Stock Exchange Research Papers Samples For Students

The beginning of Stock market in America.

Trading in the stock exchange markets has a definite origin. Ideally, the American Stock Exchange represented by the acronym (AMEX). Historically, the trading in the stock market commenced in the 1800s periods. This transition was referred to as the curb exchange. Historically, the origin shows that the stock exchange in the United States was established with the intention to develop a stable economic power. This was the primary disquiet of the United States economic stimulus policy. According to the historical records, this occurred during the times of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury at that time. This executive secretary ...

Turkey has been going through the rapid economic growth and large-scale urbanization since the 1950’s. Consequently, the real estate industry of Turkey has emerged into an advanced industry with multiple stakeholders including the real estate investment trusts (REIT). The companies of this type usually operate in the largest cities of Turkey where the economic activity is the highest. 5 most populous cities in Turkey that will be growing in the nearest future and that are of interest for the REITs are Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, and Antalya. The real estate sector amounts for almost 20% of the GDP ( ...

Shown below is an interesting list of companies with equally interesting issues they have faced in the last 10 years from Forbes Magazine ( 2008). What is interesting to find here is the depth of corporate and personal unethical cases involving people of relatively high educational standings and social standing. The alarming frequency and magnitude of these unethical practices are staggering to say the very least, and yet there seems to be a large scandal waiting to be uncovered every day. This century marks the recognition of dealing with complex business and ethical issues as a priority of corporations around the world.
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Part One
Wall Mart Company is faced with a sex discrimination lawsuit which is based on statistical analysis which indicated that the company which is rated as the largest employer in the United States discriminates against women employees.
This discrimination as argued by attorneys is explicitly reflected in the payment of salaries and giving of promotions to the employees. It is argued that female workers in the company are paid less and given fewer promotions compared to their male counterpart, despite the fact that they are both exposed to the same work load in the conduction of their ...

Introduction: The Theory

Gamblers fallacy is an argument that bases its argument on the occurrence of random events, in that if the occurrence of a certain event is frequent currently the there will be an infrequent occurrence in the future. The fallacy depicts that if something happens more often or if there is a positive performance, there will be a rare occurrence in the future, or the performance will be negative. The fallacy is based on independent events where the outcome of one event does not influence the other also called random events. The fallacy argues that if a certain outcome is favored then as you ...

In the Kingdom of Netherlands, Amsterdam is the most populous city. This is because of many reasons. For instance, it is the capital city of Netherlands. Approximately, the population of the city is around 1571234 people. Amsterdam is strategically located in the North Holland province, which is towards the west part of the country. The city forms much of Ramstad’s northern part, which in itself is among the largest metropolitan area in Europe, having approximately seven million people. In essence, the name Amsterdam originates from Amstelredamme. This origin gives the city’s origin as being river Amstel’s ...

1.0 Introduction
In the 1980s, serious corporate scandals were witnessed forcing scholars, researchers and other stakeholders to wonder whether the existing regulations were adequate to maintain the stability of companies. The need to reconsider the manner in which companies are regulated was further enhanced by an increase in the number of corporate scandals between 2001 and 2002. Due to corporate scandals involving highly esteemed companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen made regulatory agencies among other stakeholders to come up with regulations that would be affective in curbing such scandals. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed in 2002, and the ...

Impact of Future Derivatives on Stock Market Volatility

Derivatives has been the talk of the financial world after it was accused as the primary reason for such a deep financial crisis that affected the global economy in 2007. Thus, the modelling of asset returns and judging the volatility of stock market and whether the derivatives have a substantial effect on stock market volatility, is still the key task for every finance professional as it provides much needed on risk patterns involved in investment process. The Finance Gurus propose that stock market normally exhibit high levels of price volatility and cause concerns to the investor regarding unpredictable outcomes, however with ...

Abstract

The principles of financial management are very important as they help in ensuring the smooth running of all the financial activities of a firm. Several financial management principles are in existent and they cover different areas of management. There are about ten different principles of financial management. However, in this paper we are going to lay more emphasis on three of the principles among them; cash is king, not all risks are equal and efficient markets. This research is going to consider the Zales Jewelry Company and how the company implements the use of different financial management principles. We are ...

Introduction

Multinational corporations across the world usually consolidate and present their operational results in financial and non-financial terms at the end of every term, usually a year. The financial aspect of reporting is supposed to comply with a clearly prescribed set of regulatory standards. The adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards and GAAPs was meant to ensure that all compliant firms across the world produce financial statements that conform to the industry specific reporting frameworks and thus achieve a degree of uniformity in reporting. Different firms in operating in multiple locations operate under the strict guidelines of the specific ...

