FIN 470 Exam 1 NAME________________________ 1. What are the three types of financial management decisions? For each type of decision‚ give an example of a business transaction that would be relevant. Capital budgeting (deciding whether to expand a manufacturing plant)‚ capital structure (deciding whether to issue new equity and use the proceeds to retire outstanding debt)‚ and working capital management (modifying the firm’s credit collection policy with its customers).
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competition‚ a key determinant/antecedent of the firms’ survival (let alone their success and/or superior performance) has become their ability to ensure a continuous adaptation with the changes taking place in their environment. In such a scenario‚ the managers/organizations‚ in order to be successful‚ need to exhibit a profound understanding of the dynamics of their industries‚ the changes/trends in other aspects of their firms’ external environment and the firms’ internal strengths and weaknesses. They
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Tata Consultancy Services Financial Statements Analysis 8/31/2014 Part A: Summary of Key Findings from Part B Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the largest IT company in India. Approximately 92% of its revenues are earned from international clients. The company has been growing at a very healthy rate over the years. In sales terms it has grown at a CAGR of 29.4% and in net profit terms it has grown at a CAGR of 34.7%. Since the company has significant overseas revenues‚ fluctuations
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Financial Ratios are useful indicators of how a company can show their performance measures and financial situation. These ratios are calculated by the information that is obtained from the financial statements of the business. These ratios can help analyze trends and compare the business financials to those of other like companies. Sometimes ratio analysis can predict future bankruptcy. These ratios can be shown as the following: Liquidity‚ financial leverage‚ asset turnover ‚ profitability
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“Performance Evaluation of Financial Statements by the Use of Ratio” ACC-1221/09 In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of BBA (ACCOUNTING) During the period 2008-2011 Chapter one Introduction 1. Background Financial statements are formal records of the financial activities of a business‚ person and other entities .Financial statements are all relevant financial information that are presented in a structured manner and in a form easy to understand to be used by parties
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How GDP is Misleading Measure of Wealth and Well-being! GDP‚ which stands for Gross Domestic Product‚ is the most common abbreviation in economics. It has become widely used as a reference point for the health of national and global economies. No number is quite so central to public life as the gross domestic product. Political scientists build formulas around it to predict who will win the presidency. The stock market trembles at the approach of new quarterly figures. Other economic statistics
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factor is the advertisement’s potential to injure a customer. The injury is usually attributed to money the consumer lost through a purchase that would not have been made had the advertisement not been misleading. False statements can be defined in two ways: those that are false on their face and those that are implicitly false. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124853/ deception (bedrog) deceptive (bedrieglijk) http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/False+Advertising Effects
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Ratio analysis provides an indication of a company’s liquidity‚ gearing and solvency. But ratios do not provide answers; they are merely a guide for management and others to the areas of a company’s weaknesses and strengths (Palat 1999). However‚ ratio analysis is difficult and there are many limitations. This section will identify and discuss the inadequacies of accounting ratios as tools of financial analysis. ACCOUNTING POLICIES. It is difficult to use ratios to compare companies‚ because they
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Misleading Graphs Team C Introduction to Statistics—QNT/273 February 7‚ 2011 Jeffrey McDonough Misleading Graphs “Graphs give a visual representation that enables readers to analyze and interpret data more easily than they could simply by looking at numbers. However‚ inappropriately drawn graphs can misrepresent the data and lead the reader to false conclusions” (Bluman‚ 2009‚ p.76). Some methods used by graph makers to mislead consumers are truncated axis starting points and using two
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