Category Archives: Finance
Self Help Group Linkage Programme: A case study
The case-study examines the group lending mechanism of a particular Microfinance Institution working in Haryana, India. The Microfinance Institution restricted the number of group members that could borrow simultaneously from it and allowed the internal lending amongst the group members. [...]
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Accounting Case Study on General Mills
The major source of cash for General Mills in 2002 was the issuance of long-term debt. With the cash they received, they were able to purchase Pillsbury (acquired in a stock and cash transaction).
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Be Your Own Investment Expert
While it is easy to quote investment experts, their advice seldom works for retail investors. Wisdom, they say, comes out of experience. But is the same wisdom applicable to you as well? Sometimes, it may be. But there is no [...]
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Black Tuesday
On Tuesday October 29th, 1929, Wall Street witnessed a 13% decline in the Dow Jones, an episode that became known in financial mythology as “Black Tuesday.” It is generally recognized that Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression. [...]
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Assessment of the Role of Micro-credit in the Development of Social Capital : A Field Study about Micro-credit Programme Clients in Bangladesh
The aim of the study is to investigate how does the micro-credit does, small scale loans to poor people, work in poverty alleviation and building social capital in rural Bangladesh. The major objective of the study is to show how [...]
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Analysis of News’ Impact on Stock Prices
According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis stock prices should be affected by the release of new information. In this paper we analyse the effect of newspapers on stock prices provided that the newspapers do not have access to private information.
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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence
“Financial close” is a company’s ability to complete accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting—and is still a key part of today’s global finance function. Do you know how to overcome the barriers to [...]
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Catastrophe Bonds Market
It is a high yield debt instrument that is usually insurance linked and meant to raise money in case of catastrophe such as a hurricane and earthquake. It has a special condition that states that if the insurer (insurance or [...]
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The corporate governance of an organisation managing Islamic charitable endowments (waqfs)
Charitable endowments (known in Arabic as waqfs) or pious endowments (Behrens-Abouseif, 1994) have their roots in the charitable donation of assets. This Islamically-based financial tool has been utilised to fund large-scale projects. The underlying principle of the charitable endowment is [...]
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