The impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the retail industry in India
Dissertation - 102 pages - Finance
Retailing is the largest private industry in India and second largest employer after agriculture. Retailers not only provide consumers with a wide variety of products, but also a wide range of complementary services such as assurance of products delivery which can lead to more informed choice and...
Financial Analysis Performing: Coca Cola Inc. vs. Pepsi Co.
Financial analysis - 25 pages - Finance
Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton created the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion by his bookkeeper Frank Robinson who also scripted the famous logo. The soft drink was...
Advanced corporate finance II: modern Portfolio theories
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
Harry Markowitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist who worked on the modern portfolio theory. His work has changed the ways of investing for many traders, keeping in mind that his work gave scientific features to risk versus return. The modern portfolio theory is made of different tools to...
Risk Management - publié le 24/05/2009
Course material - 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...
Investment opportunities in relevance to ICICI
Case study - 74 pages - Finance
In the '90s there has been a decisive shift towards a new wave, the domain of financial services. In the era of the consumer, financial services, which seek to put the consumer in the forefront, have come to stay. Skillful marketing has opened up a wide spectrum of areas where financial...
Fundamentals of fund management
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
The easiest way to harness your savings to the stock market is through investing in a fund which pools your money with that of many thousands of other people. Investment funds are commercially run organizations, often owned by banks or insurance companies, which buy shares in bulk, collect the...
HDFC and the mobilization of funds in the insurance sector
Tutorials/exercises - 63 pages - Finance
It has been established that village co-operatives insured against loss of profit in an industry in the early days of the Aryan Civilization. There were contacts safeguarding risks of transport by sea or land. Further these well renowned joint-family system rendered services similar to those of...
Creating an application for proper implementation of wealth management
Dissertation - 101 pages - Finance
“ Without order nothing would exist, without chaos nothing would evolve “. As the saying goes nothing would evolve without chaos and nothing would exist without order, the same applies in the areas of business. Something new comes into the market to bring order and safety in the markets...
An overview of financial management
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
Finance is known to be the life-blood of business. It is extremely important to carefully look after the financial transactions and activities that go on in a business. Proper analysis and insight is necessary in order to plan for the future. The word finance comes from the Latin word...
A study on currency correlation and variability as a hedging tool: An analytical study of their relationship
Tutorials/exercises - 47 pages - Finance
Organizations are becoming increasingly more globalized. Currency transactions and risks there upon influence an organization portfolio. Firms are finding it necessary to pay special attention to foreign exchange exposure and accordingly design and implement suitable hedging strategies. The...
A study and an in depth analysis of the Indian capital market
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Finance
The medium capitalized segment of the stock market is being increasingly perceived as an attractive investment segment with high growth potential. However, the lack of awareness among the investors has not been able to prove much as per the above statement. Majority of the investors invest...
Black and Scholes option pricing model and its applicability
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Finance
The world financial market has undergone qualitative changes in the last three decades due to phenomenal growth of derivatives. With the world embracing the derivative trading on a large scale, the Indian market cannot remain aloof, especially after liberalization has set in motion. Derivative...
A study on foreign currency funding option
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Finance
Globalization of economy has resulted in interlinking of financial markets in different countries into a common worldwide pool of funds to be accessed by borrowers and lenders alike. No sector of the economy seems to be more global in its orientation and operations than finance. To succeed in...
EADS : a cross cultural merger
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Since the early 1980s, mergers and acquisitions have been developing in Europe and worldwide. After the dramatic increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s leaves its mark by rapid cross-border connections and increased significant value of...
Host Hotels & Resorts : financial and strategic analysis
Market study - 16 pages - Finance
Host Hotels & Resorts (HST) is a real estate investment trust that exists since 1993 since the division of Marriott Corporation into management and property arms. HST is the first lodging real estate company. It owns 119 luxury and upper-upscale, full service hotels managed by strong brands...
Corporate finance: Opening a retail music store - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
Friends Jane and Elizabeth have decided to open up a retail music store. They will open up a store in a large shopping mall, purchase CDs from the large music distributors, and resell them to the public. Their first decision is to determine if they can profit from this venture, therefore they...
