INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT What is Investment? An investment is the choice by the individual‚ after thorough analysis‚ to place or lend money in a vehicle (e.g. property‚ stock securities‚ and bonds) that has sufficiently low risk and provides the possibility of generating returns over a period of time. Placing or lending money in a vehicle that risks the loss of the principal sum or that has not been thoroughly analyzed is‚ by definition speculation‚ not investment. In the case of investment‚ rather
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cash Budget: A document (or electronic spreadsheet) that shows the timing of cash flows into and out of the company. Pro Forma Statements: A projected income statement (for the next several months) and balance sheet (at the end of the forecasted time period). The Cash Budget One of the major functions of corporate finance is to anticipate the need for funds in the company. Although there are several methods for forecasting these needs‚ the cash budget is the most accurate (and most commonly
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Introduction of cash budgeting Cash budget is a inputs and outputs of a business or a individual over a long period of time (e-conomic‚ 2013). A cash budgeting is relate to a organisation’s plan to plan ahead and to plan ahead of the future in a company. It usually expressed it as numbers of cash budgeting. The main objective of preparing cash budget is to ensure that the cash is sufficient for the purpose of capital or revenues expenditure. It is also to have cash in advanced in the case of shortage
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INTRODUCTION Cash is a paradox. Why do individuals treat certain pieces of metal and paper differently from other similarly valueless objects? Despite the above‚ cash is an indispensable part of modern economies and is part of a complicated monetary regime. Even though we take it for granted that the pieces of paper in our wallet offer a reliable representation of our consumption power‚ this monetary regime is anything but trivial Money and cash (as a form of money) allow people to engage in complicated
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SYH Investments CC Kagiso Media Limited Analyst: Tshepiso Appie Introduction In the following report‚ Kagiso Media Ltd will be evaluated for the inclusion in the investment portfolio of SYH Investments CC. The company and the industry in which the Kagiso Media Ltd (hereafter referred to as Kagiso) operates in shall be described in the report. A fundamental analysis of Kagiso shall also be provided; and it shall be concluded whether Kagiso should be a part of the investment portfolio of SYH Investments
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Background of the Study For having sufficient amount of capital‚ cash is the most important source of every aspect of investment. To improve the performance of the business as well as to introduce new business opportunity in the organization cash is very important. Since cash is the most powerful working capital component‚ the collection and payment of cash must be studied carefully. Therefore‚ this project tries to show how cash is controlled and managed by taking United Bank S.Co. as a representative
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benefits of investment wherever possible. Any project which requires an outlay of money or other resources and which then generates a flow of costs and benefits in subsequent periods should be regarded as an investment. The financial appraisal methods helps in guiding whether to incur an expense now so that benefits can be ripped in later periods (investment)‚ or whether the funds should be used to generate immediate benefits‚ now ( consumption ) Deciding where to focus the investment of an organization
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Case Study: The Investment Detective Primary consideration is the capital availability. If the firm has unlimited access to capital and no other investment options‚ Net Present Value would become recommended quantitative method. On the other hand‚ if the time horizon and payback period matter‚ the company should use Internal Rate of Return Calculation. 1. Looking at the cash flows doesn’t really say much. The assumption is that the firm is in the business to make profit. Profit is equal return
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What is Fair Value Accounting? An alternative approach to measurement that seeks to capture changes in asset and liability values over time. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) defines fair value as "... an amount at which an asset could be exchanged between knowledgeable and willing parties in an arms length transaction". Under the fair value measurement approach‚ assets and liabilities are re-measured periodically to reflect changes in their value‚ with the resulting change impacting
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Case 17 – The Investment Detective The case of the Investment Detective laid out the cash flows for us in each of eight different projects. Before doing any calculations we came up with the assumption that we could not rank the projects simply by inspecting the cash flows. Without the ability to rank the projects based off of cash flows solely‚ we had to use some analytical criteria as a capital budgeting analyst to provide some thorough support and reasoning for how we ranked the four best
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