Functionalities of Financial Intermediaries 3 Maturity Transformation 3 Risk Transformation 4 Convenience Denomination 5 Advantages of Financial Intermediaries 6 Reconciling Conflicting Preferences of Lenders and Borrowers 7 Spreading and Reducing Investment Risks 8 Economies of Scale Reduces Costs 8 Economies of Scope Reduces Cost 9 Summary and Conclusion 10 Introduction Financial markets can often be considered as the collection of all potential buyers and sellers of various types of financial products
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Financial Crisis A financial crisis is “an economic recession or depression caused by a lack of necessary liquidity in financial institutions. A financial crisis may be caused by a natural disaster‚ negative economic news or some other events.”(InvestorWords.com‚ 2009) Financial crisis usually decrease business activity because people do not have enough financial resources. The reason why I chose this topic is because it is a daily theme in all of the European tabloids. We read every day’s
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a good indicator of the cost of using those buildings and equipment? Compare that situation to a company with new buildings and equipment where there will be large amounts of depreciation expense. The remainder of our explanation of financial ratios and financial statement analysis will use information from the following income statement: Example Corporation Income Statement For the year ended December 31‚ 2011 | | Sales (all on credit) | $500‚000 | Cost of Goods Sold | 380‚000
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Q5. Putting yourself in the position of an existing shareholder(investor) of your company‚ using both the annual corporate report and the information about your company’s share price in the Financial Times‚ provide a recommendation (with reasons) whether you rate your company’s shares as Buy‚ Hold or Sell. There are a wide range of factors that affect share price. These include interest rates‚ inflation‚ the performance of the industry/sector the company is in‚ the performance of the company itself
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business and financial performance of Primark stores limited over the three year period 2007 to 2009. This report highlights more on the operations‚ strategy‚ business and financial performance of Primark stores limited. This is written in comparison to one of its competitors‚ BHS Limited. REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS TOPIC The reason why I have chosen this topic is that‚ as a student accountant‚ business and financial analysis is very important as it will widen my understanding of financial analysis of
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Financial inclusion Financial inclusion is the availability of banking services at an affordable cost to disadvantaged and low-income groups. In India the basic concept of financial inclusion is having a saving or current account with any bank. In reality it includes loans‚ insurance services and much more. The first-ever Index of Financial Inclusion to find out the extent of reach of banking services among 100 countries‚ India has been ranked 50. Only 34% of Indian individuals have access to or
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Financial Statements Accounting is a function by which users can understand the internal financial workings of a company. Use of public accounting dates as far back as the late nineteenth century (Hendrickson‚ 2007) and continues today under the set guidelines that accounting professionals refer to as generally accepted accounting principles. These principles are set in the United States by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission (Weygandt‚ p. 9‚ 2008)
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Professional Ethics and financial statement disclosure: In a constructionist perspective Abstract This essay addresses the relationship between professional ethics and financial statement disclosure. The public should change its view on the objectivity of accounting profession because in no means can anyone be absolutely objective. The reason to this will be articulated thoroughly in the essay. Then how to maximize relative objectivity is discussed and
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Understanding the causes of 2007-09 ‘financial crisis’…and the UK government’s response- An essay by Shirumisha Kwayu Posted on 18/04/2013 by Aikande Kwayu Note to the reader: This is the first entry that is not written by me (i.e. Aikande Kwayu). The blog is now inviting entries by interested people…if you think you may have something to share please feel free to email me. And now…let’s learn a bit about the recent financial crisis and how the UK government responded. It’s important to understand
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Arab British Academy for Higher Education UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX THE ESSEX BUSINESS SCHOOL 10/09/10-04:05:28 The Effect of Applying Fair Value on the Financial Statements of UK Leading Companies By Bassam Kazmouz 0948799 Supervisor Dr Robert Wearing September 2010 Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE (MSC) www.abahe.co.uk Arab British Academy for Higher Education TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction
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