Capital asset pricing model
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Capital Asset Pricing Model is a tool to calculate the required rate of return for a security. It takes into account the return that an investor can earn on risk free security (usually government T-Bills), risk premium (difference between the return on risk free investment and return on...
Microeconomics, main concepts for an economy study: capital formation, production, consumption, employment, credit multiplier, money demand, money supply, prime rate, Keynesian transmission mechanism, exports, imports and government expenditures
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Financial investment and interest rates have a positive relationship. Financial investment represents investment in bonds or shares or money saving in the bank. If the interest rate increases, the return of investment will be better. You will get more return on shares (or bonds) and earn more...
Capital punishment: Is it morally justified?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Capital Punishment is defined as “The penalty of death for the commission of a crime.” The history of the first death penalty laws dates all the way back to the Eighteenth Century B.C. King Hammurabi of Babylon was among the first rulers to implement the death penalty with his Code of...
The impact of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on the nation's capital
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President in 1960, he was the youngest President in the history of the United States. Deciding to bring a new style, a new look and a new vitality to the White House, he had a major asset: his wife. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was only thirty-one, but she...
Managing human capital in the process of merger and acquisition
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Mergers and acquisitions have become a regular business strategy in the present corporate scenario. They involve lengthy and thorough discussions and strategies are worked out in detail before the deals are closed. These discussions influence the future of the organization with respect to the...
The capitalization of SMEs in Morocco: The case of Dari Couspate
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
The SMEs in Morocco neglect their external financing sources. Equity investments in Morocco is accounted to 38% whereas the long-term liabilities debt is 16% and short-term debt is 13%. The importance of equity is affected by the short-term debt. Cash management is one of the greatest failures of...
Capital punishment and death penalty
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Capitol punishment, or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. The crimes that usually result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capitol offences. In simpler terms, the act of murder will result in the death penalty for the...
The Capital asset Pricing Model (CAPM) isn't wrong. It just doesn't go far enough
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a mathematical model that explains the relationship between risk and return in a rational equilibrium market. The model is used in finance to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return asset, if that asset is to be added to an existing...
A study on working capital management in Visaka Industries Limited
Case study - 44 pages - Finance
The company was incorporated under the Indian Company's Act 1956 on 18th June 1981 as Visaka Asbestos Cement Product ltd and promoted by Dr.G.Vivekananda with investment of Rs 4 crores to set up cement asbestos plant in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. It has grown in to multiple folds and now...
Working capital management in Hindalco (Aditya Birla Group)
Tutorials/exercises - 60 pages - Finance
The foundation stone of the Aditya Birla Group was laid down by the great visionary and the founding father of the Indian industry- Lt. Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla. The succession torch was successfully carried on by his son, Lt. Shri Basant Kumar Birla. In the year 1943 was born Aditya Vikram...
Foundations of Economics and Sociology Foundations of Economics
Course material - 25 pages - Economy general
It is within the multiple and different enterprises, which together define to a large extent a national economy, that the observation of economic and social facts is the most extensive and undoubtedly the most visible. The company is a reality that weaves its way through our daily lives because...
Development as Growth: Macro Theories of Economic Growth
Course material - 10 pages - Economy general
Why do some countries have much higher levels of income per capita than others? Why do some countries grow (in terms of their output or income per capita) faster than others? From a public policy perspective: what are optimal policies to promote growth? Growth depends on two processes: the...
Is social capital a useful tool for explaining the politics of public health in the twentieth century city?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The development of “politics of public health” is historically dated. As Foucault noted, it appeared with the broader emergence of the idea of “population” which provides, in the modern era, the conceptual framework of health policies. The existence of a common concept,...
Private Equity and Wealth Management
Market study - 4 pages - Management
Investment listing in the stock market should be considered long-term in nature and involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty. According to Alison et al. (2015), there is a need for careful consideration of all the consent information set out in the prospectus, the risks that relate to the...
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...
Human capital as a factor in the performance of a company
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The ultimate goal of a company is to ensure strong and sustainable growth. Growth is indeed a quantitative process characterized by the increase in size of the company in terms of products and results. It determines the survival of the company, and is also a means of measuring the goals achieved...
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 rise of Beirut as the capital city and its implications for the Lebanese nationalism
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Lebanon is a very complex entity. We need to understand some concepts about the historical features of the country to grasp a better understanding of its current state. First, Modern Lebanon is part of a larger unit: historical Syria, as opposed to the present Syrian Arab Republic, which now...
The Impact of Mobile Phones on Social Relationships
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The impact of mobile phones on social relationships, especially among adolescents, has been a topic of much discussion and debate. While some argue that mobile phones facilitate wider social connections and access to information, others contend that excessive mobile phone use negatively affects...
The Death Penalty: A Just Punishment
Essay - 3 pages - Law's history and philosophy
Human life, among all societies and since the dawn of civilization, has been regarded as sacred and in need of protection. However, coinciding with society's continuous movement towards advancement and innovation is the ever-present threat of crime, which may range from the simple to the...
Global overview of the death penalty around the world and reasons to abolish it
Dissertation - 13 pages - Criminal law
As far back as the Old Testament, the death penalty has been established to punish offenses. Nowadays the death penalty, also called capital punishement, defines the execution of an offender who has committed an infringment.This sanction is applied by a recognized instituion after a trial....
Specialisation
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Economy general
Trade and foreign direct investments driven by specialisation and comparative advantages are controversial and provide arguments against free trade and capital mobility. Modern production of many products are produced in value chains that involves many countries, depending on comparative...
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...
Does the capital punishment fit the crime?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Over the thousands of years humanity has existed in a civilized society, one of the constants in every society has been the preservation of law and order. Rules have been accepted as have consequences for breaking these rules. Often times these consequences were rather harsh and fit the...
SWOT Analysis - General Electric
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
Sometimes confused with the English company General Electric Company (GEC) or with the French company General Elektriks, General Electric (GE) is an American company born from the merger of Thomson Houston Electric Company and Edison General Electric Company in 1892. Its activities span several...
PESTEL Analysis - Vodafone
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
Vodafone is a British telecommunication company based in Newbury. The company was created in 1984 and known as Racal Telecom, a branch of Racal Electronics. It is only in 1991 that the company became Vodafone group. The company made its entry in the stock market in 1988 under the name Racal...
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...
Management and cultural aspects
Course material - 25 pages - Management
Human beings have needs in order to survive and the purpose of economic activity is to satisfy these needs by providing people with what they need. Such needs will vary from person to person because each person seeks different things at different times. Those who are poor would like to satisfy...
Corporate Strategy, Pernod Ricard : analysis and scenarios
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
In this case study, we will discuss and try to understand how the French group Pernod-Ricard is evolving in its global environment but also inside the group itself. They are the 2nd world liquor distributor; therefore, we will take into account their strengths but also potential weaknesses and...
Business Analysis - Duane Reade
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Since the inception of Duane Reade in 1960, the drug chain has recorded remarkable growth from three stores started by the Cohen family comprising Eli, Abraham and Jack Cohen. The company named after streets from where the location of its first full-service drugstore -between the Manhattan...
