Essays on Venture Capital

The enormous decline of students majoring in science courses in America is a matter of great concern. This decline in the number of students majoring in science courses is basically related to performance in these courses in the lower levels of education. The students may be optimistic about science courses but they tend to perform poorly failing to attain qualifications to pursue such courses. The reason behind poor performance in these science courses is the lack of enough preparation in the lower levels of education. The little investment in science based courses in lower levels of education is the ...

Refer to the heading; I am a partner in a psychotherapist business, which begun its operations recently and has been able to help a modest number of patients in need of therapy and psychological services. I am hereby inviting you to join us in this business venture with interests in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a science and an art that involves studying the nature of consciousness including what may diminish it and what could augment it. The process involves telling the truth, releasing negative emotions, insight awareness, forgiveness and love in order to achieve comprehensive healing in the mind concerned.

It may cross your ...

Terrorist Organizations bring about a lot of disruption to the global community in terms of financial and social development hence the need to suppress such organizations. In order to curtail terrorist groups, it is essential to cut off their funding. The main source of funding to terrorist organizations is group members and sympathizers. The mobilization and transfer of funds is facilitated by the internet. Terrorist groups are able to spread and rally new recruits easily using the internet since it overcomes geographical barriers. Similarly, terrorist groups are able to raise and send funds by making online fund transfers within ...

Financial planning is important for businesses today. By preparing the financial plan, an organization is able to determine what kind of objectives the firm would like to achieve. There are different aspects that are covered in a financial plan and some of the important aspects of financial planning include; estimating the profits that the firm would like to generate, the types of resources that would be required to accomplish these objectives, identify the changes in the business environment, analyzing the risk and return of investment, calculating the budget and costs that would be incurred, estimating sales from different departments ...

D – I am an avid member of a group tasked to design a feasible start up business challenge within the budget of $250,000 for the first year. Our group agreed unanimously on 4 March 2013 that we launch a company called ‘Serve a Mate – SAM.’ The company specializes in selling fast food and beverages, and specifically targets to serve workers in the following industries; manufacturing, building and construction, transport & logistics, festival and events. After holding a debate during long hours of brainstorming, we agreed on the logistics of how the business would be operated. We settled to have ...

Social entrepreneurship is where a business aims to achieve a certain social goal other than that of making a profit. Social entrepreneurs are usually concerned about making a positive impact on the society other than their objective of making a profit. For instance in the video entitled “Tom’s shoes”, Blake Mycoskie focuses on improving the lives of the children in Argentina. He observed that most of the children in Argentina were walking bare footed and made it his priority to change this situation.He was keen on making a profit on his sale of Tom’s shoes but also ...

Strategic control systems are systems that help in monitoring the activities undertaken in a certain institution, with the aim of enhancing effective implementation of the set procedures and ideologies (Dess 2010). These systems enable the top level management to examine the effectiveness of the programs instilled in an organization. Strategic control systems are important in an economy of a country. They enable the economic and development planners to evaluate the effectiveness of their plans. In addition, these systems ensure that the implementation process is not affected by human factors within the economy.

The current world is faced by a ...

Theoretically, a fund manager has an option of selecting a portfolio with a pin where the efficient market hypothesis is true. The argument is that prices of a portfolio are known with certainty meaning that the pin risk in a portfolio is mitigated. However, this is always not so because, under this hypothesis, the price of a portfolio is equal to the fundamental value of the same portfolio. This means that the returns are equal to the opportunity cost of capital, which is not attractive to investors.

In addition to unattractive returns, fund managers may not opt to invest ...

Arguably, business organization undergoes tremendous stages before achieving its main goals. As a matter of fact, every business has its unique set of processes and guidelines designed for its proper functioning and operations. But, despite the variations all business organizations must undergo the four stages of growth. Each of these stages has its unique characteristics and its influenced by demand, availability of capital, supply, as well as consumer confidence. These four stages of growth a business organization might experience include start-up, growth stage, mature stage, as well as decline.

