The Profitability of a Company Product
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Finance
A company manufactures and sells two types of products: "A" model and "B" model. - Calculate for each product, the level of activity (in volume) that allows covering its direct fixed costs. - What two actions can we suggest to increase the Contribution Margin in order to cover the specific costs...
Finance: Science, Securities Intermediation, and Secured Lending Efficiency
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
This document encompasses three essays delving into the finance sphere, the efficacy of secured lending, and the practice of securities intermediation.
Financial Statement Analysis - BMW
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The Liquidity and Solvency section aims to analyze the financial situation of BMW through two different perspectives: Firstly, by analyzing its liquidity, which indicates the ability to pay its short-term liabilities, and secondly, by evaluating its solvency, which indicates the ability to pay...
Central Bankers and Interest Rates
Course material - 9 pages - Finance
Inflation was a major problem in the 1970s. The 1971 collapse of the Bretton-Woods agreement gave governments latitude to alter their currency exchange rates. The previously locked exchange rates had the effect of taming inflation. There were also "oil shocks" in 1973 and 1979, which caused oil...
The application of an EIB to address environmental challenges in urban Belgium
Thesis - 96 pages - Finance
Cities face increasing environmental challenges including, but not limited to; air pollution, CO2 emissions, energy, transport and waste management. The success of Social Impact Bonds (SIB) by solving social issues in a public-private partnership has been the driver for the development of the...
Corporate Valuation - Domino's Pizza
Financial analysis - 5 pages - Finance
Domino's Pizza is one of the leading fast-food companies in the world, acting on the Quick Service Restaurant market. They have approximately 18 500 stores over the world, in more than 90 countries. The company's history started in the 60's in the USA, and the group initially remained...
Fostering sustainable global growth through green finance
Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance
The ideas and goals of the United Nations (UN) in the areas of environment and development are at the origin of environmentally friendly finance, or green finance. In 1992, 178 countries met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss environmental and development issues for the 21st century....
Economic and Financial Management - Jaguar Land Rover
Case study - 9 pages - Finance
This report entails an analysis of Jaguar Land Rover's financial statement. This report explores the firm's financial performance regarding the different financial ratios, including liquidity, profitability, leverage and net profit margin. A comparative analysis of the firm's financial ratios for...
Financial Risk Management - In which circumstances should you hold gold?
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The universal crisis of capitalism that shook the world in the year 2008 showed that speculative business, especially mortgage loans, are at high risk, because in the long term they triggered a crisis due to the bursting of the bubble financial. They have thus shown that there is no way to...
Financial Market and Sustainable / Green Finance
Dissertation - 18 pages - Finance
In April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report focusing on the mitigation of climate change. The experts underline the emergency of a new way of life in order to limit global warming to 1,5°C. To respect the agreement taken during the COP 21, the IPCC proposes...
Is it true that entrepreneurs should always regard venture capitalists as the enemy?
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
When it comes to Finance, Economics, Business or a similar domain, we often, in one way or another, see the intervention of concepts such as Entrepreneurship and Capital venture. These are two concepts that meet at a certain level when doing business. In fact, before defining the concepts, it is...
The operation of the bank and the financial market
Practical guide - 9 pages - Finance
The financial system is part of the economic activity of a country and contributes to its proper functioning. It designates all the regulations and, in general, the institutions that make it possible to connect the organizations that can offer financing and the consumers or businesses that need...
Financial performance measure alone as opposed to an approach which encompasses both financial and nonfinancial measures
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Bacidore et al (2019) state that "An appropriate performance measure gauges how management strategy affects shareholder value". Shareholders, as well as stakeholders, plays an essential role in the management of an organization. The evaluation of a potential strategy to apply with the outcomes of...
The Stakeholder Theory
Course material - 1 pages - Finance
Stakeholders are usually those in a firm who have an interest in the resources and activities of the company. They contribute to the wealth-creating capacity of the company, it's often composed of shareholders, employees, suppliers. They can be external or internal. In this case the internal...
Estonia's Banking System Overview
Case study - 14 pages - Finance
This document is a PowerPoint presentation in which is given an overview of the Estonian banking system. The sector, news and events will be analyzed before providing a conclusion.
