Pedro Reyes – FIN/370 Week 1 Individual Assignment Resource: Financial management: Principles and applications Define the following terms and identify their roles in finance: * Finance - The “science of funds management.” Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time‚ money‚ risk and how they are interrelated. Finance also deals with how money is spent and budgeted. * * Efficient market - A market in which
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Case Study – Banning of Shark fin soup in Jade Restaurant. The refusal of not banning shark fin soup at Jade Restaurant can affect many stakeholders. This includes the owner/shareholder‚ suppliers‚ special interest groups (SIGS)‚ customers‚ and also the government. The owners and shareholders are definitely going to be affected because if the ban were to go through they would lost a portion of the profit that they would’ve earned if it weren’t for the ban. The suppliers are obviously going to be
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Literature reviews on Financial Inclusion 1. Financial Inclusion: Taking banking services to the bottom of the pyramid. By dr. k. Srinivasa Rao Objective: To extend the scope of activities of the organized financial system t include within its ambit people with low incomes and to lift the poor from one level to another through graduated credit‚ thereby facilitating them to break the chain of poverty. Introduction: _ Financial inclusion means extending the banking habit and ensuring access
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Financial Information 1. Why is financial information important for a business- provide four reasons * For owners and managers to be able to make sensible business decisions. * For prospective investors to know where the company stands financially. * Financial institutions such as banks can use this information to decide whether to give the company things such as loans etc. * For everyone within the company to understand its financial position‚ regarding assets‚ liabilities‚ equity
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general populace’s lack of financial knowledge has increased‚ many organizations have been created or have begun to provide various types of financial education. Financial literacy and personal money management programs operate at various levels‚ ranging from national to statewide to local. Some programs are preventative‚ targeting middle and high school students through regular curricula or special programs that aim to educate young people before they encounter financial choices. Others focus on
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The financial crisis and the future of financial regulation Executive summary The outburst of the global financial crisis caused by the subprime crisis in America makes it necessary to adjust the financial regulation systems. The main financial crises in the history of the mankind were all mainly caused by the defects of the financial regulation in the world. Thus it can be seen that it is very necessary and important to explore the effective means to improve the effectiveness of the international
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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I COURSE DESCRIPTION/OBJECTIVES The primary aim of Financial Accounting is to provide students with an introduction to the process and function of financial reporting. Whilst a large proportion of the course is aimed at understanding accounting as a process‚ taking a preparers‟ perspective‚ we will also seek to develop an understanding of the importance of the role of accounting in today’s society. LEARNING OUTCOMES After studying this course the student will be able to understand:
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Causes and Effects of Internal Control Outcomes -Final Thesis- Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Maastricht‚ February 21th‚ 2008 Martina Kratz ID: 239232 Master International Business – Concentration Finance Supervisor: Robin Braun Abstract Since the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002‚ the topic of internal control systems never came to rest. The current subprime crisis is just one example of internal control failures and their negative consequences
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The Financial Detective‚ 2005 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with the financial profile derived from the ratios. The primary objective of this case is to introduce students to financial ratio analysis—in particular‚ the range of ratios and the insights each one affords. This case presumes that students have already been introduced to
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Assessment 1 Outcome 1 A) The analytical framework I have chosen to use is PEST. Pest stands for Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological and are all factors of a PEST analysis. These are intellectual tools which are created in order to help a researcher to collect‚ sort‚ prioritise and interpret a variety of existing data and information about the subject or context that has to be analysed. When changes happen within a business or organisation the company will use a PEST analysis to view each
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