Pages Jaunes group
Thesis - 11 pages - Finance
The consolidated balance sheet indicates that the Pages Jaunes Group has 56,129 thousand euros of share capital and 98,676 thousand euros of issue premium. The share capital is composed of 280,644,450 common stocks (ordinary stocks) each with a par value of 0.2 euros. As observed in the statement...
Quick: Risk management analysis
Thesis - 13 pages - Finance
Quick is the largest European chain of fast service restaurants. But if we compare quickly with its main competitors - Mc Donald's and Burger King - we could say its major risk is to be eaten by those two “big burgers”. This report is going to treat the difficulties for such a...
Dividend policy irrelevance
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
Depending on its life cycle and strategy, a firm has different financial needs. These financial needs could be fulfilled by internal or external resources. The sources of internal financing is cash flows. External financing could be debt and/or equity. When a firm uses debt, the interest rate it...
Moneygram International: Case study of a fund transfer company
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
Moneygram Company was founded in 1940. Initially, the company was named Traveler's Express Company. In 1998, it acquired Moneygram Payment systems Inc (a company specialized in transfers of money) and then changed its name to Money gram International Inc in 2003. This acquisition was probably...
Credit crunch- Case of Northern Rock requiring official assistance /intervention
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
What is happening in the developed world today is one of the worst economic meltdowns of modern history. The financial institutions are trembling like nothing else whereas the impacts of such a failure of financial institutions are clearly felt by the rest of the world as well. The reductions in...
Strategic management at Qatar Bank
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
QNB is one of the highly successful banks in Qatar with strong presence across the country. It has the largest network of branches inside the country as well as outside the country. The bank has shown considerable improvement in its performance over the period of time mainly due to the correct...
The importance of plastic money in today's scenario
Dissertation - 69 pages - Finance
Financial cards witnessed a robust growth in India in 2002-03. The number of cards in circulation increased by almost 50 per cent. The growth in transaction value, at 95 per cent, was even more spectacular. These results are attributable to the thriving economy which led to a large increase in...
Foreign institutional investors and the Indian capital market
Dissertation - 61 pages - Finance
Foreign investment refers to investments made by the residents of a country in the financial assets and production processes of another country. After the opening up of the borders for capital movement, these investments have grown in leaps and bounds. The effect of foreign investment, however,...
Risk management in the asset management industry (risk measurement techniques): An evaluation of 'value at risk' tools
Tutorials/exercises - 112 pages - Finance
This Report is divided into two parts. Part I is introductory in nature containing brief profiles of global and Indian mutual fund industries, risk and the mutual fund industry, theoretical aspects of risk management process and various concepts associated with measurement of risks in...
NDSL: Depository functions and services
Case study - 51 pages - Finance
The Indian capital market has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the past few years, facilitated by modernization of the trading system. Automation of the trading infrastructure in 1994 has given us a trading system comparable with the best in the world. The establishment of a settlement...
Financial analysis and management of international groups: Schneider vs Square D
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The electrical equipment industry, which generates revenues from construction and maintenance, is closely related to the economic conditions. This sector is characterized by the globalization of markets, the concentration of firms, the standardization of products and increasing costs of...
How does a rational investor build the optimal portfolio? Should international securities be added to that?
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The modern portfolio theory was introduced by Harry Markowitz with the publication of his paper “Portfolio Selection” in the Journal of Finance in 1959 and is called Markowitz portfolio theory (MPT). It is now the major guidance for portfolio allocation decisions for mutual funds,...
Managing customer relationship and their financial aspects: Standard Chartered India
Case study - 33 pages - Finance
The objective of the project was to study the choice criteria to decide upon a bank for savings account and accordingly prepare the competitive update, i.e. Standard chartered VS other private banks to facilitate sales. The nature of the project involved a comprehensive market survey in which the...
Analysis and features of Standard Chartered
Thesis - 18 pages - Finance
The world “Bank” has been derived from the Italian world “Banca” meaning a branch or a counter. However, the banks that we are now accustomed to seeing no longer seem to be a reflection of what “Bank” really means. But today's banks are not what banks used to...
A study on evolution, working and the current scenario of the commodity market in India
Tutorials/exercises - 41 pages - Finance
What is “Commodity”? - Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The article should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or...
