CFA Institute Research Challenge Hosted by Local Challenge CFA Society of Buffalo and Rochester Canisius College Canisius College – Student Research Financial Sector, Real Estate Industry New York Stock Exchange Sovran Self Storage Date: 1/11/2015 Ticker - NYSE: SSS Current Price: $90.90 (1/06/15) Headquarters: Williamsville, NY SSS per Share This report is published for educational purposes only by students competing in the CFA Institute Research Challenge. Share Price
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he continued, “How about showing me a great off-market deal some day?” Now, in September 2009, it seemed that O’Brien had indeed returned the favor. The opportunity O’Brien had just briefly outlined on the phone sounded perfect for Wildcat. Financial Commons was a 90,000-square-foot office property located in the Chicago suburb of Skokie. The building was 90 percent occupied and was being offered for what seemed like an incredible price of $10.4 million. Given the bleak commercial market environment
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Greg Au-Yeung When people talk about China’s financial market, they naturally refer to the capital market such as stock trading, or the banking sector like personal savings or commercial lending. After all, this is the mainstream market, which is more visible to the outside world. There is a lesser known territory which already catches the attention of foreign investors over the past few years. It is the microfinance market. By definition, it is financial services for micro-entrepreneurs, small businesses
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Such tasks often include : 1. Invoicing customers, accounts receivable monitoring and collections, account reconciliations, payables processing, consolidation of multiple entities under common ownership, budgeting, periodic financial reporting as well as financial analysis. 2. Also common are setting up adequate internal controls for all business processes (to prevent theft/misappropriation of assets), handling external audits and dealing with banks in order to obtain financing. Denham
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industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan, manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 164,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company.Ford Motor Company completed its third year in a row of improved annual operating profits and announced the reinstatement of paying quarterly dividends for the first time in over five years. The automobile
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relationship between a firm’s life cycle stage and its ability to accurately forecast sales? Why is this the case, and how do capital suppliers respond? Why is so much emphasis placed on forecasting sales and cash balances in building proformas and projections? * * * Professor, class, * * There is a tight relationship between a firm's life cycle stage and its ability to accurately forecast sales. The earlier a venture is at its life cycle stage the more difficult it will have to accurately
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Objective Questions and Answers of Financial Management 1. State whether each of the following statements is True (T) or False(F) (i) Financial statements are an important source of information to shareholders and stakeholders. (ii) Both the BS and the IS shows the financial position of fen at the end of the year. (ii) BS of a company must be prepared in the horizontal format only. (iv) Preparation of Profit & Loss Appropriation A/c is a requirement under the Companies Act, 1956. (v) Ratio
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order for an acquisition to work, the company would need a loan from the bank for one million dollars. A1. Looking at the financial aspect of the company, there are a few key points that could affect a bank officer’s decision. The bank officer would need to figure in on how the company would be able to pay the debt back. The vertical analysis shown in the financial statement shows how the base amount in relation to the particular items. There are a few main points to gather from the vertical
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(PAR, 2009 pp 5) The market for petroleum and indeed the mining industry as a whole was unsure what effect the global financial crisis would have and what action affected parties would take during the period. Regardless of the changes, such a large and important company as BHP would have to study the potential changes and start, if necessary, reformatting their financial planning/strategies and other control processes. These would have to be looked at on a whole organisational level; ranging
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plan was provided by Ameriwest Business Consultants, Inc. • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • OBJECTIVES & GOALS • BUSINESS DESCRIPTION, STATUS, AND OUTLOOK • MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP • MARKET ANALYSIS • MARKETING STRATEGIES • FINANCIAL PLANS Confidentiality Statement The information, data, and charts embodied in this business plan are strictly confidential and are supplied on the understanding that they will be held confidentially and not disclosed to third parties without the
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