Investing Article Reviews Samples For Students

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Executive summary
Since the 2008 recession—when financial instability resulted in the losses and insolvency of several banks and firms—there is an increased cautiousness about international investments and lending experiences in not just the emerging-market countries, but in any foreign soil. This article discusses the use of bonds by firms investing in international markets to avoid the adversities caused by exchange-rate fluctuations. While foreign-exchange risk is still being hedged by currency swaps and futures contracts, bonds in the local currency are being used increasingly by investing companies. They use the cash flow generated from the sales in ...

Discuss the risks associated with global investing.

There are various risks associated with global investing. First is the sovereign risk which involves the central bank making changes on its foreign exchange regulations. Failure to pay government debts is also a sovereign risk that may prevent a country from investing globally since it becomes difficult for the country to borrow funds to support its investments. In addition, is the interest rate risk which comes as a result of global investment. Interest rate risk involves the increase of interest rates by banks which in many cases come up during recession period. Central bank increases these rates as a strategy to control inflation ...

Investing in securities is a current strategy in business and it tends to guarantee the profit making ventures of an organization. It is the reason that organizations have to trade in securities and since securities are flexible fits, organizations are bound to make profits on the positive side but they can again loose on the negative side. It means that trading in securities requires an amount of effort in predictions and studies on the most probable security to invest in.
There are a number of strategies used in order to invest in securities. These strategies depend on a number ...

Lan, J.Z. (2012). Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis. American Association of Individual Investors. 1.1. 16-20

Summary

There are many users of financial statements that include the management, investors, creditors, government, and employees. This article was targeted at helping investors on how to use the financial statements in order to make informed investment decisions. The article discusses the three main financial statements that firms publish namely; the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement.
The income statement shows the investors how much sales and income that a company generated over a period of time usually twelve months. The ...

The article by Ameriprise financial institute states that the goal of any investor is to minimize losses and maximize profits. It further states that investment and business management involves various risks that may occur from time to time. However, the article does not mention the types of risks that may occur in the course of business. Furthermore, it states that individuals should save enough income for their retirement benefits, mortgages and funds to cater for their health at old age. Ominously, it fails to elucidate health insurance that is known to be the most important constituent of the business ...

Article Review of Hedge Clipping

Article Review of Hedge Clipping
The major issue that is being investigated in this article is about risk management as a result of clipping the hedge. Moreover, the article has presented several advantages of hedge funds over other financial institutions such as banks and brokerage companies. That is hedge funds are not regulated by the SEC, and this provides them with a considerable latitude for investing the money of their customers. This article applies the financial data between the years 1996 to 2003 because from the article; it is clear that Malkiel and Atanu examined the data between 1996 ...

Executive Summary

Company A and company B have very similar as well as very different financial statements. Both the companies are showing positive sales growth. While company A seems to be growing at a very high pace, company B is growing at a steady but slow pace. However, even upon growing at a higher pace company A’s profit has declined due to not being able to manage the input cost for production appropriately (cost of goods sold). On the other hand company B is also feeling the impact of the increasing input cost but it has managed it better than Company A and ...

The recent financial crisis and its causes.

Financial crisis is a situation whereby people lose confidence in the banking sector and therefore their investments in many countries is affected. The value of the assets owned by the financial institutions and other investors reduce in value to a great extent (WIEDEMER, 2012). This has adverse effects in the economy of many countries. The recent financial crisis has resulted to many problems in the whole world. According to the article by Gordon and Metric, the major cause of the financial crisis is the increase in debt of various countries. Both public and private debt was behind the cause of the ...

International Business

Culture Risk, the European Union and the United Kingdom
Introduction

Financial risk is not the only risk that faces international business managers. Now-a-days there is financial risk, culture risk and even environmental risk which must be determined. The United Kingdom has a special relationship with the European Union. The difference with the biggest impact for businesses is the fact that the UK did not adopt the single currency, Euro, with the rest of the European member countries.

This paper addresses the reasons the UK didn’t sign on to the single currency. Also a discussion is offered to try to ...