Impact of Debt Structure on Financial Performance of Saudi Arabian Firms

The study uses a sample of 125 firms that are listed on the Saudi-Arabia Stock Exchange. The sample was drawn from 13 different sectors (see Table 1). Firms from the Energy & Utility and the Real Estate sector formed the highest proportion (13.6%) while Agriculture/Food formed the lowest proportion (1.6%).

Descriptive Statistics of Sampled Firms

The highest ratio of short-term debt to total assets was 100 percent. In other words, the firm financed all of its assets with short-term debt. The lowest ratio of short-term debt to total assets was 0 percent. The average ratio of short-term debt to total assets was 21.56 percent with ...

1.0 Abstract
Stakeholders are of central importance to every business organization. The success of any business hinges on the relationship that it has with its stakeholders. Disclosure of quality financial reports is significant for the capacity of business organizations to build confidence with their key stakeholders. Corporate governance and the audit quality have attracted the interest of researchers to determine how they impact stakeholders. Additionally, the implementation of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) has impacted the direction of business organizations especially with regards to corporate governance. The question of whether the quality and extent of disclosure of financial information ...

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Management at Sprint

Management at SPRINT
Introduction
Sprint Nextel Corporation is a based in the United States and it is engaged in telecommunication business. Sprint Nextel Corporation was founded in the year 1899, by Jason Brown and Cleyson Brown. The corporation has been operating as Sprint Corporation until the year 2005when it underwent branding to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and it mainly specialises in the provision of both wire line and wireless communications networks.
Management comprises of the following various function, which include organising, directing, staffing, planning, controlling and leading. All ...

Nike Inc is an American company involved in the design, development and marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. The company is listed in the New York Stock Exchange, and the company prides itself as the global leader in the supply of athletic shoes and apparel. The company is also a leading manufacturer and supplier of sports equipment. The company has also been named as the most valuable brand in the sports business.
Callaway Golf Company, is also a listed company in the New York Stock Exchange which deals with sporting goods worldwide and is involved in the design, ...

An Overview of the Standard-Setting Industry And Its History

Introduction
Accounting Standards have been in existence since the beginning of the recorded history. Some of these standards were set up by rulers or reigning kings. However, as the world developed, States started coming up with bodies aimed at controlling the quality and standards of products and services in the accounting sector. In the ancient world, the man used to come up with standards with a desire of harmonizing his activities with important changes in the environment. Some standards were also set in response to a rise in needs in the society. The standard setting body in America was ...

Company Overview

GasLog Ltd. is an international firm engaged in managing, operating, and owner of the LNG carriers that includes a fully owned fleet of 22 carriers (Reuters). The company primarily operating in the liquefied natural gas market by providing worldwide maritime transportation including technical ship management services to five of the LNG carriers owned by third-party subsidiaries. The company’s corporate office is located at Rue Du Ga, Monaco, and currently trading in New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GLOG after being incorporated in 2006 (Reuters). The discussion aims to analyze the GasLog Ltd. in terms of financial ...

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Bernie Madoff

Abstract
Bernie Madoff was found guilty of having administered the biggest monetary fraud in the history of the United States. He administered a Ponzi scheme for more than four decades before he got caught. The court sentenced him to prison for 150 years, and his company was dissolved. To increase his credibility for the Ponzi scheme to work, Bernie Madoff used his designation as chairperson of NASDAQ and also used Wall Street as his business point. In addition to that, he used his Jewish background to extract money from Jewish investors. The national authorities of taxation and ...

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Company of choice.
The contemporary world has been run by corporates and large businesses and taking that into consideration; Best Buy does not go unnoticed in this list. This company possesses most of the qualities of an organization in today’s fast-paced society. Some of these qualities include the ability to enjoy significant economies of scale from the global market. They serve and can embrace change through its life cycle to ascertain its existence and survival as well as overcoming market challenges arising from competition among other internal and external forces that affect business. The company’s ability to ...

Introduction

The Bernie Madoff scandal was a Ponzi scheme involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. The company was a Wall Street investment firm that was founded by Bernie Madoff himself. This scandal is considered the largest Ponzi scheme ever that ended up costing investors $64.8 billion. The main people involved were Bernie Madoff, his accountant David Friehling, and Frank DiPascalli. The three were responsible for paying investors with the investors own money rather than the profits. Madoff ended up telling his sons about the scandal. They reported him to the authorities and Madoff was arrested the next day. Madoff ...

