502 Search Results for Financial Derivatives
A company may be profitable, but not growing, and vice versa, thus affecting leverage (Aggaral and Zhao, 2007).
b. induce a negative relationship between firm value and leverage; conversely, if a firm is perceived with negative or flat growth, leve Continue Reading...
Enter the Fed, Yet Again
Unable to understand that rapid interest rate moves create shocks to the market, resulting in distortions in supply and demand, the Fed dealt with the bursting of the housing bubble by lowering interest rates rapidly, this Continue Reading...
In short, the financial institution offered loans to virtually all customers, regardless of their ability to reimburse the loan. As the clients defaulted on their payments, the company found itself in an impossibility to recuperate its investments. Continue Reading...
What needs to happen is that economic stimulus aimed at savings and investment, not necessarily nationalization of financial institutions, needs to occur. There is a difference, and with nationalization there is the assumption of risk by a governmen Continue Reading...
9% for the past seven years (Index Mundi, 2009). An inflation rate of 2% per annum shall be assumed for our future cash flows model, the additional 0.1% reflecting a desire for conservativeness in our estimates.
Karl's pension pays him 80% of his cu Continue Reading...
(Economou and Trichias, 2009)
Remuneration is stated to be as follows for each of these actors:
(1) real estate brokers -- Commission based on percentage of the transaction value;
(2) lawyers -- Commission based on percentage of the transaction v Continue Reading...
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One can not begin to trace the various lines and connections of the myriad of relationships, but the chart does fulfill the purpose of showing how much of a web this situation involved.
In the wake of the Enron scan Continue Reading...
Table 2: Distribution of Revenue by Product Area
Source: (Apple Investor Relations, 2008) (Prudential Equity Group LLC, 2006)
Planning
The cornerstone of Apple's planning processes is the continual development of products and services that compl Continue Reading...
In contrast with the mutual funds, 'Mutual funds trade hundreds of stocks in many unrelated industries, with very little of the total portfolio in any single stock. By contrast, when a company expands into a new area, its portfolio consists of two s Continue Reading...
Copyright Laws vs. Peer-to-Peer File Transfer
This paper presents a detailed examination of copyright laws, with a comparison to peer-to-peer file transfer. The author will take the reader on an exploratory journey, in which the details and outcomes Continue Reading...
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Amazon operates in 58 countries, and while its international operations tend to be offsetting in terms of costs and revenues, there still foreign currency profits that end up being translated back to Amazon’s financial statements. This Continue Reading...
Goldman Sachs & Co. and Fabrice Tourre were charged by the SEC in 2010 with “Fraud In Connection With the Structuring and Marketing of a Synthetic CDO” from the 2007 subprime mortgage scandal at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007-2 Continue Reading...
money laundering from the perpetrator's perspective. In specific, it will address the questions of whether virtual money can be counterfeited, whether the money can be trailed, and who can access the devices used for financing the system.
The simpl Continue Reading...
American Airline Is Based on a SWOT Analysis Focusing on Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Weaknesses & Opportunities
Enhance international offerings through strategic alliance in Asian markets (W1, O1)
The development of a strategic alli Continue Reading...
Anti-Trust
Are investors' legal remedies enough?
During the 1990s, a wave of legislation substantially deregulated the financial industry, effectively limiting the ability of investors to seek legal remedies in the wake of corporate fraud, and free Continue Reading...
Samsung Electronics
Examination and Evaluation of Business Strategies and Frontier Markets: Brazil
The South Korean company Samsung began operations in Brazil in December 1986 when it opened a representation office. Since them Samsung has invested Continue Reading...
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Fannie Mae
Outside Evaluation Related to Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
Corporate social responsibility is the corporate conscience of the company that provides corporate self-re Continue Reading...
In both cases, contributing variables such as country of origin, the existence or non-existence of family ties, gender and an immigrant's experience of the immigration process are omitted from the equation. This sector aimed to satisfy this gap by t Continue Reading...
Participants are also protected by prohibiting employers from deducting costs from their tax liability of not complying with ERISA6.
Both ERISA and the Prudent Investor Rule prohibit certain types of transactions. According to Laura Jordan6, the U. Continue Reading...
An upside gain can also be handled in that same manner, with a sell order placed above the trading price. This guarantees that the stock will automatically be sold as soon as it hits that price (if there is a buyer).
Another method of purchasing or Continue Reading...
The primary areas of concern of the FSA were different types of acts that would be injurious to the public interest, serious violations of law and regulations, and extremely inappropriate actions in the private banking unit. The main area of concer Continue Reading...
They weighed the greed of the few against the good of the many and decided in selfish favor.
Without protection from this sort of corporate greed, American investors would be less inclined to invest at all. One can see the effects of just the one i Continue Reading...
Wealth Inequality from a Macroeconomics PerspectiveIntroductionBoushey reports in Unbound that the very richest householdsthe top 1 percentsave 51 percent of their income, while those in the bottom 20 percent save just 1 percent.[footnoteRef:2] The i Continue Reading...
Beautifully Fabulous State CARF. The information assists in preparation of statement of net assets. The paper also provides definitions of various components of statement of net assets.
Statement of Net Assets
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Enron
The answer to the first question is that the executives at Enron committed accounting fraud. The company had grown rapidly to become one of the largest firms in the United States, theoretically building a business in energy trading. Even befor Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Financing
The SEC's definition of "off-balance sheet arrangement" includes any contractual arrangement to which an unconsolidated entity is a party under which the registrant has any obligation under certain guarantee contracts, a ret Continue Reading...
However the company was having a great deal of financial difficulty. As the popularity of the company's products grew and their financial wherewithal decreased, it caught the attention of a Giddings and Lewis (a machines tool company).
Acquisition Continue Reading...
International Trade Between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
This is a paper on Trade between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, focusing on how it affects their international trade relations with special attention to OPEC, GCC and the Qatar dispute. It uses 22 sour Continue Reading...
Convergent questions seek one or more very specific correct answers, while divergent questions seek a wide variety of correct answers. Convergent questions apply to Bloom's lower levels of Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application
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studied appeared a business accounting publications. A partial list publications article selected: The Accounting Review, Barrons, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Barrons, and Wall Street Journal.
GAAP article review:
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In addition, the ceremony also contained firecrackers which were symbolic of purification and joy. The food that was served at a marriage ceremony was also symbolic. For example, fruit and longevity noodles were symbolic of harmony, happiness, and p Continue Reading...
Computers and the Internet
The Naked Mind
When Roszak refers to the "naked mind," he means to speak about the capacity and ability of the human mind as compared to the capabilities that the computer machines can do. According to Roszak, how the hum Continue Reading...
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Stock Market Crash of 1987
The purpose of this report is to discuss in detail the stock market crash of 1987. The stock market is supposed to fluctuate from day-to-day. But this account will delve into some of the less obvious reason Continue Reading...
balance sheet would be recognized at historical cost?
The balance sheet presents a list of the firms' long- and short-term assets and liabilities. The historical cost convention sees assets measured at their historical price; the price that was pai Continue Reading...
Sanctions in the OPEC World
What sorts of sanctions and punishments should an OPEC nation -- whose petroleum production bring riches almost beyond imagination, and hence is a player on the world's economic battleground -- receive if it launches pro Continue Reading...
Foreign Exchange Risk Management
a) What are the causes of UK and Brazilian markets' revenues in Dollars being lower than expected?
One of the main causes of the revenue in dollars generated from the markets in Brazil and UK being lower than antici Continue Reading...