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14 mai 2025

Reflection on Collaborative Interactions and Their Impact on Learning in Finance

Essay - 1 pages - Finance

In this essay, I reflect on my group work experience in the finance module, highlighting how interactions with my colleagues and tutor have enriched my understanding of the subject and its relevance to my current and future career.

12 oct. 2024

Reflecting on Financial Wellness

Essay - 2 pages - Finance

Financial wellness is a challenging space that is often full of obstacles and uncertainties, and most parents are affected by this issue. As a dedicated mother of five children, getting into financial literacy issues has been a very dynamic and personal process, on my side, with a view to...

01 sept. 2024

With global investors searching for higher returns in international markets, what is the role for investor protection in developing international financial markets and real economies?

Essay - 2 pages - Finance

Why is investor protection necessary? Who needs protection? What methods are used to protect investors from expropriation of profits? How does the legal system affect the level of investor protection? How does investor protection affect the value of companies on financial markets?

08 oct. 2023

Finance: Science, Securities Intermediation, and Secured Lending Efficiency

Essay - 3 pages - Finance

This document encompasses three essays delving into the finance sphere, the efficacy of secured lending, and the practice of securities intermediation.

12 juin 2022

Financial Risk Management - In which circumstances should you hold gold?

Essay - 9 pages - Finance

The universal crisis of capitalism that shook the world in the year 2008 showed that speculative business, especially mortgage loans, are at high risk, because in the long term they triggered a crisis due to the bursting of the bubble financial. They have thus shown that there is no way to...

23 avril 2022

Is it true that entrepreneurs should always regard venture capitalists as the enemy?

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

When it comes to Finance, Economics, Business or a similar domain, we often, in one way or another, see the intervention of concepts such as Entrepreneurship and Capital venture. These are two concepts that meet at a certain level when doing business. In fact, before defining the concepts, it is...

07 déc. 2021

Financial performance measure alone as opposed to an approach which encompasses both financial and nonfinancial measures

Essay - 3 pages - Finance

Bacidore et al (2019) state that "An appropriate performance measure gauges how management strategy affects shareholder value". Shareholders, as well as stakeholders, plays an essential role in the management of an organization. The evaluation of a potential strategy to apply with the outcomes of...

10 sept. 2020

Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts

Essay - 2 pages - Finance

A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...

26 sept. 2016
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The price of the dream: subprime mortgages in the African-American community

Essay - 2 pages - Finance

Let us first say that the financial disaster which has just recently occurred has effected the entire world, regardless of race, color, or creed. It is perhaps a testament to the new levels of equality and interconnectedness that what may have started out primarily among certain populations can...

29 mars 2016
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Corporate Governance in U.K and Corporate Financial Performance

Essay - 3 pages - Finance

The issue of corporate governance and whether it affects the financial performance have for many rears been a center of curiosity for economic researchers. Researchers have been seeking to establish whether or not there is a direct relationship between these two forces in the corporate world....

22 mars 2016
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Evaluate the predictability of excess stock returns

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

First and foremost, predictability of excess returns in the stock markets is an issue which is affected by not just a factor but many factors in the environment. The issues which daily affects the markets such as politics and economical environments will definitely affect the predictability of...

15 oct. 2015
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The importance of operational risk in banking and how it is allowed for the Basel capital accords

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

Risks in banking sector are related to a number of unpredictable events that one cannot forecast which could cause huge consequences on the activity of a bank. Hence, its ability and its expertise in managing those risks is a major challenge for the sector and its sustainability. Here are the...

24 juil. 2015
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How to synergize the works of internal auditors and external auditors to listed companies

Essay - 9 pages - Finance

Internal and external auditors have been used over the years to promote transparency and compliance with the accounting procedures in listed companies. The external and internal auditors have had separate duties in the audit process. However, conflicts have been witnessed between the internal and...

21 juil. 2015
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European Sovereign Debt Crisis and its impact on financial markets and institutions

Essay - 5 pages - Finance

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis of was basically the failure of the Euro which was the monetary symbol that tied together 17 Countries across Europe (Arezki et. al, 2011). This therefore means that the start of all these is retraced back to the second world war in 1945. At this time Europe was...

04 sept. 2014
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Along Way Gone- Effects of war on today's modern society

Essay - 2 pages - Finance

A long Way Gone primarily brings into light the effects of war on today's modern society amongst them violation Human Rights as spelt out by UN Charter in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through the noble eyes of a former child soldier Ishmael Beah, the memoir, though immeasurably...

