Northampton Group Inc. – Case Study Analyses: How to increase shareholder value Nicole Arends, Jenny Feng, Laura Tromp & Zilha Wever FHTMS University of Aruba Mr. Don Taylor Corporate Finance FTS 2415 March 26, 2013 Introduction This Corporate Finance paper focuses on analyzing the challenges that Northampton Group Inc. (NGI) is facing as it tries to increase shareholder value. In the case study it is stated by the firm’s major shareholders, that they believe
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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS UNIVERSITY July 14, 2014 Stakeholders are a powerful force in business from both an economic and societal point of view. “Stakeholder theory is a theory of organizational management and ethics.” (Phillips, 2003) Stakeholders are the individuals, groups, and organizations who can affect the firm’s vision and mission, are affected by the strategic outcomes achieved, and have enforceable claims on the firm’s performance.” (Hitt, Page 19) “Stakeholders can include employees
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MATERIALS: 1. Textbook – Corporate Finance: The Core, by J. Berk and P. DeMarzo, published by Prentice Hall, ISBN (10‐digit) 0132153688. Available in loose leaf (3‐ring) format in the U Tampa bookstore. Textbook are also available as an e‐book from coursesmart: 1 Revised 08/21/2012 2. Cases and readings: available from www.study.net – available by 8/27/12 3. Additional files and readings will be distributed via Blackboard 4. Calculator - A financial calculator is required for this class
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Behavioural Finance Literature Review Name Institution Professor Date ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION It is tough today to avoid the concept of behavioural finance in the day to day operations of the modern day’s business. All over the world Governments are in a process of experimenting the application of the psychology of decision making to tune their citizens towards better behaviours. Companies and institutions are paying attention to this concept as a new opportunity of realizing profits
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BACKGROUND 3 COMPANY PROFILE 5 GROUP STRUCTURE 6 SUBSIDIARIES 6 THE COMPANY 10 THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT 10 INTERNAL STRUCTURE 11 BUSINESS MODEL 16 SERVICES OFFERED 18 ECONET WIRELESS ZIMBABWE FINANCIAL PERFOMANCE COMMENTARY 24 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 25 ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 30 FINANCE DEPARTMENT 31 REVENUE 31 REPORTING 33
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‘The US government’s response to the global financial crisis was to prop up some of the key financial institutions stating that they were “too big to fail” because such failures would have extremely serious consequences for the economy and society at large. Research newspaper articles and present a summary of what measures the US government took to protect these financial institutions. Provide examples. Explain and critically analyse both the shareholder and stakeholder models of corporate social
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Next page 1.1.1 The Initial Surge • The airline made a net profit of US$2 million and increased revenue by 15% in the 2005 financial year. This success initially showed how Air India was flourishing in the earlier years under the Indian Government. • They were following the Trait Theory and the leaders are characterized with some specific activities. 1.1.2 The Influence • To ensure its business and technical staff could maintain and use the system,
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Executive summery This literature review discusses objectives of financial development and economic growth as well as existing relationship of this concept. Financial development is strongly connected with economic situation, but we do not know for sure if this always implies economic growth. There are many factors which influence relationship between financial development and economic growth and its effects such as financial liberalization, government ownership of the banks, monetary policy and
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performance Starting from the refined corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies issued by the European Commission in 2011, a stinging debate is being aroused on the influence of CSR to the whole society. The most influential critic is Noble Prize winner Milton Friedman, who regards CSR as a waste of stockholders’ money (1970). However, many other articles claim, opposite Friedman, that CSR actually improves companies’ financial performance in the long run (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; McWilliams and
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learning simulation game, such as FinGame Online 5.0 (FG), comes from learning how to plan, formulate strategies, and make sets of sound decisions sequentially through time. FG provides a decisionmaking setting similar in many respects to the financial management requirements of an actual company. The manager of an FG company has the operating control of an entire company. The manager is the chief financial officer (CFO) who also controls major decisions normally managed by the chief executive officer (CEO)
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