Essays and Research Papers on Personal Finance

This 4 page paper examines the company Coca Cola (stock symbol KO), looking at the company’s performance, its strengths and weaknesses to determine if an investor should buy the share. Comparison is also made between the company and the industry averages. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 4 page paper is an analysis of the Coca-Cola company, it includes a cash flow analysis, horizontal and vertical analysis, consideration of the share price and whether it is a good time to buy the shares as well as the role of goodwill and notable trends. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 4 page paper describes the sources of capital for Wal-Mart, explaining how the organization generates capital through investing and financing activities from the cash flow statement. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

This 10 page paper considers the economic situation in the Caribbean island of Aruba, an autonomous region that remains a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and theories of integration. The paper then brings to two together to understand the positive and negative impacts that integration with a union in the Americas ...

A 3 page paper about the cost of credit cards. The four basic types of credit cards are identified. Five credit cards are compared in terms of interest rates, grace periods and fees. The costs of one virtual bank is explained. The writer alerts consumers that different banks and companies have different costs even when ...

This 4 page paper starts by outlining the banking industry n Australian and then looks at the pace of Bendigo Bank in that industry. The weaknesses, core competences, organisational structure and current strategies are then discussed. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

This 10 page paper looks at the different influences that will impact on the price of replacement heifers in the beef market and how an econometric model may be developed to explain these movements. Variables examined include factors such as the price of the feed, weather, interest rates and other influences that may impact on ...

This 9 page paper examines the transitions that union workers and organizations have to go through due to environmental change, including globalization and technology. The UAW is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 9 page paper discusses the statement by Joseph Stiglitz that “The problem is not with globalization but with how it has been managed” . The paper approaches this by looking at the benefits of globalization and how these have been managed by an international organisation; The International Monterey Fund (IMF). The paper argues ...

This 4 page paper defines economics, and also determines how it can be used as a decision-making tool in the field of accounting. This paper shows how the accounting industry could benefit from incorporating economic theory into the decision making process. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper looks at the five year performance of two Australian banks; Westpac Banking Corporation, a national bank and Adeline Bank, a local bank with only 25 branches. The paper looks at the growth rate and performance of each bank and compares the capital adequacy. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

This 9 page paper examines the way that both Intel and AMD use hedging to reduce their exposure to exchange rate risks. The paper outlines the way both companies undertake hedging and their goals and then assessing which has the most beneficial approach. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 9 page paper considers the role of the World Bank and the IMF to lesser developed nations, The paper outlines the targets and goals it set and then looks at the way these occur and how they impact on the nations concerned. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

3 pages in length. The writer discusses the pros/cons, general opinion and impact on work environment of "Making Ends Meet" and "Time To Kill." No bibliography.

This 3 page paper uses a real life example to explain in clear terms, the relationship between supply and demand, The paper shows the student how prices will change and the different between a movement along and shift of the supply or demand curve. The example used is the beef cattle market when Canadian beef ...

This 5 page paper assess the importance of the production-cost relationship in a firm and demonstrates how the relationship directly affects the distribution of costs within a firm. This is undertaken by looking at different forms of management accounting; overhead or absorption costing, marginal or variable costing, standard costing and activity based costing (ABC). The ...

This five page paper explains the cost production relationship, looking at the production function and the cost function and then considering how costs may be distributed over different production levels. The paper, including one graph looks at using average fixed cost, average variable cost and average total cost in order to determine optimum production levels. ...

This 2.5 page paper discusses the use of the accounting cycle and analyzes each step in the cycle. The paper also discusses the rationale for the cycle as a whole. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 2.5-page paper discusses the financial statement analysis process. Comments include why such an analysis is performed, how it is performed and the justification for it. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 4 page paper evaluates the concepts of the gross taxation system and the modified gross taxation system. Effects of such systems are discussed in terms of individual taxation and corporate taxation. The flat tax is discussed Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 16 page paper looks at the way that payments by private companies are treated under The Australian Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 Division 7A(Section 109B-109ZE). This paper looks at deemed dividends, amalgamated loans and loan forgiveness. The bibliography cites 7 sources.

This 3 page paper looks at the role of cash flow in businesses. How businesses can track and increase cash flow are some of the things discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3-page paper is a review about C. William Thomas, and his April, 2002 article “The rise and fall of Enron” (published in the Journal of Accountancy). The paper discusses the subject of the article, as well as describing weaknesses and strenghts. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 20 page paper discussing Microsoft’s approach to what it terms conservative accounting. The company recently abandoned the use of stock options to inflate earnings reflected on its balance sheet, but it still practices “cookie jar” reserves to smooth out business results year to year. The paper discusses the issue of these items, ...

This 9 page paper examines a case supplied by the student, assesses two projects by demonstrating how to calculate the payback cost of equality, the weighted average cost of capital, the payback period, net present vale and the internal rate of return.