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24 Aug 2010
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Rise of The World Bank

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

The World Bank and the IMF are the main institutions which perform the function of managing globalization in financial terms. This paper will present a case study of the World Bank. The World Bank Group appoints five institutions that are intended to promote, economic development of member...

23 Aug 2010
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Cash management: Methods of short-term investing and financing

Thesis - 3 pages - Finance

Short-term investing and financing corresponds to the ready cash available to a company has on hand and in the bank. The objective of liquidity management is to maximize the cash available by limiting losses to the company if it has excess cash, and limiting the amount of premiums to pay if there...

23 Aug 2010
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Hedging against market risk

Thesis - 3 pages - Finance

The management of market risk is vital to the survival and success of any organization operating in any sector such as banks and other businesses. For effective management of risk, an organization may make use of derivatives. Derivatives are financial securities whose value is tied to the value...

18 Aug 2010
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A banker's role in approving a project

Thesis - 2 pages - Finance

Earlier, the role of a banker was mainly that of a money lender. Today, many businesses have ventured into insurance, real estate, personal services and e-banking. Traditionally, the bank played the role of an intermediation, that is to say, it collected and lent money by making intermediation...

17 Aug 2010
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Barclays Bank: Financial performance

Thesis - 3 pages - Finance

This report will be concerned with comprehensively analyzing the financial performance of Barclays Bank. The main areas of focus of the report will be on the Return on capital employed (ROCE), current ratio figures and gearing ratio figures of the company for the last three financial years of...

22 Jun 2010
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The concept of private equity and its application

Thesis - 4 pages - Finance

Private equity is a relatively young asset class, but has evolved substantially over the last two decades. Due to the long-term horizon required for investing, private equity is dominated by institutional investors, such as pension plans, foundations, endowments and family offices. Investors are...

21 Jun 2010
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Enhance your portfolio: The hedge fund

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors. It undertakes a wider range of investment and trading activities in addition to the long term investment funds. Every hedge fund has its own investment strategy that determines the type of investments and the methods of...

21 Jun 2010
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Company budgeting

Thesis - 4 pages - Finance

Is company budgeting necessary? There are two general opinions in management theory. Malcolm Howard is standing behind the statement that “budget is still a worthwhile exercise - as long as you stick to five basic principles”. He argues that some of the problems claimed to be budgeting...

18 Jun 2010
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Stock indexes and the global financial set-up

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

A place for exchange was initiated at the Great Pond in Paris, under the leadership of Louis VII. In the year 1540, the first organized commodity exchange came into existence. An index is a statistical measure. It can provide an overall trend of market development and facilitates a comparison...

18 Jun 2010
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Wealth management: Economic and financial challenges

Thesis - 4 pages - Finance

According to an official report titled ‘Challenges in the banking industry', the industrialization of services has helped to automate the banking activities to some extent. The increasing role of marketing banking services, ATMs and security measures accelerated the turnover of CRO's...

16 Jun 2010
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Financing plan and cash management

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

Each year, when investments are planned, the company must monitor the medium-term balance of funding and coverage of its invested capital. It is the financing plan that makes this control and forecasting possible. A financing plan usually refers to the means by which cash will be acquired to...

16 Jun 2010
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Financial instruments

Thesis - 7 pages - Finance

Financial instruments may be defined as easily trade-able packages of capital, each having their own unique characteristics and structure. There is a wide array of financial instruments available in the global financial market, enabling efficient flow of capital among the investors Until the...

06 May 2010
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Growth optimal portfolio for the unobservable Markov-modulated markets

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

The benchmark model introduced by Platen (2002) has not been well studied in literature for the case of incomplete information whereas the incompleteness of the information in financial modeling is usual in practice. Some of the factors that characterize the evolution of the market may be hidden....

20 Apr 2010
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Stock option price modeling using system dynamics and operations research

Thesis - 12 pages - Finance

Options are instruments that give the holder the right, but not an obligation, to buy or sell an asset by a certain date for a certain price. Options can be bought or sold on a variety of assets like stocks, foreign currency, indexes, and futures. A call option gives the holder the right to buy...

06 Apr 2010
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Forecasting time series using neural network model: Application for Korean stock market

Thesis - 8 pages - Finance

This study examines the performance of forecasting model established by using neural network. The neural network model proposed in this study is implemented to forecast the stock price stream of Korean stock market. Factors for forecasting that influence Korean stock market are obtained by the...

