Oral Care Market in France
Market study - 8 pages - Marketing theories
Oral Care accounted for almost 1.2 billion € in 2016. Toothpaste is the dominant category with almost half of the market total sales in value. The market is driven by the increase in consumer awareness about oral care: French people are paying more attention to their teeth and, as a...
Merchandising - Stradivarius Store Case Study (Spanish Clothing Brand)
Case study - 5 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Merchandising is a set of strategies and techniques implemented by a company in order to optimise the management of a point of sale or a place of distribution and to organise and optimise the shelf space occupied by the brand's products. Merchandising also aims to make the relationship...
Scientific Research and Data Analysis
Worksheets - 4 pages - Philosophy
This document is the summary of a course that presents the different ways in which research can be conducted in Science, as well as the method of data analysis. Science is a more formal, rigorous approach in the quest for truthful knowledge. It relies on objectivity and rationality - Objectivity:...
Reflection on Ethical Dilemma
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Political life and election
Dilemmas/ ethical problems: The 16-year-old child of a well-known politician has taken their own life. You have accurate information about what happened, but the politicians and their families do not wish to have a story published and appeal for privacy.
Diagnosis of the Credit Management
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
The business center of Credit Agricole has enabled one to appreciate the concept of credit risk business, when the bank decided to support the company by funding needs for its operations, and on the other hand when, it decided to withdraw in order not to pursue a policy of support to ailing...
Ford Motor Company, Inc. and Toyota Motor Corporation analysis of the Japanese-American trade relationship using the gravity, Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin Models
Presentation - 28 pages - Economy general
Why is the trade balance debate important? Technology has minimized trade barriers World economies more integrated International exchange vital to industries such as agriculture and auto manufacturing. Drives many economic and political policies i.e., taxes, tariffs, interest rates...
Case study of General Electric
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric (GE) from 1981 until 2001. He is regarded as one of the most successful CEOs of the 20th century. This essay intends to analyze Jack Welch's two-decade leadership by answering the question of what made him the "Manager of the Century" and GE the...
Direct investment in Turkey (2006)
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
We are currently investigating an investment proposal concerning the chocolate confectionery sector, in Turkey. Specifically the analysis concerns the chocolate tablets production. Below follows an explanation of the elements of the investment decision, the general aspects of the Turkish economy...
The subprime crisis: Definitions, causes and consequences
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
Subprimes are mortgages granted in the United States to customers who are not very solvent, on the basis of an increase in the interest rate. One applies a kind of premium to a borrower when his solvency is below a certain threshold. This operation is supposed to compensate for the...
Fair Value Implications for the Asset Mix of a Pension Fund
Essay - 86 pages - Finance
Pension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled based on the pension plan. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund (APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the...
Cash management services at HDFC Bank
Case study - 55 pages - Finance
There are currently about 101 commercial banks in India, which include public sector banks, regional rural banks & private sector banks both domestic & foreign. Public sector banks account for only 27, while the private sector includes 32 (24 old, 8 new) domestic banks and 42 foreign banks. RBI...
A study on forex risk management
Tutorials/exercises - 48 pages - Finance
Forex markets have been described as continuous auction markets, and have clearing houses for the latest information about supply and demand. They are the meeting places of buyers and sellers of an ever-expanding list of currencies today includes like EUR, GBP and JPY etc. trading have also been...
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...
Banking and insurance: The money market
Case study - 26 pages - Finance
The money market is a market for financial assets that are close substitutes for money. It is a market for overnight to short-term funds and instruments having a maturity period of one or less than one year. It is not a place (like the Stock Market), but an activity conducted by telephone. The...
A study on the role of derivatives and investors perceptions on it
Case study - 55 pages - Finance
A derivative is a generic term for specific types of investments from which payoffs over time are derived from the performance of assets (such as commodities, shares or bonds), interest rates, exchange rates, or indices (such as a stock market index, etc). This performance...
Risk management when dealing with foreign exchange (forex)
Dissertation - 77 pages - Management
Risk can be explained as an uncertainty and is usually associated with the unpredictability of an investment performance. All investments are subject to risk, but some have a greater degree of risk than others. Risk is often viewed as the potential for an investment to decrease in value. Though...
Financial institutions offering home loans
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
Housing finance is one of the industries, which are driven by ups and downs in the real state industry. Although there has been an upsurge in the demand for the home loans in the recent past, it has not translated into a stupendous performance by the housing finance companies (HDFC's). The...
A look at financial derivatives in India
Dissertation - 53 pages - Finance
The derivatives markets has existed for centuries as a result of the need for both users and producers of natural resources to hedge against price fluctuations in the underlying commodities. Although trading in agricultural and other commodities has been the driving force behind the development...
Retail Banking with ING Vysya
Case study - 103 pages - Finance
Today retail banking has emerged as the dark horse in banking sector. Low interest rates and booming consumerism have unleashed credit off take in retail segment in a big way. The personal banking segment customers have become the center of attraction... Credit exposures through...
Application of value-at-risk to forex exposure: Dr Reddy's pharmaceutical company
Thesis - 35 pages - Finance
Risk can be defined as the volatility of unexpected outcomes, generally the value of assets or liabilities of interest. Firms are exposed to various types of risks, which can be broadly classified into business and non-business risks. Business risks are those, which the corporation...
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...
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...
Halifax in Ireland
Presentation - 14 pages - Business strategy
Halifax is the “personal” branch of the HBOS group. The bank is present in the Irish market for less than 2 years. The Irish marketing strategy is unlike the UK one (different service marketing mix). The overall objective is to become the 4th largest bank in Ireland by 2009. We cannot...
Corporate finance: Opening a retail music store
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
Friends Jane and Elizabeth have decided to open up a retail music store. They will open up a store in a large shopping mall, purchase CDs from the large music distributors, and resell them to the public. Their first decision is to determine if they can profit from this venture, therefore they...
A study on foreign currency funding option
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Finance
Globalization of economy has resulted in interlinking of financial markets in different countries into a common worldwide pool of funds to be accessed by borrowers and lenders alike. No sector of the economy seems to be more global in its orientation and operations than finance. To succeed in...
Black and Scholes option pricing model and its applicability
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Finance
The world financial market has undergone qualitative changes in the last three decades due to phenomenal growth of derivatives. With the world embracing the derivative trading on a large scale, the Indian market cannot remain aloof, especially after liberalization has set in motion. Derivative...
Comparative study of institutions offering home loans
Case study - 40 pages - Finance
Housing finance is one of the industries which are driven by ups and downs in the real state industry. Although there has been an upsurge in the demand for the home loans in the recent past, it has not translated into a stupendous performance by the housing finance companies (HFC's).the housing...
Lessons from subprime meltdown
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
The sub-prime market emerged in the United States during the 1990's on account of a prolonged period of low interest rates during the Alan Greenspan regime. Many institutions offered home loans to borrowers who were unable to get the best rates from lenders, either due to...
Changes in principal macroeconomic variables over the course of a business cycle and the attempts of the government to control the fluctuations in pursuit of macroeconomic objectives
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
An upturn takes place after a recession and is almost like the recovery stage after the slide. Inflation is at a low level and growth in GDP is beginning start again. Interest rates are low which means there is more borrowing in the economy which means more money for businesses to...
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...
