Latoya Starks Week 2: Enterprise Applications Paper IT/205 Enterprise Applications Paper Question 1: Describe two effects of database tools and technologies on business performance and decision making. Database tools and technologies affected the business processes and decision making by a great extent. The most important benefit of the database is to change unstructured information into structured information‚ and allow users to analysis the data stored into different
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4. Which of the three methods – CAPM‚ DDM‚ or ECM -- is best for calculating the cost of equity? We can see that the three different methods of calculating the cost of equity produced widely varied estimates. In such situations the financial analyst has to use his/her judgment as to relative merits of each estimate and then choose the estimate which seemed more reasonable under the circumstances. Comparing the already discussed methods‚ we found that the main advantage of CAPM approach is that
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Exchange rates are the value of one currency with respect to another‚ for the purpose of conversion. They affect investment levels‚ via the cash rate and values of domestic assets; trades‚ via prices and the terms of trade (TOT); liabilities‚ via currency appreciation or depreciation and the valuation effect‚ and trades. Exchange rates are influenced by government policies in the short term and market forces in the long term. Since the Australian dollar (AUD) was floated in 1983 it has experienced
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Murf Exchange Rates and The Balance of Payments Exchange Rates Living in the 21st century‚ trading has become a major component of our global economy. However‚ with over 200 countries and 180 currencies in the world‚ countries cannot trade with each other without a way to pay each other in their currency. Thus‚ in order to trade‚ countries have developed a formula to convert their money to that of another country’s. That formula is the exchange rate. The exchange rate is the rate at which
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Application of Social exchange theory in social psychology According to Thibaut & Kelly (1959)‚ who are often cited for being major contributors to the Social Exchange Theory‚ they clearly define the theory that “the concepts of Comparison Level and Comparison Level of Alternatives is used to explain how the parties in an exchange relationship weigh their benefits and costs of the exchange relationship to determine their relationship commitment and satisfaction level” (Thibaut & Kelley‚
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Analyze the impact of the fixed exchange rate regime on the Barbados economy in the following context: • Foreign/ External Debt Management • Political Stability • Domestic Interest Rates The Barbadian Central Bank has maintained a fixed exchange rate regime since the 1970’s as a core foundation of its macroeconomic policy. A fixed exchange rate provides stability in international prices but restricts a country from pursuing policies to guide the economy to full employment or stimulate growth
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What implication do fluctuations in foreign exchange rates have on the pricing decisions of export marketing managers? Globalization is no longer an abstraction but a stark reality that virtually all firms‚ large and a small‚ face. Firms that want to survive in the 21st century must confront all encompassing force that pervades every aspect of business. However‚ exchange rate fluctuation is an issue that affects the decisions marketing managers make about pricing. Management faces different decision
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is a fixed exchange rate system that fixes the exchange rate of Hong Kong Dollar and United State Dollar to a ratio of 7.8: 1 Hong Kong Monetary Authority does not need to stable exchange market by controlling the supply and demand of HKD. It can be stabilized by Fixed-linkage System. In the past 15 years‚ Hong Kong interest rates and exchange rates fluctuated in the same trend of the US interest rate and exchange rate. The graphs below show an example of interest rate and exchange rate respectively:
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MANAGEMENT OF EXCHANGE RATE RISK EXPOSURE There are number of ways by which exchange rate risk exposure can be managed: - Natural Hedges - Cash Management - Adjusting of Intracompany accounts - International financing hedges and currency hedges through forward contracts‚ futures contracts‚ currency options and currency swaps NATURAL HEDGE - A hedge (risk reduction action) that occurs naturally as a result of a firm’s normal operations. For example‚ revenue received in a foreign
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effect‚ he distinguished between the actual money rate of interest and the real rate of return on new capital (the “natural rate of interest”). He argued that if the banks reduced the rate of interest below the real rate of return on capital‚ the amount of loan capital demanded would increase and the amount of saving supplied would fall (ibid). Investment‚ which equalled saving before the interest rate fell‚ would exceed saving at the lower rate. The increase in investment would increase overall
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