before – MERGER & ACQUISITION of IBM and Pricewaterhouse Consulting 1. WHY – UNDERLYING REASONS FOR THE PROJECT Over the past five years‚ IBM has quietly transformed itself into a "software‚ solution and services" company. With the transformation from a hardware vendor to a solution provider‚ it has entered the area of consulting services. IBM bought PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwCC) in October 2002 and became the world’s largest technology services company‚ with annual revenue of $40
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Question: Discuss how an increase in the value of each of the determinants of the option price in the Black-Scholes option pricing model for European options is likely to change the price of a call option. A derivative is a financial instrument that has a value determined by the price of something else‚ such as options. The crucial idea behind the derivation was to hedge perfectly the option by buying and selling the underlying asset in just the right way and consequently "eliminate risk"
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inherent in the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s
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CHAPTER 14 OPTIONS AND CORPORATE FINANCE Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. A call option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to buy an asset at a given price on or before a given date. A put option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to sell an asset at a given price on or before a given date. You would buy a call option if you expect the price of the asset to increase. You would buy a put option if you expect the price of the asset to decrease. A
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4.3 Analysis of Legal Options The options presented in this section are potential avenues for implementing EOI (OECD‚ 2006). Even though‚ the OECD proposed these methods for EOI between tax jurisdictions‚ they offer guidance for EOI between a tax agency and local partner MDALs. Each of these options has benefits and downsides. Method Description Applicability Direct Access A fast data access mechanism between EOI partner agencies. There is the risk of information exposure to malicious parties hence
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Can Solar Energy be a viable alternative for electricity generation in Nepal? “The sun bathes the earth in a steady‚ enormous flow of radiant energy that far exceeds what the world requires for electricity fuel.” The last decade has been harsh enough for the people of Nepal. The power cut being hiked up to 16 hours a day in 2009 provides testimony to the fact that Nepal has been hard hit by energy crisis. Given the over-increasing population‚ along with rapid industrialization and urbanization
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust merger Информация о компаниях и самом слиянии Deutsche Bank (Germany) and Bankers Trust (US) reflect different cultural realities. The main differences between them concerning cultural dimensions include such points as: Long-term orientation. On this index the Germans score 83 while the Americans score only 26 what means that unlike the Americans the Germans are very pragmatic people‚ they show an ability to adapt traditions easily to changed conditions‚ a strong propensity
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Problem 1.8. Suppose you own 5‚000 shares that are worth $25 each. How can put options be used to provide you with insurance against a decline in the value of your holding over the next four months? You should buy 50 put option contracts (each on 100 shares) with a strike price of $25 and an expiration date in four months. If at the end of four months the stock price proves to be less than $25‚ you can exercise the options and sell the shares for $25 each. Problem 1.9. A stock when it is first issued
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In the spring of 2015‚ Kraft and Heinz merged together to form Kraft Heinz. This established‚ the now joint company‚ as the third largest food company in the world (HJ Heinz). A merge between two companies isn’t uncommon in society today‚ and the process is not restricted to one type of industry. Merging and integrated industry concentration is able to be done in a multitude of industries‚ from the food industry to the electricity industry. Each merge and integration have consequences‚ and though
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