0022KONS1109 SUBJECT: ACCOUNTING AND DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES (ADMT) LECTURER: MR. S. A. PALAN CONTENTS Introduction…………………………………………………………………….………2 Define Capital Investment Appraisal…………………………….………………….…2 Discounted cash flow methods……….………………………….………………….…4 Explanation of NPV…………………… ...................................................................…4 Explanation of IRR…………….……………………….…….……..…………………5 Advantages
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11/28/10 Business 210 Investment Fraud Charles Ponzi will forever infamously known as the con man of the 1920’s. Ponzi dealt with numerous amounts of investors who all trusted him to make them a profit on their investments. Unfortunately‚ Charles Ponzi was a crook from the start. He bought a total of $30 dollars in IPRC’s and stole about $30 million of his investor’s money. His brilliant idea that landed him in jail was to not buy IRPC’s at all‚ but to give people
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short sale with an initial margin requirement of 60 percent. The maintenance margin is 30 percent. The stock is currently trading at $27.50 a share. What is your current margin position in this stock? Assets = $21‚400 Equity = $21‚400 x .60 = $12‚840 Short position = 1‚000 x $27.50 = $27‚500 Account equity = $21‚400 + $12‚840 - $27‚500 = $6‚740 Margin position = $6‚740 / $27‚500 = 24.51 % 2. Matt short sold 500 shares of Tall Pines stock at $19 a share at an initial margin of 65 percent
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MANAGEMENT FIN6310: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM SET #1 PROF. ARZU OZOGUZ SPRING 2013 1. Calculate the value of the following two bonds. Assume that coupon payments are made semi-annually and that par value is $1‚000 for both bonds. Coupon rate Time to maturity Yield-to-maturity Bond A 5% 5 yrs 7.2% Bond B 5% 25 yrs 7.2% Recalculate the bonds’ values if the yield to maturity changes to 9.4%. Which bond is more sensitive to the changes in the yield? Will this always be the case
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INVESTMENT APPRAISAL Introduction The government undertakes a variety of activities. They are responsible for setting macroeconomic policy; they seek to promote equity by aiding the poor and the disadvantaged and they provide a variety of services‚ such as education‚ health Care‚ defense‚ infrastructure‚ police and postal services. Many of these activities involve large investments. Recent developments such as expanding the N3 Network infrastructure in preparation for the GP – Led health
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amount originally invested‚ I chose to diversify my portfolios by combining stocks‚ bonds and cash savings in difference proportions. I choose home market (UK market) to invest with the goal of maintaining a balance of income and capital growth. Investment in the UK is not bring high profit and fast but its safe and stable because less risk. Investing aboard will bring high return but the risk high also. Invest international market we may consider some types of basic risk. Initially‚ it is the change
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Review on “Ethical Investment Processes and Outcomes” Introduction This article was written by Grant Michelson‚ Nick Wailes‚ Sandra van der Laan‚ and Geoff Frost. It was published in Journal of Business Ethics by Springer. This article highlights the key themes in the field and identifies some of the major theoretical and practical challenges facing both scholars and practitioners. Summary Generally there are two kinds of investors in the market‚ one who invests considering the pros and cons
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Investment Memo December 2‚ 2012 Having worked as a quant‚ I have a deep understanding of different quantitative strategies among several asset classes. In the equity world‚ quantitative strategies usually mean stock screens. While I believe in systematic investing‚ I also do recognize some pitfalls of algorithm-based stock screens. Thus‚ my investment goal is to develop a fusion strategy combining highly sophisticated quantitative and thorough fundamental portfolio management. The first step
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Directors in making investment decisions. Because the Board of Directors found it was difficult to allocate much time and effort to the pension area. (2) They selected a policy of 70:30 equity: bonds as an appropriate long-run average asset mix‚ however the equity component could vary in the short run to as high as 80% or as low as 55% according to the market conditions. That’s because the old asset allocation decision did not perform very well. They also selected an investment consulting firm to
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MATH OF INVESTMENT (FORMULAS AND SAMPLE PROBLEMS) SIMPLE INTEREST: a) I= Prt b) F= P+ I c) I= F- P d) F= P (1 + rt) e) P= F / 1+ rt f) R= I / Pt g) P= I / rt h) t= I / Pr i) EXACT INTEREST: j) k) Ie= Pr approximate time Ie= Pr exact time l) 365 days 360 days m) n) ORDINARY INTEREST o) p) Io= Pr exact time Io= Pr approximate time q)
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