... Campus: Park Royal Term: Winter CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 2. MODULE OUTLINE AND TEACHING METHODS 3. READING AND COURSE PREPRATION 4. LECTURE WITH DETAILED COURSE PROGRAMME AND OBJECTIVES 5. ASSESSMENT DETAILS INTRODUCTION This unit is designed to give learners a broad understanding of the sources and availability of finance for a business organisation. Learners will learn how to evaluate these different sources and compare how they are used. They will learn how financial information is recorded and how to use this information to make decisions for example in planning and budgeting. Students of this unit will gain an understanding of where and how to access sources of finance for a business, and the skills to use financial information for decision making. Upon completing the unit, learners will understand the sources of finance available to a business; understand the implications of finance as a...
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...Hrs Campus: Kilburn Term: Winter CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 2. MODULE OUTLINE AND TEACHING METHODS 3. READING AND COURSE PREPRATION 4. LECTURE WITH DETAILED COURSE PROGRAMME AND OBJECTIVES 5. ASSESSMENT DETAILS INTRODUCTION This unit is designed to give learners a broad understanding of the sources and availability of finance for a business organisation. Learners will learn how to evaluate these different sources and compare how they are used. They will learn how financial information is recorded and how to use this information to make decisions for example in planning and budgeting. Students of this unit will gain an understanding of where and how to access sources of finance for a business, and the skills to use financial information for decision making. Upon completing the unit, learners will understand the sources of finance available to a business; understand the...
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... Department of finance University of Dhaka No NAME ID 01 Md. Shezanur Rahman 16-011 02 Morjina Begum 16-061 03 Ishrat Amin 16-119 04 Md. Liakot Akbar 16-121 05 Farah Tasneem 16-163 Ms. Farzana Lalarukh Associate Professor Department of Finance University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of Term paper on “The Application of Matrix and Calculus in Business” We are pleased to submit this term paper on “The Application of Matrix and Calculus in Business” as a preliminary requirement of fulfillment of this course of our BBA program. Throughout the study, we have tried with the best of our capacity to conciliate as much information as possible. We would like to thank you for assigning us such a responsibility and helping us on different aspects of the report. We hope you will appreciate the sincere effort. Yours sincerely Farah Tasneem (On behalf of the group) ID: 16-163 Section: A It is a great honor for us to submit this case study to our respected teacher Ms. Farzana Lalarukh, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, University of Dhaka. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our course teacher for providing the proper instructions and valuable guidelines for preparing this report. Course report is an essential part...
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...Management Information Systems: A Research Paper By Greg Butler Student ####### American Military University MC302 D002 Summer 07 October 23, 2007 Management Information Systems: A Research Paper Executive Summary. In April 2004, after a year of planning, preparation, and training, the City of La Quinta “went live” with an enterprise-wide, integrated information system for the first time in its 22-year history. For the roughly one hundred member staff, it was a revolutionary leap. Previously, each functional department had selected, purchased, and implemented its own best solution to facilitate day-to-day operations. The implementation of SunGard’s HTE NaviLine software required infrastructure improvements and behind-the-scenes setup. The result was several databases for common use among departments and several automation improvements to previous transaction processing systems. Functional departments, individually and collectively, are able to spend more time concentrating on serving customers and less time searching City Hall for a needed piece of information. Implementation in two final departments will lead to even better service, particularly for those in the development community. The system is challenging, but powerful by virtue of its use of a multi-platform IBM® System i™ server. It is moderately user-friendly by virtue of NaviLine’s Web browser interface. Several improvements are necessary to make the system truly great, but in its current state the system...
