Employer Brand (EB) is now too important to be left in the hands of the HR department and should become incorporated into all aspects of corporate strategy.” Summary: It is a well established fact that people, or more precisely good people, are the […]
Corporate governance structures today in most market based economies apply the separation of ownership from control model in large corporations and firms. This can be said to occur where ownership has been progressively diluted from complete ownership to minority control (Clarke, 2007). Much of this concept, particularly with regard to large corporations, directly results in […]
What is an exchange rate. Are terms like managed float, dirty float, fixed exchange rates, floating exchange rate, pegged exchange rate, crawling peg the same? Which type of exchange rate regime does India follow? What is a currency crisis? In recent times the rupee is becoming weaker against the dollar every day, what are the […]
Dividends and the implication of dividend choices have been the subject of much debate, particularly in the recent economic crisis where investors and other stakeholders are becoming increasingly nervous about the financial standing of companies in which they have an interest. On a basic level, dividends also provide a regular income to investors and, as […]
International Stock Markets Introduction The objective of this document is to gain an understanding of the effect that the credit crunch has had on international stock markets, what the different governments have done or are planning to do to alleviate this problem and the elements that precipitated such a crisis. Therefore in the document the […]
Return on capital employed (ROCE) is a measure of performance where it shows the return on every penny invested by an organisation. It is the ratio between the wealth generated to the wealth invested. The simplest way of calculating it is taking the ratio percentage of operating profit before tax and interest against the capital […]
I agree that right decision in investment is the first step to success and vice versa. Very important if decision-making process rely on scientific methodology of thinking and analysis to invest specific resources for certain period of time with considering of risks and uncertainty, and also important form the point of view that to set […]
Short selling is generally understood to be the market practice of selling a financial instrument that the seller does not own at the time of the transaction [1]. To begin with, the seller, anticipating a fall in the price of an underlying security, borrows that particular security from a security broker at a lending fee. […]
The purpose of this essay is to critically analyze, describe and compare the two fundamental governance methods while finalizing and summarizing on the most efficient and dynamic model. The rules governing the structure of the corporation and the distribution of power and control in a business are generally referred to as corporate governance. According to […]
Over the past half decade, although there have been a convergence in the economies and business practices, the difference of ownership structures amount countries have continued. Most companies shares the same goals which includes the utilization of resources efficiently, it’s ability to garner new capital, increase the company’s value and improve information for decision making. […]
Methodology: Regression model is used to analyze the data taken from Pakistani firms in sugar sector, listed on Karachi Stock Exchange, during the period 2001-2008. Keywords: Static trade-off theory, Pecking order theory, Agency cost theory, leverage ratio, listed firms, corporate capital structure. 1. Introduction In the opening chapter, the background, problem discussion and purpose of […]
The title itself justify the importance of the research for the finance degree, however, the previous research done in this filed in Nepal is not satisfactory. This is the reason that made researcher to do some research in this topic hoping the conclusion made would be beneficial for investors and fill the gap between the […]
There are various types of equity and debt that constitute a capital structure. Typically, the components that make up these two asset classes are bonds, preferred stock, and common stock. It also explains the financing methods it has used to conduct growth initiatives such as research and development or acquiring assets. https://www.wisegeek.com/in-finance-what-is-capital-structure.htm WHAT IS A […]
Banking regulation originates from microeconomic concerns over the ability of bank creditors depositors to monitors the risks originating on the lending side and from micro and macroeconomic concerns over the stability of the banking system in the case of bank crisis.In addition to statutory and administrative regulatory provisions,the banking sector has been subject to widespread […]
Background of the study The raise of credit card ownership and usage has been devastating around the globe. A credit card is a system of payment named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system and is different from a debit card in that it does not remove money from the user’s […]
