Tarik Driouchi - tarik.driouchi@kcl.ac.uk Senior Lecturer- Financial & Mgt. studies Office Hours [WBW4.15]: Thursdays 4-6pm A few words on the AAFM MSc… Themes: Accounting Theory‚ Financial Accounting‚ Valuation‚ Corporate Governance‚ Financial Management & Markets‚ Behavioural Finance Structure: Taught modules (term 1 & 2) + Dissertation (term 3) KCL Keats‚ KCL e-resources and Q&As 2 Learning Objectives • Main objectives – To develop robust foundations in financial management theory and
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Auzius Kazombo Mwale Department of Accounting & Finance Testing the inefficient management hypothesis: Are United Kingdom mergers and acquisitions disciplinary? This thesis is provided in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Stirling May 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank various people to whom I am indebted for assisting me in producing this thesis. I am greatly indebted to Professor Robin Limmack for assisting me with the groundwork
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EVA AND NPV 2 A Comparison of EVA and NPV (discuss the differences and similarity of EVA and NPV; why would companies choose to adopt EVA‚ implementation issues; chronicle the implementation experience of EVA on a real life company). Finance executives are required not only to crunch numbers and generate forecast but to think ‘critically’‚ not just seeing the numbers but understanding their implications. This is what Melon (1994) refers to as conducting a ‘financial assessment’ which
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Mini case p.45 a. Why is corporate finance important to all managers? Corporate finance is important because of the skills that mangers can obtain from it. Some of these skills are selecting the best corporate strategies and projects that add value to business. b. Describe the organizational forms a company might have as it evolves from a start-up to a major corporation. List the advantages and disadvantages of each form. The organizational forms are proprietorships‚ partnerships‚ and corporations
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increasingly aware of how their organizations can be buffeted by risks beyond their control. In many cases‚ fluctuations in economic and financial variables such as exchange rates‚ interest rates‚ and commodity prices have had destahilizing effects on corporate strategies and performance. Consider the following examples: D In the first half of 1986‚ world oil prices plummeted hy 50%; overall‚ energy prices fell hy 24%. While this was a boon to the economy as a whole‚ it was disastrous for oil producers
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dividend that is usually much larger than a regular dividend. An alternative way to pay cash to investors is through a share repurchase‚ in which a firm uses cash to buy shares of its own outstanding stock. These shares are generally held in the corporate treasury and can be resold in the future. An open market repurchase‚ in which a firm buys its own shares in the open market‚ is the most common way that firms repurchase shares. ©2011 Pearson Education 198
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Corporate Financial Management Literature Review on Capital Structure Date: 7\12\2012 Name: Tudor Gheorghiu Student Id: 12254888 Introduction 3 Theories on Capital Structure 3 Modigliani and Miller theory on capital structure 3 Other theories relating to the firm`s capital structure 4 Trade-off theory 4 Pecking order theory 5 Agency theory 6 Choosing between theories 7 Empirical evidence 7 Developed countries: 7 Emerging markets: 9 Capital structure of privatised firms
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the relevant corporate governance attributes? Agrawal‚ A.‚ Jaffe‚ J. F. and Mandelker‚ G. N. (1992) The post-merger performance of acquiring firms: a re-examination of an anomaly‚ Journal of Finance‚ 47‚ 1605–21. Barber‚ B. and Lyon‚ J. (1997). Detecting long-run abnormal stock returns: the empirical power and specification of test statistics‚ Journal of Financial Barber‚ B.‚ Lyon‚ J. and Tsai‚ C. (1999) Improved method for tests of long-run abnormal stock returns‚ Journal of Finance‚ 54‚ 165–202
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MBA- SEMESTER-II ASSIGNMENT – MB0045 Name : Registration No : Learning Center : Learning Center Code : Course : MBA Subject : FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Semester : Second Module No : MB0045 Date of Submission : 30.01.2013 Marks Awarded : Directorate of Distance Education Signature of Sikkim Manipal University Signature of Evaluator II-Floor‚ Syndicate House Center Cordinator
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INTERNSHIP REPOET ON IDLC INVESTMENTS LIMITED Topic: “Activities of Investment Bank in the case of IDLC Investments Limited” Supervised by: Mr. Probal Dutta Assistant Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University Submitted by: Md. Abu Taher ID: 07304020 BRAC Business School BRAC University Date of Submission: 28th September‚ 2011 28th September‚ 2011 Mr. Probal Dutta Assistant Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University Subject: Submission of the report on “Activities of Investment
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