The articles elaborate Johnson and Johnson's novel marketing strategy in Africa to gain a greater market share in the region. The company has recently turned to Africa to improve its future sales in the medical diagnostics and pharmaceuticals segments. Its primary marketing strategy has been investing in research and development in the continent. It is building relationships with the consumers by first providing the residents of South Africa with the desperately needed services such as mobilizing health facilities and drug distribution. (Johnson & Johnson 1). The company is investing in building these relationships because it presents them with a market ...

Insitution

Cash flow statement complements the balance sheet as well as the profit and loss account. The balance sheet reflects the company's financial position at a particular time (e.g. the end of the accounting period), and cash flow statement explains changes that have occurred with one of the components of the financial statements - in cash - from one balance sheet date to another (Dambolena & Shulman, 1988).
Balance is one of the main elements of the financial and management accounts. Depending on the destination and type of company, balance sheet structure can vary significantly (Spurga, 2004). However, its structure always ...

Chapter 2 – Organization

Five Flavors of Alignment
Alignment for a company in its simplest terms will mean streamlining its present business and being operationally prepared for implementing any future changes in its products and services. Alignment generally feels like a huge and unachievable task. Author has simplified this process by differentiating between different types of alignments. He has divided the whole alignment process into five different parts or flavors as he calls it; Strategic, Infrastructure, Operational, Innovation, and People. I think the author has taken the right approach here. Differentiating between the flavors of alignment will help a company to properly understand ...

Chinese Outward FDI Determinants

China's rise as a global commerce powerhouse has generated a flurry of practical partnership engagements and research. The striking GDP growth has, moreover, further spurred interest in China as a unique economic development model. Holding on to non-democratic political practices, China has managed to maintain a steady rise in international status as an economic power by embracing free market, neoliberal economic practices. The cumulative effect has focused, consequently, attention on China's inflows. That is, by focusing on China's capacity for economic growth based on macroeconomic metrics, including GDP, China has been studied largely based on her capacity for investment retention (indicative, presumably, of " ...

A review of Contact Energy Limited: startup history, funding, market growth and failure, operations and globalization of the energy market in New Zealand.

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(Revised on 14th April 2014)

CONTACT ENERGY LIMITED

Contact energy limited is an incorporated and a diversified company that generates and sells electricity in New Zealand. The company is one of the biggest electric generators in New Zealand with up to 23% of retail generation as of 2012. Contact started as part of the division of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in late 1996 (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, 2). It became publicly listed in the year 1999. ...

Introduction

Money is not a source of happiness in one’s life. This means that money should not be a motivating factor in career happiness. The opportunity to grow in responsibility, to learn others while recognizing your achievements and contributing to other people’s welfare is a powerful motivating factor in life. A high level of self-esteem contributes to contentedness in the working environment free of frustrations, exploitation, and unappreciated by colleagues or bosses.

Happiness in one’s career lays on satisfaction he or she finds in the career and the relationship with colleagues such as recognition after a valuable achievement. Learning new things ...

Citation

The article to be evaluated in this paper is “Role of performance Appraisal on Employee Training and Development” by Ronald Rahid. The article tries to determine whether the resolutions or decisions made regarding employee training, transfer or promotions are arrived at after thorough reference to the employees’ performance. It expounds on the benefits of training and appraisal of employees in any organization. It goes on to show the impact and effect of discussion and reviews of employee performance of assigned responsibilities and proper formulation of training avenues for the personnel to better their skills. Ronald Rahid breaks down the ...

Introduction – how it all started and what is its effect on the economy

E-business is by far the largest growing form of business in the world and this is also obviously true for the UK. Although there is the perception that this is a relatively recent phenomenon, actually e-business has been around for quite a long time, actually since the late 1970’s when Michael Aldrich invented online shopping (1979) although commercial prcatise ac ross the internet was strictly regulated until 1995 when rules began to be relaxed and companies began offering their services through the internet.
Initially services offered through e-business focused on sale of books, CDs and other similar equipment but ...