DISCUSSIONS Week1-1 In your opinion‚ discuss whether the world of finance is too difficult for the average person to understand. * From the e-Activity‚ choose the reason that you believe had the greatest influence toward the 2007-09 financial crisis and explain why. The textbook addresses several issues as well. finance can be a complex subject‚ but whether it is too difficult to understand that is a different story. I believe in life that nothing can be to hard or too difficult to do‚ like
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Credit rating agencies take a wide range of factors – debt raising purpose‚ industry outlook‚ corporate profile and financial measures into account when performing corporate bond rating service. Debt is raised to repurchase shares rather than the normal case of capturing expansion opportunities to strengthen cash flow. This is not going to be regarded favorable to debt holders since the debt coverage ability in terms of cash or collateral is not strengthened. UST is characterized positively by commanding
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RUSSIAN BUSINESS CONTEXT FINAL ASSIGNEMENT GAZ Group Russia: the Gazelle light commercial truck 1. What were the major challenges facing Bo Andersson when
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ABRAMS COMAPANY CASE 5-4 ABRAMS COMPANY Que. 1: Evaluate each of the concerns expressed by top management‚ and if necessary‚ make recommendation appropriate to the circumtences described in the case The Abrams case is about using profitability measures to evaluate profit centers. The case also reflects a long academic debate in the US-literature about ROI problems. In EU companies it is more common to evaluate PCs with Income measures like RI and EVA. This case covers the tree main problems
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Summary This case explores the possibility of a brand extension for Revital‚ the bestselling vitamin and mineral supplement and number-one nutraceutical brand in India and a top Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare product. The case examines Revital’s shift from a prescription product to a popular over-the-counter (OTC) brand and explores Ranbaxy’s strategies to position Revital as the brand with the highest recall. It assesses Revital’s competitors in India’s booming nutraceutical market in a scenario
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The career I chose is Brick Masonry (bricklayer). As a bricklayer I will be doing many different kinds of building. I can help people and our whole society by bringing homes and businesses to the communities of the United States. I will be working with both bricks and blocks according to the plans for the building. I really like working with clay bricks but blocks are used for most commercial buildings. Since I like working outside and making my own mortar‚ I believe that I have chosen the right
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ASSIGNMENT 2: PRADA Refer to the HBS case "Prada: To IPO or Not to IPO" and answer the questions below. Note: Complete the related textbook chapters (RWJJ Chapters 14‚ 15 & 19) before attempting this case. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM SAID TO BE FACING PRADA? Prada got some financial trouble. First‚ Prada failed for several times to IPO due to various reasons like SARS‚ financial crisis‚ etc. Second‚ because of the long-term debt maturing in one year‚ Prada needed to raise more than 1 billion euros
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? “When AES undertook primarily domestic contract generation projects where the risk of changes to input and output prices was minimal‚ a project finance framework was employed.” Usually‚ project finance framework is used when the project has predictable cash flows‚ which can easily represent operating targets through explicit contract. When cash flows are certainty‚ the company can have
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Benchmarking Thor Industries’ Inventory Management - Group 2 Teddy Dwork‚ Alexa Esquivel‚ Noelle Fennessy‚ Alec Madow‚ Marc Milgrim 1. Inventory Share of Total Assets Net Accts Rec. Share of Total Assets Gross Profit Percentage (GP/Sales) SG&A Percentage (SG&A/Sales) 2008 15.3% 14.7% 12.2% 6.7% 2007 16.0% 16.7% 12.7% 6.2% 2. 2008 5.8% 13.2% 20.2 25.3 2007 6.9% 17.6% 22.7 24.7 Return on Sales = EBIT/Revenue Return on Equity = NI/Inv Days Receivable = AR/(sales/365) Days Inventory= (Avg Inv/COGS)
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expectations throughout those countries. In Hong Kong‚ children’s birthdays had traditionally gone unrecognized‚ but McDonald’s introduced the practice of birthday parties in its restaurants‚ and now such parties have become popular among the public. Case 2: 1.
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