Piraeus, Greece and K. Nikolopoulos is at the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK. Abstract Purpose – To investigate the impact of the internet in ‘‘traditional’’ market rules. Design/methodology/approach – An opinion piece based on Michael Porter’s arguments for the new economy. Finding – Michael Porter’s arguments for the new economy provide a useful starting point in the analysis of the environment. His arguments
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amalgamates important documents to create an effective spreadsheet to simplify the financial data of an organization. It captures much of the information that organizations prepare, publish, and use. Financial reporting plays an integral role in the capital markets and economic stability and growth, and efforts to enhance its quality are vital. A Sound Financial Reporting provides us relevant, meaningful, reliable, accurate and comprehensive reporting of management stewardship whether in the form of
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several ethical concerns have been raised which makes organ recovery from executed prisoners an undesirable act to be performed. First of all, vital organ procurement becomes a way of execution and it places the physicians in the role of executioner and shift the setting of capital punishment away from prison, neither of which is morally acceptable. Furthermore, in China, a common practice of execution for those who are destined to be organ donors is temporal gun shooting. The executed is then declared
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FIN ANCI AL SERVICES BO ARD S T R AT E G I C P L A N 2010/11 – 2012/13 INDEX PAGE DEFINITIONS ............................................................................................................................. 3 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 5 5.1 5.2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 4 FSB VISION AND MISSION ...........................................................
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Course Instructor: Prof. D N Panigrahi Objectives of the course: The course inputs are designed to accomplish the following objectives. * To help students to understand the role and functions of Commercial Banks, main strategic issues in retail and corporate banking and the risks faced by the Banking Industry in India. * To familiarise the students with the new Banking Practices and Processes including new banking technologies
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area” The questionnaire was used as data collection instrument and both open ended and close ended type of questions were used as per the requirement. From the survey it was found that currently the concept of e-Broking is not so prevalent in the market, but its future can be made bright by properly conveying its benefits. More details about the project are available in later part of this report. INTRODUCTION TO ANGEL In a shot span of 18 years since inception, the Angel Group has emerged as
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CONTENTS Page No. Declaration 2 Acknowledgement 3 Contents 4 1. Objective of this project work 5 2. Introduction 6 3. Urban Poverty 7 4. Urban Microfinance 9 5. Financial Inclusion in India 11 6. Microfinance as an Anti-Poverty Vaccine 15 7. Transformation of Microfinance in India 19 8. Scaling up Microfinance 22 9. Microfinance in India - A Tool For Poverty Reduction
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Major Problems of the Banking Industry and Strategies to overcome them: A study on Bangladesh. Table of Content Topic Page# 1.0 Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 2.0 Review of Previous Empirical Literature------------------------------------------------4 3.0 Banking Industry in Bangladesh---------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 What is a Bank? ----------------------------------------------------------------------5
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literature, the media and often people classed as entrepreneurs themselves, causing great difficulty in finding a universal definition. In the late 18th Century, Cantillion and Say from the French school of thought were amongst the first to recognise the role of the entrepreneur. Cantillion first defined entrepreneurs as a 'risk taker', buying at a certain price and selling at an uncertain price. (Cited in Blaug 1986:220) Jean-Baptiste Say backed this up by stating entrepreneurs are 'the pivot of the economy
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Chapter (15): The Management of Capital I. Introduction: What is capital? It refers principally to the funds contributed by the owners of a financial firm. In the case of a commercial bank this means the stockholders –investors in the common and preferred stock that a banking firm has issued. What is it that the owners contribute? Their money –a portion of their wealth- is placed at the financial firm’s disposal in the hope of earning a competitive rate of return on those contributed funds
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