International Finance: A Course Overview Mihir A. Desai* Harvard University and NBER ABSTRACT This paper describes the International Finance course at Harvard Business School for instructors considering adopting the associated material. The paper begins by arguing that the forces of globalization have fundamentally changed the scope and activities of firms thereby altering the practice of finance within these firms. As a consequence of an increasing reliance on tightly-integrated foreign operations
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culture of trust and confidence has been an important task in the process of transition to a market economy. In the financial system that we have as a dominant country, different flow from those people who have extra funds to those who don’t have a lot of funds, either by direct deposit, financing that is market based or by an indirect finance that has a bank based. The financial system brings together and involves all types of financial markets, financial instruments and any other of the institutions involving
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1: Accounting (100 marks) Paper 2: Law, Ethics and Communication Part I: Law (60 marks) Business Laws (30 marks) Company Law (30 marks) Part II: Business Ethics (20 marks) Part III: Business Communication (20 marks) Paper 3: Cost Accounting and Financial Management Part I: Cost Accounting (50 marks) Part II: Financial Management (50 marks) Paper 4: Taxation Part I: Income-tax (50 marks) Part II: Service Tax (25 marks) and VAT (25 marks) Group II Paper 5: Advanced Accounting (100 marks) Paper 6: Auditing
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helped me complete this dissertation. F inally, I would like to express my gratitude to Mrs. Jalabert, SBM MONACO Finance Director for her time spent answering my questionnaire. 2 MSC IS&BCFinancial SYSTEMS FUTURE Challenges in growing complex environment DISS Glossary BI: Business Intelligence BSC: Balanced Scorecard CFO: Chief Financial Officer CPI: Cost Performance Indicator CPM: Corporate Performance Management CR: Corporate Reporting CRM: Customer Relationship
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other words, it is not possible to identify unit material that will not be assessed and can be ignored. The weekly workshop/tutorial is not a source of sample exam questions and solutions. The unit has three assessment items, in Weeks 5, 10 and in the central exam period
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MSc in Shipping Trade & Finance 2011/2012 Alternative Sources of raising capital in shipping corporations: Bridging the Funding Gap By Linos Alexandros Kogevinas 100021584 Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Cespa Acknowledgments Having completed a rather long, but enjoyable year at Cass Business School , I feel obligated to thank a few people who helped me along the way. Firstly, I’d like to offer my most sincere thanks to my supervisor, Dr. Giovanni Cespa for accepting to supervise me
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Analysis Cost of Project, Means of Finance, Estimates of Sales and Production, Cost of Production, Working Capital Requirements and its Financing, Profitability Projections, Break Even Point, Projected Balance Sheets, Muti Year Projections, Basic Principles for Measuring Project Cash Flows, Components of the Cash Flow Stream, Biases in Cash Flow Estimation Module IV: Project Risk Types and Measures of Project Risk, Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Optimal Timing, Social Cost Benefit Anaysis
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1.1 [pic] Sony Ericsson Company is a global provider of mobile multimedia devices and phone accessories. Strategic planning is important process for any organization, but usually fall. Sony Ericson is one of the examples. The reasons are different: the understanding of process of strategic planning are not clear as mission, vision, goals and core competencies, which affect the success of the company. Slide 3 [pic] Strategy of Sony Ericsson is to increase the internal growth with
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capital structure, and to repurchase undervalued shares. Midland used estimates of cost of capitals in many analyses such as asset appraisals for both capital budgeting and financial accounting, performance assessments, M&A proposals, and stock repurchase decisions. THE ROLE OF JANET MORTENSEN IN MIDLAND Janet Mortensen was senior vice president of project finance for Midland and responsible for preparing her annual cost of capital estimates for Midland and each of its divisions. Some of her estimates
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