Essays on Financiers

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Analysis of the United Display Cases, Inc. (UDCI)

UDCI believed it has a good product but he still hasn’t able to attract investors or convince banks for financing. For this goal, UDCI needs to present its break-even operating capital and projections of production volume that will yield maximum profitability. A successful product launch can be a major point in convincing financiers and it would need a cost-effective marketing strategy as current finances are limited. For its plan to distribute through, it needs to determine a price it will pass to retailers that can generate more sales than direct selling. There are no direct ...

Ethics is moral principles that regulate the behavior of people or an organization, depicting how to behave towards other people and the consequences of misconduct. In engineering, ethics is the study of moral issues as well as decisions that face people and organizations working in engineering departments. The engineering profession in Ontario is under the regulation of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) that directs what to be done and the consequences of negligence. The act determines what professional engineers are dictated to do in their profession, and its principle objective is to shield the public from incompetent, unqualified or unfit ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India. The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

[Economics]

However, if you take a look at the history of the development of banking, the first evidence of some kind of bank prototype was seen in XII century in Genoa. In Italy at that time there were lots of bankers – money-changers who put their coins on the table. Originally, bankers in the XIII century, mostly known as Lombards, gradually outweighed the Jews who were proficient in money-landing. The Italians brought in business skills, enhanced by their invention of double-entry book-keeping. Such cities, like Milan, Genoa, Siena and Lucca earned much earnings from this new trade. However, Florence took ...

While financial crises have been present for many years such as the Great Depression in and the 2008 financial crisis surprised many. The difficulties and struggle in the mortgage market in the United States had moved up to larger financial markets and later the economy. This financial crisis in 2008 that ensued the global recession until 2012 had changed the way the economy is viewed globally. The crisis had made global economy spiral down. The prices of commodities were constantly changing in an unpredictable ways which had frozen consumers. Secondly, due to the uncertainty in prices of commodities, there ...

Introduction

The technique of high-frequency trading has been around for years, but especially close attention and a new surge of interest in it arose after the sensational release in May 2010 of the book by Michael Lewis “Flash Boys”. In fact, it is hard to call high-frequency trading methodology a revolutionary or even new. Although now, talking about it, everyone remembers high-performance computers and automatic programs with elements of artificial intelligence, but if to leave these technological “tricks” and the terms out of the brackets, everything becomes much easier. Actually, we are dealing with a business model, when using a ...

A company reviewing the customer ordering system can apply the stakeholder power and the interest grid to meet the interests of all stakeholders. In this project, there are several stakeholders with different levels of interests. The grid for the stakeholders in the project is presented as follows: Customers, financiers and regulators have high power but low interest in the project. The availability of finance is critical to the success of the project. The new ordering system should meet customer demands and preferences, hence customer has high power, but they do not have such a high interest since they have ...

I believe my personality and learning style would fit in extremely well in the community atmosphere of the Rotman MFin program. First of all, I am an extremely gregarious and outgoing individual; I find it extremely easy to make friends and find common ground with which to relate to others. I have a great many stories to share with others, and always enjoy learning new ones from exciting, diverse groups of people. This will make it quite effortless to ingratiate myself with my peers and become part of their learning experience. I fully anticipate making many great new friends in ...

Introduction

Shareholders are the owners of a company in legal terms. Therefore, like any owner, shareholders also try to maximize their profit interests in any organization. In the past, organizations were more focused on balancing the wealth generation and distribution among different stakeholders such as shareholders, employees, management, and society. However, since the 1970s, private companies turned to maximize the profit of shareholders ignoring the interest of other stakeholders of the company. This has generated a huge profit for the share market, which, in the last 40 years, has expanded by almost ten times. Other stakeholders, especially the employees, have suffered in ...

Abstract

The paper below is a project management plan for the construction of an oil rig design in the United States expected to produce oil from pre-drilled wells. The project will be carried out in three phases that is the Initial phase, Planning phase and the execution phase. Perceived as an opportunity to the government, the paper outlines the cost of the project, objectives and the benefits the oil rig design will bring to the stakeholders, direct and indirect users. Key words: Acidizing, Gun-Perforating ,Oil Rig design, Rotary tools, Rigs

Oil Rig Project

Project Definition Describe the Scope of the project? ...

Project Definition

Describe the Scope of the project? The project will entail the construction of an Oil Rig design that will produce oil from pre –drilled wells. It will be installed at a water depth of about 180 meters. The production oil capacity is estimated to be 185 barrels per day. The project has a budget of $350 million US dollars and should be completed within a period of three years.

Explain the need and desire for the Project?

The project aims to enable the country capture a huge part of the oil exporter market in the region. The project also aims to provide more employment opportunities for the fresh graduates of ...

Executive Summary

This report shows the purported business plan of Nerd Patrol, a partnership business formed by three friends- John, Mary and Nabil. The business will be on hardware and software services, debugging, networking and franchise sales. The strategy to be adopted by the company would be using innovativeness in creating top quality for clients. Financial discipline would be adhered to. The long term goal of the business is to grow and start manufacturing innovative hardware components and software programming. Each role of active and passive managers is spelt out in this report. Employees would constitute of four units – computer engineers, marketing ...

