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Capstone Investment Alternatives In order to properly utilize the assets of an organization, an organization needs to understand how to properly analyze various investments, how to project cash flows from alternative investments and how to raise funds to finance alternative projects. Having a thorough understanding of how the stock market works and how individual stocks are performing in comparison is a key to making sound investment decisions. The alternatives explored in this case are…

the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, as the Executive Branch could have been capable of responding to the crisis. Except, during the response to the spill, the legislature was asked to release funds to send extra resources towards the clean-up efforts (Farrington 2014, 19). Since the Executive called for a release of funds, the legislation was brought into the picture. With the split legislature, it took nearly three weeks for a budget to be agreed upon. This would suggest that the United States…

Our first “Anti-bully Day Committee” meeting led to a goal: fight unkindness on a large scale. We called it “Kindness Is Contagious (KIC) Week.” Suddenly, I found myself the Director of the event which included thousands of students across six high schools. From the beginning, I imagined the actual event planning would be the hard part, but as a family member told me, “The hardest thing, not just in KIC Week, but in life is working with other people.” Over the course of a myriad of planning…

Dhurandhar, Bredlau, Heymsfield, Ravussin, & Bouchard, 2014). People who are obese and overweight are more likely to have high-risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and more (Bhattacharya, 2013). Adopting a policy for body mass index (BMI) reporting program, labeling of all foods and beverages to promote consumer awareness of calories, as well as taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages will provide means of reducing the prevalence of obesity and overweight. Background of the issue…

The advantages of Globalization of finance are the reduction of financial risk, improve the allocation of capitals, and reduce borrowing cost. Every business small or large has some form of a financial risk. The reduction of financial risk may require a business to plan for potential risk and existing risk. A company needs to plan ahead for future difficulties seen or unforeseen. Improving the allocation of capitals is one of the most important decisions associated with a company’s success and…

There is always financial crisis in the global economy and the effects really show in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Where the world stock markets have fallen around the world and large financial institutions collapsed or either bailed out by the governments by rescue packages and bail out their financial systems. Economy was concerned about those who should be responsible for the financial problems are being bailed out. Since global financial meltdown affects almost everyone globally.…

Introduction The project on which I have chosen to conduct research is the case of Ghana where in 2009 it sought financial aid from the global economic doctor the IMF for its economic ailments. All the findings on the IMF-Ghana case in this essay are based on a report carried out by ActionAid Ghana (Addo et al, 2010). I cite all the following ideas, information and claims made in the following paragraphs related to the IMF –Ghana case as being from (Addo et al, 2010) in order to prevent…

The phrase ‘Washington Consensus’ was coined by John Williamson in reference to a set of policy tools that Washington based institutions, in particular, the IMF, World Bank and the US Treasury could agree upon as the appropriate policy solutions to the Latin American debt crisis. In sum, these policy tools prescribed economic stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation for developing countries as the keys to development, (Rodrik, 2001). Those policies were deemed necessary to achieve growth…

7. Name Theory Adam Smith Adam Smith, a Scot and a philosopher, after years of observing the world of business affairs came to the conclusion that, “Collectively the individuals in society, each acting in his or her own self-interest, manage to produce and purchase the goods and services that they as a society require.” His ideal of laissez faire economic later on sparked the idea of free market. Karl Marx Karl Marx believed that capitalism would bring about instability, struggle, and decline,…

experts agree lead to corrupt business deals and rigged auctions(Lawhead, Horowitz & Poe, 2007). In conclusion the blundered loan packages of the IMF to Russia are symptomatic of a systemic narcissism that seems to pervade all International Monetary Fund projects. The egocentric belief that a one size fits all solution to intricately nuanced problems in diverse cultural and socioeconomic situations. The idea that these cookie cutter solutions would somehow ameliorate the need for lasting…