The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
“Where businesses cannot develop, countries cannot flourish. Let us use this International Year of Microcredit to put millions of families on the path to prosperity. I extend my gratitude to the nation and people of Bangladesh for helping to show us the way.” the former UN general...
The implications of the operations of the banking sector on money supply
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
The UK banking sector plays a crucial role in determining not only the amount of money in circulation in the economy but also the form that it takes (e.g. fiat money or current/deposit account holdings available to be given by the banks as loans). These aspects of the monetary policy can, in...
Stock index futures (CME® S&P 500® futures) - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
Stock index futures - The first stock index contracts were traded at the Kansas City Board of Trade on February 24, 1982. This introduction was followed (the same year in April) by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). These new contracts were based on the S&P 500 index. These two brand new...
Evaluation of the security transaction, the consistency of the portfolio construction and management with client's profile - published: 13/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
This year, Pro Fund is very proud to have a new client, Mr Lucent who is 47 years old. He sold his firm during the summer and received 1,000,000€ for it. He doesn't really need this money but he wanted to have a new challenge in another sector. He wants to keep the money for the future...
Private equity: India Vs China
Presentation - 40 pages - Finance
Private Equity is when a firm's shares are held privately and not traded in the public markets. PE includes shares in both mature private companies and, as venture capital in newly started businesses. As it is less liquid than publicly traded equity, investors in private equity expect on an...
The implications of the operations of the banking sector on money supply - published: 12/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
Brief Overview Bank deposits make up over 80% of the M3. Thus bank behavior is important to money supply. Cash is an asset to the bank. Deposits are a liability since the bank must repay them on demand or at short notice. The banks know that at any point in time only a % of investors will...
The Levin model of monetary integration - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
In the following work the Levin model of monetary integration is going to be derived and then used to show that the union monetary expansion reduces income divergence between the countries in the union and that fiscal expansion in one of the countries increases income divergence. Also it is going...
How well is the business doing? Evaluating a firm's financial condition
Presentation - 130 pages - Finance
The presentation will first talk about the purpose of financial analysis before moving on to the techniques and financial ratios. It will also show how to understand if the company is running a risk of liquidity. It will then talk about current ratios and liquidity of current assets. There will...
Credit rating in India
Presentation - 28 pages - Finance
The credit market in India has been growing steadily since the advent of the reforms process at the beginning of the nineties. Indian credit Market is the third largest in the world, after Japan and South Korea, in terms of primary issues of debt. Historically when a loan was given or a...
A presentation on mutual funds
Presentation - 31 pages - Finance
The presentation is designed to give you a general idea about the way mutual funds work. SOme of the aspect that will be covered are what mutual funds are, the growth of mutual funds, why it is a smart idea to invest in mutual funds, etc. The presentation will also talk about the drawbacks of...
Case study: Spectris
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Spectris is a leading supplier of precision instrumentation and controls. It employs 6,000 employees in its 14 business units. It has a wide range of core technology and their products help customers improve product quality and performance, improve core manufacturing processes, and reduce...
The Chinese banking system - published: 12/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The Central Bank is the only monetary policy-making and policy-executing entity in the Republic of China. Its organization structure is split into two independent entities: The decision-making body and the decision-executing body. The decision-making body, which is more important, is composed of...
The sub-prime loans crisis and the recent turbulences in the credit markets (2008) - published: 12/05/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Finance
The Russian economist Kondratiev has shown, in his theory of the cycles that in the economical life periods of economical recession followed periods of growth, and then followed by another period of growth, in an infinite cycle. The start point of these periods of recession is usually a great...
Pages Jaunes group - published: 12/05/2009
Thesis - 11 pages - Finance
The consolidated balance sheet indicates that the Pages Jaunes Group has 56,129 thousand euros of share capital and 98,676 thousand euros of issue premium. The share capital is composed of 280,644,450 common stocks (ordinary stocks) each with a par value of 0.2 euros. As observed in the statement...
