Fountainhead of Wealth Creation HIGHLIGHTS Economic Moat protects profits and profitability of companies from competitive attack. Extended CAP (competitive advantage period) of Economic Moat Companies (EMCs) leads to superior levels of profits and stock returns. Over 2002-2012, EMCs in India have outperformed benchmark indices. Breach of Economic Moat causes massive wealth destruction. Markets seem poised to touch new highs in the next 12 months. "(Great companies to invest are like)
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The family owned business is the backbone of the world economy. By some estimates, over 90% of all business enterprises in the United States are family-owned and 60% of all employees are in family owned businesses (Ibrahim and Elis, 1994; Colli, 2003). In the UK, approximately 76% of the largest 8,000 companies are either family owned or controlled (Gallo, 1994). Among the largest corporations in the US, approximately 30-40% are estimated to be family owned (Anderson and Reeb, 2003; Anderson, Duru
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Inhoudsopgave Vak: Institutional Investments and ALM Vak: Valuation and Corporate Governance Vak: Thesis Vak: Asset Pricing Vak: Derivatives and Asset Management Vak: Empirical Finance Vak: Research Project Finance Vak: Financial Markets and Institutions Vak: Private Equity and Behavioral Corporate Finance for Finance Vak: Financial Risk Management (Quantitative Finance) Vak: Real Estate Management Vak: Adv Corporate Finance 4.1 Vak: Valuation and Corporate Governance for Finance Vak: Institutional
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Objective: maximize firm value, increase stock price Decisions: Investment, Working Capital, Financing, Distribution Principal (shareholders) Agent (Manager): Career Concern, Empire Building, Private Benefits of Control, Shirking Current Assets – Current Liabilities = Net working capital (Current = less than a year) Financial leverage: use of debt to acquire assets Average tax rate: total taxes paid / total taxable income. Marginal tax rate: amount of tax payable on the next dollar earned
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FINANCE • VOL. LVI, NO. 6 • DEC. 2001 The Stock Market Valuation of Research and Development Expenditures LOUIS K. C. CHAN, JOSEF LAKONISHOK, and THEODORE SOUGIANNIS* ABSTRACT We examine whether stock prices fully value firms’ intangible assets, specifically research and development ~R&D!. Under current U.S. accounting standards, financial statements do not report intangible assets and R&D spending is expensed. Nonetheless, the average historical stock returns of firms doing R&D matches the returns
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food company General Mills is. Throughout the semester we researched and analyzed General Mills from four different angles. These include a business model analysis, accounting and accounting risk analysis, a financial analysis, and a valuation analysis. We have decided General Mills is a successful company that will continue its success into the future. General Mills manufactures and markets branded consumer foods across the globe. It also supplies unbranded food and products
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Running Head: Bond Valuation: Liquidity Risk in the Pricing of Corporate Bonds Term Paper: Bond Valuation: Liquidity Risk in the Pricing of Corporate Bonds Group #5: Christina Adams Dorcas Adewunmi Nakia Hillsman Princess Mitchell Marquita Wilson Presented to: Dr. Felix Ayadi ABSTRACT Liquidity risk in the pricing of corporate bonds and the importance of investors knowing liquidity risk in the pricing of corporate bonds and how it affects returns on
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treat with the valuation of inventory, that may have had defects, or due to length of time on the shelf it became obsolete, or there was a change in the price level, one put forward a following scenario to commence the discussion. Let, for argument sake, there exist, for the year 2013, a Farming and Gardening Centre, an agricultural shop that sells a variety of goods to a wide cross – section of customers, owed by David Phillip. At the end of the year, December 31 2013, a physical stock count revealed
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STANDARD INTERNAL AUDIT PROGRAMME ----- I. SALES: 1 To study the system for approval and acceptance of orders and to give suggestions for improvement. 2 To check the order acceptance with price list, if any, and to report the financial impact of sales below the price list. 3 To compute the percentage mix of sales made to new parties developed during the period under review and also compute the opportunity loss due to non-development of prospective parties as customers
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occurred in financial theory and practice since the first edition as well as to sharpen and update existing material so that it is better structured and more easily comprehended. There is an increased emphasis upon valuation and upon linking various financial decisions with valuation. In this regard,
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