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...
Understanding how keyman insurance works
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
“Life insurance isn't meant for people who die. Life insurance is meant for people who live.” Who said this doesn't really matter, what matters is that there is an important lesson to learn from this. The basic tenet of life is to indemnify the survivors against financial loss. Keyman...
Credit appraisal system at Standard Chartered Bank and the SME credit department
Dissertation - 68 pages - Finance
The ongoing development of contemporary risk management methods and the increased use of innovative financial products such as securitization and credit derivatives have brought about substantial changes in the business environment faced by credit institutions today. Especially in the field of...
The future for the French customer loyalty programs
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
In a context of globalization, companies need to be very competitive and to find the best way to be more and more attractive. In France and all over the world strategy marketing is nowadays a priority for companies according to Lefébure and Venture (2005). Brand loyalty programs are good examples...
The SKF group
Tutorials/exercises - 110 pages - Business strategy
The SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions, and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. SKF Group's main competencies include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. The Group also holds an increasingly...
Analysis of stock markets using GANN studies
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Finance
Tradegen systems is a one stop solution provider and guide to help Indian traders and investors maximize their returns from the markets and create wealth for themselves and their family. Our range of profitable products and robust trading systems together with our principles will help any Indian...
The governments oversight and the misuse of surplus funds
Thesis - 12 pages - Government finance
This study will investigate the governmental oversight and exemptions that allow for the unchecked misuse of surplus funds within non-profit organizations. For the purposes of this study, surplus is defined as money not earmarked for future projects, or capital projects, unrestricted funds and...
Financial Analysis with reference to Ratio Analysis
Thesis - 14 pages - Finance
Financial statements are prepared for the purpose of presenting a periodical review or report by the management and deal with state of investment in business and result achieved during the period under view. They reflect a combination of recorded facts, accounting conventions and personal...
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...
A revenue management model for make-to-order bidding
Essay - 9 pages - Management
This paper extends the single-period price and due date setting model for contingent Make-to-Order (MTO) firm into a finite-period stochastic system. Based on the revenue management framework (viewing every single available timeslot of production capacity as a perishable product), MTO firms can...
Competition between European football clubs - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
In Europe, the economical competition is as relentless as the sport competition between professional football clubs and this fight is clearly unequal between the big and small clubs. How can we explain the competitive differences between the best French football club and the best clubs of the...
LEGO Group vs. MATTEL Inc.
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
The gross profit margin ratio measures the profitability (or gross profit margin) that is generated from each dollar of sales. Profit margin is very useful when comparing companies in similar industries. A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control...
Lego's financial statements analysis (2005)
Case study - 15 pages - Finance
The gross profit margin ratio measures the profitability (or gross profit margin) that is generated from each dollar of sales. Profit margin is very useful when comparing companies in similar industries. A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control...
A general theory of entrepreneurship, the individual-opportunity nexus by Scott Andrew Shane
Essay - 15 pages - Services marketing
Although entrepreneurship concerns a large part of the working population, contributes to the economic growth in an important way and has proved to be of interest to a great percentage of the academic world, there hasn't yet been a complete study that develops every aspect of this issue (the...
The strategy of the 'Ryanair', the pioneer of low cost airlines (2007)
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
In 2006-2007, Ryanair has become the world's most profitable airline on the basis of its operating and net profit margins and on a per-airplane and per-passenger basis. Indeed, the profits expected for the first half of fiscal 2007 were 329 million euros, which is a record for the Irish...
Financial Analysis of Carrefour
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
This report is the financial analysis of a EU-listed consolidated group, the Carrefour group. This company, operating on the retail sector, seemed to be an interesting company for us to analyze. Majority of the companies in this industry are characterized by a negative working capital requirement...
The instability of the international financial system and the proposals for reform proposals
Dissertation - 193 pages - Economy general
In 1997, an earthquake hit Asian stock exchanges, the shock wave reached Russia a year later, and then Latin America, including Brazil in 1999. To the world, these crises have been a succession of real and financial shocks of exceptional magnitude. Far from having exogenous origins, this global...
Financial analysis report: Adidas vs. Puma
Essay - 20 pages - Business strategy
Europe will be hosting two major sports events in 2012: the UEFA European soccer championship in Poland and Ukraine as well as the Olympic Games in London. Consequently, with the end of 2011 approaching, there might be a current window of opportunity to invest in European manufacturers of...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
Marxist and Weberian lenses: GM layoffs
Essay - 6 pages - Management
DETROIT, MI - General Motors (GM) chief executives announced major restructuring plans aimed at reviving its corporate fortunes. The company's major difficulty has been its declining sales over the past year, which have racked up a total of two billion dollars of losses. Such a decline sharply...
Strategy Analysis on the gambling industry with the example of MGM Mirage
Thesis - 64 pages - Business strategy
We selected the gambling industry as a group because we thought it would be interesting, challenging and because the industry has recently felt a new impulse with the internet. The gambling industry is not one of the most recent industries though, and to understand it fully we decided to analyse...
Explain the role of conjectural variations within the context of quantity settings duopoly. Use this idea to explain the difference between Cournot and Stackelberg models of duopoly
Market study - 6 pages - Services marketing
In the context of oligopoly, firms do not have to worry about strategic behaviour as do monopolies, as far as consumers are concerned. Nonetheless, as they face competition from a few other firms, strategies in terms of price-setting and quantity-setting are of prime importance. What we want to...
Corporate finance: Financial analysis of Ford and BMW
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
This report will deal with the financial analisys of two main competitors of car market. Effectively, Ford and BMW (Bayerish Motoren Werke AG) are two important car manufacturers in the world. Even if they are competing on the same market, we can't say that these two manufacturers are...
The Cola War: Coca Cola versus Pepsi
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The soft drink industry is divided into two categories of product: the non carbonated soft drink and the carbonated soft drink (CSD). During the next 30 years, CSD consumption rose constantly and grew at an average of 3% per year. The consumption of CSD in USA is about 53 gallons per year! So the...
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...
The 'OneWorld' health model and the prospects for future development of therapeutics for infectious disease of the developing world
Thesis - 15 pages - Medical studies
Despite the vast improvements in health care and prevention of infectious diseases in the developed world, six out of ten deaths in the developing world can still be directly attributed to infectious disease. Diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, measles, TB, and HIV/AIDS...
Financial analysis
Thesis - 30 pages - Finance
One of the most important techniques of financial analysis is a preparation of funds flow statement. It is the statement which portrays the changes in the financial position of an enterprise. Balance sheet and income statement do not present a comparative picture, even if placed side by side in...
Commodities trading in India
Dissertation - 52 pages - Economy general
Commodity Futures trading in India has a long history. The first commodity futures market appeared in 1875. But the new standardized form of trading in the Indian capital market is an attractive package for all the people who earn money through speculation by trading into FUTURES. It is a...
Analysis of the banking sector with respect to six banks: Public sector & private sector
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
In this project six banks are taken on the basis of highest profits after tax. Three Banks are from the Public Sector and three from the Private Sector. First comes an analysis of the banking system which tells you about the Basel II norms which are applicable in India in every bank from 31st...
A study on the financial performance of the State Bank of India with reference to camel model
Dissertation - 41 pages - Finance
The Analyst has come up with a special issue on the banking industry for a third consecutive year. To assess Indian banks, The Analyst adopted the world-renowned CAMEL model (with minor modifications). The reason being, the CAMEL model is simple and makes it easy to compare a wide range of banks...