Start-up stage is very crucial to every business that has ...

INTRODUCTION

Small businesses face many issues in comparison to the well established organizations. However, among several issues one of the major issues that small businesses face is to raise capital. Many small businesses and entrepreneurs may have the ability to make their organization a big organization however because of lack of investment they are not able to do so. With the increased risk in the market, banks and venture capitals have also become very much risk averse instead of accepting the risk and growing their investment. This has also lead to such situation where small businesses face different issues in ...

Let’s say you have a fantastic business idea that you know will make money for you. You have made your calculations, you have studied the market, you have found the perfect location and you have a good idea how you will operate and make the business happen. The product you have is unique. How to make the product will be unique. You have found the people who will help you make the product. You have emptied your wallet, gathered all your money from your savings, sold your car, you now some of the cash you need to start ...

- Executive summary

In this form of venture much is needed from the customer in order to create an established organization. Jay sporting goods is a sporting organization with the aim of promoting the culture of fishing and hunting. With promotion of this culture the organization also aims to create a business empire from this venture. The venture has a target market of a very low population of consumers in society. In words by Kruse the promotion of hunting and fishing as a sport requires a very strategic structure when planning for its operations (65). This is attributed to ...

Introduction

Managing an organization is a responsibility that entails a lot of duties and obligations. This, therefore, means that all individuals who plan on becoming good managers must possess a wide variety of managerial skills in order to guide their organization to succeed in their operations. However, it is almost impossible for a manager to possess all the necessary skills that are required for effective management. Since managers are human beings, they will most likely possess various managerial strengths as well as weaknesses. In order for an individual to become a good manager, he/she is required to improve on his ...

Public budgeting provides reflections on government usage of money – the primary source of which are taxpayers. Government expenditures clearly define the purpose of public budgets, as deliberated through various decision-making processes influenced by a great variety of actors. In The Politics of Public Budgets, Irene Rubin provided notable features of public budgeting. She said that public budgeting is characterized through the (1) diversity of the actors involved, (2) open nature of the budget, (3) usage of mechanisms ensuring accountability to the public, (4) constraints provided by law, public opinion, and the like, and (5) the difference between ...

Question 1:

Michigan’s State budget (Snyder & Nixon, 2012) falls under the incremental budgeting classification that is also known as traditional budgeting (Jacobs, Hélis & Bouley, 2009). In the budget, it is clear from an excerpt from The Detroit News editorial of January 17, 2011 that there was a call for Michigan’s leaders to change the usual adoption of previous years’ income/ expenditure and making fine adjustments to an overhaul of the whole budget, leaving nothing untouchable (Snyder & Nixon, 2012, p. A-8). The State of Texas’ budget (Dewhurst & Straus, 2011) also falls under this category of traditional budgeting classification (Jacobs, ...

Special education refers to an education system crafted for students with special needs in a way that addresses their needs. A special education program should be made in such a way it addresses every student’s unique need. In America the system is well developed and the education Policy considers all disabled students regardless of the nature or degree of disability. The disabled students are legally entitled to a free and appropriate public education. In 2001 and 2004 the No Child Left behind Act (NCLB) ensured that schools were more accountable and increased the technological assistance and loan programs ...

Finance is a science of managing funds. Finance also involves lending and saving money. Business finance, public finance and personal finance are some of the general areas in finance. There are different fields that finance deals with in relation of money, time, and risk. Mostly it majorly deals with how money is spend and budgeted for. Individual businesses and organizations normally deposit their monies in banks and the banks on the other hand lend money to other individuals or organizations for investment or consumption. Banks normally charges interests on the loans that they give out to individuals or corporations. ...

