CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL INNOVATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS Dr.C.Meera ** Mr.R.S.Mohan ***T.Ramesh Financial innovation has been a continuous and integral part of growth of the capital markets. Greater freedom and flexibility have enabled companies to reinvent and innovate financial instruments. Many factors such as increased interest rate‚ volatility‚ frequency of tax and regulatory changes etc. have stimulated the process of financial innovation. The deregulation
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Marriot Corporation: Cost of Capital By Xue Fan Background Marriott Corporation began in 1927 with J. Willard Marriott’s root beer stand. Over the next 60 years‚ the business grew into one of the leading companies in industry in United States. In 1987‚ Marriott’s sales grew by 24% and its return on equity stood at 22%. Sales and earnings per share had doubled over the previous 4 years‚ and the company strategy was aimed at continuing this trend. Marriot Corporation had three major lines
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Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2010 Airline Bankruptcy: The Determining Factors Leading to an Airline’s Decline Jason Tolkin Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Tolkin‚ Jason‚ "Airline Bankruptcy: The Determining Factors Leading to an Airline’s Decline" (2010). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 88. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/88 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has
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Executive Summary The case‚ Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged)‚ concentrates on making decisions based on capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to measure the opportunity cost for investments. Dan Cohrs‚ the Vice President of Finance of Marriott Corporation‚ had to deal with making recommendations for the hurdle rates at Marriott Corporation and its three divisions which are lodging‚ restaurant and contract services. In calculating
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital Executive Summary J. Willard Marriott started Marriott Corporation in 1927 with a root beer stand‚ expanding it into a leading lodging and food service company with sales of over $6 billion by 1987. At the time‚ Marriott had three main lines of business‚ lodging‚ contract services and restaurants‚ with lodging generating about 51% of company’s profits. The four key elements of Marriott’s financial strategy were managing hotel assets rather than owning‚
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management had faced with some failure and problem in their financial status and fundamentals. It leads to the stock price and the expectation plummeted. Consequently‚ the business was languished in the Doughnuts industry. In this case study‚ our main purpose is to analyze the company financial statements and investigate the effects of financial analysis announcements on the stock price from 2000 to 2004. Besides that‚ we concerned about the financial management or strategy in the company and how are they
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What are the primary strengths and weakness of the current system? How should the performance of such a system be evaluated? The capital budgeting system at Stryker Corporation made use of formalized CER forms by which individual divisions within Stryker documented the goals for revenue‚ operating profit and cash flow across in a way that were deliverable and consistent with global corporate targets. The CER system is a rigorous one requiring thorough documentation before the divisions obtain
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Case 1: Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation Background Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (CMI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Equipment Corporation (NEC). NEC expects Frank Randall‚ company president; to build CMI into a larger more diversified financial service company. To do this Randall wants to acquire Corporate Transfer Services (CTS) a small relocation services company‚ as part of a plan for diversification. Informal discussions took place with the principal stockholders
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BACKGROUND Global Financial Corporation (GF) offers financing services for customers purchasing heavy construction equipment from its parent company Global Equipment Company (GEC). GF’s Bakersfield‚ California office is setup to process the loan applications for the western United States. A recently appointed Vice President of GF‚ Nancy Rodriquez‚ is also in charge of managing the Bakersfield office. She has received a memo from the Director of Marketing at GEC with a complaint stating that the
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and the several modifications it does to the cells in the body‚ particularly the brain cells. Over exposure to alcohol may change the overall gene expression‚ thus leading to alcohol dependency. This essay will examine the concept of chromatin reorganization on the effect of alcohol on a type of nematode known as Caenorhabditis elegans. Cells are the basic units of life. The nucleus is the control center of the cell
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