...Course Information Course Number/Section FIN 6366-0G1 Course Title INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Term Spring 2009 Days & Times There will be weekly assignments. The week will start on Monday. Professor Contact Information Professor David J. Springate, Ph.D. Office Phone 972-883-2647 Email Address spring8@utdallas.edu Office Location SOM 2.610 Office Hours By appointment Administrative Contact Information Administrative Assistant Debbie Davis Office Phone 972-883-5941 Email Address debbie.davis@utdallas.edu (copy me on your WebCT messages and all other emails to Dr. Springate) Office Location SOM 2.415 _________________________________________________________________________ Course Description My aim is to work with you on both concepts that are useful in dealing with international currency issues when operating across national boundaries and on recent developments in the capital markets and financing. The context of the course will be financial issues of importance to corporations, fund managers, and investors. The instructional focus will be individual development. The course aims to develop professional effectiveness in understanding selected developments and in being able to work with concepts useful in valuation, investment and financing. As you will see below, the course is broken into three major areas of concern. After the “introduction section”, we will take up “foreign exchange exposure...
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...The following guidelines are designed to assist in the case analysis process. The Guidelines are not intended to be a rigid format, however. Each question is intended to surface information that will be helpful in analyzing and resolving the case. Each case is different, and some parts of these guidelines may not apply in every case. Following each case are discussion questions that should be answered as part of any complete case analysis. The heart of any case analysis is the recommendations made based upon a solid logical foundation. The questions dealing with Problem and Issue Identification and Analysis and Evaluation should be used to define and then defend recommendations made in the final Recommendations step. Guidelines for Analyzing Cases Problem and Issue Identification 1. What are the central facts of the case? What assumptions are you making about these facts? 2. What is the major overriding issue in the case? What major question or issues does this case address that merits study at this point in the course? 3. What sub-issues or related issues are present in the case that merit consideration now? Analysis and Evaluation 1. Who are the stakeholders in the case and what are their stakes? What challenges, threats or opportunities are posed by these stakeholders? 2. What economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities does the company have, and what is the nature and extent of these responsibilities? 3. If the case involves company actions...
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...Outline Title: Far but Not Different I. Introduction A. Hook B. Connecting information C. Thesis Statement: Despite the geographic and language differences between these two places, they share certain similarities such as the weather, people, and food. II. Body Paragraph 1 (Point of comparison 1): Weather A. Subject 1: In Miami B. Subject 2: In Caracas III. Body Paragraph 2 (Point of comparison 2): People A. Subject 1: From Miami B. Subject 2: From Caracas IV. Body Paragraph 3 (Point of comparison 3): Food A. Subject 1: In Miami B. Subject 2: In Caracas V. Conclusion Far but Not Different Have you ever realized how similar some cities are even though they are not located in the same territory? Caracas, the capital of Venezuela and a Spanish Speaking city, is located in South America, whereas Miami is located in the United States, an English speaking country. Although the information mentioned above is a well-known fact, both Miami and Caracas are not as different as they seem. Despite the geographic and language differences between these two places, they share certain similarities with respect to the climate, people, and gastronomy. First of all, Miami has the same weather conditions as Caracas. For example, both cities do not have four seasons because it does not snow in both places. Moreover, Miami and Caracas have not only a remarkable hot climate but also have a cold season with strong winds. The weather from these two places is extremely...
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...Ethics and social responsibility have become so important in recent years because many firms have seen their image, reputation, and marketing efforts destroyed by problems in these areas. This is something that can be easily avoided in companies; it is an employee’s character that is ultimately the face of a company. A company could have the best products but if a consumer receives horrible customer service they think twice about where to buy that product from the next time they are shopping around for it. A customer would rather a 3 out of 5-star product and great customer service than a 5 out of 5-star product and poor customer service. Customers take into consideration how they are being treated when spending their money. If a customer is not happy with the service that they’ve received it is possible that they would even go to the lengths of asking for their money back and even reaching out to a company’s corporate office to get some type of compensation. For example, I was at a fast food restaurant and a woman had ordered her food before me, she had already paid and was waiting for her food to come out. Soon after I ordered, I received my food and was eager to head out. The woman noticed that I was after her in line and that I received my order before her and immediately became upset. She addressed the worker that she initially interacted with who told her that her food would be out shortly. Intrigued by this, I waited to see how much longer the woman would have to wait until...
