Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) embarked on an ambitious global expansion with the objective of becoming the world market leader in home appliances. Beginning with the purchase of a majority stake in an appliance company owned by Philips‚ the Dutch electronics firm‚ Whirlpool purchased a majority stake in an Indian firm‚ established four joint ventures in China‚ and made significant new investments in its Latin America operations. However‚ by the mid-1990s‚ serious problems had emerged in
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LITERATURE REVIEW Investment Analysis is the study of how an investment is likely to perform and how suitable it is for a given investor it is also analysing and investing money in different financial instruments and investment. Various studies and research has been on this field by experts‚ here are the lists of few books that have been referred to for the purpose of the study. Mr‚ Frank K. Reilly‚ and Keith C. Brown in their book of “Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management” Tenth Edition
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THE IMPACT OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA South Africa is committed to maintaining an open environment for investment. This is core to long-term‚ sustainable‚ economic growth. As a low-savings developing economy‚ with high domestic investment requirements‚ South Africa requires to attract foreign direct investment in order to support domestic investment financing requirements (National Treasury‚ 2011). South Africa has re-entered this changing environment in full awareness
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global financial markets with their sovereign debt crisis. In this paper‚ we will primarily focus on financial crisis in Greece‚ discussing the current situation and exploring the root causes of the crisis. Moving along‚ we will discuss how a solitary monetary policy could potentially worsen Greece’s current situation by imposing constraints on solution options. Furthermore‚ we will discuss two sets of implications of the crisis evaluation regarding debt. The first set of implications deals with what
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Financial Analysis & Management Assignment Student Name: Jalal Ahmed Abood Ba Nwaier Student ID: 0011mrmr1111 E-mail: jalal-ahmed@live.com Lecturer: Dr. Harwindar Singh Question 1 1. Corporate Profile The Berjaya Corporation group of companies’ history dates back to 1984 when the Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer‚ Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun acquired a major controlling stake in the shares capital of Berjaya Industrial Berhad (originally known as Berjaya
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Accounting 2200 Project 2 Responses to the Form 10-K of NVE Corporation Professor Jane Morton Muhan Li‚ Madhur Mittal‚ Adam Rosen ------------------------------------------------- Question 1 NVE Corporation is in the business of nanotechnology‚ founded in 1989 in Minneapolis. NVE develops and sells devices that use a new technology known as “spintronics‚” and was founded by James M. Daughton‚ Ph. D.‚ and spintronics pioneer. NVE has been awarded $50 million+ in government research contracts
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Corporate Debt Restructuring Ashish Makhija B.Com (Hons.)‚ LL.B.‚ AICWA‚ MICA‚ FCA 17/05/2008 1 Meaning of Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) • A method • • • • used by companies with outstanding debt obligations to alter the terms of the debt agreements in order to achieve some advantage Companies use debt restructuring to avoid default on existing debt or to take advantage of a lower interest rate. 17/05/2008 2 Methods of CDR The existing debt is called and then replaced with new
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CASE 6 Asian Journal of Case Research 1(2): 183 – 192 (2008) Tenaga Nasional Berhad’s Debt Woes NORDALILAH ABD AZIZa‚ ANNUAR MD NASSIRb*‚ AZHAR MOHD NASIRc‚ AND ABU SOFIAN YAAKOBd ABSTRACT Currently‚ as a result of global price escalation of coal and fuel/gas‚ TNB faced a challenging time dealing with increased operational costs as well as managing the existing high debt to support its daily operations. Because of these high borrowings‚ TNB was exposed to excessive financial risks in particular
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opinion on the effectiveness of Koss’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company maintains a system of internal controls to provide reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded and that the book and records reflect the authorized transactions of the Company. Oversight of management’s financial reporting and internal accounting control responsibilities are exercised by the Board of Directors‚ through an Audit Committee that is comprised solely of independent directors. The SEC on
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and not a single penny was actually collected. Enron used many different tools in order to create profit on financial statements when there really was no profit. They had a very structured financing through many financial intermediaries. J.P Morgan Chase was a big dealer in this huge web that spiraled Enron into debt. Special purpose entities started to emerge. These were used in order to hedge risk for companies and create profit when there was none. Enron created hundreds of
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