For example‚ Odell and Commander identify some risk factors for homelessness among people with psychotic disorders as they recruited them from mental services. According to their research about psychotic disorders‚ the data from interviews and medical records showed High rates of severe mental illness amongst single homeless populations have been consistently reported in the literature. The reasons for this disturbing finding arise‚ at least in part‚ from structural features in our society are
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FINANCING CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA) Written By: ABORISADE OLUWASOGO OLANREWAJU SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING BANKING AND FINANCE OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY OSOGBO‚ OKUKU SUPERVISED BY: MR OLANREWAJU FATOKI ABSTRACT Climate change adaptation is increasingly becoming an area of growing interest and involvement for many developing countries that unfortunately bear the brunt of an overheating planet caused by developed or so called advanced
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development. Risk can be broadly classified into pure risk and speculative risk. Real estate investment can be classified as speculative risk in which there is an uncertainty of loss or gain. The investor can gain profit due to the increase price in real estate or suffer some losses affected by risk factor. If these factors are not well understood and managed by the investor‚ real estate becomes a risky investment. Risk issues and methods to reduce risk i) Fraudulent sale The primary risk in real
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A SEMINAR PAPER ON FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT CHAPTER ONE Introduction Risk means the possibility of loss due to exposure to certain circumstances. In any financial investment‚ there is a chance that the actual return will be much lesser than expected. This chance is referred to as Financial Risk. Managing this risk to minimize financial losses is the best practice known as Financial Risk Management. Managers with a finance responsibility are expected to have a working knowledge of the principles
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International Risk Paper Organizations encounter financial risks in business everyday‚ especially when looking at capital budgeting. An organization can use capital budgeting techniques like; cost of capital‚ Net Present Value‚ and Internal rate of Return to value the amount of risk the organization is willing to take. When an organization decides to venture into the international arena different risks need to be analyzed. Some of the main International investment concerns are Exchange Rate Risk‚ Political
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Financial Risks in Construction Discuss financial risks in construction‚ highlighting historical background‚ current issues/practices and implications/relevance to construction project management generally and specifically to construction project planning and control‚ feasibility study and appraisal‚ and financing. 1.0 Definitions i. The Project Management Institute‟s (PMI) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI 2008) defines project risk as: An uncertain event or condition that
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Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms Paper Global finance operations include financial procedures‚ such as accounting‚ financial planning and analysis‚ strategic planning‚ treasury‚ investor relations‚ and financial compliance. Exchange rate is the existing market cost for which one currency can be exchanged for another (Moffatt‚ n.d.). For instance‚ when the U.S. exchange rate for the Japanese Yen is ¥1.10‚ this means that 1 American Dollar can be exchanged for 1.1 Japanese Yen. The
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1. Comparative analysis of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on financial efficiency of banks in Nigeria In Nigerian‚ mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector decided to reform the tactics and change the position of banking sector. Okpanachi Joshua (2011) write this paper use many ratios such as gross earnings‚ profit after tax and net assets of the selected banks to compare the pre-mergers and acquisitions’ index number with the post-mergers and acquisitions’ index number during the
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Perhaps with the exception of society itself‚ the organizational entity has become one of the most contemporaneously significant institutions. This‚ moreover‚ is something that tends to be emphasized quite strongly when considering it in light of the exceptional degree to which we tend to depend upon products and commodities that are the manufactured output of a particular firm or organization. Indeed‚ from the clothes we wear to the foods that we consume‚ virtually all of these are produced by a
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Financing is something that is very important in the accounting world. Some companies would not be able to operate without financing. There are many types of financing. This short paper will focus on two types of financing that every company or organization should be aware of. Those types of financing are debt financing and equity financing. This paper will give the definition of both types of financing and also two examples of each. The paper will also discuss which of the financing is more important
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