OPEN-ENDED AND CLOSED-ENDED FUND OPEN END FUND DEFINATION A type of mutual fund that does not have restrictions on the amount of shares the fund will issue. If demand is high enough‚ the fund will continue to issue shares no matter how many investors there are. Open-end funds also buy back shares when investors wish to sell. CLOSED END FUND DEFINATION A type of fund with a fixed number of shares outstanding‚ and one which does not redeem shares the way a typical mutual fund does. Closed-end funds
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Economies of scale are the cost advantages that a business can exploit by expanding their scale of production. The effect of economies of scale is to reduce the average (unit) costs of production. Economies of scale‚ in microeconomics‚ refers to the cost advantages that an enterprise obtains due to expansion. There are factors that cause a producer’s average cost per unit to fall as the scale of output is increased. "Economies of scale" is a long run concept and refers to reductions in unit cost
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Equity Method If owned shares are 25% or more then Significant influence so Equity Method is used eg. Take 25% of income Investment Income = Less % of Dividends Paid + % of Net Income + Impairment Calculation + Amortization of Excess Payment of FV of Assets Note: Do not record Share Price Increase or Decrease 2013-24‚ 2013M1-31‚ 2008-82 Co. Q’s share of the excess of fair value over book value of the asset should be amortized over the life of the asset and charged
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............................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 3 THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF EXPERIENCE ECONOMY ................................... 4 1.1 CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE .......................................................................................... 4 1.1.1 Corporate culture translated by employees .................................
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| 1‚611.3 | 1‚510.9 | Proportion | 28.2% | 25.0% | 23.6% | 23.4% | 20.0% | 23.7% | According to Figure 1‚ AHP’s cash was about 23% of total assets‚ rose constantly since 1978 to 1981‚ and reached 28.2% in 1981; thus‚ it has enough cash flow to finance its daily operation. Also‚ return on assets can show that a firm’s ability to cover its operating cost by generating income. According to the calculation below‚ American Home Products Corporation’s ROA was stable and approximately 19
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CONTENT 1) INTRODUCTION 2) TYPE OF ECONOMY 3) GOVERNMENT 4) QUICK FACTS 5) WHY GERMANY? 6) SOURCE INTRODUCTION Germany has always been a driver‚ innovator‚ and beneficiary of an globalised economy. The country consists of 16 states‚ and its capital city is Berlin. Germany has the fifth-largest GDP in 2012. Germany is the worlds third largest exporter with $1.4 trillion exported in 2011. Germany is a key member of the continent’s economic‚ political‚ and
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What is largely fueling the underground economy‚ experts say‚ is the nation’s swelling ranks of low-wage illegal immigrants. The government puts this population at 8.5 million‚ but that may represent a serious undercount. Robert Justich‚ a senior managing director at Bear Stearns Asset Management in New York‚ makes a persuasive case in a forthcoming paper‚ "The Underground Labor Force Is Rising to the Surface‚" that illegal immigrants actually number 18 million to 20 million. If true‚ the economic
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Capital Flows Introduction The global crisis‚ in its evolving phases since 2007‚ has vividly demonstrated the extent to which cross border capital flows tie economies together. From the spread of the crisis from the United States to the global economy in 2008‚ to the jitters caused across the world‘s financial markets by recent tensions in the Euro Area‚ with surges of inflows into fast growing emerging markets‚ and more recently into ―safe haven‖ currencies‚ it is clear that the world economy has
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Green Chemistry Institute Atom Economy Page 1 American Chemical Society --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLEANING UP WITH ATOM ECONOMY By Kathryn E. Parent‚ k_parent@acs.org Introduction Cleaning up the environment and‚ more importantly‚ preventing pollution are important issues in today’s world. The theme for the 2002 National Chemistry Week is “Chemistry Keeps Us Clean.” While the chemical industry is traditionally
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standby arrangement in late 1996 because of government steps to the negative external conditions generated by the Asian and Russian financial export and currency controls within its already largely closed economy. Economic policies that have repelled foreign investment are a major factor in the economy ’s stagnation. A growing debt burden‚ persistent inflation‚ and a poor business climate led to disappointing growth in 2001. However‚ in December 2001 the government voiced a renewed interest in
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