typically it refers to summoning a spirit to appear – for the purpose of divining future events as in shamanism‚ or disseminating hidden knowledge or weirdly‚ to use the deceased as a weapon. A prime example of the latter was depicted in the movie “The Return of the King” when Aragorn called warrior spirits to honor an ancient pledge. Necromancy was prevalent throughout antiquity with records of its practice in Babylon‚ Egypt‚ Greece and Rome. In his Geographica‚ Strabo refers to "diviners by the dead"
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CHAPTER 3 Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making Chapter Synopsis 3.1 Valuing Decisions When considering an investment opportunity‚ a financial manager must systematically compare the costs and benefits associated with the project in order to determine whether it is worthwhile. Determining the cash value today of the costs and benefits is one way to make such a comparison. In a competitive market‚ a good can be bought and sold at the same price‚ so the market price can be used to determine
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RISK & CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL | | |Every financial investment contains some | |To see how the risk matrix (see below) described in this tutorial is used‚ please | |level of financial risk. This risk is | |take a look at FinanceIsland’s ROI analysis tool. You can try it out |usually expressed through the discount rate | |by subscribing for a free trial. |used in the financial analysis. Since the | |
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In the movie Return to paradise directed by Michael Asimow‚ Asimow raises profound questions about the gulf between law and justice and about personal moral responsibility. Some of the main ethical questions raised in the movie are‚ Are we being ethnocentric about how the Malaysian chief treat the case‚ should Sheriff go to prison for Lewis? And did Beth unethically trick sheriff into going by getting into an affair and not telling the full truth. Sheriff seems to be a nice relaxed guy and seems
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1 – Module 2 Time value of money * How to compare monetary amounts you pay or receive at different times * The arithmetic with which we convert money between periods‚ or calculate what rate of return is implied by a given set of cash flows Single Period – Rate of Return * N = amount of years * I% = x (what we’re trying to find) * PV = How much it’s worth today * FV = How much it’s worth at maturity date * Discount bonds pay no interest during
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and its extensions designed to reduce estimation error‚ relative to the naive 1/N portfolio. Of the 14 models we evaluate across seven empirical datasets‚ none is consistently better than the 1/N rule in terms of Sharpe ratio‚ certainty-equivalent return‚ or turnover‚ which indicates that‚ out of sample‚ the gain from optimal diversification is more than offset by estimation error. Based on parameters calibrated to the US equity market‚ our analytical results and simulations show that the estimation
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those surplus earnings in the form of cash dividends or to repurchase the company’s stock through a share buyback program. If there are no NPV positive opportunities‚ i.e. projects where returns exceed the hurdle rate‚ and excess cash surplus is not needed‚ then – finance theory suggests – management should return some or all of the excess cash to shareholders as dividends. This is the general case‚ however there are exceptions. For example‚ shareholders of a "growth stock"‚ expect that the company
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per year. The project will require $50‚000 in fixed assets with expected salvage of $10‚000 at the end of the project (depreciate straight-line to salvage value) and an initial $10‚000 increase in NWC. Your marginal tax rate = 34% and the required return = 15%. What is your minimum bid? NPV = 0 = -60‚000 + OCF(PVIFA15%‚3) + 20‚000(PVIF15%‚3) NPV = 0 = -60‚000 + (NI + Dep)(2.2832) + 20‚000(0.6575) NPV = 0 = -60‚000 + [(S – VC – FC - Dep)(1 – T) + Dep](2.2832) + 13‚150.32 46‚849.68 = [(4P
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use the VLOOKUP function to search the first column of a range of cells‚ and then return a value from any cell on the same row of the range. For example‚ suppose that you have a list of employees contained in the range A2:C10. The employees’ ID numbers are stored in the first column of the range‚ as shown in the following illustration. If you know the employee’s ID number‚ you can use the VLOOKUP function to return either the department or the name of that employee. To obtain the name of employee
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The movie‚ The Return of Martin Guerre‚ directed by Daniel Vigne‚ was based off of a collection of true historical events depicting one small French village’s conflict and strife over the idea that the man posing to be ‘Martin Guerre’ was really someone else. The conflict became something many could not refute‚ eventually resulting in the main characters and many others traveling to the ‘Parlement of Toulouse’ for the court to decide. In the film‚ there is a set of four main characters‚ featuring
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