“Dollar rally” has become probably the top news on foreign exchange markets, which can have serious consequences for the US economy (Graph 1, appendix). Stronger dollar is a kind of head wind for American exporters while import from other countries becomes more competitive. Strong currency can theoretically become a stimulus for the Federal Reserve System provoking increase of interest rates. Many companies all over the world borrowed US dollars for investments or development; therefore, dollar strengthening provokes their debts increase. In current situation Central Banks, foreign exchange traders and exporter all over the world keep a close eye on ...

The crisis of 2008 was the moment of truth for global economics pointing out new possibilities for developed countries to challenge their financial system. This world phenomena was one of the most discussed and controversial during the recent decade. Crisis events, which we observed in American financial system in the second quarter of 2008 affected the majority of countries all over the world and were so drastic and huge while measures of regulators stabilizing the situation so unprecedented, that it allowed to question the effectiveness and resiliency of American financial capitalistic model on global world market (Ershov, 2010). Some ...

Yahoo Incorporated was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. Both of them were students at Stanford University. The acronym Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." (Smith and Graham, Internet Law and Regulation). Yahoo is among the leading internet service providers serving both businesses and individuals worldwide. The company brags to be among the largest provider of internet services globally and other integrated services. Yahoo internet search engines are available on World Wide Web. The company provides services to 500 million users around the world. Yahoo Incorporated provides its services in over twenty languages. The ...

Definition

Finance is science, which explains about the management, creation, money, banking, credit, investment, assets and liabilities. The finance has financial systems. It has public, private, and government phases. There are three types of finance public, corporate, and private finance.

Efficient Market

An investment that states impossible to beat the market because the stock market efficiency causes the existing price to the corporate, EMH says, the stock always fall value on stock exchanges. It is impossible to outperform in the overall market based on the expert stock selection. The efficient market deals with the market research and efficiency.

Primary Market

A market issues new ...

Report #1: Company Profile

1. Company name / local address / web site and company headquarters
This paper focuses on Mt San Jacinto College which is headquartered in Riverside County, California, United States of America. The address of the college is 1499 N. State St. in the City of San Jacinto, ZIP: 92583 and its website is www.msjc.edu.
2. Company type (private, non-profit or public, if public—stock exchange and ticker

Mt San Jacinto College is a public community college thus its purpose is to offer service to the public and does not take part in stock exchange.
3. Industry Code ( ...

Background Information

The Future Shop is the leading Canadian consumer electronics retailer. In 200l, the Best Buy acquired all of the common stock of Future shop worth $377 including transaction costs. After the acquisition, the company was renamed Best Buy Canada Ltd (CBCNEWS, 2001). The acquisition was meant to expand the plans and increase shareholder value of Best Buy. Since most of the locations are under the original name, Best Buy Canada Limited continues to manage Future shop as a separate unit. The acquisition was a success for both companies because they have expanded their operation since the acquisition. After the acquisition, the ...

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Financial Analysis: Starbuck Corporation
Our analysis of a company listed on US Stock Exchange is based on Starbucks. The concerned industry is of Speciality Eateries.

About the Company:

Starbucks Corporation is a leading marketer and retailer of coffee, having its outlets in 60 countries around the world. The stock of the company is listed on NASDAQ Stock Exchange with the tick symbol of ‘’SBUX’’. Apart from selling coffee, the company is also involved in tea, beverages and variety of fresh food items. Today, Starbucks is a leading and most recognized coffee brand in the world. The most popular brand of Starbucks, K- ...

Business Research Report

Executive Summary

The foregoing CPA report by the public accounting firm reviews XYZ Corporation’s financial statement in the interest of audit reporting on a publicly traded, multinational corporation. The report addresses the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFAC) establishment of general accounting rules followed by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and International Federation of Accounts (IFAC) in control of financial audit.

Introduction

The CPA report by the public accounting firm reviews XYZ Corporation’s financial statement in the interest of audit reporting on a publicly traded, multinational corporation. The report addresses the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFAC) establishment of general accounting rules ...

Starbucks is an American worldwide global coffee company with its headquarters in Seattle, in Washington DC. As a global company, Starbucks records adversely high financial performance. This is based on the fame of the coffee commodities that the company manufactures in the world. As a company having adverse stakeholders, financial analysis for the company is extremely essential. Therefore, Starbucks conducts systematic audit of its financial performance.