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...CYPRUS • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • CHANCES • RISKS Internationale Volkswirtschaftslehre IB - MA Contents: I. Economic Development II. Chances (Opportunities) III. Risks IV. Theses I. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Source: provided by the CIA, 2006. As a product of the U.S. Government, this map in the public domain. Background: Geography: • 3rd largest island in the Mediterranean • 81st largest by area (9,251 km2) • 49th largest by population (1,088,503 people) Government: • Presidential Republic • Capital: Nicosia • Official Languages: Greek, Turkish Background: History • 1960 - Independence from the United Kingdom • 1983 - Turkish Cypriot-occupied area declared itself the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" • post-1974 period Transformation: o from an underdeveloped country into open, free market economy o from agriculture to light manufacturing and serviceoriented economy International Relations & Memberships • • • • • • • European Union (2004) and Eurozone (2008) The World Trade Organization (1995) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1962) The World Bank (1962) The Commonwealth (1961) The Council of Europe (1961) The United Nations (1960) Joining EU • 1990s - Fiscal and Monetary reforms • from 2000 - Economic growth at a rate above the EU average • 1st May 2004, Cyprus a full member of the European Union • 1st January 2008, euro adopted the as national currency at the irrevocable fixed...
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...history basically consists of all your past accounts and the regularity with which payments have been made. A bad and irregular payment history causes the score to drop down. * Amounts Owed (30%): The total amount of debts owed to other lenders is also an important consideration in the score calculation. The standard equation is, more the amounts owed, less is the credit score. Hence keep the credit history and current liabilities to the bare minimum. * Length of Credit History (15%): The length of the credit history is also considered. Rule of the thumb is that longer the history, lesser is the score. Thus avoid unnecessary borrowings and keep them to the bare minimum. * New Credit (10%): New credit consists of the newly borrowed loans or newly taken up credit cards. Keeping it small always helps, as the lesser the new credit, the better is the credit score. * Types of Credit Used (10%): The types of credit such as credit cards, types of loans and other credits such as buy now pay later, constitute the score. This proportion is applied to get a number on the credit core rating sale, which usually extends from 500 to 850 or in some cases, 300 to 750. This credit score scale may differ as...
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...IAG INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GROUP Corporate finance 2013 ------------------------------------------------- Index 1. Company profile 1. Core activities 2. Competitors 3. External finance 1. Corporate governance 4. Corporate governance 5. Compensation of member of the Board of Directors 6. Investor relation section 2. Stock price data and analysis 7. Daily stock prices 8. Comparison with market and sector indexes 9. Dividends policy 10. Investment magazines reports 11. Five selected new facts 3. Financial information 12. Capital structure 13. Liquidity and solvency analysis 14. Beta coefficient and cost of equity 15. Discounted cash flow analysis and implication of fundings 4. Recommendation ------------------------------------------------- 1. COMPANY PROFILE 1.1 Core activities MISSION: "To be the leading international airlines group in future industry consolidation on a regional and a global scale" International Airlines Group (IAG) is one of the world's largest airline groups: with 377 aircraft and an average of 69 million passengers each year flying to 230 different destinations, IAG is the third- largest based in Europe and the sixth in the world. Formed in January 2011 as a result of the merger between British Airways and Iberia, it is a Spanish registered company whose shares are traded on the London and Spanish Stock...
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...Share Repurchase: Is it good or bad? Financial Strategy (BMBA715.2) Date: 27th March 2013 Tutor: Mark Pilkington Author: Nandkumar Mahajan (136866461) Word Count: 3069 Table of Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. 3 Company capital structure & Shareholder value ...................................................................... 4 Why companies really repurchase shares? ................................................................................ 6 Is there any real value in share repurchase? ............................................................................. 7 Hewlett-‐Packard (HPQ) ................................................................................................................................ 7 Next Plc. (NXT) ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................
