Financial Partners Capital Management LLC
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
Financial Partners Capital Management is an employee-owned Investment Company. The firm is listed as an Investment consultant and aims at providing discretionary investment management services to a different group of customers in the United States and other international individuals, trusts,...
Estimation of the cost of equity capital using Gordon's dividend discount model
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
Mishkin and Eakins, (2006) defines expected rate of return on equity as “the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders' equity.” The return on equity is used to estimate the profitability of a company by establishing the amount of income generated using investor...
Surveillance, accumulation of capital and exploitation on social media
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
New technologies have changed the way people communicate and see each other: we all became the objects of surveillance voluntarily and non-voluntarily. Social networks, closed-circuit television (CCTV) in supermarkets and in railway stations, marketing agencies - all these are slowly turning our...
Capital Chemist Diagnostic and Sales System - Information Systems and the performance of firms
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Most studies have tried to explain the relationships between firm performance, competitive advantage and investments made in information systems. Literature on information systems offers useful insights on the relationship competitive strategy and information systems; however, it is still not...
Working capital management - published: 06/04/2009
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Working capital is defined as the excess of current assets over liabilities. Current assets are those assets which will be converted in to cash within the current accounting period or with in the next year as a result of the ordinary operation of the business. They are cash or near cash...
Working capital and ratio analysis: BHEL Hyderabad
Case study - 60 pages - Finance
GROWTH : To ensure a steady growth by enhancing the competitive edge of BHEL in existing business, new areas and international operation so as to fulfill national expectations from BHEL. PROFITABILITY: To provide a reasonable and adequate return on capital employed, primarily through...
Capital budgeting: India
Case study - 35 pages - Economy general
An efficient allocation of capital is the most important financial function in modern times. It involves decision to commit firm's funds to long-term assets. Such decisions are tend to determine the value of company/firm by influencing its growth, profitability & risk. Investment decisions...
Capital budgeting tools and analysis of capital expenditures
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
Capital budgeting is a financial procedure to ensure that capital is allocated to value adding opportunities. A capital budgeting / investment proposal should be accepted /rejected depending on whether it generates, over the life of investment, returns more than its cost of capital. “Capital...
A study on working capital management
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
Cash is the lifeline of a company, no matter how large or small the organization is. If this lifeline deteriorates so does the company's ability to fund operations, reinvest and meet capital requirements and payments. Understanding a company's cash flow health is essential to making...
Working capital analysis of a steel plant
Case study - 43 pages - Business strategy
Finance is the life blood of any business. As like without blood a human being cannot survive similarly without finance a business survive or run. Finance is aptly called as the science of money. It is the study of the principle and the methods of obtaining control of money from those who have...
Investor behavior towards mutual funds with special reference to Reliance Capital Assets Management Ltd
Tutorials/exercises - 48 pages - Finance
The economy of a country is highly influenced by the Financial System of the country. The Indian Financial System has been broadly divided into two segments: the organized and the unorganized segments. An investor has a wide array of investment avenues available. Economic well being in the long...
A study of capital structure performance using EBIT-EPS analysis
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
This study is born out of the need to establish the presence of the responsiveness of capital structure performances through EBIT-EPS analysis as performances indicators to turnovers the company's performances, which is measure of leverage, ratios with respect to the company's needs. Capital...
Capital One: An analysis
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
Capital One's business model recognizes that each customer requires a different product and service benefits from a credit card provider, and acknowledges that if customers are offered what they want and need as opposed to what banks want to offer them, they will choose the provider that gives...
Working capital management
Dissertation - 39 pages - Finance
According to Weston and Brigham working capital refers to the firm's investment, its shorter current assets and short term securities accounting receivables and inventory. According to the Guttmann and Doug all working capital is excess of current assets over liabilities. According to the...
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,...
A study of capital structure trend in the Indian steel industry
Dissertation - 61 pages - Accounting
Capital structure is designed to maximize the value of a firm. However there is no unanimity on the effect of capital structure on the ultimate value of a firm. Various theories hold varied opinions. According to Modigliani and Miller approach value of the firm is created by optimal capital...
There is no such thing as a perfect capital structure
Essay - 6 pages - Finance
The relevance of a company capital structure has been the subject of several theories and debate. The capital structure of a company is a mix of different securities. Capital structure refers to the way a corporation finances itself through a combination of equity sales, equity option, bonds and...
Working capital management at Britannia Industries Ltd
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
Finance function is a core function in any organization. I financial management is that managerial activity which is concerned with planning and counseling of firm's financial resources. One such area of financial management is "Working Capital" and management of this is known as "Working...
Microfinance: the Challenge of Accessing Global Capital Markets
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The main theme of this project is the facilitation and development of microfinance, which is the “provision of loans, savings, insurance, payments, and other basic financial services to low-income populations” . The project is dedicated to identifying and evaluating existing options for...
Efficient capital markets and the importance of behavioral finance
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
Efficient capital markets allow to consumers and companies to invest savings, borrow, and manage risk in the most effective way. Capital markets bring together companies, that seek to raise capital to invest in future performance and investors, who seek for a profitable return on their...
Capital budgeting methods
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
Capital budgeting is concerned with the process of producing, evaluating, selecting and controlling capital expenditures. In this context, capital budgeting decisions are critical. Winning projects typically produce positive cash flows for a long period of time, while failing projects do not...
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...
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...
A study and an in depth analysis of the Indian capital market
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Finance
The medium capitalized segment of the stock market is being increasingly perceived as an attractive investment segment with high growth potential. However, the lack of awareness among the investors has not been able to prove much as per the above statement. Majority of the investors invest...
Social capital and The Gap, Inc.
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social capital lends itself to interpretation. It is an all-encompassing and important concept for viewing present day businesses, economic situations, organizational behavior, politics and even in how self-interest can play out in areas like natural resources or public health. Social networks...
London, the capital of the nineteenth century
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
"London has many aspects. It's a great city. Huge. The richest city in the world's largest port, the largest industrial city, the imperial city, the center of civilization, the heart of the world ... It is a wonderful place ... a whirlwind, an abyss. It takes you up and you rushes down....
Before teen pregnancy: Contrasting the social capital and empowerment theories
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper will analyze two human behavior theories. Within this analysis, the discussion will review the history of these theories, their supporters, the stages of acceptance of the theories, and the strengths verses the weaknesses of each theory. Next, the paper will review the social problem...
Evaluation of Capital Gains Tax Proposals for 2008/09 in UK
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Capital Gains tax (CGT) has been much reformed in history because it is a very complex tax. CGT is "a tax on the increase in the value of an asset between its acquisition and its disposal" (IFS). Chancellor Alistair Darling introduced his Pre-Budget Reporting on 9 October 2007 which showed many...
The link between financial reporting and capital markets: Evaluating the extent of development and use of International Accounting Standards
Essay - 4 pages - Accounting
“As capital markets play an increasingly central role in today's modern economies, policy-makers are confronted with the question of how to assure the continued effective functioning of these markets and, in particular, how to develop a sound financial reporting infrastructure.”...
Ankara: The capital of Turkey
Essay - 8 pages - Geography
Some cities seem to go on forever, able to reappear in very different guises and characteristics from one era to another. Ankara is one such changeling. With its roots more than 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, it was a trading city to the Greeks, a regional capital for the Romans, a summer...