Comparison of Generalized Linear Models and Machine Learning Techniques in Context of Motor Insurance
Thesis - 50 pages - Finance
The concept of insurance finds its roots back to the Antiquity period (2,500 years BC) among the Babylonian civilization where the first insurance transaction has been observed in the form of a loan. As carved in the code of Hammurabi, a bottomry or a bottomage represents an arrangement between a...
How can technology be used by the financial services industry to boost the development of cross-border payments and trade in the ASEAN region?
Sectorial analysis - 2 pages - Finance
ASEAN's financial services industry needs to be supported by technology to increase its competitiveness. The future of this industry depends on one hand on the development of cross-border trade in the ASEAN region, and on the other hand, on the development of the means of payment that exist....
Managerial Finance
Course material - 12 pages - Finance
Financial markets: - Financing investments (for firms) ; - Inter-temporal allocation of cash-flows (for consumers/investors) ; - Risk transformation: risk-diversification and tis-transfer (for firms and investors). Companies are the unit of observation of this course (companies raise capital and...
Detailed analysis of the financial performance of Tesla and NIO
Financial analysis - 15 pages - Finance
In this document, we will perform an analysis of two electric car manufacturers, Tesla and NIO. We will be able to compare their models, their strategy but above all their performance. Tesla and NIO are companies that design, build and market vehicles. They are therefore involved in research and...
Equity research report - Danone
Financial analysis - 6 pages - Finance
The purpose of this document is to present a detailed equity research on Danone group. First of all, we will present a brief investment summary of Danone, followed by an extensive and detailed valuation work on the company (based on DCF and multiples). We will see some of the KPIs related to...
The Impact of COVID-19 on South African Financial Markets
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
A new type of corona virus first identified in December 2019 has swept across the globe infecting millions of people. The virus, scientifically known as COVID-19, has caused many governments to declare a national state of disaster and to implement nationwide lockdowns to prevent the spread of the...
Financial globalization
Course material - 3 pages - Finance
The term financial globalization refers to a free movement of finance across national boundaries without facing any restrictions. Financial globalization requires the introduction of a worldwide single currency managed and regulated by a single international monetary authority. The first...
Example of a financial analysis - Air Liquide
Financial analysis - 7 pages - Finance
Our analysis focuses on the French International company Air Liquide a world leader in the production and distribution of gas and services for industry and health. We will analyse Air Liquide, focusing on its business model, its market and its financial performance. Our analysis focuses on the...
Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...
International finance distribution of currency of AUD and USD
Worksheets - 4 pages - Finance
The distribution above conforms to the features of a normal distribution in terms of skewness, kurtosis, and tails. The mean-mode-median of the distribution is at the center. The mean is the arithmetic average of all the scores recorded, mode refers to the fact that the mean appears near the most...
The O.M. Scott & Sons Company - Financial analysis
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
From 1955 to 1961, the O.M. Scott and Sons Company experienced an exceptional growth in sales, stock price, and expansion. O.M. Scott and Sons (the company) increased sales by 231% from 1957 to 1961. The rapid growth can be explained by the company's management in expanding to new locations,...
The price of the dream: subprime mortgages in the African-American community
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
Let us first say that the financial disaster which has just recently occurred has effected the entire world, regardless of race, color, or creed. It is perhaps a testament to the new levels of equality and interconnectedness that what may have started out primarily among certain populations can...
Financial anomalies and behavioral finance
Presentation - 25 pages - Finance
A market in which prices of all securities quickly and fully reflects all available information. OR The market operating on the hypothesis known as Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) that states the securities markets are efficient with the prices of securities reflecting their economic value.
The subprime loan crisis
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
There is always debate during an election year whether there is too much or too little government intervention in the social or economic realm, but whatever a person's personal beliefs are, the truth is that government regulation is a fact of life. The topic of this paper is the role that the...
Corporate Governance in U.K and Corporate Financial Performance
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
The issue of corporate governance and whether it affects the financial performance have for many rears been a center of curiosity for economic researchers. Researchers have been seeking to establish whether or not there is a direct relationship between these two forces in the corporate world....