The company that has been entrusted the analysis for Starbuck’s financial position and performance is Deloitte and Touche Tohmatsu Limited. This is a firm that offers audit services to companies with exclusive experience on handling ...

Analysis if the financial performance of Sprintex company ltd.

Introduction
Sprintex communication limited is an IT firm that has been in the provisions of services in communication industry for he last fifteen years. Over the said period, the company has grown from strength to strength, financialwise, and notably managing to spread out it’s operations beyond the two outlets that were set by the original foundes,John Mark and Wendy In the year 1998.
Currently the company is domiciled in London, operating as its headquarters and the focal point of conducting its global strategy. It has roughly two hundred and seventeen branches, most of them in ...

The initials IPOs stand for – Initial Public Offer. This is the sale of the stock that is done for the first time by private companies to the members of the public. It is feature usually associated with smaller companies when they are seeking expansion capital. However, it can also take place in private large companies for the purpose of a public trade. IPOs can turn out being risky investments. As for individual investors, it is always hard to forecast the performance of the stock on the first day it is traded and also in the near future due to the ...

Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy

One of the most talked about signs, and for some experts the root cause, of the global recession that plagued in 2008 is the September 2008 bankruptcy petition of known financial giant Lehman Brothers. The known global firm had ended up succumbing to tantamount debt due to the ongoing subprime mortgage transpiring in the period which resulted to severe mortgage complications and foreclosures, especially in the real estate sector The bankruptcy petition was considered a crucial blow to the financial industry given the Dow Jones drop to the all time low and subsequent depreciation prevailed throughout the globe. Many experts ...

Introduction

Facebook is a social network platform cum organization. It is arguably one of the largest social networks as demonstrated by its decision to go public through listing its share in the stock exchange. This social network site offers its subscriber an opportunity to socialize; by sharing messages, photos, connections and links to other networks or sites. It can also act as a business sites through advertisement of various product and services on its site.

Privacy policy

Online based organizations have to contend with a daunting task of ensuring the data they have for their clients is free from intrusion by other agents without the ...

Business Law: ENRON SCANDAL

Introduction
The scandal that is Enron stands out among other corporate scandals such as WorldComm, Global Crossing. At Enron, the situation is illustrated of how the free enterprise system in the United States of America and the unregulated trust vested on auditors can be abused by a group of selfish and individualistic capitalists determined to make good of a bad situation. The case also illustratively points out the effects of corporate pressure from the shareholders on the management and the weaknesses of the stewardship concept of management of shareholders wealth. Enron puts a clear case of the need to have strong ethical ...

Executive summary

Pepsi is one of the biggest food and beverage companies in the world with $66 billion in revenues and 25.65,000 employees all over the world. PepsiCo is listed at the New York Stock Exchange. The company is also listed at the Amsterdam, Swiss, Chicago and Tokyo Stock exchange. PepsiCo’s main customers are authorized bottlers and independent distributors and retailers. PepsiCo products are available in over 200 countries, with the largest operations in North America, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
The company mainly operates in the non-alcoholic beverages and macro snacks market. They have become the largest ...

Research Paper about Finance

The current paper is devoted to the derivatives markets issues. When conducting this research I gave definitions to derivatives, examined their use, learned theories and concepts related derivatives application, analyzed existing derivatives regulation policies, proposed several ideas and concepts concerning innovative derivatives markets regulation, developed innovative derivatives products. I examined several arbitrage strategies and made appropriate conclusions with regard to this research.
1. Part 1.
1.1 Question 1.
Derivative is a kind of security which price is derived from one or several types of underlying assets. The most common underlying assets are: bonds, currencies, stocks, market indexes, ...

Introduction

Various individuals in the society are convicted to prison for different reasons. However according to research there is no parity in the judicial system. There are many factors that have continued to thwart the deliverance of justice to different individuals. Wealth and the status held by an individual in the society are among the many factors that have prevented justice from prevailing. The wealthier people in the society and celebrities are exceptional when it comes to conviction. They use their wealth and influence in the society to influence the ruling of the court. Below are some of the confinements ...

The companies that we considered are: Apple Inc, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, and Wal-Mart. Before settling on these five, we had examined dozens but we settled on them after going through them carefully.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is an American multinational corporation that runs discount and warehouse stores. It is the largest public corporation by revenue in the world (Soderquist 26). It is also the largest grocery retailer in US and runs Sam’s club retail warehouse in North America. It operates under 55 different names in the 15 countries it operates. It is listed in Dow Jones industrial average. Its current stock ...