A banker's role in approving a project
Thesis - 2 pages - Finance
Earlier, the role of a banker was mainly that of a money lender. Today, many businesses have ventured into insurance, real estate, personal services and e-banking. Traditionally, the bank played the role of an intermediation, that is to say, it collected and lent money by making intermediation...
Barclays Bank: Financial performance
Thesis - 3 pages - Finance
This report will be concerned with comprehensively analyzing the financial performance of Barclays Bank. The main areas of focus of the report will be on the Return on capital employed (ROCE), current ratio figures and gearing ratio figures of the company for the last three financial years of...
American Airlines vs. Southwest Airlines
Financial analysis - 10 pages - Finance
The Airline market is facing problems across the years. Before, national companies were leader in their countries, but with the opening of the airline market, the deregulation of the industry and the globalization phenomenon thousand of new airlines have borne. What does it mean? Traditional...
Strategic Financial Diagnostic to Open a Retail Music Store
Financial analysis - 10 pages - Finance
We are going to analyze two entrepreneurs situations, Jane and Elizabeth. Both have decided to open a retail music store in a large shopping mall, purchase CDs from the large music distributors, and resell them to the public. Our goal is to analyze this project so that they can make strategic...
Analyzing financial statement - Home Depot vs Lowe's
Financial analysis - 20 pages - Finance
Lowe's and Home depot are two of the largest American home improvement retailer. Home depot is the most important home improvement retailer for the 2009 fiscal year in the United States and Lowe's is his main competitor. At a global level Home Depot and Lowe's are the two most important home...
The concept of private equity and its application
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
Private equity is a relatively young asset class, but has evolved substantially over the last two decades. Due to the long-term horizon required for investing, private equity is dominated by institutional investors, such as pension plans, foundations, endowments and family offices. Investors are...
Enhance your portfolio: The hedge fund
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors. It undertakes a wider range of investment and trading activities in addition to the long term investment funds. Every hedge fund has its own investment strategy that determines the type of investments and the methods of...
Company budgeting
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
Is company budgeting necessary? There are two general opinions in management theory. Malcolm Howard is standing behind the statement that “budget is still a worthwhile exercise - as long as you stick to five basic principles”. He argues that some of the problems claimed to be budgeting...
Stock indexes and the global financial set-up
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
A place for exchange was initiated at the Great Pond in Paris, under the leadership of Louis VII. In the year 1540, the first organized commodity exchange came into existence. An index is a statistical measure. It can provide an overall trend of market development and facilitates a comparison...
Wealth management: Economic and financial challenges
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
According to an official report titled ‘Challenges in the banking industry', the industrialization of services has helped to automate the banking activities to some extent. The increasing role of marketing banking services, ATMs and security measures accelerated the turnover of CRO's...
Financing plan and cash management
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
Each year, when investments are planned, the company must monitor the medium-term balance of funding and coverage of its invested capital. It is the financing plan that makes this control and forecasting possible. A financing plan usually refers to the means by which cash will be acquired to...
Financial instruments
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
Financial instruments may be defined as easily trade-able packages of capital, each having their own unique characteristics and structure. There is a wide array of financial instruments available in the global financial market, enabling efficient flow of capital among the investors Until the...
Equity valuation measure - what can they tell us?
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
A yield curve is a curve which represents graphically the interest rate of same quality of credit bond related to a precise moment. The point is that those bonds have not the same date of maturity (long-term and short-term rates). The yield curve represents the price of what we can call...
Financial Analysis of Carrefour
Financial analysis - 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...
Causes and consequences of the Asian financial crisis, G.W Noble and J. Ravenhill.
Text commentary - 5 pages - Finance
This article proposes an analysis of the deep crisis that struck East Asia in the 1990s. The authors give us in the most synthetic way, a panorama of the different analyses made about the crisis and their own ones. In 1997, the crisis came as a shock for the Asian countries as well as for the...
Islamic banking
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Islamic banking is both a new worldwide phenomenon and a very old school of thought. Its origin may be traced back to the Middle East, but due to the fast development of Asian countries with a majority of Muslims (like Malaysia), this trend is becoming global. It is a growing force with whom it...
