Philosophy is the attempt at answering or understanding the questions that the being who is philosophizing yearns to know or wishes to understand. The importance of what the philosopher wishes to know or understand is not a determinate factor in what it means to do philosophy. The act of doing philosophy is not defined by the subject of examination but by the driving passion of knowing and understanding. This means that an individual that wishes to know why a laptop is a laptop or why is it that…

As a student in Richland college, I have never studied philosophy before, and I have heard very bizarre claims about what philosophy is. For that reason, I wanted to take a philosophy class so I can learn more about it. Due to lack of knowledge, I used to think philosophy as involving a kind of mystical significant, sometimes resulting from observing problems without solutions. In addition, sometimes I accustomed that philosophy is nothing more than a name that does nothing more than feelings of…

Philosophy has always been a part of my thoughts throughout my life, but it seems like I have never truly given as much time into these thoughts until this semester. Philosophy is something that is exposed on a daily basis and should be talked about. I think that it is interesting to talk about philosophical subjects with friends and family to learn more about their way of thinking, morals, and who they are as a person. This class has definitely widened my horizon without me even realizing that it…

I: Types of investment: (words: 184). There are two main types of investments which are real investment and financial investment. Real investment in the literal meaning is real assets investment; it is an enterprise in cash in kind such as investment in intangible assets invested in other companies. It has many characteristics like close link with the production and operation, and the payback period is long and slow realization of investment and poor mobility. The examples are land and machinery…

ScenarioThe bank of TSB (Lloyds bank) is an investment bank involved in selling securities such as stocks and bonds to the public, as well as traditional scope of business such as deposit and loan. After graduation, you decided to join the bank as a financial advisor, to advice about market trends in specific securities, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, limited partnerships, and commodity pools, and the real estate such as coins, precious metals, then providing a selective list of products, finally…

Investment decision Introduce to investment decision The investment decisions are made by corporate manager to maximize the value of the firm. According to a survey by Truong, Partington and Peat (2004), NPV investment rule is the most popular rule that used in investment decision. Nevertheless, some other quantitative models are also used to evaluate investments by firms. In this part, I will illustrate several commonly used models and make a comparison between these models. In order to allocate…

As a student at Richland college, I have never studied philosophy before, and I have heard very bizarre claims about what philosophy is. For that reason, I wanted to take a philosophy class so I can learn more about it. Due to lack of knowledge, I used to think philosophy as involving a kind of mystical significant, sometimes resulting from observing problems without solutions. In addition, sometimes I accustomed that philosophy is nothing more than a name that does nothing more than feelings…

Personal Philosophy Paper Introduction For the purpose of the paper, famous philosophies and a personal nursing philosophy is presented, including the personal definitions of the four phenomena of nursing namely person, environment, health, and nursing. The said philosophy will then be compared to other professionally-acclaimed philosophies. Included in the discussion is the importance of a nurse’s role in providing health care to persons, family, and the society and how it is able to address problems…

What is philosophy? Philosophy could be defined in many ways, but I believe that the Oxford dictionary defines it best: “The study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience or a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour”. That definition basically encapsulates the entirety of what we have discussed during the time that we have been in this course. It covers the basic ideals of both eastern and western philosophy quite eloquently over the span…

Table of Contents Investment Appraisal Techniques ………………………………………………………….. 1 Net Present Value ………………………………………………………………….. 1 Payback Period …………………………………………………………………………… 2 Accounting Rate of Return ……………………………………………………….... 2 Internal Rate of Return ………………………………………………………………….. 3 Profitability Index …………………………………………………………………. 3 Investment Decision for European Financial Group ………………………………………. 4 Answer to question b ………………………………………………………………………….. 5 Efficient Market Hypothesis ……………………………………………………………………