06 Apr 2010
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A benchmark of finding the criteria for optimal portfolio choice

Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Finance

In today's rapidly changing economic environments, global portfolio investors are invariably confronted with dynamic and fluid choice of criteria that enable them to exercise subjective judgment on asset portfolio choice decisions. The subjective investment portfolio choice includes the...

05 Apr 2010
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RFID adoption timing: The application of option pricing model

Thesis - 6 pages - Finance

This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of RFID adoption and find a feasible way to decide the optimal adoption timing for RFID adoption. Due to the significant investment of this technology, RFID implementation could be considered in two stages -- internal and external adoption....

05 Apr 2010
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Firm characteristics and stock return

Essay - 5 pages - Finance

“What determines stock returns?” Although the answer to this question has been much sought by researchers and investors, most studies to date are empirical in nature and provide a very limited view of the problem. The general findings are that certain firm characteristics do have an...

05 Apr 2010
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Analyzing international portfolio strategy with home event risk versus foreign information asymmetry

Thesis - 10 pages - Finance

This study develops a model for international portfolio choice in the presence of the home asset with event-risk versus foreign asset with stochastic information filtering. The model is constructed from comparing the portfolio fraction changes of domestic assets so as to maximize the expected...

28 Feb 2010
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Corporate bonds: A term paper

Thesis - 3 pages - Finance

Corporate Bonds are debt obligations issued by corporations as an alternative to issuing stock when raising capital. They are an alternative to issuing new shares on the stock market, and they are a form of debt finance. Companies of all sizes issue corporate bonds. In the United States today,...

10 Feb 2010
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Lessons learned from the collapse of long-term capital management

Thesis - 5 pages - Finance

In the society in which we live, success is rewarded greatly. Winning and becoming the best is always the goal or desired outcome for any endeavor. We are taught to always strive for success, for with such accomplishment comes many immediate and tangible benefits. However, the lasting benefits of...

20 Nov 2009
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Financial analysis of Nike and Adidas (2000): The big two in the footwear industry

Case study - 7 pages - Finance

Adidas is the biggest footwear company and after analyzing the ratios it has performed as well as Nike over the years, even though it is far behind Nike in terms of revenue and profits. The share price of Adidas is currently at 4877.0 compared to the opening price of 4864.0 that was a 44.0...

28 Oct 2009
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A study on the credit rating process and methodology

Thesis - 9 pages - Finance

Credit rating is the process of estimating a firm's ability to perform to its capacity. It also determines the financial worthiness of an organization depending on the performance of the organization in the past. Objectives of credit rating agencies 1. Its primary objective is to provide...

28 Oct 2009
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An overview of important concepts and theories in relation to foreign exchange (forex) rates

Thesis - 10 pages - Finance

The rate of exchange means the price of one currency in terms of another currency. Different countries have adopted different exchange rate systems at different times like the Gold Bullion, Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods system. The last system was soon replaced by the Floating Rate System....

28 Oct 2009
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A study on the various sources of finance

Thesis - 14 pages - Finance

Finance is the study of how individuals, institutions, and other businesses acquire, spend, and manage money and other financial resources. Finance also can be defined in terms of the macro economy as well as the business firm and individual citizen level. Macro finance is the study of how...

28 Oct 2009
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The financial expenses of a hotel

Thesis - 10 pages - Finance

Cash includes Cash on Hand (House Banks), Demand Deposits, and Temporary Cash Investments. Temporary Cash Investments should be of demand nature or have maturities within 90 days at the time of purchase. Cash that is restricted formally for long-term purposes, such as property and equipment...

14 Oct 2009
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Financial ratios: Meaning, calculation and application

Thesis - 10 pages - Finance

A financial statement generally refers to the basis statements, which are as follows i) The income statement ii) The balance sheet iii) Statement of retained earnings iv) Statement of charge in financial position in addition to the above two statements. Financial statement analysis is the...

12 Oct 2009
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Monetary policy

Thesis - 4 pages - Finance

Monetary policy changes have influence over unemployment, short-term production and in the long-run affect prices and inflation rates. What monetary policy can do to heighten economic performance is a challenge that must be understood by economic policymakers. What monetary policy cannot do to...

07 Oct 2009
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The role of private equity firms as an alternative investment model in the Middle East and globally

Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Finance

The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). This document will present an overview of private...

05 Oct 2009
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Cash management

Thesis - 3 pages - Finance

Similar to the absence of water to anything living, the absence of cash to the business means death—slow, torturous, physically painful, and mentally agonizing” (Managing, 2003, p.1). A flourishing business rests on sound cash management techniques with solid cash flow. One cannot...