...– Discussion Questions “DQ” University of Phoenix – FIN/370 Finance for Business Week 1 100% Workshop 1 – Discussion Questions This paper will explore the discussion questions for the first of five workshops of Finance for Business. The three topics include: 1) The capital market, how the primary market differs from the secondary market, and in the student’s opinion are these markets efficient, and why. 2) The three primary roles of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 augments the SEC’s role in managing financial governance, and if the writer thinks the passage of this act had the outcome of businesses becoming more ethical. Examples will be used to support this thinking.3) Ratios which measure a corporation’s liquidity, some problems associated with using these ratios, and how the DuPont analysis would overcome these problems. The DQ’s will be stated, and then the Discussion Answers will be explored below. DQ 1 – The Capital Market What is the capital market? How is the primary market different from the secondary market? In your opinion, are these markets efficient? Why? Discussion Answer 1 The capital market is “Any market in which securities are traded. Capital markets include the stock and bond markets.” (Farlex Financial Dictionary 2009) “Traditionally, this has referred to the market for trading long-term debt instruments (those that mature in more than one year). That is, the market where capital is raised. More...
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...mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets as capital markets open up within them. CFO has to balance the traditional question with new questions which arises due to the globalization. By exploiting their internal capital markets, CFO can create value in 3 functions: 1. Financing the internal capital market. 2. Managing Risk Globally, 3. Global Capital Budgeting. 1. Financing the internal capital market – A CFO can significantly reduce a groups overall tax bill by borrowing disproportionately in countries with high tax rates and lending the excess cash to operations in countries with lower rates. But the global CFO needs to be aware of downside of getting strategic about financing in these ways. Saddling the mangers of subsidiaries with debt can cloud their profit performance. 2. Managing Risk Globally – The existence of an internal capital market also broadens a firms Risk management options. Instead of managing all currency exposures through the financial market, global firm can offset natural currency exposures through their worldwide operations. Given this potential for minimizing risk, it might seem perverse that many multinationals let local subsidiaries and regions manage their risks separately. Doing so, however, can obscure the performance of local units, making it harder for headquarters to assess local managers and easier for financial managers to take purely speculative positions. 3. Global Capital Budgeting - CFOs can add value by getting smarter...
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...University of Phoenix Marcelle Giles Fin/370 Finance for Business Week two individual assignment chapter fourteen questions April 5, 2010 |14-1. What are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them? | | |According to T.E. Copeland, J.F. Weston (1988),” a financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy and sell (trade) | | |financial securities (such as stocks and bonds), commodities (such as precious metals or agricultural goods), and other fungible items of | | |value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect the hypothesis.” Financial market reports prices for each good or product. They | | |exist to allocate supplies of saving from economic units with a surplus to those with a deficient. The economy would be in a worse state if| | |financial markets did not exist, the wealth of the economy depends heavily on them to keep the rate of capital formation high, to keep | | |stock rate from slowing down, to increase inventory and the business activities would have limited funding or no funding without the | | |financial market. | | | | | |14-2. Define in a technical sense what we...
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...You can buy the this complete file at http://testbanksfor.com CHAPTER 1 TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS (T) (F) (T) (T) (F) (F) (F) (F) (T) (T) (F) (T) (T) (T) (T) (F) (T) (F) (T) (F) (T) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. The purpose of the financial system is to bring savers and borrowers together. Businesses are never deficit spending units (DSUs). A financial claim is an “IOU” from a deficit spending unit. Investment bankers help deficit spending units (DSUs) bring new primary security issues to market. Deposits in a credit union by a household are an example of direct finance. When a surplus spending units (SSU) owns a financial claim created by financial intermediation, its residual claim is against a deficit spending units (DSU). Assets of financial intermediaries include direct financial claims only. Finance companies take small consumer deposits and make large consumer loans. Liabilities of financial intermediaries are indirect financial claims. Direct finance requires a more or less exact match of preferences. There must be an equal number of DSUs and surplus spending units ( SSUs) in a period. Every financial claim appears on two balance sheets. Without a financial sector, real investment must be financed internally by the deficit spending unit. Depository intermediaries issue claims that are for the most part highly liquid. A household is a surplus spending units when income for the period exceeds spending. A surplus spending units...
