Equity Project 2016 : Economics Of Financial Markets
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DEUTSCHE POST AG
EQUITY PROJECT 2016
ECONOMICS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
March 26, 2016
1. Company Overview
Deutsche Post DHL Group is the world’s leading mail and logistics company operating under two strong brands: Deutsche Post is Europe’s leading postal service provider. Deutsche Post AG is uniquely positioned in the world’s growth markets, with a comprehensive range of international express, freight transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services. Deutsche Post AG is a listed corporation domiciled in Bonn, Germany. Corporation has approx. 470,000 employees in more than 220 countries. Deutsche Post became the major shareholder in DHL and 100% shareholding was completed by the end of the year.
The Group is organised into the four operating divisions Post - e-commerce - Parcel, Express, Global Forwarding, Freight and Supply Chain, whose products and services we describe in the Business units and market positions chapter. Each of them is under the control of its own divisional headquarters and subdivided into functions, business units or regions for reporting purposes. They consolidate the internal services that support the entire Group, including Finance, IT, Procurement and Legal, in Global Business Services (GBS). This allows them to make even more efficient use of their resources whilst reacting flexibly to the rapidly changing demands of the business and customers.
Its 3 main competitors would be FEDEX Corporation, UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC., and TNT
Overview
Mr Price Group is a retailer that focuses the value fashion markets. More than 80% of revenues are realised through cash sales which results in the company being less susceptible to the cyclical nature of the retail industry and also not reliant on credit to drive sales (Mr Price Group Ltd, 2016).
Mr Price Group is considered to be of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. The group conducts its retails sales through 937 outlets in South Africa and an additional 24 franchised stores
domestic equity status and raising global capital are the core aspects for MNEs to retain sufficient cash flows, merger and acquisitions, forming strategic alliances and other business activities to achieve their long term goals. In order to reach these goals, MNEs need to implement necessary steps which include to examine market segmentation, forming strategic alliance, issuing stocks and bonds to raise relevant capital and conduct other meaningful strategies to support their financial outlooks
would create a corporate valuation based on the financial forecasts of General Electric (GE) and recommend whether investors should invest their capital into the company. The report would focus on whether General Electric would have a positive or negative outcome from the financial analysis of the accounts. The risks of GE taking a loan from a bank in the US should also be taken into consideration as it would have a direct impact on their financial position. In addition, it would look at the most
Growth of financial market in Brazil stimulated mainly through developed markets of coffee, soybeans, iron ore and other minerals. Because prices on those commodities are high, traders are making good profits. The Brazilian sugar industries attract a lot of domestic and international investors and are doing very well in IPOs. In addition, Brazil has a modern financial market; including a solid banking system, a state-of-the-art payment system and a reliable market infrastructure, with the capacity
equipment is not considered since company can use the existing equipment collected from the 722 closed restaurants in 2015 (McDonald 's Corporation, 2016), however the transportation and installation cost is included in the infrastructure cost. Employee’s salary is considered on average basis of company’s pay scale of each position (McDonald 's Corporation, 2016). It is assumed that initially the restaurant will be working for 16 hours a day and 25 days a month as shown in calculation above. For the initial
Papa John’s financial performance varies when comparing its financial ratios to its competitors. Unfortunately, Papa John’s cannot directly be compared to Pizza Hut because the largest pizza chain corporation is part of Yum Brands, Inc., which also operates Taco Bell and KFC. In addition, the fourth largest pizza operator, Little Caesars, is a private entity that does not require to publicly disclose its financials. Therefore, a comparison of Papa John’s financial analysis will be completed
Debt to Equity Ratio
EFL succeeded to improve debt to equity ratio as in year 2014 it was at highest value of 47%, improved to 15% in year 2015 and further improved 3% in 2016. FFL had shown 7% debt equity ratio in year 2016 which shows higher financial risk compared to EFL.
EFL non-current liabilities were reduced during 2014 because of current portion of NCL showed under current liabilities, resulted reduction in NCL by 23%. Equity had shown upward movement by 8% due to higher amount of unappropriated
types of CF were developed: the donation-based, the reward-based, the lending CF and the equity CF (ECF). This chapter is analyzing ECF, as the authors found it most interesting from the aspect of the financial management theory and innovative contribution to the financial practice. “The innovative aspects of equity crowdfunding lie in the interaction of the financial sphere with the social one.” (Nasrabadi 2016, 207) As well, the ECF is been considered innovative as it is using innovation to fill
to sustain the functionality of the money market the ECB had to push the deposit rate to -0.10 per cent to maintain the corridor after lowering the refinancing rate to 0.15 percent (Benoit). Subsequently, in January 2016, Bank of Japan (BOJ) adopted a monetary easing policy imposing negative rates (Kuroda). With Japan looking to encourage more lending and spur high spending to push inflation the negative interest rate of -0.1 percent was set. In a 2016 progressive report, the International Monetary
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ZHANG MUDI DEBBIE
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ACCOUNTING CONCENTRATION
GAO JIAYI CINDY
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ACCOUNTING CONCENTRATION
An Honours Degree Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfillment of the Graduation Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours)
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
January 2016
Table of Content
Introduction
Statement of the Problems
Literature Review
Objective of the Study
Statement of Hypotheses
Methodology
Action