The importance and application of value chain analysis in business - (17 Slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Finance
An organized creative approach aimed at identifying unnecessary costs and eliminating the same from the system without affecting the functional utility, guarantee and safety performance. A study on the factors determining value. The stages through which the return of investment varies is another...
Emerging trends in cash management
Case study - 35 pages - Finance
Whenever any long-term investment is considered the future cash flows from the project, the uncertainty of those cash flows, and the opportunity cost of the funds invested in the project are evaluated. Investments in current assets are also evaluated by all organizations in the same manner but...
What is asset based financing?
Dissertation - 42 pages - Finance
ABF is a financing method that is driven by the assets of companies. Assets include current assets, such as accounts receivables and inventory, and fixed assets, such as plant and machinery. ABF allows an SME to utilize its own assets to meet its short, medium and long term funding needs. Asset...
Derivatives management in India
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
One of the greatest rules of making money in the market is to buy low and sell high. No matter what one does, this rule underlies all investments made in any market, be it product or capital. From this rule stems one of the greatest modern means of making money: Arbitrage. The concept, as such,...
Banking services marketing
Presentation - 22 pages - Finance
Banks are the most significant Bodies in the financial market. Dominated by public sector Banks, the Industry has so far acted as an efficient partner in the growth and the development of the country. An essential ingredient to any service provision is the use of appropriate staff and people....
Global capital markets IT strategy and road map
Presentation - 17 pages - Finance
This top 10 Bank was facing large inefficiencies in its systems that supported foreign exchange, treasury and derivatives trading activities. The current system infrastructure included costly and inefficient manual processing, ineffective risk management capabilities and impeded the ability to...
A presentation on how to make dividend decision (20 Slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Finance
Dividend is a distribution to shareholders out of profits or reserves available for this purpose. The divided policy refers to the policy concerning quantum of profits to be distributed as dividend. Dividends are distributed to shareholders only when the board of directors declare them. The...
A presentation on capital structures (26 Slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Finance
Capital denotes the long-term funds of the firm. Long-term funds of the firms are financed by two major components, i.e., debt capital and equity capital. Mix of long-term debt and equity maintained by the firm is called capital structure. Financial structure includes both, long-term as well as...
Capital structure and firm value (13 slides)
Presentation - 13 pages - Finance
Capitalization is a quantitative aspect of financial planning of an enterprise, which refers to the total amount of securities issued by a company. Capital Structure is concerned with the qualitative aspect, which refers to the kinds of securities and the proportionate amounts that make up...
Financial instruments and documents that facilitate export import trade
Tutorials/exercises - 51 pages - Finance
Exports are vital to any economy, be it developed or developing. No country can isolate itself from exports in some form or other. Export performance is one of the main economic parameter of a nation. However, exports all over the world face tough challenges than before and Indian exporters are...
Credit risk management
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
The connect of life insurance has undergone several changes over the years and what has myriad array of attractive options apart from the basic of life cover. Life insurance schemes also offer tax benefits. In today's scenario life insurance solves the three objectives. Before knowing about the...
Analysis of assets for the SME sector
Thesis - 29 pages - Finance
The Small and Medium Enterprise Group (SMEG) segment is one of the highest contributors to the financial wealth of the THE Bank, and in the context of an aggressively expanding Commercial Bank focusing on consumer credit, it assumes great significance in overcoming the three main challenges that...
Comparison between traditional products and ULIPS in ICICI
Case study - 90 pages - Finance
With the largest number of life insurance policies in force in the world, insurance happens to be a mega opportunity in India. It's a business growing at the rate of 15-20 per cent annually and presently is of the order of Rs 450 billion. Together with banking services, it adds about 7percent to...
A study on the technical analysis of derivative stock futures
Case study - 39 pages - Finance
As Indian securities markets continue to evolve, market participants, investors and regulators are looking at different ways in which the risk management may be efficiently met through the introduction of Derivative markets. Through the use of derivative products, it is possible to partially or...
Financial services through non branch delivery channels
Case study - 42 pages - Finance
With more than 70 percent of financial system assets owned by the banks, the banking sector continues to be the most dominant force in the Indian financial system. However, with the growth in the economy being sluggish, banks can no longer afford to rely on ‘corporate banking' to...
