Essays on Net Worth

Introduction

The fast food industry is a multi-billion venture for companies operating in the United States and those that have a foothold in the global market. One of the successful American publicly traded franchises is McDonald's with food stores both in the United States and beyond. McDonald's has a net worth of about $110B, annual revenues of $25.36 B and a profit margin of $5.7B by close of the financial year in 2016. Besides, McDonald's has a strong history of acquisition spanning from the 90’s where it acquired Chipotle. Followed by Donato Pizza, KeyCorp, Essex Capital Markets Inc., Wallach ...

Have you ever developed an e-portfolio for various gains? Wentworth Institute of Technology has taken its learning process to another level. As a mandatory, students undertaking Bachelor of Science and Management students are required to develop an e-portfolio at the freshman year throughout to the final year in the institution. An e- portfolio constitutes a student's resume, profile pictures, and much more personal details and can be used for social as well as professional purposes. The Journal of Human Development thus gives a deep insight on the importance of e-portfolios and goes further to identify the net worth of ...

Question/Problem Definition

In a global and competitive world of corporation, each organization aims to acquire a significant share of market and earn lucrative profits from loyal customers. On the contrary, the customers want products and services from organizations that ensure their quality at least possible price. In order to produce and deliver a quality product and/or service to the customers, it is important to have an in-depth customer orientation and standardization in production processes. The two aspects need a strong synchronization with the organizational culture and strategic decision-making. Organizations need to sustain a strong compliance with quality guidelines and factors that ...

Question one: What happens to the value of equity when the value of mortgages decline?

Under the scenario where the price of mortgages decrease, financial institutions such as banks will reduce their investments as well as the lending. Therefore, consumers will experience some difficulties while obtaining home equity loans. For instance, the withdrawal of capital in the United Kingdom put up extra pounds into the economy before the financial crisis. Thus, leading to negative pounds in 2008 (Investopedia). The declining value for mortgages have an adverse effects on the banking industry. It implies that falling mortgages will make financial institutions to lose cash especially when bank’s clients default from their mortgage payments. Consequently, ...

American Labor Market Overview and Trends

Labor market is one of the most important parts of any national economy, and USA is not an exception. The US Labor market has few significant trends that show how it was developed in the past and how it will be looks like in future. Unemployment rate analysis, job growth rate, and income analysis – these are the major sectors of Labor market that could represent its general overview. First of all, the unemployment rate should be analyzed. If we look on past two decades as for analyzed period, we will definitely see two major period of US Labor market ...

Personal finance

Question 1 Short term goal would be: having a fund for at least six months in case if you lost your job or if you face any circumstances in the short run. Intermediate-term goals: develop good savings and investing habits and establish a financial plan, saving for buying a car, house, and children’s college education and for vacations. Long-term goal: Saving for retirement by start contributing to an employer's 401(k) plan or an IRA or Roth IRA as soon as you begin working, and consistently put money in those retirement accounts and. protecting my assets by gradually ...

SUMMERY

INTRODUCTION The manufacturing sector, production means making a product either by using a machine or hand or both. It’s a component of goods producing industry. Unlike trading or service businesses that buy products and sell at a higher price to make the profit, manufacturing instead make products that they finally sell. Manufacturing companies that produce and sell goods needs an accounting system that does not solely look at the accounting aspect only but also sale and purchase of the goods. By this, the accounting system for the manufacturing industry is more complex than the service sector does not ...

[Padau Wave Power Enterprises]

Business Plan

Using Wave Power to Generate Electricity in Saudi Arabia Introduction About the business Turning calamities into business opportunities is Padau Wave Power Enterprises’ next big project. Padau Wave Power Enterprises operates in a region that is chronically known to for strong waves that mostly wreak havoc anything on their way. Tapping the waves to produce energy is certainly a brilliant idea that Padau Wave Power Enterprises seek to venture into for a number of reasons. Firstly, the energy yielded will add to Saudi Arabia national grid in a sustained manner considering that wave power is ...

PERSONAL FINANCE INVESTMENT IN QATAR: INVESTING QR 1000000

Abstract This article describes a personal finance project which entails the investment of QR 1000000 in a short time frame, from 1 March to 27 May 2016. We first define personal finance and establish the five steps of a personal financial planning process, which entails: (1) assessment of the individual’s financial situation; (2) determination of the individual’s financial goals; (3) creation and details of the financial plan, based upon the determined goals; (4) execution of the aforementioned plan; (5) monitoring and reassessment of the plan. For each one of the five stages, we carry out the required ...

