Investment Appraisal: The Gamma plc case Gamma plc is considering buying a new machine to expand their production of office furniture. The machine costs £1.3 million and will last for 5 years. The scrap value of these machines is £150‚000. It is expected that the asset will be sold for this value on the last day of the fifth year‚ and that a replacement machine will then be purchased. An investment of £120‚000 in working capital will be needed initially. The projected financial data
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CASE: Managing Offshore Investments: Who’s Currency?1 The Offshore Investment Fund (OIF) was incorporated in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ for the sole purpose of allowing U.S. shareholders to invest in Maltese securities. The Fund is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The custodian of the Fund is the Shady Rest Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut (“Shady Rest”)‚ which keeps the accounts of the Fund. The question very quickly arose as to the currency in which the books of the fund were to be
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A Rhetorical Analyst of Anheuser-Busch Advertisements Beer advertisements are everywhere. You see the daily on TV‚ in magazines‚ billboards and hear them on the radio. The greatest platform for any for any advertisement is the Super Bowl. Everyone looks forward to seeing all of the advertisements during the Super Bowl. The beer advertisements usually have the highest ratings and are the most popular of the night. They use humor and sex appeal to sell their beer to men‚ which are the majority
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cross-border trade and investment in other parts of the world. Also‚ Japan was badly defeated in World War II and occupied by Allied forces at the end of the war. Japan was totally closed to foreign investment during that period. The Japanese government sets up important barriers to reduce the foreign direct investment into Japan to develop the country by avoiding other countries’ financial shocks. Additional‚ the high rental and labor cost impact the Foreign Direct Investment level too. Japan as
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The use of Return on Investment (ROI) causes managers to consider income and investment when making decisions. A company’s return on investment is the measure of income or profit divided by the investment required to obtain that income or profit (Horngren‚ Sundem‚ Stratton‚ Burgstahler‚ and Schatzberg‚ 2008). ROI can be used as a test of profitability. The formula for ROI is ROI = Net Income ÷ Total Assets. Guillermo‚ like most investors wants the maximum income‚ considering he is given the same
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Group 2 BOCK INVESTMENT SERVICES The goal of Bock Investment Services (BIS) is to be the leading money market advisory service in South Carolina. To provide better service for their present clients and to attract new clients. BIS developed a weekly newsletter. BIS is considering adding a new feature to the newsletter that will report the results of a weekly telephone survey of fund managers. To investigate the feasibility of offering this service‚ and to determine what type of information
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What is Investment Banking “A specific division of banking related to the creation of capital for other companies. Investment banks underwrite new debt and equity securities for all types of corporations. Investment banks also provide guidance to issuers regarding the issue and placement of stock.” An investment bank is a financial institution that helps companies take new bond or stock issues to market‚ usually acting as the intermediary between the issuer and investors. In addition to the services
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An Article Review on “Ethical Investment Processes and Outcomes” Introduction This article was written by Grant Michelson‚ Nick Wailes‚ Sandra van der Laan‚ and Geoff Frost. It was published in Journal of Business Ethics by Springer. This article highlights the key themes in the field and identifies some of the major theoretical and practical challenges facing both scholars and practitioners. Summary Generally there are two kinds of investors in the market‚ one who invests considering the pros
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Investment Banking in 2008 (A): Rise and Fall of the Bear 1. What role did Bear’s culture play in its positioning vis-à-vis its competitors‚ and what role might that culture have played in its demise? Bear Stearns played a risky role with the promise of high returns. Bear was participating in the LTCM and created a bubble. Bear’s competitors recognized and hedged against risk by participating in the buyout while Bear Stearns ignored the bullish market. Other banks hired both externally as well
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BusinessmenFord’s self-imposed injunction to play disruptor to its own sector is gaining momentum‚ and a new major investment suggests that big auto finance actors are not afraid of making the switch from hunted to hunter. In another disruptor-disrupted role-inversion‚ Ford announced a investment $182.2 in Pivotal today‚ a San Francisco-headquartered and cloud-based software platform firm‚ in a bid to enhance its software development capabilities to quicken the return on innovative projects. This
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