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...regulatory responsibility of the jurisdiction’s capital market regulators, the impact on national standard setters, and the consequences for other bodies responsible for the broader accounting standard-setting process” (page 4). The staff’s research has shown that “…jurisdictions generally have incorporated or intend to incorporate IFRS into their reporting requirements for listed companies by either: (1) full use of IFRS as issued by the IASB or (2) use of IFRS after some form of national or multinational incorporation process, which could lead to a full use of IFRS as issued by the IASB or some local variation thereof” (page 4). According to the staff’s research, very few jurisdictions use the first approach. Majority of jurisdictions use the second approach because it is easier to address country-specific issues, yet, it could impact the use of a single set of globally accepted accounting standards. The SEC and its staff continue researching different approaches to figure out which one will help lead to a consistent set of accounting standards, internationally. b. http://www.ifrs.org/Alerts/PressRelease/Documents/GovernanceReviewFinalReportFeb2012.pdf i. 1. Full membership of the Monitoring Board is limited to the authorities that are responsible for establishing the form and content of financial reporting that are used in the capital markets. 2. New members are chosen from developing markets...
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...the fundamental asset value concept. In other words, assessments of each individual business must be based on its ability to generate added value, rather than on subjective concepts. In our opinion, the economy of the future must become an economy of real values. How to achieve this is not so clear-cut. Let us think about it together.” From the Address of Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, at the Davos Economic Forum (February, 2009) This Part analyzes the pre-analytical foundations and macro-economic impact of the Modern Portfolio Theory1 (MPT) tenets, on which much of the present Western investment theory and financial economics is erected. Our general inference is that while the former are tautological at their core and treat capital investment pricing processes as if those relate to an impersonal network of natural oscillators, the latter are perceivably dangerous in spite of the belief in the strong ‘performativity’ (self-fulfillment) of MPT (McKenzie, 2006). Performative the MPT may be, but this performativity comes it a cost: as year by year it only removes the universe of traded...
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...9 Chapters 5 questions from each: 60 Questions Chapter 9 and 11 in-Uncontrolled Risk Memorization is the lowest form of studying Quizzes behind Presentations Imperial Bank - Community bank - managerial issues - relationship issues - Do not have to calculate duration: just understand the concept. Calculation: calculate ROA and ROE Knowing the DOW CAMAL 1 is best, 5 is worst. Money market (less than 1 year) vs Capital Market Secondary vs Primary Market Derivative Securities Market CMO Jumbo Mortgages, Alt A Mortgages, etc. Sub-Prime?= Securitized Mortgage-back Security 3 Articles discussed: Feb 7th- Nelson Swirt- Meridith Whitney Bob Diamond- set a new standard of ROE. Strong bank typically has ROE of 17%. However he had an ROE of 7.2%. Feb 22th- Nelson Swhartz- banks need to stop closing branches. Deposit Behavior Checks Cash. Difference between bills, bonds, and notes Know Bond Cash Flows Benchers, Indentures, did not talk about dentures Indentures: legal document between lender and borrower. Necessary Bencher- Unsecured Bond Determinant of Interest Rates- the 6 determinant, and the 3 theories. Gold- driven by... Uncontrolled Risk Chapter 9- financial engineers create a product that is useful. FDIC, SEC. Page 94, community reinvestment act. Excess bad for wall street. Leverage is important. Chapter 11- standards. Wall Street money/ warehousing was providing for the west coast. Lehman bought an originator from the west....