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An international Joint Venture is an equity agreement in which foreign and local business organization co-own a business by pooling their resources together, share the risks associated with the business as well as exercising managerial control to operate an autonomous business in order to make profits or to enjoy economic and premeditated advantages. The success of such ventures depends on a number of factors as. Some of the factors that determine the success of Joint Ventures include: - Cultural factors- the way of life among different partners in a joint venture has a significant influence on the success of ...

The quality and aggressiveness of the marketing and advertising strategies that a business, especially the startup ones, implements can spell the difference between a booming and steeply declining startup sales figures. Naturally, more innovative and aggressive marketing and advertising strategies would equate to significantly larger sales margins and vice versa for more lame, old school and outdated marketing strategies. Marketing and advertising strategies are so extremely important for startup businesses that it can be one of the primary indicators of the company’s success in future, aside of course from more innate factors such as the necessity index of ...

Business management

Business management Coast acquisition is business sales term that refers to the total expenses necessary to to attain a sale or retain a customer. Therefore, it the total cost associated with the buying and selling of goods and services, or even assets. In general, the net price plus the associated cost of purchase and taking the good to the point of use comprises the total acquisition costs. These cost include the following; the purchase cost i.e. research, closing, accounting, legal fees, and commissions, the transportation fee from the point of purchase to the end use location, preparation and other ...

Kwame Kilpatrick former Detroit Mayor Case

Kwame M. Kilpatrick who was the former mayor of Detroit was sentenced for 28 years in jail for being involved in a corruption scandal. The defense should not apply to either reduce Kwame’s sentence or exonerate him. Kwame had greatly embezzled the city’s funds not only during his time as the mayor but also when he was a state legislator (Spence, 2011). His corrupt actions warranted him to get the harshest sentence possible given that he was a public official. Although the defense requested that he should receive a term that is not more than 15 years, ...

Thesis topic

‘Instructor’s Name’ ‘Subject’ Will Governor Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula improve the ability of districts to meet student needs compared to the former system?

Brief Background and Aims of the Research

The current education system in California lacks transparency and is extremely complicated. All the participants, be it policymakers or parents, struggle to comprehend the current system, which offers different pupil per rate across various districts. There were many allegations that affluent schools ended up getting more per pupil rate than the other schools. To negate this inequity in the distribution of federal funds, Governor Brown in the year 2013-14 introduced the Local Control ...

The leadership style applied in the United States may not be successful. If the business is to venture in Australia, it needs to appreciate that Australian people will react better to another leadership style since the leadership style used in the two countries is different. However, there are similarities between the two leadership styles that enjoin business and are accepted universally. For an individual to be an effective leader in Australia, a person must be respected. In the United States, on the contrary, the position is more respected than the person who holds it. Respect for the person rather ...

Misallocation of funds

The Make a Way Foundation was founded with the aim of fighting poverty and hunger that involved communities with hope and self-reliance. The foundation had planned for a children’s summer expense project but in the process of goal realization for this fiscal year, it has been realized that there is a misallocation of funds that can be attributed to the following reasons. Some officials who do the scoring for the awarding of the funds fail to follow the right criteria in many cases. So some applicants were unequally treated and in times were awarded more or fewer dollars ...

- Can schools be managed and operated like business? Management of schools should take a form similar to any other organization that is geared towards achieving certain results. Management, in a general sense, involves several functions that lead to the coordination of peoples’ efforts in a manner that would make them achieve some desired goals and objectives. These goals and objectives are set by the management of these organizations that undertake the coordination of the said efforts. For the coordination to take place, there must be the deployment of certain resources that must also be used in an effective ...

The role of policy makers in any economy is to regulate macroeconomic activities with the main goal of maintaining economic stability. The goal of the policy maker is to maintain stability, which is significant in promoting economic growth and social welfare of the citizens. The policy makers have implemented various policies to stimulate the economy since the financial crisis when government suffered a critical national debt. They are also trying to implement a reliable strategy for balancing the government’s budget in the long- run to solve macroeconomic problems. Therefore, implementing long-term fiscal sustainability is vital for today’s ...

