THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL BANK CASE * Summary of the Situation Tamara Long sat in her office reflecting on the tough past 6 weeks. She was the head of the international department at the American International Bank (AIB). Six weeks ago‚ the Chairman of the bank had called Tamara into his office. A bulletin had just come over the bank ’s wire indicating that a military coup had taken place in Portugal. The bulletin also reported that the new military dictator had frozen all foreign assets in
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AIG Accounting Scandal Contents 1.0 Introduction ………………………………………………. 2 1.1 Overview of AIG …………………………………….. 2 2.0 Scandal Methodology Used by the Company………… 3 2.1 Accounting Practices Errors ……………………….. 3 3.1 Ways to Hide Accounting Improprieties ………………. 4 4.1 Who the scandal effected ………………………………. 7 5.1 Recommendations ………………………………………. 8 6.1 Conclusions ………………………………………………. 9 7.1 References ………………………………………………. 10
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Peregrine Financial Group- Case study Last July 2012‚ a new financial fraud came out and hit the news headline‚ déjà vu‚ perhaps of other famous scandals‚ but not. This time a medium size financial institutions‚ name “ Peregrine Financial Group Inc” accused of shortfall of funds for around $200 million‚ where its CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf managed to misstated financial record for over 20 years‚ and finally in July 2012 filed for Bankruptcy. CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf‚ was no different than others high
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Brief Introduction of Financial Risk Management Huang Xuan Financial risk management is an interdiscipline with various researching subfields including the studies of mathematical methods to maximum the profits‚ quantitative analysis of financial databases and investment decisions. In other words‚ it is aimed to bridge the gap between mathematical theories and practical financial analysing tools (Nawrocki 1999). It could also be defined as“Living with the possibility that future events may
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Financial Risks in Construction Discuss financial risks in construction‚ highlighting historical background‚ current issues/practices and implications/relevance to construction project management generally and specifically to construction project planning and control‚ feasibility study and appraisal‚ and financing. 1.0 Definitions i. The Project Management Institute‟s (PMI) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI 2008) defines project risk as: An uncertain event or condition that
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- Discussion Paper - Financial Risk Mitigation in Insurance - Time for Change The Chief Risk Officer Forum Risk Mitigation Working Group Copyright © 2006 Chief Risk Officer Forum 1 - Discussion Paper - Preface The Chief Risk Officer Forum is delighted to be presenting the study “Financial Risk Mitigation in Insurance – Time for Change”. The Chief Risk Officer Forum comprises risk officers of the major European insurance companies and financial conglomerates‚ and was formed to address
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International Risk Paper Organizations encounter financial risks in business everyday‚ especially when looking at capital budgeting. An organization can use capital budgeting techniques like; cost of capital‚ Net Present Value‚ and Internal rate of Return to value the amount of risk the organization is willing to take. When an organization decides to venture into the international arena different risks need to be analyzed. Some of the main International investment concerns are Exchange Rate Risk
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DERIVATIVES FOR MANAGING FINANCIAL RISK Q-1 What are derivatives? Why do companies hedge risk using derivatives? A-1 A derivative is a financial instrument whose pay-offs is derived from some other asset which is called an underlying asset. Option‚ an example of a derivative security‚ is a more complicated derivative. There are a large number of simple derivatives like futures or forward contracts or swaps. Derivatives are tools to reduce a firm’s risk exposure. A firm can do away with unnecessary
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A Summary of the case “BP (Beyond Petroleum) Focuses on Sustainability” Introduction British Petroleum or Beyond Petroleum (BP) is the world’s one of the largest and leading petroleum product manufactures. It has headquarters in London. It operates from 29 countries. Though it has faced safety and environmental controversies in the history of its operations it could overcome all negative images through a concrete focus and consistent efforts towards sustainable developments. BP operates throughout
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Problem 6-1A 1. Principle violated- Divide responsibilities for related transactions and separate recordkeeping from custody of assets. The business will need to separate the duties of Ms. Flat. She is currently recording all cash receipts and posting the payments to the customer accounts. This leaves much room for error and fraud. Ms. Flat also has control or access over all cash receipts as well as being responsible for posting the payment to accounts. 2. Principle violated- Establish Responsibilities
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