Chartered Financial Analyst

Career Leadership Aspiration My short-term aspiration is to become a Business Analyst/ Data Consultant/ Senior Business Analyst in a data driven company. I’ve always dreamt of working as a Data Analyst/Data Scientist in an organization that is involved in big data analytics for example Amazon. In the past few years, Amazon has moved away from a pure e-commerce player to a giant online player who offers much more than just products. It focuses massively on big data and is changing from an online…

How to become a financial advisor? General description of the job A financial advisor assists clients with their financial matters such as finding insurance options, retirement planning, and investment strategies. Financial advisors have a thorough understanding of banking procedures and policies, stock market regulations, and insurance policies. To become a financial advisor, one should enjoy managing money and working directly with clients. A financial advisor is responsible for meeting with…

striving for. Having a goal that is specific, measurable, achievable, results-focused and time-bound is the way to go about it. My goal is to achieve a CGPA of 3.7 or more and graduate with a finance major and to complete and pass at least one Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional examination by May 31, 2017. Words without actions are definitely meaningless. Therefore, I’ve decided to incorporate a few steps to go with my goals to make it achievable. First of all, time management is…

training requirements, skills or talents needed, salary and benefits offered, and the duties for a particular career making this decision. Being an accountant takes a lot of hard work and extra hours. An accountant analyzes financial records and serves clients as a financial advisor to help save money. I chose to be an…

Limited and Honda Atlas Cars (Pakistan) Limited. I obtained two of the latest annual reports of Indus Motors for financial years ended 2006 and 2007 from the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). However, for Honda Atlas, I accessed the annual reports for the financial year ended 2007 online. These reports not only provided me with complete financial information for three years but also non financial information required to carry out evaluation of the business performance over the three years period. …

impressive results and made inroads into conventional financial systems. During this period, Islamic finance has demonstrated its ability to compete with mainstream economic and financial systems. This was even more transparent during the recent financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 when Islamic finance showed a certain degree of resilience to the financial shocks and credit crunch. The financial landscape, in the wake of the most recent global financial crisis, is indeed in need of appropriate…

4. Financial Analysis 4.1 Time Series Analysis 4.1.1 Profitability Analysis Mayne Pharma reported sale revenue of $141.4M in 2015 underlying EBITDA of $36.4m and reported NPAT of $7.8m. The performance of 2015 seems unsatisfactory as the net profit margin is only 7.83% compared to 2014 where the net profit margin is 21.49% .These results were down due to the underperformance of products sold via third party US distributors in the first half of 2015 but the company realized the problem and has…

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ensure the former auditor can maintain his or her independence. Public companies try to hire their former auditors in hopes of increasing investors’ confidence. By having a former auditor work for a public company, investors tend to assume that the financial statements will be free of misstatements and can be relied on. Companies also like to hire former auditors because they have already developed an accountant-client relationship. The auditor probably has a good idea about how the business…

Dage Michael Martinez Fraud Auditing May 1, 2016 Fraud Audit Program: Hollate Assess: Fraud: Type/Scheme Control Opportunity Occurs/Fraud Scenario Concealment Red Flags Conversion Journal Entry Scheme The scheme likely occurred due to management override of controls. Strengthen controls to discourage management override may prevent this from happening again. CFO is creating journal entries to increase company inventories and decrease costs of goods sold. Internal audit team was required to…