Heilemann, J. (2002). Machine of Dreams. Vanity Fair, No. 501, pp. 185-188. The article is an appraisal about the achievements of Dean Kamen. The author begins by looking at the manner in which Kamen revealed his latest invention, which is what the author refers to as the ‘Machine of Dreams’. The article documents the character and the successes that Kamen has achieved over the years. The major theme of the article is resilience. Throughout the article, the author tries to demonstrate the resilience and achievements of Kamen, a college dropout. This is evidenced by the fact that Kamen took ...

Internal control practices are the activities that enable a company to maintain an environment that is solely focused on accountability and ethics. These are systems that are put in place to safeguard the resources of the business. By putting in place these practices department benefits in the following ways; one of the benefits is that the internal controls provide checks and balances on the usage of resources. They also ensure that the areas of priority in an organization are identified as well as addressed. Another benefit of putting in place internal controls is that it allows the company to ...

Venture capital in Russia

Venture capital in Russia with focus on Innovation Background A development institute and government fund of the Russian federation named as Russian venture fund. The fund that has established for Russian venture fund in 2010 to 2012 is now at the first stage of completion of the initial cycle. The funds are expected to be raised in 2014 to 2015 and also more has expected to exits. There are several companies that had established in 2006 to 2009 have been closed now due to foundation that take seven years period to startup with a sale procedure. In the e-commerce ...

Introduction

Analytically, Softwood Ltd has been experiencing growth in the recent years thanks to its large client base. In its effort to expand, the business should make sound financial decisions to avoid a possible decline of its current position.

In their endeavor to expand, Softwood Ltd has various sources of finance to rely.

1. Internal sources Internal sources encompass all sources of finances within the company. These could be retained profits, proceeds from sale of furniture of the company’s property and personal savings by the owners of the venture (Dlabay, 2008).Examples of internal sources are; - Retained profits - Tighter credit control - Reduce inventories - Delay paying trade payables 2. External ...

INTRODUCTION

Since the Great Depression of 1929-30, the worst financial crisis was witnessed during the end of 2008. Numerous American and European banks declared going into loss by the end of 2007. Later, Lehman Brothers, the 158-year old investment bank went bankrupt; Merill Lynch, the investment bank and the stock-broking firm was taken over; Goldman Sacks and Morgan Stanley seek the status of bank to receive protection against bankruptcy. It was during the same week that the other four investment banks on the Wall Street collapsed. The global financial crisis of 2008 was one of the most critical ones in ...

Introduction

Many people have argued to the effect that disability is not inability. However, the fact remains that people with disabilities in the society face a lot of discriminations. This discrimination is always based on a number of factors. Despite the efforts by governments, the fact remains that the disabled in the community face specific challenges that the people without the disabilities do not face. Whether in the employment sector, the transportation department, the corporate world or the day to day happenings, the disabled face several challenges. Most governments have made efforts to ensure that the disabled in the society ...

For RTWMTC, budgeting is important since it will allow the company to plan its expenditures. It will allow for a balance between the capital and recurrent expenditures. This will ensure that the company maintains growth in a balanced manner hence avoiding illiquidity or insolvency. The other reason is that the budget will allow this company to manage its financial information and also review it on a real time basis. This will be achieved by maintaining an automated budgeting system which will ensure that the company makes timely and right expenditure decisions (Besley & Brigham, 2008). Thirdly, it is a means ...

Auditor has much to learn from the article "What the Dog Saw". It gives inspiration and advice that is essential of practiced while auditing. It has provided with clues on how to undertake the task in an appropriate and efficient considering the situation and the environment. Malcolm Gladwell pointed some of the activities of which related much to the situations concerning to the business field. The cultural trends of the Americans during 1950s it was a taboo of a woman applying dye on their hair. This is connected with how companies have tied back their original message of which ...