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...mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets as capital markets open up within them. CFO has to balance the traditional question with new questions which arises due to the globalization. By exploiting their internal capital markets, CFO can create value in 3 functions: 1. Financing the internal capital market. 2. Managing Risk Globally, 3. Global Capital Budgeting. 1. Financing the internal capital market – A CFO can significantly reduce a groups overall tax bill by borrowing disproportionately in countries with high tax rates and lending the excess cash to operations in countries with lower rates. But the global CFO needs to be aware of downside of getting strategic about financing in these ways. Saddling the mangers of subsidiaries with debt can cloud their profit performance. 2. Managing Risk Globally – The existence of an internal capital market also broadens a firms Risk management options. Instead of managing all currency exposures through the financial market, global firm can offset natural currency exposures through their worldwide operations. Given this potential for minimizing risk, it might seem perverse that many multinationals let local subsidiaries and regions manage their risks separately. Doing so, however, can obscure the performance of local units, making it harder for headquarters to assess local managers and easier for financial managers to take purely speculative positions. 3. Global Capital Budgeting - CFOs can add value by getting smarter...
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...Chapter 2 The Financial Market Environment ( Instructor’s Resources Overview Money and capital markets and their major components are introduced in this chapter. Firms need to raise capital in order to survive. Financial institutions give firms access to the money they need to grow. However, greed can drive financial managers and institutions to commit actions that get them into trouble and even force bankruptcy. These bankruptcies result in limited capital flows to firms, and both they and the whole economy can suffer. Therefore, financial institutions and markets should be well regulated. The final section covers a discussion of the impact of taxation on the firm’s financial activities. ( Suggested Answer to Opener-in-Review Question Consider a buyer who purchased a home that month for $150,000, using $30,000 of her own funds as a down payment and borrowing the remaining $120,000 from a bank via a 30-year mortgage. Two years later, prices in Phoenix rose by 30 percent, and the house was worth $195,000. Assuming that after making two years of payments on the 30-year mortgage, the outstanding mortgage balance was still $118,000. How much equity does the buyer have in her home? What rate of return has she earned on her initial $30,000 investment? Buyer’s equity in her home = $195,000 – $118,000 = $77,000 Rate of return = ($77,000 – $30,000) ÷ $30,000 = $156.67% ( Answers to Review Questions 1. The key participants in financial transactions are individuals, businesses...
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...Accounting Standards Building international opportunities for Australian business Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Proposals for Reform: Paper No. 1 © Commonwealth of Australia 1997 ISBN 0 642 26110 5 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Australian Government Publishing Service. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction rights should be directed to the Manager, Commonwealth Information Services, Australian Government Publishing Service, GPO Box 84, Canberra ACT 2601. The Government is seeking comments from interested parties on the detail of the proposals in this paper which should be forwarded to the following address: First Assistant Secretary Business Law Division The Treasury Parkes Place PARKES ACT 2600 Telephone: 02 6263 3960 Fax: 02 6263 2882 Email: clerp@treasury.gov.au Copies of this paper are available from the Australian Government Publishing Service and on the Treasury web site (http://www.treasury.gov.au). Enquiries concerning the paper can be made to: Ms Veronique Ingram Assistant Secretary The Treasury Telephone: 02 6263 3970 Printed by the Australian Government Publishing Service TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Abbreviations PART 1: PART 2: Reform Proposals Introduction 2.1 2.2 PART 3: Background Key economic principles v 1 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 13 14 16 17 19 19 19 20 22 23 The Case for Reform 3.1 3.2 Impetus...
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...Edul Mia | 131-11-2920 | B | (4). | Saiful Islam Mojumder | 131-11-2935 | B | (5). | Sumaiya Jahan | 131-11- 3157 | B | Date of Submission: 21 November, 2015 (1). Finance: Finance is the blanket term that refers to the process of acquiring capital to fund the purchase of something, or an investment. (2). Investment: Investment is when somebody uses (spends) money that they already have in hope of making more money in the future with the "investment. (3). Assets: A resource with economic value that an individual, corporation or country owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide future benefit. (4). Financial asset: A financial asset is an intangible asset whose value is derived from a contractual claim, such as bank deposits, bonds, and stocks. (5). Real assets: Real assets include precious metals, commodities, real estate, agricultural land and oil. (6). Mutual Fund: An investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. (7). Closed-end fund: A closed-end fund is a publicly traded investment company that raises a fixed amount of capital through an initial public offering (IPO). The fund is then structured, listed and traded like a stock on a stock exchange. (8). Open-End Fund': A type of...