Bankers' bonuses : limit or laissez-faire?
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
Nowadays, we are facing the hugest crisis in history. To summarize the facts, the greediness of a few 'bankers' and the globalization of the economy are leading to many bankruptcies and redundancies. But are bankers' bonuses really a underlying cause of the current crisis ?
Le marché de l'immobilier français en 2010
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
The French Real Estate market didn't collapse in 2009 despite a very violent financial and economical crisis. Compared to the British and to the American markets, the French real estate market showed a good performance. Sales of new real estate properties had boom of 25% compared to 2008 whereas...
Growth optimal portfolio for the unobservable Markov-modulated markets
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The benchmark model introduced by Platen (2002) has not been well studied in literature for the case of incomplete information whereas the incompleteness of the information in financial modeling is usual in practice. Some of the factors that characterize the evolution of the market may be hidden....
Sandberg Crosby and the launch of "Super Project "
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
In March 1967, a financial analysis conducted by Crosby Sanberg revealed a significant outcome: the principles that were learnt at business schools need not necessarily work practically all the time. The study was related to incremental analysis. Generally, some costs are considered to be not...
The risk and returns
Dissertation - 63 pages - Finance
Rates of Return over Multiple Periods, typically quarters are expressed as: Arithmetic Average of the quarterly returns, is the total return divided by the number of quarters. It ignores the compounding effect. Geometric (time weighted) Average of the quarterly returns, is equal to the single...
Financial Intermediaries
Dissertation - 54 pages - Finance
Funds can move from lenders to borrowers via indirect finance involving financial intermediaries. Financial intermediaries borrow funds from lenders/savers and then provide funds to borrowers/spenders. If it is a commercial bank it acquires funds by issuing a liability to the public in the form...
Invest consultancy report
Market study - 4 pages - Finance
In a few years, soft drinks became the symbol of our modern, globalized and standardized foodstuffs. These generally fizzy and very sweet drinks are made water-based, charged with carbonic acid, with fruit syrup or plant extracts. Regarding the soft drinks market, it is dominated by three huge...
The Argentinean currency board ended up in a collapse in 2001 - A study
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Despite the fact that more than a century has passed after the adoption of the gold standard in the main developed powers and the implementation of a strict monetary regime in Argentina, those two systems seem to rely on the same process. It aims at pegging a national currency by making its...
Corporate Finance - comparison between "Mac Donalds" and "Burger King", two leading fast food chians
Financial analysis - 11 pages - Finance
The two companies, Burger King and McDonald's have been present in the fast food market since a long time. The turnover of Burger King represents US $2.234 billion and the one of McDonald's is US $22.79 billion, which permits us to see that the two companies are very important and...
Stock option price modeling using system dynamics and operations research
Thesis - 12 pages - Finance
Options are instruments that give the holder the right, but not an obligation, to buy or sell an asset by a certain date for a certain price. Options can be bought or sold on a variety of assets like stocks, foreign currency, indexes, and futures. A call option gives the holder the right to buy...
L'Autorité française des marchés financiers (AMF) et la commission américaine de sécurité et d'échanges (SEC)
Presentation - 14 pages - Finance
The AMF has for mission to apply the laws relative to the supervision of the financial sector. Especially in the field of : Insurances, securities and depository institution, except banks - and the distribution of products and financial services. The Authority must : - provide assistance to...
Forecasting time series using neural network model: Application for Korean stock market
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
This study examines the performance of forecasting model established by using neural network. The neural network model proposed in this study is implemented to forecast the stock price stream of Korean stock market. Factors for forecasting that influence Korean stock market are obtained by the...
A benchmark of finding the criteria for optimal portfolio choice
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Finance
In today's rapidly changing economic environments, global portfolio investors are invariably confronted with dynamic and fluid choice of criteria that enable them to exercise subjective judgment on asset portfolio choice decisions. The subjective investment portfolio choice includes the...
RFID adoption timing: The application of option pricing model
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of RFID adoption and find a feasible way to decide the optimal adoption timing for RFID adoption. Due to the significant investment of this technology, RFID implementation could be considered in two stages -- internal and external adoption....
