Corporate Finance Investment report Ahold 1. Select a stock-listed company and describe its core business, production location, number of employees and markets. Koninklijke Ahold N.V., Ahold for short, is an international retailing group based in the Netherlands. Ahold is one of the global market leaders in the food retail and wholesale business and retails food through supermarkets, convenience stores and online food retail businesses in the United States and Europe. The company started
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Financial analysis Mekonomen Financial analysis Mekonomen Jennifer Eriksson; jennifereriksson92@hotmail.com Johanna Henriksson; Lars Hessing Vanessa Ibragic Sara Wallin Jennifer Eriksson; jennifereriksson92@hotmail.com Johanna Henriksson; Lars Hessing Vanessa Ibragic Sara Wallin Presentation of Mekonomen All of the information in our report is taken mainly from the annual report but also from Mekonomen group’s homepage and the course literature. Mekonomen was founded in 1973
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Profile Major Cineplex Group Plc (MAJOR) is Thailand’s leading Lifestyle Entertainment Company with core business in cinema, bowling, karaoke and ice skating rink, rental and services, advertising media and movie content. MAJOR was listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in May 2002. Product and Service: 1. Cinema Business (Providing Entertainment Services) Major Cineplex, EGV cinemas, Paradise Cineplex, Mega Cineplex, Hatyai Cineplex, Esplanade Cineplex, and Paragon Cineplex 2. Advertising
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GAME SUMMARY & PARAMETERS – QUICK REFERENCE Ground rules for the simulation (Solo Assignment 1 and the Team Competition) are outlined below. Please note that several of these parameters are different from those used in your solo practice and from those described in the Micromatic student manual. All values listed here are effective as of the beginning of Quarter 1. Future values may change due to your decisions and/or changes in the competitive/market environment. Remember to take note of all
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September 13, 2011 BUY Price at Sept 13, 2011 Price Target 52-Week Range $9.00 $10.50 $2.50 – $9.55 Lasco Manufacturing Limited Strong revenue growth, improved margins & tax break Mario Ahjahorie Financial Analyst mahjahorie@scotiadbg.com Company Overview Lasco Manufacturing (LASM) is a company which was formed over a year ago and is the product of two long standing subsidiaries Lasco Food Proccessor’s Limited and Lasco Food’s Limited which together produce Soy and Milk based products
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Debt Policy at UST Inc. Executive Summary In the 1990’s, UST was a dominant producer of moist smokeless tobacco, controlling 77% of the market. Smokeless tobacco products consist of snuff (dry and moist) and chewing tobacco (loose leaf, plug and twist/roll) categories. UST was a market leader of the snuff product category, innovating with new product forms and flavors over the years. UST has also been a profitable company, boosting its shareholders’ earnings by undertaking measures such
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companies are wary of the possibility of an escalated debt crisis in Europe, which could potentially freeze the lending markets, as was the case in 2008. Some economists believe that the issue is compounded further by uncertainty with regards to U.S. tax policy and stimulus measures. Renewed confidence in the corporate-bond markets has allowed larger corporations to raise a record amount of cash as they capitalize on historically low interest rates (Exhibit 3). In addition to drastic increases in
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We gratefully acknowledge permission to quote from the past examination papers of the following bodies: Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board (KASNEB); Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). We also wish to express our sincere gratitude and deep appreciation to Mr. Geoffrey Ngene MBA, B.COM (Finance), CPA (finalist), CFA (East Africa). He is a senior lecturer at Strathmore University
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[pic] Master in Business Administration COURSE SYLLABUS Investment Banking And Structured Finance Analytics Course Code: IBSFA Faculty: Prof. E. B. Perez Course Description This is an advanced finance course suited for finance majors. However, the focus is on the practice and business of investment banking. Corporate finance skills are assumed, as well as concepts regarding structured finance. Grading Class Participation 50% Class Presentation 50%
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market, we can strongly say that ethics did play a major role. Financial firms became unmoored from its ethical base and were free to behave in ways that were in their, top executives, short-term interest without any concern about the longer term impact on the industry’s customers or the broader U.S economy. Integrity and a sense of responsibility to the industry’s customers are at the core of what a financial industry must be all about; otherwise it is just a big Ponzi scheme. The ethical failures
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