The War on Terror which is also referred to as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) is applied to an international military campaign that was initiated after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in America. As an international military campaign, it was intended to eliminate militant organizations such as al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups so as to end terrorism. The war on terror has taken different directions and phases. Although the results have been good, a lot is at stake (Gardner 624). Nations such as the U.S have spent billions of dollars to end the menace. As a result, ...

In our country, politics has been known to be a game for the rich and cunning. This is because of what happens in the Arena, of which the faint in heart cannot handle. To be specific, public money has been noted to be mishandled and misappropriated. The public ends up being taxed heavily in the name of economic development, but only the few benefit from this programs. With these in mind, there is need for a program to be set up to ensure that public money is well spent in areas that majority of the population will benefit. A ...

1- What items dominates the budget?

The items that dominate the budget include; education, infrastructural development and private sector initiatives. Other key areas that the budget focus on include creating more jobs for the people and focusing on revenue collection. Domination of items is based on the importance attached to them. Some of the areas that budget focus on are directly related to one another. For instance, in infrastructural development, when the sector is active, a number of jobs can be created as without much of a hustle. The budget focused on critical areas capable of boosting economic stability. In a sense, by looking at ...

- What must an entrepreneur do to earn a profit? Entrepreneur provides a differentiated product or service in a market. Therefore entrepreneur launch a new product or service based on the big idea. The profitability of entrepreneur is rooted in their persistence and determination to keep going. The foremost reason is that since the entrepreneur is in competition with established products in the market, profitability may not come along instantly. In order to earn profits, an entrepreneur needs to have a clear idea about the market it wants to target. Risk taking is at the heart of every new ...

First Place Fund’s Objectives

First Place Fund has 5 main objectives. The organization’s first objective is housing stability to former foster youth. Its second objective is to provide economic security to the program participants. The organization believes that for former foster youth to maintain housing, they need to engage in wage employment that pays them a wage that matches the cost of living. Its third objective is to provide educational attainment to former foster youth. The organization is of the opinion that financial success is based not only pegged on having wage employment but on other factors, as well. To ensure transitioning ...

Business Cases: Questions and Response (1)

Chapter 7: Social Venture Partners - What are the advantages for a donor of participating in a venture philanthropy organization versus traditional philanthropy? When the care for human value is being talked about, it is always good to work along with others. Relatively, the point of giving assistance to others is often noted as somewhat distinctively dedicated to making sure that human value is recognized accordingly not only for the sake of one but a group of individuals living in a community. In this case, it is assumed that the works to be completed are too numerous to count. ...

Founded during the year 2004, Facebook today is the world’s most loved social networking site. However, the success of the company is equally contributed through venture capital, which the company raised in various rounds of financing over the years. The company raised its first successful funding from the venture capital firm, Accel Partners during 2005, which made a bet of $12.2 Million on a year old website which was run by a college drop out. The amount was raised solely for the expansion of the company and to reach out to more and more users. The funding raised ...

Research Problem

Funding a business is a complex issue. A new business owner should identify whether he or she is willing to finance the new business with the help of equity or debt. Each of the funding methods has its advantages and disadvantages. Equity financing allows business owners avoid making large loan payments. Investors may offer valuable business assistance to the new business owner in the case of need as they are interested in the success of the venture. If all risks are clearly explained to the investors, they will understand if the business fails. However, the investors will own a ...

Question 1

Lizer was aware through personal experience that the most of the car stereos available in the market did not satisfy their purpose. Most of the stereos worked for a short time then broke down. He saw a need to create a product, which did not have similar problems. Therefore, he designed Dash to exploit the opportunity of reliable car stereos. He also exploited an online freelancer site to acquire technical help. He was able to accomplish prototype product development through outsourcing some of the design steps. He exploited the virtual workplace to hire part time workers who were cheaper ...

Which fund types are included Fiduciary Net Assets?