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...Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities. Agree or Disagree? As our world's civilization develops rapidly, people's lives become increasingly abundant and colorful with many ways of learning, doing sports and recreation. As a result, young people today are proven that they do not give enough time to helping their communities, and reasons supporting this statement are in the following. Firstly, young people are definitely easier to be distracted since they have lots of event to participate in, which results in their less time spending on communities activities. As students are so busy with their academic study, traveling between school and home everyday with lots of homework, thus they do not have time being involved in community. Besides, the young who have started working career also face lots of things to deal with such as regular company work as well as family affairs and dinner with colleagues and bosses, which distract them a lot and occupy much of their spare time. For instance, one of my brothers who just began working for a national enterprise told me that he's schedule was so full that he could not even provide one hour per week for community volunteer. The second reason is about young people's attitude toward community lives. Nowadays, since people, especially the young, spend a large amount of time outside home for work and relaxation, they do not have a literal sense of being in a neighbor, which causes their decreasing...
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.... IN THE LOWER KITTITAS COUNTY DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON STATE OF WASHINGTON,Plaintiff,vs._____________ Defendant. | No. _____________ STATE’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS | The State of Washington, represented by Deputy Prosecutor Tony Swartz, submits the following response to defendant’s motion to dismiss filed on May 1, 2013. For the reasons stated below, defendant’s motion should be denied. --- PROCEDURAL HISTORY On March 29, 2013, Honorable Judge _____________ presided over this case with defendant, defense counsel _____________, and plaintiff counsel Tony Swartz for the State of Washington. Defendant was charged with DUI and Reckless Driving. A venire consisted of 29 potential jurors. Questioning by court and counsel occurred between 10:45am and 12:11pm. The court asked the venire, “Have any of you had a personal experience with a similar related type of case or incident as an accused, as a witness, anything like that?” Transcript p2, l6 – 8. In response to jurors with raised hands, the court said, “We have juror 19, 7, 26, 14, anyone else?” Finally, the court asked, “Any of you believe that that might impair your ability to fairly hear the case?” In response, the court said, “14, it might? Okay. And 19? 14 and 19 indicated it might impair their ability to fairly hear the case.” Transcript p2, l8 – 10. Jurors 19, 7, 26, and 14 were ultimately all removed from the panel before the selection process. A 6-person jury was selected...
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...Using a computer every day can have more negative than positive effects on children. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Essay 1 – High Score – Band 8-9 In today's modern world, computers are an essential part of everyday life. Around the globe, children often use computers from a very young age. Although it is important for children to participate in various well-balanced activities, in my opinion, children who use the computer daily are actually developing a critical skill for future success. The bases for my views are personal, academic, and professional. From a personal point of view, computers are an invaluable resource to help young people explore the world around them. For example, children who use Internet to satisfy their curiosity about diverse topics are already becoming independent learners. No child with a computer is ever bored! By starting early in their lives, children feel totally at ease around computers; they are also able to take advantage of the wide range of services computers provide. From an academic viewpoint, children have no choice but to master this technological invention. For instance, when I was in university, students brought their laptops to class to take notes, do research and exchange information. They wrote assignments, created presentations and developed databases. Children who build early confidence and experience in these abilities are at a distinct...
