CASH HOLDINGS‚ WORKING CAPITAL AND FIRM VALUE: EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE Ruta AUTUKAITE* – Eric MOLAY** Abstract: Although companies deal with day-to-day short term financial decisions‚ in corporate finance the emphasis is being put on long term financial issues when talking about company’s value. In this paper a sample of French listed companies was chosen to assess the importance of short term financial decisions to company’s value by testing the following hypotheses: an extra euro invested in cash
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General Information HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited. is one of India’s leading private insurance companies‚ which offers a range of individual and group insurance solutions. It is a joint venture between Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC Limited)‚ India’s leading housing finance institution and a Group Company of the Standard Life Plc‚ UK. HDFC Standard Life believes that establishing a strong and ethical foundation is an essential prerequisite for long-term sustainable
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Is Profit Maximisation always the major objective of a firm? The production of goods and services in our economy today takes place within organisations‚ whether in the centrally planned economy or free market economy. Any firm within these societies all have the same tendencies to acquire a successful business. Attaining this succession through mission statements‚ goals and objectives is simultaneous through all businesses. Changes in these objectives can have forcible effects on the decisions
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ECON 600 Lecture 3: Profit Maximization I. The Concept of Profit Maximization Profit is defined as total revenue minus total cost. Π = TR – TC (We use Π to stand for profit because we use P for something else: price.) Total revenue simply means the total amount of money that the firm receives from sales of its product or other sources. Total cost means the cost of all factors of production. But – and this is crucial – we have to think in terms of opportunity cost‚ not just explicit
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WHAT ARE COSTS AND PROFITS? HUNGRY HELEN’S COOKIE FACTORY • Helen‚ the owner of the cookie factory‚ buys flour‚ sugar‚ flavorings‚ and other cookie ingredients. • She also buys the mixers and the ovens and hires workers to run the equipment. • She then sells the resulting cookies to consumers. 2 TOTAL REVENUE‚ TOTAL COST‚ AND PROFIT • The amount that Helen receives for the sale of its output (cookies) is its total revenue. • The amount that the firm pays to buy inputs (flour‚ sugar‚ workers
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PROFIT MAXIMIZATION: REALITY OR A THEORETICAL OBJECTIVE? Research Compiled for The Paper Store‚ Inc. by Amy Sorter 3/2009 For More Information on This Paper‚ Please Visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm Introduction Though many people equate economics with finance and accounting‚ it ’s actually a social science‚ a study of behavior and how rational people behave when it comes to allocation of resources. Within the study of that social science are many theories in which economists attempt
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It was the political journalist‚ George Megalogenis who wrote in his book Fault Lines that it was ‘wogs and women’ who laboured to create modern Australia (2003‚ p.28). Megalogenis posits ‘wogs’ as the low paid‚ unskilled or under-skilled ‘working’ class‚ post World War II migrants. The Marxist principle of a reserve army of labour – which includes unskilled as well as casual or precarious labour and women – proposes that‚ as supply of labour is constant and abundant; the wages of this group are
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1) Effect of Increase of Non-Labour Income in Desired Working Hours Assuming that the individual has zero non-labour income and faces the income budget line of JZ‚ the individual would choose point A as the ‘optimal’ utility-maximizing point as it is the highest attainable indifference curve(tangent to the income budget line or MRS = |w/p|). At this point A‚ the individual will work Ls1 hours‚ enjoy La leisure hours and enjoy an income of Ca. Assuming the individual has attained a source of non-labour
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journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1743-9132.htm IJMF 3‚2 Effects of working capital management on SME profitability ´ ´ Pedro Juan Garcıa-Teruel and Pedro Martınez-Solano Deptartment of Management and Finance‚ Faculty of Economy and Business‚ University of Murcia‚ Murcia‚ Spain Abstract Purpose – The object of the research presented in this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of working capital management on the profitability of a sample of small and medium-sized Spanish
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