REFLECTION PAPER

Reflection Paper Introduction I am a student of global financial management studies at the Regents Business School in London. I actually believe this school is the best choice for training and all other finance-related disciplines. My objective is to work in the financial markets after graduating from university. Some of the areas that I want to focus on include wealth management, private equity, private banking, and the hedge funds. In other words, I am focused on developing a career in the investment banking concentrating on the high net worth individuals across the world. To gain the core competencies required ...

Business Perspective

Part One The first franchise offering is the UPS offering. In order to be a business owner, one will need the seed capital to start up the operation. UPS requires that a franchisee to have $167,825 - $535,580 when the franchise is opening in the traditional locations and $139,673 - $254, 562 when the franchise is opening in a non-traditional location as the startup cost (Franchise Direct, n.d.). UPS requires an additional $150,000 as the net worth of the franchisee and $60,000 -$100,000 as the liquidity (Franchise Direct, n.d.). The biggest challenge ...

Financial crisis is not a new word in today's economy. The world's economy has consistently been a victim of the financial crisis, and these cases will continue to happen. The global financial crisis in 2008 relates to the 1930's great depression that nearly brought down the economy of the United States. The actors in the financial sector have grown big and are becoming uncontrollable. These financial institutions have now become tough to monitor and control. Government and central banks have a duty of controlling commercial structures through proper supervision and regulation of financial market (Flannery 275). Due to the ...

An Assignment Submitted by

Key Challenge Google is a large corporation that net worth is $367.6 Billion (Forbes, 2015). The company evolved quite fast since its formation in the 1996 by introducing the most popular online research engine. However, after intensified technological advancement and emergence of new innovations, it became more difficult for Google to maintain stable growth and constant evolvement. The key challenge faced by the company is decreasing of its net growth. According to the last estimations, the percentage of Google’s net growth decreased from 19.1% to 7.7% in 2016 and estimated 7% in 2017 (E-marketer, 2016). This problem may ...

Q1 (a) Cash Flow Statement for the period 1 Jan 2015 to 31 December 2015

The missing/modified figures (as shown in yellow in the cash flow statement) are calculated as follows: Employment income, Keaton, Given, Gross Salary and Bonus= $120,000.00

Alyssa,

Given total salary and bonus=$64,800

Half paid in Aus and half in Singapore,

Thus her Salary and bonus paid in Singapore=$32,400

Employer’s CPF contribution,

Keaton- 37 % of 120,000=$44400 Alyssa- 20% of $32,400=$6480

Dividend and rental income

Dividend – Keaton-No dividend in 2015 Alyssa, $689 in 2015 Rental income Keaton and Alyssa combined rental income for property in Singapore registered under joint tenancy agreement is $3,050 per month or $36600 for the year.

The portion of CPF and cash used for the housing installment is as mentioned below.

Total housing installment =$4099

Keaton:

Total monthly income=$10, ...

Introduction

The aim of any government and society is to promote life where people have fair chances of succeeding depending on their work and adherence to the law. Any society is primarily created to uphold peoples’ life, liberty, and to facilitate their pursuit of happiness. In America, social inequality is predominant and has led to perpetual social stratification and mobility, resulting in erosion of living standards of the people. This paper will discuss and analyze social stratification and mobility in the United States in relation to poverty, race, gender, and education and how they determine individuals’ belonging to a particular ...

When entered into Google’s search bar, the name ‘Eric Schmidt’ comes out with approximately 83 million 100 thousand results. After taking few seconds to estimate where to start, the next thing you think about is that this guy has actually been there to make Google what it is now. The best part is that it worked out just fine for regular internet users all over the world as well as for Schmidt’s net worth of $10.7 billion in 2016 (Forbes). Starting from 2001 when Eric Schmidt was appointed for a position of Google’s CEO, the evaluation ...

Task 1

Explain the nature and role of accounts. You need to also explain why James and Rebecca need to produce accounting information in order to make financial decisions.

Answer

Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and reporting economic information to the owners of business and all interested parties (Joel, 2008). Business transactions have financial implication on a business in both short term and long term (Frank & Allan, 2005). Some of the transactions are sale or purchases of fixed assets or current assets, paying of business expenses, and settling current liabilities among other business transactions. Accounting involves identifying, measuring and reporting ...