into the mortgage business through a brief joint venture with Wells Fargo). eBay's major suppliers range from anyone with an item that will ship to small and even large business owners. Customers are the same -- though Amazon is now selling cloud space to clients -- which accounts for its actual income in recent quarters.
Three Profitability Ratios
Three profitability ratios that creditors may be interested in are: 1) P/E ratio -- copmany's share price over its per-share earnings (the lower the P/E, the cheaper the stock is viewed to be), 2) the net profit margin (Net Margin = (Net… Continue Reading...
of company funds, misuse of company time, fraudulent activity, and lying. There are many different examples of these unethical activities. Wells Fargo for instance was just punished for signing people up to accounts that they did not want and then charging them for the service. Other banks view their clients as “muppets” and attempt to manipulate them for the banks’ advantage (Coleman, 2016). Other issues include sexual harassment in the workplace (the #MeToo movement has exposed this) and continued inequality.
Leadership in organizations could help to minimize ethical misconduct by setting the example themselves and instituting a culture of virtue ethics, in which employees learn to promote the good rather… Continue Reading...
Total Cost
Gain
Transaction Costs
Total Costs
Proctor & Gamble Company
PG
$ 87.58
$ 86.95
1,600
$ 139,120.00
$ 1,008.00
$ 347.80
$ 139,467.80
Wells Fargo & Company
WFC
$ 54.26
$ 53.50
1,700
$ 90,950.00
$ 1,292.00
$ 227.38
$ 91,177.38
China Life Insurance
LFC
$ 17.41
$ 17.24
7,000
$ 120,680.00
$ 1,190.00
$ 301.70
$ 120,981.70
$ 351,626.88
Stock
Symbol
Cost/Share
Purchase Price
Number of Shares
Total Cost
Gain
Transaction Costs
Total Costs
Amazon.com, Inc.
AMZN
$1,126.31
$1,123.08
100
$112,308.00
$ 323.00
$280.77
$112,588.77
The Brink\'s Company
BCO
$80.15
$78.20
700
$54,740.00
$ 1,365.00
$136.85
$54,876.85
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
BR
$89.82
$89.10
600
$53,460.00
$ 432.00
$133.65
$53,593.65
The three… Continue Reading...
percent. The mutual fund is a great investment as it lays emphasis on high-quality stocks with large capitalization value, for instance, Wells Fargo & Company, Bank of America Corporation, and Charles Schwab Corporation. The key prospect of this mutual fund is that its inclinations to the financial sector implies that it will have a good performance in the prevailing, increasing interest rate setting. More so, the experienced management team appears to deliver in the long-term period as well (Thune, 2017). Fidelity Total Bond is the other selected mutual fund. One of the key reasons why this is a fitting investment opportunity is for the reason that trust has generated a mean… Continue Reading...
damage suffered by Samsung can be seen as an advantage for the firm's major rivals, especially Apple Inc.
Financial
Wells Fargo, an American financial services firm, found itself embroiled in a major financial scandal recently. On September 8, 2016, federal authorities revealed that the firm's employees secretly created millions of illegitimate bank and credit card accounts between May 2011 and July 2015. Through the phony accounts, which have been largely attributed to the firm's over-ambitious sales program, the employees were able to hit sales targets and make the bank unwarranted fees revenue, thereby making more money. In the wake of the revelations, the firm paid fines amounting to $185… Continue Reading...
