V O LU M E 2 1 | N U M B E R 4 | FAL L 2 0 0 9 Journal of APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE A MO RG A N S TA N L E Y P U B L I C AT I O N In This Issue: Market Efficiency and Risk Management The Global Financial Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis: What Have We Learned? Contingent Capital vs. Contingent Reverse Convertibles for Banks and Insurance Companies International Insurance Society Roundtable on Risk Management After the Crisis 8 Ray Ball, University of Chicago 17 Christopher
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The importance of cash budget may be summarised as follow:-(1) Helpful in Planning. Cash budget helps planning for the most efficient use of cash. It points out cash surplus, or deficiency at selected point of time and enables the management to arrange for the deficiency before time or to plan for investing the surplus money as profitable as possible without any threat to the liquidity. (2) Forecasting the Future needs. Cash budget forecasts the future needs of funds, its time and the amount well
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purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of employees’ training for organizational commitment and organizational performance. An argumentative approach has been used to reveal the importance of employees’ training. By training the employees their skills and abilities are enhanced which make them work more confidently and with full devotion and interests. Training the employees is not the wastage of organizational money but it is more like an investment which has got high returns. By reviewing
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This is not an accurate view that cultural competence training through the hiring of a consultant will not be a sufficient return on investment. Actually, this training will increase their return on investment. It may take awhile for the public health entity to notice a return on investment or the beneficial results the training will produce but an increase in return will occur due to various factors such as increased patient satisfaction, increase in new patients
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Government and Capital Budgeting: Public Spending for Consumption versus Public Spending for Investment “Without a capital budget, we are unable to differentiate good spending from profligate spending, virtuous debt from vicious debt” (Schwenninger, 2007, p.63). Based upon Schwenninger’s (2007) statement it is needed now more than ever for governments to find new and improved economic strategies to take us out of this world economic recession. One of these economic strategies is capital budgeting
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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES by Magdy Abdel-Kader University of Essex and Robert Luther University of Bristol WP No. 04/06 October 2004 Address for correspondence: Magdy Abdel-Kader Department of Accounting, Finance and Management University of Essex Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ UK E-mail: mabdel@essex.ac.uk 1 An Empirical Investigation of the Evolution of Management Accounting Practices Magdy Abdel-Kadera and Robert Lutherb a:
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duty of the investor to understand the importance of transparent financial data when considering their choices. (http://ezinearticles.com/?Importance-Of-Transparency-In-Financial-Reporting&id=376424) Explain how transparent financial reporting (a) protects investors and (b) improves market quality. Investors face a fundamental problem when making decisions. Each one has to ask themselves two questions. 1. What return is to be expected from this investment? 2. How much risk will I incur? Any
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documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 877 times since 2008. * Users who downloaded this Chapter also downloaded: * Michael W Hansen, (2003),"ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF DANISH FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRI COUNTRY FACTORS IN SHAPING THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES OF DANISH MULTINATIONALS", Sarianna M. L Multinationals, Environment and Global Competition (Research in Global Strategic Management, Volume 9), Emerald Group Publishing
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Hong Kong? Over the last 30 years, there has been a shift away from a world in which national economies are relatively self-contained entities, isolated by barriers to trade and investment, and differences in government regulation, culture, and business systems and toward a world where barriers to trade and investment are declining, cultures are converging, and national economies are merging into an integrated, interdependent global economic system. As companies from Japan and emerging markets
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Said Business School, Oxford University and CEPR Howard Jones Said Business School, Oxford University Abstract Despite the central importance of investors to all IPO theories, relatively little is known about their role in practice. In this paper we survey institutional investors about how they assess IPOs, what information they provide to the investment banking syndicate, and the factors they believe influence allocations. Although the theoretical IPO literature has tended to focus on information
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