Financial assets of Chicago on Fiduciary net assets contains a number of funds, some of the funds included under assets are cash and those funds that are equivalent to funds. There are liabilities where voucher warrants that are payable and security lending. Finally, funds accounted for an agency along the normal statements (David, 2012). The sum gives the net position of held trust of employees and the total of net position.

Do Agency funds form part of the Statement of Fiduciary Net Assets?

The statement on fiduciary includes agency funds. Besides the normal accounting statement, there are calculations on agency. Under the explanation of the statement, the additional elaborations on the ...

The article’s discussion revolves around the advantages and a shortcoming of the farm bill dated 2014.The purpose of the bill is to act as a benchmark for implementation of reforms concerning subsidies in agriculture. Proper coordination in research and rural employment expansion are the central reforms. There are notable adjustments in the environmental protections in the bill. The bill merits on several areas. Firstly, it safeguards the federal budget against misappropriations. The initial direct payments issuance to farming population has been cut-off. The payments initially acted as subsidies both in good and bad years. Subsidies during periods of ...

The decision accelerators assisted in initiating changes in the organization. This was possible through development of wide-ranging strategies. The data collected provided room for a number of reservations. For instance, the ability of the organization to effect the changes remained doubtful. This was because of the informal implementation mechanisms adopted. It was feared that engagement of the organization in numerous processes would decelerate the processes of change. However, improvement of the assessment was possible. Researchers proposed that it was prudent to create various decision accelerators to tackle specified issues. It would have also been reasonable to formalize certain processes ...

Investing in the Future

Investing in the Future

One of the most important aspects of modern life is planning the financial future. It’s not a secret that every successful task in our life needs planning, whether it is planning a holiday or planning some long-term event. However, the most significant of all things is personal financial planning as it secures good future life for people involved in this process. Planning the financial life a person should be serious and responsible and should examine many aspects which influence the process of financial planning at all. The finances should be balanced taking into consideration ...

Heal the Bay

1444 9th St.

Santa Monica, CA 90401

Fred Ali, President/CEO 1055 W 7th #3200, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Dear Mr. Ali,

I am writing to inquire whether Weingart Foundation would invite a proposal from Heal the Bay, requesting for a grant of $50,000 every year for two years for the accomplishment of the group’s 2014-2015 initiatives. Founded in 1985, Heal the Bay is a non-profit organization that aims to protect and conserve the Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay. It is the group’s mission to keep these waters clean, safe, and healthy. With your interest in ensuring the well-being ...

Introduction:

The pirates of Manhattan, Barry James Dyke expounds and gives a clear and vivid 10 year extensive research insight on the various concerning the American consumer. He clearly brings the general aspect of Systematically Plundering the American Consumer and How to protect against it. The knowledge of well extensive research is backed by the detailed statistics presented. This is based on the fact that if most guarantees are absent, consequently most financial products fade away. Hence, in the expanded form of analysis, the book clearly brings the aspect of the liquidity of money. In addition, the behavior of money ...

The article, A Student's Guide to Start Ups, discusses in detail the dilemma graduating students face. The dilemma stems from the choice these graduates have; they can either start their own business, or go work for some company. The article states that startups rose in popularity during the 90's, but the popularity levels decreased during the early 2000's. However, during the 90's, most people wanted to work for startups, a situation that is quite different now. Today, people want to begin their own startups. The article further states that graduating students do not have something to fall back on ...

Introduction

The initial step in constructing Mr. Donothing portfolio is to determine the appropriate asset allocation. To begin with is by ascertaining Mr. Donothing financial position and investment goals. The most important factor to start with is Mr. Donothing age, available opportunity of growing his investments as well as the amount of capital that may be required for future capital needs. At the age of 55 Mr. Donothing will be planning of paying his child’s education. Another factor to consider is his risk tolerance. Would he be willing to risk some money for a possibility of greater returns? Mr. ...

