By November 2008, Chrysler’s sales had shrunk 25%. GM posted losses of $18 billion, and Ford lost $11.5 billion. Despite Ford’s elimination of 1/3 of its workforce, GM’s elimination of 30,000 jobs, and Chrysler’s cutting of 13,000 employees, the Big Three were on the brink of bankruptcy. All three testified before both houses of congress asking for loans to avoid default. The Big Three stated their demise would trigger 3 million layoffs within a year, plunging the economy further into recession.…
You are a CFO for a company that manufactures custom designed factory automation equipment. Each machine that you make is a contract for which the company had to compete in a bidding procedure. As a result, the gross margin for each contract varies; some have gross margins that are extremely high while others just barely cover manufacturing expenses.…
I believe that at least three months worth of my expenses should go towards my financial reserve. I think this is a good idea because this will leave enough money for me to afford major financial loss. If there is an emergency that is costly, three months worth of expenses should be able to pay for the damages.…
When explaining the value of financial planning to my family and/or friends, I would begin by explaining the importance of having security blankets to fall back on if something tragic were to happen in your life where you would all of a sudden need money, for instance; losing a job, medical emergency where insurance only covers a little bit or waiting for the result of a lawsuit. Also, I would explain the importance of living below your means, but not within your needs.…
d. go on a strict budget and save as much as possible until you have an emergency fund.…
Having an emergency plan in place, helps people to deal with things in an emergency. It lays out what should be done and how things should be handled. The idea behind an emergency plan is to meet specific needs. In the event of a fire or gas leak, it lays out exactly what needs to be done to handle the situation. It provides strategies and ways to handle. For example, in the event of a fire, it would outline what procedure to follow. This can include how to raise the alarm, how to handle the situation and who and when to contact people. It would also outline who is in charge of the certain situation, for example, who is in charge of fire safety. An emergency plan has reporting measures. This is useful in reporting back findings and assessing situations and how they could be handled differently or improved on.…
As stated in the executive summary, the GlobaLove financial goal is to achieve a 81% rate of return on the initial investment. In this situation, each shareholder will receive $24.43 dividend per share. In order to achieve the financial goal of 81% return on investment, GlobaLove must make a net profit of $733.00 by selling $1,800.00 worth of products. (Scenario 2)…
California has the largest prison population in the United States and some countries around the world. For over 40 years, the incarceration levels have risen. The prison rates have risen 700 percent since 1970, today it is estimated that one in 100 adults are incarcerated. Who pays the bill for this large increase, tax payers have and will continue until the Department of Justice and government have a solid plan to reduce the overwhelming criminal justice deficient. The taxpayers are not only paying to house the prisoners but to feed them and all their medical needs. One plan that was pass by the Supreme Court was to reduce the prison population, they gave California two years to do this (Henrichson, 2012).…
Developing a financial plan is an important step for your family. By developing this financial plan you are your family will have a better understanding of your current financial goals. You will be better able to determine attainable retirement, education, insurance, and other financial goals. This plan will also help you review goals, develop funding strategies, and alternatives to ensuring goals are met. This financial plan will also help you ensure you have the necessary financial resources set aside to fund your goals as they occur. A financial plan will help you and your family reduce the effects of unexpected events, such as disability, premature death, job loss, etc.…
Currently, the whole euro zone countries still are traped in Euro Crisis. this situation tells us that it is necessary and urgent to improve euro emergency mechanism to cope with this crisis. Some approaches are introduced and, among them ,the EMF and Eurobonds attract most attentions. Both the EMF and Eurobonds are proposed idea which need to be discussed. Knowing their advantages and drawbacks is quite important before making decisions. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the main reason of low effectiveness of the euro mechanism and critically evaluate these two solutions and discuss the prospects for the future.…
Petty cash fund is a relatively small amount of cash that businesses keep on hand for the purpose of small transactions such as providing change to customers, postage expenses, highway tolls etc. In such transactions, the use of checks is time consuming, costly or illogical.…
Risk profile of both the company as well as the industry in which the company…
There are 395 articles in the Indian Constitution in total but the provisions of emergency are in a limited form. The Constitution, deals with a number of emergencies and financial emergency is one of them. “A state of emergency refers to a period of governance under an altered constitutional setup that can be proclaimed by the President of India, when he perceives grave threats to the nation from internal and external sources or from financial situations of crisis. Under the advice of the cabinet of ministers and using the powers vested in him largely by Part XVIII of the Constitution of India, the President can overrule many provisions of the constitution, which guarantee fundamental rights to the citizens of India and acts governing devolution of powers to the states which form the federation.” The President can declare three types of emergencies: National emergency, State emergency and Financial emergency. Till now Financial emergency has not been declared in India even once.Financial Emergency basically means that, when the President is satisfied that a situation has arisen whereby the financial stability or credit of India, or any part thereof, is threatened, he may by proclamation make a proclamation to that effect. financial emergency can be declared if and only if the President is fully satisfied about its need in the situation concerned. Also, it is not that this type of emergency has some speciality attached to it, rather the proclamation in this case also should be approved by Parliament as in the other two cases of emergency. During the financial emergency, "the executive authority of the Union shall extend to the giving of directions to any State to observe such canons of financial propriety as may be specified in the direction" or any other directions which the President may deem necessary for the purpose. Such directions may include those requiring the reduction of salaries and allowances of Government servants and even those of…
The Henley MBA Managing Financial Resources Assignment: 4571 words (excluding table of contents , appendixes & references) Shirene Boola 2202607 9/15/2014 0 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 2 Part A –Economic Regulations .................................................................................................... 3 2.1 2.2 3 Banking Market ...................................................................................................................... 3 Economic Regulations that affect the Financial Institutions world ........................................ 3 Part B – Financial Management .................................................................................................. 7 3.1 3.2 4 Ratio Analysis ......................................................................................................................... 7 Short Term Decision Making .................................................................................................. 9 Part C – Budgeting and Planning .............................................................................................. 10 4.1 Budget Process ...................................................................................................................... 10 4.2 Limitations with the budget process .....................................................................................…
Tier 1 is used to describe the capital adequacy of a bank. It is the core measure of a bank’s financial strength from a regulators point of view. It includes equity capital and disclosed reserves. It also may include non-redeemable non-cumulative preferred stock.…