UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Robert H. Smith School of Business BMGT343 – Investments Fall 2014 I. Information on Instructor Instructor: Professor Xiaohui Gao Bakshi Email: xiaohui@rhsmith.umd.edu (preferred method of contact) Office: 4426 Van Munching Mobile Phone: (240) 507 9877 Course Notes are on Canvas Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2pm to 3pm, and I am always available so always feel free to contact me. Class meeting venue and time: Section 0201 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am to 1215pm, VMH 1418
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M3/D3: Guidance Document A customer receiving a request for payment Speed Both an invoice and phone call can be sent relatively quickly. When requesting payment a company would aim to obtain any money owed by a customer as promptly as possible. Therefore a phone call would be the better choice since a customer can be contacted immediately. In contrast when an invoice is sent it will take at least 24 hours via post. If it was sent by email however, then this could also be sent instantly. Audience
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for a company called Vangent. At Vangent we received inbound calls from Medicare beneficiaries about their Medicare insurance and healthcare claims that had been filed for services rendered to them by their physicians. The calls would be from different people of all races, ethnicities, and nationalities so effective in my communication with the beneficiaries was a part of my everyday job duty. Most of the beneficiaries I received calls from were at least age 65 and above and sometimes it was difficult
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Hedging FX Exposures: Which Strategy is Right for Your Business? This article addresses foreign exchange (FX) risk, examines a large Swiss multinational company and the impact on its financial statements (second half of 2011), and suggests various hedging strategies using FX options. Udi Sela - Vice President - Numerix - 27 Oct 2011 Since the sub-prime crisis, the markets have witnessed unprecedented levels of volatility across all asset classes. The impact of unpredicted volatility could be significant
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Final Exam Practice 1. Agency costs can be thought of as the loss in the value of a firm resulting from the following actions by managers: I) reduced effort, II) perks or private benefits, III) empire building, IV) entrenching investments, V) avoiding risks. a. I, II, III, IV and V only 2. One key assumption of the Miller and Modigliani (MM) dividend irrelevance is that: b. Capital markets are efficient 3. Analysis of past monthly movements in Wal-Mart’s stock price has
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1. What are Jim’s options? a. In this situation, Jim has a couple of options before him. He could request the meeting be postponed due to the absence of his partner, without whom he cannot complete the presentation. He also could let it be known that he saw Sara at the gas station on his way to work this morning and discredit her. Another option would be for Jim to pick up the slack and put together a presentation with the material he has. 2. What does he actually know and what does he
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27 Shall include (a) a disposal plan shall include the likely method of disposal for each requirement and details of measures to be taken to prevent recourse to the use of another disposal method unless that approved by the tender committee (b) Planning for a disposal activity shall take into account the allocation of biddable lots to ensure that requirements are not split up without justifiable reason (c) The disposal stores and equipments shall be aggregated for all departments of a procuring
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opportunities for investors. However, options are complex securities and can be extremely risky. Options, as the name implies, give the option to the buyer to either sell or buy a stock for a given price. The right to buy stock at a given price is called a “call option” and the right to sell it is called “put option”. Options were designed to take advantage of the volatility in the market and are used by investors to speculate on the price movements of the underlying stock, to adjust risk and returns of their
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FINA0105/FINA2383 International Financial Management – Solutions to Exercise #5 Question 1 Answer is (A). 100 + 115 = 107.5 2 25 × 100 = ¥23,255,814 107.5 Question 2 sh is ar stu ed d v i y re aC s ou o u rc rs e eH w e r as o. co m 1. The dollar amount it can receive in six months is S1 €1, 250,000 , where S1 is the spot rate in December. 2. If Plains State chooses to hedge its transaction exposure in the forward market at the available forward rate, its dollar
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