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...Sample Guidelines for Writing Ethical Arguments Your essay should be a position paper, not a report. The paper must make an ethical argument in defense of a thesis. It doesn’t matter what thesis you defend, but the argument must be clear and coherent. Depending on the topic, some outside research may be appropriate, but do not let that obscure the main purpose, which is to make an ethical argument. There are several possible ways to structure the paper, including one (or more) or the following: • Articulating and applying principles (such as love, respect for autonomy, respect for persons, the principle of utility, etc.) to the issue or to cases. • Investigating how one or more ethical sources work to support a particular view: for instance, how biblical principles or a religious tradition or a particular philosopher/philosophical school can be used to support your position on a focused issue. Such an approach should be critical, that is, with an awareness of where the philosophical or religious tradition is unclear or problematic and how others could use the tradition in a different manner. • Contrasting the arguments of two or more authors on an issue. • Developing and contrasting the pro and con arguments for a particular position. • Developing and answering a series of questions from general to particular, or particular to general. • Analyzing a case study. The reader of an ethical argument is looking for three main things in your essay: 1. a clear and interesting...
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...Lecture 5 Audit of the Sales and Collection Cycle Summary of the Audit Process Phase 1 Plan and design an audit approach 1. Accept client and perform initial planning 2. Understand client’s business and industry 3. Assess client business risk 4. Perform preliminary analytical procedures 5. Set materiality & assess acceptable audit risk and inherent risk 6. Understand internal control and assess control risk 7. Gather information to assess fraud risk 8. Develop overall audit plan and audit program Phase 2 Perform tests of controls & substantive tests of transactions Plan to reduce assessed level of control risk? No Yes Phase 3 Perform analytical procedures and tests of details of balances 1. Perform analytical procedures 2. Perform tests 3. Perform additional tests of details of balances Phase 4 Complete the audit & issue an audit report 1. Perform tests for presentation & disclosure 2. Accumulate final evidence 3. Evaluate results 4. Issue Audit Report 5. Communicate with audit committee & management 1. Perform test of controls 2. Perform substantive tests of transactions 3. Assess likelihood of misstatements in financial statements Accounts in the Sales and Collection Cycle 14-3 Sales and Sales returns Transaction 4 Accounts Sales Accounts receivable Business Functions Processing customer orders Granting credit Shipping goods Billing customers and recording sales Documents & Records Customer order Sales order Customer or sales order Shipping...
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...Sampling Sampling Third Edition STEVEN K. THOMPSON Simon Fraser University A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4470, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permission. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or...
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...Simply, there are five major and important steps involved in the research process: 1.Defining the Problem. 2.Research Design. 3.Data Collection. 4.Analysis. 5.Report Writing & presentation. A brief discussion on these steps is: 1.Problem audit and problem definition - What is the problem? What are the various aspects of the problem? What information is needed? 2.Conceptualization and operationalization - How exactly do we define the concepts involved? How do we translate these concepts into observable and measurable behaviours? 3.Hypothesis specification - What claim(s) do we want to test? 4.Research design specification - What type of methodology to use? - examples: questionnaire, survey 5.Question specification - What questions to ask? In what order? 6.Scale specification - How will preferences be rated? 7.Sampling design specification - What is the total population? What sample size is necessary for this population? What sampling method to use?- examples: Probability Sampling:- (cluster sampling, stratified sampling, simple random sampling, multistage sampling, systematic sampling) & Nonprobability sampling:- (Convenience Sampling,Judgement Sampling, Purposive Sampling, Quota Sampling, Snowball Sampling, etc. ) 8.Data collection - Use mail, telephone, internet, mall intercepts 9.Codification and re-specification - Make adjustments to the raw data so it is compatible with statistical techniques and with the objectives of the research - examples:...
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...recruit one or two units belong to the Zoophilic population that may be willing to identify themselves as zoophiles. So, I might find these units throughout some Zoophilic websites.This would be the best method to reach these elements. Then, I will use these units to find further units and so on until an enough sample size is met. So, I might be obtaining names and contact information from one participant to another one with their permission. The fact is that snowball sampling contains sensitive topics regardless of respondents private information. That is why, I should ask other individuals to pass along, flyers, emails and hand outs that contain critical contact information. So, I could prevent a violation of my respondents' confidentiality or an invasion of their privacy. In other words to maintain the ethical standard of my research, I should send my participants snowballing recruitment letters to be signed. This way I could obtain the written permission of my population elements to reveal their identities via a check list item. This is how a recruiting snowball letter looks like. Dear [Mr. / Ms. LAST NAME], Thank you for your interest in [ Bestiality]. I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to pass along the enclosed information to friends and/or family members who may also be interested in learning about this research study. You are under no obligation to share this information and whether or not you share this information will not affect your relationship with...