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...stock prices favorable for AOL TW’s stockholders became the core objective of the AOL management and its employees (Cantoria). In 2000, a new company called AOL Time Warner was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for $164 billion. The deal announced on January 10, 2000 and officially filed on February 11, 2000, this merger in which each original company had a creative opportunity to merge into a newly created entity. Immediately before and after AOL’s merger with Time Warner, top executives at the internet company used tricks, contrivances and false transactions to inflate the value of AOL stock while liquidating their shares in a selling frenzy to enrich themselves to the tune of $936 million. 2. The financial accounting that was performed in the scandal. In 2001 and 2002, the company inflated its online advertising revenue by $400 million in connection with transactions with Bertelsmann. Bertelsmann paid $400 million as consideration for amendments to the multi-billion dollar contingent purchase agreement governing the company's purchase of Bertelsmann's interest in AOL Europe. “The contract amendments had large value, and Bertelsmann offered to pay the company for the amendments. Rather than accept cash in exchange for the amendments, however, the company requested that Bertelsmann purchase advertising in the aggregate amount of $400 million”...
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...was incorporated in the year 2000 and is based out of Holmdel, New Jersey. Vonage provides broadband communication both in the U.S and internationally within Canada, and the United Kingdom. Their market share continues to shrink due to competition and loss of customer base. * Vonage profitability is practically non-existent. Since their inception Vonage’s expenses have outdone their revenues and they continue to see a loss in their business even after their IPO. * Their IPO was successful in bringing in $531 million but the closing price of their stock was 12.7% below the asking price of $17 per share, which caused a rift with the new investors who were refusing to pay up. * Today, their stock price is trading at under $3.00 per share but the landline, which is the backbone to their company, is becoming obsolete. Industry Vonage belongs with the industry of Diversified Communication Services, but related industries as well as competition comes from other industries such as Telecom Services, Communication Equipment and Long Distance Carriers to just name a few. As of today, and according to Yahoo Finance, the market cap for Vonage is 572.91 million, compared to American Tower Corporation, which is the industry leader with a market cap at 24.93 billion. AT&T is also a competitor and the leader in the related industry of Telecom Services and their market cap is 174.91 billion (Yahoo Finance). Market Share Their market share is being picked at since their...
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...Who Are the ERP Vendors? Depending on who you talk to, the primary ERP vendors are referred to as BOPSE (BAAN, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and J.D. Edwards). Other ERP firms include (but are not limited to) Great Plains, Lawson, Platinum, QAD, and Ross and Solomon (see e.g. Keeling 1996; Kersnar and May 1999). For additional information, see PricewaterhouseCoopers (1998). BAAN (www.baan.com) BAAN was founded in the Netherlands in 1978. BAAN's ERP market share is roughly 5% (Stein 1997), and 1998 revenues were roughly $750 million (Bylinsky 1999). BAAN has approximately 3,000 clients in 5,000 sites world-wide. BAAN was thrust into the national ERP software spotlight when they won the Boeing ERP engagement in 1994. The founders recently left BAAN, in part because of irregularities in financial reporting that led to inflated sales figures (Maremont and Rose 1998). Oracle (www.oracle.com) Oracle is the second-largest supplier of software in the world. However, they are perhaps best known for their database system, not their ERP applications. Oracle was founded in 1977 in the United States. Oracle's applications were developed for the U.S. market in 1989 and for the international market in 1993. In 1997, Oracle announced that they were going to market to specific industries tries (Greenberg 1997a) and improve the international characteristics of their software (Greenberg 1997b). In 1997, Oracle's market share was reportedly 10% of the ERP market (see Herrera 1999), and 1998...
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...Assignment 1 – Sources of Finance 1. What are the gearing implications of (i) equity and (ii) loan financing for the current and future shareholders? Raven Construction PLC has Share Capital of £400,000 and total long-term debts of £800,000 giving it a debt to equity ratio of 2:1. Therefore, Raven Construction PLC is said to be Highly Geared as it currently has £2 of debt for every £1 of equity. This is calculated from the following equation: Long-term DebtCurrent Equity =Gearing Ratio i. Equity Financing – This is the process of raising capital through the sales of shares and refers to an ownership in Raven PLC. The purchase of shares is a simple way of introducing permanent capital into the company. The introduction of new shares will reduce the gearing ratio in Raven PLC and will give the company a greater amount of equity available to cover its long-term debts. ii. Loan Financing – This is a process of raising capital through the borrowing of equity from a third party that does not benefit from ownership of the company. The third party will loan an amount of cash over an agreed period and require payments, with interest, to be repaid over the life of the loan. This will give Raven PLC even more debt than equity. An increase in the amount of long-term debt will increase the gearing ratio further 2. Make clear recommendations to the company on how to finance their expansion? Raven Construction PLC now requires £1.2m for its current planned expansion...