Proposal Writing

Part 1 Cover Letter The proposal in this document to invite your organization to invest in our baby cologne manufacturing company, where we are currently seeking for £1, 500,000. We at Perfect Joy Babycare (PJB) Company manufacture the best of baby cologne. Our market covers the whole of United Kingdom and we are looking to spreading our business to other Europeancountries within the next few years. Our products are made from the highest quality, with good human resource personnel, quality materials. We have motivated employees that observe our ethical standard of manufacturing our products.

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Judicial independence has been argued to be an abstract that can never be achieved. Legal jurists claim that the judiciary can never be independent of control of the executive, or the legislature provided that the justices are appointed by the politicians. The view is held across the judicial and political spectrum. As a consequence, twenty-one states in the United States of America have opted to elected justices of the Supreme Court. The election of the justices of the Supreme Court is can be contracted to the appointive system where the judges were appointed by the governor in the individual states. ...

Business Plan for baby Perfume

(Baby Lord Company, UK)

Executive Summary

The market for baby perfume in United Kingdom is virtually new, hence less competition and the ample room to grow is available. The profit maximization ratio for companies in this market is very encouraging and promising. Hence, Baby Lord Company will use the best of strategic marketing (product differentiation, TQM) in gaining greater market share and bringing the desired dividends to our partners, shareholders and financiers. We look to capture 40 per cent of the market share in our 4 years strategic plan.

Investment Strategy

Baby Lord Company, UK will operate to large extent niche marketing where ...

Optimal leverage analysis

The Toll Holdings Limited is an Australian company whose operations are majorly in transport on roads, sea, rail and air. The company, in its operations, requires to be financing at all times. Sometimes the profits the company makes are not enough to finance all its projects. It, therefore, calls upon the company to think of a better way to finance its projects. One of the ways of financing the projects is through taking of debts. These debts are supposed to be scrutinized by both the company and the lender. Some debts might have some negative implications on the company and, ...

In 1820s the Ottoman Empire experienced significant financial difficulties, which resulted into a considerable increase in the interest rates. Therefore, the state took various strategies to deal with the problem, including through tax-farmers in tax collection. It is during this time that the Galata bankers rose to prominence (Pamuk, 226). Galata bankers were the moneyexchangers (sarrafs), who gained popularity during the 18th century, and grew to large financials. They took advantage of the financial difficulties of the state, especially in addressing the short-term and long-term financial needs. The Galata bankers are known to be providing financial help to the state ...

How the different approaches to contract financing can impact the company

There are various approaches/methods of financing contracts. The following is the description of the approaches and how they may impact on a company. First, we begin with advance payments: these are advances of money given by the government to a prime contractor before, in anticipation of, and purposely for complete performance under a single or many contracts. These advances are expected to be liquidated from those payments due to the incident of the contractor to the performance of the contracts. Since these advance payments are not measured by performance, they differ from partial, progress, or those payments that are based on partial ...

- Organization overview - Company background

Type of company, origin and location

Energy Autos is a limited liability company operating in US and having its headquarters in New York. The business has a focus on modern technology auto products and was started the year 2013 gaining market leadership with its creativity and innovation application. The business operates like a limited liability company having the benefits of limiting the owners’ liability to their equity contribution and separating the business from the investors involved. In respect to its location, New York was found to be suitable location for the business start up considering the accessibility to raw materials and ...

A family owned business, or a family business for that matter is may be defined as that business that is started and run by members of a given family lineage. It’s started with a vision shared in the family, and employs mainly members of the family, as well as other professionals to manage the business. Generally though, a family business is run mainly to meet the shared objectives of the family, and also for the benefit of the family. In most cases, family businesses are managed by one of the family members, who may be advised by professionals and other technical ...

In past two weeks the athletic fraternity in the country has witnessed unbearable scandal in one of its most famous arena of basketball, when Rutgers University committed a series of actions that seem unprofessional and unattractive both to the public, the media and other learning institution. The university have gone to the depth of firing the head coach of the university’s basketball team, coach Mike rice over claims of his abusive behavior to players, it has also forced the resignation of the athletic director, Tim Pernetti and also gone to the extent of kicking out its general counsel a ...

What factors led the US to follow Hamilton's vision of a market based economy over Jefferson's vision of an agrarian based society? Thomas Jefferson who was born in 1743 always favoured a strong agrarian approach in his politics. The third President of the United States is also remembered as the mastermind who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase and was also the chief author of the Declaration of Independence. While Thomas Jefferson sought about sending Lewis and Clarke on their expedition to explore the new west, Alexander Hamilton foresaw the problems with the new Confederation and saw the necessity for centralization. In ...

Implementing Ethics into Leadership: A case of Fredrick w. Smith-Fouder and president of FedEx.

