INTRODUCTION Venture capital‚ a financial innovation of the twentieth century‚ is a long-term liquid investment‚ which can be in the form of equity‚ quasi-equity and sometimes debt in new and high-risk ventures. Venture capital became better known after the famous legend of Apple Computers‚ which started out in the US in 1977 with the capital firm‚ Arthur Rock & Co. Apple Computers then made it to the Fortune 500 and Arthur Rock & Co. attained height in Venture capital industry. However the success
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1. REWARD FOR HUMAN NEEDS -People who are high in need achievement are highly motivated to strive for satisfaction that is derived from accomplishing some challenging tasks. “These people obtaining specific‚ timely criticism and feedback about their performance.” Basic needs to drive people; -need for achievement -need for power -need for affiliation -need for competence -Reward or any Stimuli that serve as positive reinforces of certain behavior are found to be more powerful than the negative
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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Capital Project “A capital expenditure is a commitment of resources that is expected to provide benefits during a reasonably long period‚ at least two or more years” (Cleverly & Cameron‚ 2007‚ p. 397). Sometimes it can be difficult to determine the difference between a capital expenditure and a routine expense. A capital expenditure improves the value of the asset‚ whereas a routine expense is used for maintenance of that asset. For example‚ installation of a new bathroom in a
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Xerox is an American-based company dealing majorly in sell of business services and products. Some of the services that the company offers include; 1. Transaction Processing Services – The services include creation of payrolls and debit cards used for swiping. 2. Generalized Printing Services – The Company performs printing of various documents on a large scale. 3. Xerox also offers cloud storage services for cooperation’s and law firms with high amounts of data. Apart from the services offered above
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Exchange Risk Currency risk is also called the foreign exchange risk or foreign exchange exposure‚ refers to a period of international economic transactions in foreign currency-denominated assets (or creditor) and liabilities (or debt)‚ caused by fluctuations in the exchange rate and its value will go up and possibilities. Risk of stake-holder including government‚ enterprises‚ banks‚ individuals and other sectors‚ they are facing the risk of exchange rate fluctuations. Classification 1. Transaction
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and contrast their financial statements‚ in order to draw conclusions about which company had also have better earnings. However‚ in the process of this analysis‚ with the exception of a minor change to lease accounting by Walgreens‚ there were no major changes in accounting methods identified. In examining the financial statements for these two drugstore industry leaders‚ the analysis shows that while each company conducts retail drugstore operations in similar ways‚ their business models for carrying
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Counterproductive Effects in Rewards and Motivation When employing‚ retention and parting signify intricate‚ long term and multi-layered dealings rather than a Counterproductive Effects in Rewards and Motivation simple market deal‚ employees and employers will be principally careful to avoid entering the relationship with an inappropriate partner but‚ in speedily moving economic and industrial environments it is rational that a firm’s employment needs will be changing too. In this situation‚ a guarantee
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Capital Budgeting Introduction Capital budgeting decisions are the most important investment decisions made by management. The objective of these decisions is to select investments in real assets that will increase the value of the firm. (Kidwell and Parrino‚ 2009) Project Classification Types * Replacement projects are expenditures necessary to replace worn-out or damaged equipment. * Cost reduction projects include expenditures to replace serviceable but obsolete plant and equipment
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1. Define Risk Risk is the potential of losing something of value. Values (such as physical health‚ social status‚ emotional well being or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action‚ activity and/or inaction‚ foreseen or unforeseen. Risk can also be defined as the intentional interaction with uncertainty. Risk perception is the subjective judgment people make about the severity and/or probability of a risk‚ and may vary person to person. Any human endeavor
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