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...Organisation name: Starbucks Corporation Starbucks Corporation Report on the new strategy for Starbucks Corporation Terms of reference To investigate on the new strategy and to make appropriate recommendations as requested by the management consultant on the 23 September 2015 Procedure 1) Research has been done on the internet to justify the new strategy from 1 October 2015 to 22 October 2015. Findings 3.1 Alternative strategies relating to market entry/ substantive growth/ limited growth/ retrenchment for your customer. A limited growth strategy is a safer and smarter way to do business as aggressive growth strategy requires a large amount of risk such as entering new geographical markets. Limited growth is a lower risk mode of growth as it needs less start-up funds which include advertising and promotion. (Sherman, 2015) The strategy proposed was the implementation of Starbucks happy hour to give customers a promotion of half price on all drinks when they buy any tumbler or mug with the exception of the $1 reusable cup available in the US and Canada (Kosh, 2013). The promotion in this case will focus on the Starbucks goal to get 5 percent of beverages made in stores to be made in personal tumblers. Previously, Starbucks created a goal to achieve 25 percent of customers using their tumblers for beverages made in their store and will not be able to achieve this goal based on previous records (Starbucks Coffee Company, 2015). This promotion will then only qualify...
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...1. INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale for Selecting the Report: Dairy sector of Bangladesh is playing an important role in Bangladesh Economy. Country is producing milk well under the requirement and most of the demands are being met from import of dry milk from the international market. This country needs 7.227 million ton milk calculating 120ml per head. Out of which we produced only 2.686 million ton and met up our requirement by importing 52 thousand ton milk power from abroad. Still we have deficit of 3.91 million ton milk. At present, daily per capita milk consumption is less than 60 ml. We are spending 10 billion Taka per annum for importing milk powder from abroad. The total milk market in Bangladesh is estimated around 21000mt worth $ 72m of which Dano holds 22% Market Share (MS), Diploma 18%MS, Anchor 12%MS, Red cow 8%MS, Nido 4%MS and others rest local players. FCMP market reaching maturity and price competition is also increasing. Due to no/little product differentiation brands becoming very price elastic. Global Trend-Consumers moving from generalized products to specialized products. Local Trend- Consumption of packed consumer goods going up. NZDP (New Zealand Product Bangladesh Ltd.) intents to enter the specialized product segment of milk market in Bangladesh. With the outbreak of stunning information that powder milk product specially growing up Milk product contain melamine; the global milk market has gained instability. Almost three children had died with the hazardous...
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...Mobile Banking 1st source: * The number of mobile subscribers who use their phones for mobile banking will exceed 400 million globally by 2013 * Banks are provide SMS, mobile web, and apps to provide additional channel choices for their customers * Banks in Europe, North America and the Far East are good examples of delivering and promoting their mobile services * Over 80% of banks currently offer some form of mobile banking * Far East and China will be the region with the highest number of users in 2015 2nd source: * Bank of America vs. Citibank (Citibank mobile is much more advanced) * Bank America: Set up on PC for online banking and can do the following: * Access their checking, savings, credit card, mortgage, line of credit, loan and other Bank of America accounts * Pay bills anywhere, anytime * Transfer funds from one Bank of America account to another * Locate branches or ATMs * Get maps and directions * Citibank: Application based approach; use cell numbers, model and carrier of phone online. (Banking is connected directly to your phone), download app directly to phone, enter codes every time they sign on. Can do the following: * Account info/activity * Payments * Transfers * Locations * Customer service * Citibank looking to make NFC (near field communications) which can make payments on a user’s credit/debit card, called an m-payment 3rd source: *...
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