Introduction

In the last decade, the world has witnessed high profile ethical failures. The accounting frauds at a company run by Bernard Madoff and the ones that led to the collapse of Enron and several other companies at the turn of the millenium, will not be forgotten soon. In these and other scandlous cases, ethical leadership has come into sharp focus. What however, is rarely seen, are stories about the numerous companies that are managed by ethical leaders. These leaders are people servants who adhere to the ...

Executive Summary

Description of Organization The Wexner Medical Center is run by Ohio State University. It was formerly known as the Ohio State University Medical Center. Although it has a number of branches, the main headquarters is located in Columbus, Ohio at the main campus of the Ohio State University. The institution boasts of a progressive performance that has seen it rank among the top healthcare providers in the United States of America. The institution offers a wide range of healthcare services through its multidimensional approach to healthcare. It is imperative to note that the institution also suffices for the teaching and training ...

Introduction

Those countries which are on the list of upcoming countries of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) share comparatively more strength to attract world’s largest economies of 21st century including Pakistan. The economy of Pakistan is partially industry and partially agriculture, with focus on developments along the Indus River. The expansion in financial system, in the city centers of Punjab and Karachi took place with small amount of urbanized region in other areas of the country. GDP of Pakistan in the year 2011 was approximately 202 billion USD. The amount expected per capita GDP is about 1,197 ...

Bernard, or “Bernie” Madoff is now an infamous figure in the American media, but before he became one of the most famous villains of all time, he was a well-known and well-respected investment advisor and stockbroker. He worked in the financial sector for many years, even working as the non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange for a time (“The Madoff Scam: Meet The Liquidator,” 2010). Madoff formed his own company in 1960, a firm he called Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities. It is rare for individuals who are so powerful in the American financial sector to become embroiled in such ...

Introduction

Behavioral finance is essential in the understanding and analysis of systematic market effects of psychological decision procedures. The concept of behavioral finance uses knowledge from anthropology, social sciences and cognitive psychology to analyze the behavior of investors. The theory of behavioral finance is based on the idea that investors act rationally by analyzing all possible or available information before settling on a given decision. Therefore, investment markets are assumed to be efficient, and they give a true reflection of the available public information of security prices. According to Minsky, capitalistic systems are always vulnerable to crises because financial innovation leads to ...

Essay: Corporate Ethics after the Financial Crisis of 2008

Corporate Ethics refer to the acceptable moral practices in business. It includes moral principles, values and codes of conduct that determines the behavior of group of individuals in satisfying their customers’ needs. It also entails honesty, straight forwardness, trust, fairness and other core values that surround decision making business transactions or deals. Corporate or business ethics consider other business stakeholders’ interests during various business transactions. Corporate ethics and business success are therefore inseparable. Upholding corporate ethics is one of the best ways by which companies can ensure their maximum benefits. Managements should not give higher priorities to their ...

Introduction

Rolls Royse is a global leader in the provision of power systems and services at sea, on land and also in the air. Over the years, the company has established a very strong position in defense aerospace, energy and nuclear production and also civil airspace. The company is headquartered at Buckingham Gate in England but has operations in the regional offices in the US, Europe, Middle east, Asia and recently, Australia. In evaluating the performance of Rolls Royse, we shall gather both qualitative and quantitative information regarding the company and carry out a number of operations to gauge the company’s performance. ...

In capital budgeting, the ultimate condition underlying any investment decision in whether or not it maximizes the wealth of the shareholder. It might be of interest at this point to note that it is shareholders and not any other providers of capital who are considered in the investment decisions. The best rationale for the maximization of shareholder wealth is the ownership claim that shareholders have on any company. Essentially, shares represent ownership, and thus it follows that any business decisions should be in the best interests of the owners. Investment decisions should thus all be geared towards improving ...

This paper compares the differences between Islamic Musharaka and Conventional equity investments. It contains a detailed discussion on both financial models accompanied with a brief comparison of the two at the end. The following aspects of the Musharaka and Conventional equity financing contracts have been covered.

1. Introduction to Islamic and Conventional financing systems 2. Brief over view of both modes of financing 3. Types of both modes of financing 4. Commencement of agreement 5. Contract terms and conditions 6. Termination of contract 7. Risk of loss 8. Ownership provision 9. Expense consequent ...

In the case of McSparran v. Larson, it can be observed that the actions of management of the corpotaion have led to high legal fees and damage of the reputation of the company. This is caused by the unacceptable behaviors of the management of the company. In addition to these two, the actions of the board have caused greater damages to the corporation. In the first place, the financiers of the corporation have lost trust in the corporation. Therefore, it will be difficult for the financiers to offer any financial assistance to the corporation since there is a probability ...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 is an economics book that was written by Paul Krugman. The book is an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis that followed an economic downturn amid huge economic activity in the financial sector of many economies including that of the United States of America. The book further follows and traces integration of the unfavorable economic conditions into the financial crisis experienced in the year 2008. In addition, Paul Krugman considers the parameters that characterize a relationship in an economic depression context basing the argument on the depression and the economic ...