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odds themselves decisions of bettors can be influenced in favour of their own gain. This business model encourages betting agencies to research biases in investor behaviour, because, argued by many papers, investors are not always rational in their investment choices. In the literature on sports betting markets, the Favourite-Longshot Bias (FLB) is one of the biases that has been investigated a lot in previous studies. In simple words, this is the term for the financial behaviour…

Capital Structure I will discuss the stock and capital structure of Oracle Corporation used to grow the corporation worldwide and strengthen research and development efforts. Corporations raise capital by issuing common and preferred stock, by exchanging an ownership stake and sharing profits with investors. The corporation experienced significant growth since the inception growing to over a $30B in recent years. Publicly traded corporations have risk associated with the stock price in relation…

2.4 Relationship between Foreign Shocks and Export With the increased of globalization trend, each country depend heavily on another countries. The effects of foreign shocks from main trading partners are significant impacts on own country’s economy activities either in positive way or negative way. According to Ibrahim (2003) that this issue can be explored through two mechanisms such as business cycle transmission, and International trade and capital flows. Ibrahim had estimated industrial…

Intellectual property has become a vital role with the rapid pace of technological, scientific and medical innovation that we are witnessing nowadays. Moreover, changes in the global economic environment have influenced the development of business models where intellectual property is a central element establishing value and potential growth. Intellectual property has therefore grown into one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing fields of law thereby necessitating the demand for IP…

SWOT Matrix Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities ● The extensive network of partnerships and alliances created by SeQuential could help them with their process of product line expansion and movement into foreign markets. ● Sequential could develop new products that also take advantage of their vertical integration. ● Being very limited in their product line, SeQuential cannot take advantage of many opportunities presented to them locally and internationally. ● Having weak market identity means…

Results and Discussion Not only Hong Kong acts as a significant linkage between Mainland China’s outbound tourism market and in other Asia countries, but also Hong Kong has a unique outbound tourism market of it own. According to the report republished by UNWTO in 2010, Hong Kong ranked as the 4th largest outbound tourism market in Asia and 14th in the world regarding international tourism expenditure. (Export.gov) Also, Hong Kong has about 85.3 million outbound tourists in 2012 as well as a…

Who can be more penny-wise than us when it comes to travelling? I see people bragging about their budget, which seems to be too good to be true… then I see people totally dumbfounded by it haha! You’ll never get to tell whether this is factual unless you’ve done enough research before your trip. What can you expect if you are totally naive when exploring a foreign country? You’ll be doomed to disappointment. Yes, research is the key. Travel blogs or firsthand experiences from your friends are…

In general, Accrual accounting in public sector provides better quality financial information, more comprehensive and increase efficiency. This allows a better way of discharging accountability by extending the assessment of financial performance beyond the application of cash and supports a better decision making by internal management by providing information on the full cost of operations and the resources used to deliver services to the public 1-Revenue and Expense Matching The most…

Securities are investment products, which represents small fractional rights over a business enterprise or a pool of assets. Business enterprises and corporate entities use securities as a tool to raise capital. Primarily, securities provide their holders with either participatory rights in the earnings and management of the business enterprise or promised fixed returns over the value of investment made through purchase of securities. Securities with participatory rights are called equity…

3. STATIC BUDGETS A static budget contains elements where expenditures remain unchanged with variations to sales levels. Overhead costs represent one type of static budget, but these budgets aren't confined to traditional overhead expenses. Some departments may have a fixed amount of money set in budget to spend, and it is up to managers to make sure such amounts are spent without going over-budget. This condition occurs routinely in public and nonprofit sectors, where organizations or…