ab Global Economics Research Emerging Markets UBS Investment Research Emerging Economic Focus The India Property Primer (Transcript) Hong Kong 23 June 2011 www.ubs.com/economics Jonathan Anderson They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon Economist jonathan.anderson@ubs.com +852-2971 8515 Suresh A Mahadevan‚ CFA Analyst suresh.mahadevan@ubs.com +91-22-6155 6066 Ashish Jagnani Analyst ashish
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Evaluate the different methods of capital investment appraisal available to organisations and clearly show when each method would be used (if at all) illustrating your answer with relevant examples. Capital investment appraisal can be described as the decision-making process used by organisations to evaluate different investments and to decide which fixed assets to purchase. In the following‚ four different methods of investment appraisal shall be discussed: accounting rate of return (ARR)‚ payback
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The Michigan and Ohio State football teams are both great‚ but they have a number of differences. Such as National Championships won‚ the number of players from each team who have won the Heisman Trophy‚ and the number of wins and losses against each other. One of the biggest differences between these great teams is national championships won. Ohio State has won seven and Michigan has won eleven. Ohio State won their championships in 1920‚ 1942‚ 1954‚ 1957‚ 1961‚ 1968‚ and 2002. Michigan won theirs
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Stock Repurchase Repurchase of stock can be viewed in each of the following way: investment‚ financing‚ shareholder distribution and control issue. Repurchase of stock can be a way to use firm’s excess debt capacity. By doing so‚ firm can lower the cost of equity financing. If debt financing is more flexible and cheap‚ replace equity financing with debt financing is a good way to lower the weighted cost of capital. In this sense‚ such action is a financing issue because it controls the cost of
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The Future of Investment Banking The era of investment-banking (IB) post-economic crisis of 2008 will see increasingly modest returns and a much meeker future. Returns on equity (ROE)‚ a standard measure of profitability‚ once routinely ranged from 20-25%‚ have now halved to 13% and will continue to plummet to 6-9% by 2017 with the incorporation of new regulations. These regulations will fundamentally change the face of IB. Higher capital standards will force banks to shrink their balance sheets—making
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Foreign Direct Investment in Nepal Current status‚ prospects and challenges Ratnakar Adhikari SAWTEE Working Paper No. 01/13 Foreign Direct Investment in Nepal Current status‚ prospects and challenges Working Paper No. 01/13 South Asia Watch on Trade‚ Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) 26 Mamata Galli P.O. Box: 19366 Tukucha Marg Baluwatar Kathmandu Nepal Tel: 977-1-4444438 / 4424360 Fax: 977-1-4444570 Email: sawtee@sawtee.org Web: www.sawtee.org Views expressed in SAWTEE
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shipping them to the receiving country for sale * Licensing: granting a foreign entity right to produce and sell the firm’s product in return for royalty fee on every unit sold Flip side of FDI: Horizontal direct investment: * FDI in the same industry abroad as company operates in at home. * Expensive‚ must bear costs of establishing production facilities in a foreign
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RELEVANT TO ACCA QUALIFICATION PAPER F9 Studying Paper F9? Performance objectives 15 and 16 are relevant to this exam ADVANCED INVESTMENT APPRAISAL Investment appraisal is one of the eight core topics within Paper F9‚ Financial Management and it is a topic which has been well represented in the F9 exam. The methods of investment appraisal are payback‚ accounting rate of return and the discounted cash flow methods of net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR). For each of these
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custody of the securities of the company. The auditors also did not test internal controls which means that they expressed no professional skepticism or due care because they took management’s word for it that these controls were working fine or that they did not feel it necessary to perform audit work in general. As an auditor it is appropriate to obtain sufficient audit evidence with respect to the existence and valuation assertions associated with investments in the form of observable market prices
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Business Incubation System in Israel Table of Contents * Introduction * Present Condition & Functions * Funding Structure * Venture Capital * Innovation Ecosystem * KORIL-RDF * Cases Introduction In the early 1990s‚ the Israel government created a technological business incubator program to leverage the strength of approximately 750‚000 scientists‚ engineers‚ and physicians who had just arrived from former USSR. Israel’s Office of the Chief
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