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...* CONSTANTS – refer to the fundamental quantities that do not change in value. Fixed costs and acceleration due to gravity are examples of such. * VARIABLES – are quantities that may take anyone of a specified set of values. These set of values can be classified as qualitative (categorical) and quantitative (numerical) variables. * It may also refer to any observable characteristics or attributes of group of objects, individual or events. Those variables having cause – and – effect relationships are called independents / endogenous and dependent / exogenous variables. * QUALITATIVE – are non – measurable characteristics that cannot assume a numerical value but can be classified into two or more categories. Data obtained from this type of variable come from qualitative data. * DICHOTOMOUS – consists of one or two values; example of which is gender (male or female) * TRICHOTOMOUS – three values; example is in an opinion poll (for, against or undecided) * MULTINOMOUS – four and more; example of which are the responses coming from the a survey like “Smoking Habits”(always, very often, often, seldom, very seldom) * QUANTITATIVE – are those quantities that can be counted with your bare hands, can be measured with the use of some measuring devices, or can be calculated with the use of mathematical formula. Data involving quantitative variables are called quantitative data. * DISCRETE – consists of variates (actual values) usually obtained...
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...comparison groups should be available from relevant racing authorities. Steps explaining grading of the severity of abnormal echogenicity and fibre alignment described in (Bertone et al., 2008) and a step-by-step explanation for obtaining PRP using the buffy coat method described in (Sutter et al., 2004). However the reference cited explaining the ultrasonographic examination of the suspensory ligament is a textbook produced in 1994 that would no longer be readily available. Whilst the method for the treatment via intralesional injection was easy to follow, there is no explanation as to why this particular method was used, or why the limit of 3ml was chosen. The sample size of 9 horses is particularly small, however considering MSD is not prevalent in Standardbred racehorses, it may have been wiser to select a sample population where MSD occurs more commonly allowing for stronger, more conclusive results. Case selection Each horse had moderate to severe MSD (as diagnosed by ultrasonographic examination by veterinarians at the Ohio State University), treated with a single dose of PRP followed by a program of gradually increased exercise. They also required race records for 3 consecutive years after the case horses returned to racing. As the medical status of the control group was not available, it was unknown whether any of the control group had previously had MSD. With horses discharged 3 days after the procedure, the treatment, handling and observation of horses was not standardised...
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...A STUDY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING PURCHASE DECISION IN AN ONLINE JEWELRY STORE A STUDY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING PURCHASE DECISION IN AN ONLINE JEWELRY STORE An Independent Study Presented to The Graduate School of Bangkok University In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Business Administration by Risto-Pekka Myllymäki 2010 © 2010 Risto-Pekka Myllymäki All Right Reserved i Myllymäki, Risto-Pekka. M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration), August 2010, Graduate School, Bangkok University. A study of factors influencing purchase decision in an online jewelry store (63 pp.) Advisor of Independent Study Dr. Paul TJ James ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to find factors influencing purchase decision in an online jewelry store, in order to help Precium Oy Ltd. to prepare its launch of a web store selling silver jewelry. A quantitative online survey was conducted to Finnish Facebook users, who were connected with the owners of Precium Oy Ltd. Out of 502 questionnaires sent, 206 responses were collected in the time of one week. The findings of the study indicate that reliability is the most important upper-level factor influencing purchase decision in an online jewelry store. More detailed factors which create reliability were found, such as familiar payment methods, appearance of the online store and third party recommendations. From the products and services perspective, the appearance of the jewelry was the most important factor influencing...
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