BAO3402 INTERNATIONAL BAKING AND FINANCE GROUP ASSIGNMENT SEMSTER ONE 2013 GROUP MEMBER: SHANSHAN XU 3899722 KUN ZHANG 3812402 LIQIAO LV 3899729 DATE: 03/05/2013 Table of content The General Business Environment For General Motors Company (GM) General Motors (GM) was founded in 1908 ‚ headquartered in City of Detroit‚ since William Durant created General Motors‚ it has combined or merged with
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Chapter 4: Questions and Applications (Page 113): #20‚ #21‚ # 29. 20. Speculation (Similar in spirit to the example that we did in class) Blue Demon Bank expects that the Mexican peso will appreciate against the dollar from its spot rate of $.15 to $.17 in 10 days. The following interbank lending and borrowing rates exist: Lending Rate Borrowing Rate U.S. dollar 8.0% 8.3% Mexican peso 8.5% 8.7% Assume that Blue Demon Bank has a borrowing capacity of either $10 million or 70 million
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End-of-Chapter Questions 3 2. International Monetary System Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 12 3. Balance of Payments Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 17 4. The Market for Foreign Exchange Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 23 5. International Parity Relationships Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 33 6. International Banking Suggested Answers
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Chapter 8. Mini-Case Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Triple Play Inc.‚ a mid-sized California company that specializes in creating high-fashion clothing. Because no one at Triple Play is familiar with the basics of financial options‚ you have been asked to prepare a brief report that firm’s executives can use to gain a cursory understanding of the topic. To begin‚ you gathered some outside materials on the subject and used these materials to draft a list of pertinent
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CASE I THE RISING EURO HAMMERS AUTO PARTS MANUFACTURERS Udo Pfeiffer‚ the CEO of SMS Elotherm‚ a German manufacturer of machine tools to engineer crankshafts for cars‚ signed a deal in late November 2004‚ to supply the U.S. operations of DaimlerChrysler with $1.5 million worth of machines. The machines would be manufactured in Germany and exported to the United States. When the deal was signed‚ Pfeiffer calculated that at the agreed price‚ the machines would yield a profit of €30‚000
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1) We do not agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation because she mistakenly used historical data to estimate the future cost of debt. Joanna calculated the cost of debt by taking the interest expense for 2001 and dividing it by the average debt balance. The cost of debt for Nike is the effective rate that it pays on its current debt‚ meaning the yield to maturity of bonds should be used to make an estimate instead of the average debt balance. Through the use of past data‚ the average balance
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Children who have been a victim of abuse can sometimes become unstable. Many have health problems or need assistance throughout his or her life because they are notcapable of doing things. It is stated many times throughout Yen-Chang Feng’s article‚ that children who receive physical abuse as a disciplinary action are more prone to have unstable mental health problems. This is not the only result in which studies have reported back and proved that children who receive physical
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Ratios and Financial Planning at East Coast Yachts 1. Current Ratio= Current Assets/Current Liabilities = 17‚582‚000/23‚689‚300 = 0.74 Quick Ratio = (Current Assets – Inventories)/Current Liabilities =(17‚582‚0007‚363‚700)/23‚689‚300 =0.43 Total Asset Turnover = Sales/Total Assets =234‚‚300‚000/130‚338‚900 =1.8 Inventory Turnover = Cost of Goods Sold/Inventory =165‚074‚000/7‚363‚700 =22.41 Receivables Turnover = Sales/Accounts Receivable =234‚300‚000/6‚567‚600 =35.68 Total Deb
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TOKYO DISNEYLAND AND THE DISNEY SEA PARK: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DIFFERENCES IN THE CAPITAL BUDGETING CONCEPTS AND METHODS BETWEEN AMERICAN AND JAPANESE COMPANIES. 1.What are the industry differences in US Corporate Governance and Japanese Corporate Governance? JAPANIES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE US CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Stakeholders of organiztions: Japanies system believs in the wealth maximization of stake holders‚ including managers‚ labour‚ suppliers‚ crediters etc American syatem always emphasized
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Emerging Markets: High Fashion Fights Recession 1. Using the five forces framework‚ how would you characterize the competition in the luxury goods industry? Threat of Substitutes There is relatively no threat of substitution in the luxury goods industry. This is mainly because of the quality and price of substitutes‚ and the cost of switching to the consumer. The price of counterfeit goods that copy the luxury goods causes there to be a positive monetary cost in switching but there is a loss of
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