12 août 2014
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Balance of Ethics and Privacy in business (YourFace)

Essay - 3 pages - Finance

Ethics is concerned with right and wrong in a particular society (Reamer, 2013). The definition means there are different definitions of ethics depending on the society. For example, there are assessments based on the intention of actions as well as on the outcomes of the actions. For example, in...

12 mars 2012
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Case study: France telecom - publié le 12/03/2012

Essay - 12 pages - Finance

The French government created France Telecom in 1988. The company was privatized in 1997, and in the following year lost the state monopoly as the telecommunications industry opened up to competition. Given the context, the company then began to expand through a number of partnerships and...

25 avril 2011
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Islamic finance an alternative to conventional finance

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

Le système financier de ces dernières années, inspiré d'un capitalisme immoral, avait pour priorité de réaliser du profit et a fini par provoquer une crise mondiale de l'économie internationale. Or, une branche de la finance a réussi à garder la tête haute : la finance islamique. Face à...

16 févr. 2011
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Is the Subprime crisis a financial or global crisis?

Essay - 25 pages - Finance

Was the subprime crisis predictable? Some analysts predicted it in 2005 as a continuation of a long boom, during which loans to U.S. households rose sharply. Now the U.S. Federal Reserve (FED), led for over 20 years by Alan Greenspan takes a systematic approach to support the banking crisis stock...

16 févr. 2011
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Money laundering in the financial community: one of the dark sides of globalization

Essay - 9 pages - Finance

Economically, globalization may appear beneficial in that it enhances trade between men and generates growth. Many of its adverse effects are, however, the game of criminal organizations. Indeed, with the rise of movements of people, goods and capital, globalization tends to increase the capacity...

16 févr. 2011
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Does IFRS enhance the presentation of financial statements?

Essay - 14 pages - Finance

The international financial environment is constantly changing ever since the International Financial Reporting Standards [International Financial Reporting Standards] (IFRS) have been implemented. Moreover, the unprecedented financial scandals of recent years have further accelerated the...

16 févr. 2011
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Report on the Italian taxation

Essay - 14 pages - Finance

Faced with economic developments and globalization, it became common to see companies in different countries better meeting the demands and also strive hard in order to save some money. The establishment of French companies is easier in Europe because of the existence of certain conventions...

16 févr. 2011
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Impact of standards of IAS/IFRS in the financial communication

Essay - 13 pages - Finance

The advent of international accounting standards of IAS / IFRS as a reference system leads to a revolution in the world of business and communication thereof. International standards have a privilege over the economic approach to business, and are not historical as is often the case in French...

16 févr. 2011
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Report of training course at Deloitte

Essay - 39 pages - Finance

The author of this article was hired within the audit firm of Deloitte Consulting in Neuilly sur Seine. The decision to integrate in the firm to start on the career had been motivated by several factors. First, the undeniable reputation of the firm, coupled with financial education imparted by...

02 nov. 2010
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The Federal reserve system

Essay - 6 pages - Finance

The structure of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve or Fed) is quite unusual and to understand why it is unusual we must analyze its history. The Fed was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, and was largely a response to a series of financial crises,...

02 nov. 2010
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An overview of the financial system

Essay - 10 pages - Finance

Financial markets are markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage. They are very important in the channeling funds from people who do not have a productive use for them to people who do have productive use for them....

29 sept. 2010
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Did the subprime crisis affect the hedging market? - published: 29/09/2010

Essay - 5 pages - Finance

The aim of this paper is to analyze if the financial crisis has changed the use of hedging techniques. Forecasting is the process of estimation of unknown situations. Forecasting is use to estimate a risk. It can be exchange rates risks, economic exposure, translation exposure, etc. In this...

29 sept. 2010
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Term paper: the subprime crisis:Reasons & Effects - published: 29/09/2010

Essay - 8 pages - Finance

Since the last few years, a frightening phenomenon concerning subprime is being observed in the United States of America. Some people think that the financial crisis that the whole world is living through is related to the subprime crisis, and some think that it was the beginning of a very slow...

29 sept. 2010
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Derivative products - published: 29/09/2010

Essay - 5 pages - Finance

It is an indisputable fact that the present financial and economical tsunami is one of the worst slowdowns just close to the previous one, being the economic collapse in 1929. Indeed each semester previsions a particular percentage of growth. However, this foresight is depleting in terms of the...

29 sept. 2010
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Risk Management - published: 29/09/2010

Essay - 9 pages - Finance

Measuring operational risk allows, in so many ways to anticipate the continuous and discrete potential risks that hold many intangible elements. By sophistical trends, we can measure how it could affect any project on the long term and involve in its management ways. Even the measurement needs to...