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...Isabelle Chong Sim Yi – CEB 110017 Li Ying – CEB 110716 Yap Hong Zhen – CEB 110084 GROUP REPORT 1 GROUP REPORT 1 Table of Contents Question No. | Details | Pages | 1 | Describe the roles and functions of financial markets in Malaysia. | 1 | 2 | Identify four (4) relevant regulators in Malaysia. | 1 | 3 | Choose two (2) regulators identified in (2) above and justify your selection i.e. explain the reasons for your choice. | 2 | 4 | Explain the roles and activities of the two regulators that you have chosen. | 2 | 5 | Give examples of actual enforcement actions that have been taken by the regulators chosen in (3) above. | 3 | 6 | References | 4 | 1) Describe the roles and functions of financial markets in Malaysia. Financial markets are forums in which suppliers of funds and demanders of funds can transact business directly. There are two operations of financial markets, which are primary market and secondary market. Primary market is financial market in which securities are initially issued; the only market in which the issuer is directly involved in the transaction. The function of the primary markets is to facilitate the efficient allocation of funds. Secondary market is financial market in which pre-owned securities (those that are not new issuer) are traded. There are also two key of financial markets: a)...
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.....................................................................................9 1.3 MARKET TYPES ....................................................................................................................9 1.3.1 Normal Market..............................................................................................................9 1.3.2 Odd Lot Market.............................................................................................................9 1.3.3 RETDEBT Market .........................................................................................................9 1.3.4 Auction Market............................................................................................................10 1.4 CORPORATE HIERARCHY ....................................................................................................10 1.5 LOCAL DATABASE ..............................................................................................................10 1.6 MARKET PHASES ................................................................................................................11 1.6.1 Opening.......................................................................................................................11 1.6.2 Open Phase .................................................................................................................11 1.6.3 Market...
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...Assignment on Financial Market and Institution Survey on Investor’s behavior |Name |ID | |MD. ABDULLAH-AL-BAKI |BBA- 029090249 | |MD. ZUBAIR ISLAM |BBA- 03211209 | | | | Section : BBA 41 (D) Date : 03.04.2012 FINANCIAL MARKET AND INSTITUTION Survey questionnaire: 1. Name of respondent : 2. Invest range : |Tk. 5 lakh < |Tk. 5-10 lakh |Tk. 11-15 lakh |Tk. 15-20 lakh |Tk. 20 lakh | | | | | | | 3. Age range: |25y-30y |31 y – 35 y |36y – 40 y |41y – 45y |46 and above | | | | | | | 4. Education level: |School |College |Graduation |Post Graduation |Above Post. Grad | | ...
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...Internship Report On Effectiveness of DSE Monitoring System SUBMITTED TO: Md. Rafiqul Islam Professor Department of Business Administration Faculty of Business & Economics Daffodil International University SUBMITTED BY: Md. Nasir Uddin ID: 072-11-2038 BBA Department of Business Administration Faculty of Business & Economics Daffodil International University Daffodil International University September 10, 2011 Internship Report On Effectiveness of DSE Monitoring System Date of Submission: 10 September, 2011 4/2, Sobhanbagh, Prince Plaza, Mirpur Road Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL August 10, 2011 Md. Rafiqul Islam Professor Internship Supervisor Department of business administration Daffodil International University Subject: Submission of internship report. Dear Sir, This is my pleasure to present my internship report entitled “Effectiveness of DSE Monitoring System” Which was prepared from my experience in Dhaka Stock Exchange. With your kind supervision I believe that the knowledge and experience gathered...
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