JYMJ Equity Fund Fund Report Managers: Issued: November 11, 2010 Table of Contents Section 1. Objective and Strategy Introduction Investment Objectives Investment Strategies Section 2. Company Profiles Novellus Systems, Inc. Dollar Tree, Inc. Steven Madden, Ltd. Exxon Mobil Johnson Controls, Inc. Canadian National Railway Company Microsoft Corporation
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UV0010 NIKE, INC.: COST OF CAPITAL On July 5, 2001, Kimi Ford, a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group, a mutual-fund management firm, pored over analysts’ write-ups of Nike, Inc., the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed, the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund, which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies, with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings included ExxonMobil
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Kristin Robinson Dylan Graham Ruben Doris Sarah Wallace Oil & Gas Equipment and Services Industry Overview: The oilfield services and equipment sector was valued around $152 billion in 2012. The OFS industry “is made up of mature set of companies” and whose success is dependent on the “drilling expenditures of the oil and gas companies”. The OFS industry provides a wide range of services and equipment for oil and gas companies around the world. They aid in the extraction and production
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Information Use Crystal Mays-Hammond IT/205 July 27, 2014 Juan Vega Information, an essential asset for organizations, is always difficult to manage effectively—and it is even more so in periods of economic turmoil and transition, when complexity increases and the stakes are higher. For the past decade or more, organizations have been striving to build more open and collaborative relationships with their customers, partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders. When the recession took hold,
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the amount accessible for investment. Also it is helpful to receive the greatest earnings on invested funds while make sure their safety. One cash management technique that Wal-Mart uses is that instead of focusing on margins like most companies do they focus on cash flows because focusing on gross margins alone can be misleading. This technique helps the company know the exact amount of cash flows, which is important because it is the money that moves into or out of the business. Another technique
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integrated accounting and business software will also be included in this system. IT systems will be used for auditing to help track fraud and other harmful expenditures. The financial ratio analysis will be more accurate since it can be completed faster and contain more information. The profitability analysis and cost control will be able to function at optimum
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Treasury Finance Risk Management and Reporting function and will contribute in the preparation of financial and management accounting reports, risk policies compliance, trading and hedging monitoring/reporting. The incumbent will support the review and analysis of Treasury Finance initiatives relating to FX hedging activities, assist in liquidity risk management analytics and actively participate in Treasury projects. The incumbent will be liaising with Treasury Capital Project Management, Corporate Actuarial
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Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL Summer 2015 Advanced Corporate Finance IIIFrontiers of Valuation B62 FIN 534C Professor Todd Milbourn B62 MGT 534C Advanced Corporate Finance III – Frontiers of Valuation Summer 2015 Professor Todd Milbourn The Olin Business School Table of Contents 1. Valmont Industries HBP Case # UVA-F-1191 ............................................................................... 1 2. Super Project HBP Case # 9-112-034 .......
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Preliminary and incomplete Do not quote without authors’ permission How Do Venture Capitalists Choose Investments? by Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg* First Draft: August 2000 This Draft: August 2000 Abstract In this paper, we consider how venture capitalists (VCs) choose or screen their investments by studying the contemporaneous investment analyses produced by 10 venture capital firms for investments in 42 portfolio companies. Consistent with most academic and anecdotal accounts
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CORPORATE OWNERSHIP IN LATIN AMERICAN FIRMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DUAL-CLASS SHARES Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro Rafel Crespi i Cladera Universitat de les Illes Balears Ruth V. Aguilera University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We assembly new data on dual-class firms in Latin America and analyze the relationship between the largest shareholder characteristics and its decision to leverage voting rights. First, we describe who are the largest shareholders in Latin American firms. Second
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