Donna Hayes, the leader of MIRA team and vice president of direct marketing was vested with the responsibility of launching a new line of single-title women’s fiction novel (MIRA). She knew that a previous attempt to launch a single title novel Worldwide Library had failed. The previous venture had taken a span of two years from its launch date from 1986 to 1988 when the venture was abandoned by Harlequin. In order to benchmark in subsequent issues regarding single title novels, the management saw it desirable to appoint a taskforce that would investigate the causes of failure for ...

Advantages of a partnership between Alpha Corporation and Omega private limited company in production and selling of calendars with African paintings The main advantage of this partnership is pooling of both companies resources bringing about availability of sufficient capital. Thus, ensuring access to improved resources like experienced staff, experienced technicians, greater capacity plus financial resources Second, the both companies have different skills and experiences and therefore the benefit of their common knowledge will be available to the business venture common to them. Partnership also means sharing of profits and losses in an established ratio implying that risks are borne ...

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- Executive Summary Summer Grocery Store (SGS) is a grocery store intended to be established at the South Boston Farmers Market. The main objective of the business is to provide healthy organic food stuffs to the local community at a low price. The products to be sold at the store include organic vegetables, fruits, spices and chilies. The market for organic agricultural produce is growing in the US and in the local South Boston community. The competitive advantage of the firm will be in application of marketing strategies in beating the competition and attracting customers in ...

- Pecans FMCG holdings is a company that was established as a limited liability partnership. The name if the company is an acronym for the three partners, namely Peter, Cathy and Naphtali, who contributed to the establishment of the company. The initial FMCG are initial which means fast moving consumer goods that the company deals with. The company will be an exceptional and unique firm which will be guided by the sole purpose of filling the gap that exists in the supply chain distribution of many local organizations. The organizational culture is built with an objective to facilitate and provide ...

Sharing economy is a socioeconomic system involving the interaction and sharing of goods and services. These services could include, but not limited to the production, creation, distribution, consumption and trading of goods and services. The sharing economy has seen a steady rise over the years due to recent technological advances. Technology has played a major role in that it has made it very easy to transact business with individuals without physical interaction. It has become much easier to access car rentals, designer clothes, hotel bookings, central city parking space and online ticketing with a simple call or a click ...

Investment Management

Investment Management

Introduction

This paper entails a discussion of two key principles investment management that are currently in play in today`s financial markets. The first part of the paper entails a discussion on the Capital Asset Pricing Model and its subsequent application to a real life situation. The second part of the paper entails a discussion on assessment of the performances of two respective mutual and pension funds that are invested in Argentinian junk bonds.

According to Levy (2011, pg. 55), the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used in the determination of the required rate of return of ...

Career planning questions

- Please describe your short term (3 year) career goals (Please do not exceed 200 words) Following the completion of my MSc course, my primary goal is to obtain the position of a consultant at an elite management consultancy of the order Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey. In the initial three years I would like to focus my skills and efforts to guide debutante entrepreneurs transform their business ideas into realities. My present environment, i.e. the milieu of my current university is strongly influenced by an entrepreneurial culture, resulting in a large number of new graduates being keen on ...

- Explicit costs are those costs that are incurred and recorded in the financial statements. They are taken to be the cost of doing business, and incurred in the process of manufacturing or providing a service. For example, Cost of Labor, Material, Rent, Depreciation etc. Implicit costs are those costs that are incurred, but are not recorded. For example opportunity cost of capital by investing the funds in other businesses. Accounting profit is usually higher than the economic profits because it does not take into account the implicit costs of a business, because they are not the actual costs, ...

- The rise of misconduct and poor performance by the corporate governance in the 2000s had resulted in tremendous collapse of companies. Businesses reported tremendous losses that, as a result, affected the shareholders’ expectations on their investments. As a consequence, shareholders demand for answers on what went wrong is one of the key reasons as to why there is a need to fix the shortcomings that contributed to the failure of the corporate governance to effectively deliver the projected company returns and strategic growth. In addition, the failure of corporate governance resulted in the rise in public mistrust of ...