Following the events of the latest financial crisis, the interest of media, public and investors towards the behavior and management of companies has seen a steady increase. Nowadays, companies are not judged solely on their financial performance but also on activities affecting a wider range of stakeholders. The set of activities under scrutiny by this research revolves around Environmental, Social and Governance practices and their effect on returns. Theoretically speaking, such activities are…
Holly Hill issued a promissory note for the mortgage to Rogers and Blythe, a couple of months later Rogers and Blythe took out a loan from Charter Bank of Gainesville. In order for Rogers and Blythe to secure the loan they took out from Charter Bank they had to transfer the promissory note they had created with Holly Hill. Sometime later Rogers and Blythe defaulted on the loan. Charter Bank sued in order to recover on the Holly Hill’s promissory note. From that information the mortgage in…
Q1: When selling bonds, suppliers may have a desire to sell bonds either at the highest price possible or at the lowest price that would still be of benefit. Alternately, buyers of bonds would wish to buy the lowest price possible, but may be willing to pay a higher price depending on the conditions. The point where the best interests of bond sellers and bond buyers meet, that is the point where “the amount of bonds that people are willing to buy equals the amount of bonds people are willing to…
Buffett is an advocate of Graham’s investing principles. He uses his purchase of Washington Post Company to illustrate those principles. Buffett and others estimated the intrinsic value at between $400 and $500 million while the market price was $100 million. The key thing that Buffett takes from Graham’s principles is the practice of buying good businesses at market discounts compared to the underlying value. A common misconception is that the market provides the most accurate price. Buffett…
Acme Products, Inc., requires a new machine to produce a part for a heat generator. Two companies have submitted bids, and you have been assigned the task of choosing one of the machines. Cash flow analysis indicates the following: Year Machine A Machine B ---- --------- --------- 0 -$1,000 -$1,000 1 0 417…
that Sorenson Stove Company has cash inflows from various other sources. Other possible sources of cash inflows for the company could be interest earned on invested capital; gains on the sale of assets; or capital raised by the issuance of stocks and bonds. The discrepancy between the monthly cash budget and daily cash budget is due to the assumptions of the daily cash budget. The daily cash budget assumes that collections are evenly spread throughout the month, while costs are not. This…
My restaurant is in a competitive market, in order for my restaurant to attract customers and create a strong customer base and also to gain a large share of the market is to have a good quality control. Quality control I a process through which a business check and make sure that all the product and service quality is maintained and manufacturing errors are reduced. The main objective of quality control is to ensure that the business is achieving the standards it set for itself. The advantage…
borrowers. The banks or moneylenders to ensure safety of their money use this process. At the same time, bond portfolio managers or investors to debt issuing companies on the basis of their credit rating and financial situations also define credit analysis as investigation process that performs. Credit rating is an important instrument that used by lenders when performing credit analysis of a bond issuing institution or individual (Johnson, 2010). The concept of zeta score is useful to identify…
Venture capital is where investors finance a small business or a start-up business. Venture capitals will only invest in companies that they think may succeed. Venture capitals face very high risks but if they finance a company, they generally make decisions about the company. Venture capitals may be individual investors or banks. Many companies choose venture capitals because they have a greater chance of getting financed through them than they would through private funding. Venture capitals…
analyze Apple’s stocks and bonds to determine whether an individual investor should invest in this company. I will use financial statements, reports from previous years, and ratio analyses. Combined this data will determine whether to add Apple to an investor’s portfolio or whether they should look for another investment opportunity. I will use various sources to gather information on the companies short and long term debt, credit rating, and interest rates to complete the bond analysis. I…