Essays and Research Papers on Personal Finance

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts triple bottom line accounting with organisational profit accounting and considers the different views and perspectives concerning the approaches. The bibliography cites 7 sources.

This 5 page paper looks at India and China as a potential destination for a direct foreign investment; it assesses the risks such as politic and exchange rate risk before making a recommendation. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

Recent financial scandals such as Enron and Parmalat have caused concern, but they have not been the earliest financial scandals and have only added to the pace of change in the regulation of accounting standards. This 4 page paper looks at how and why regulations have been changing, including the development of the current regulatory ...

This 5 page paper considers the way in which the development of Belize has been influenced by globalization, both directly and indirectly. The paper focuses on the economic influences looking at the positive and the negative aspects. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines various elements of the Doho Agreement. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

The classical economic model is said to be dichotomous. This 5 page paper explains the nature of the dichotomy and the implication this has for monetary policy. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

This 6 page paper examines Krispy Kreme for the years 2001 – 2003, focusing on 2002. The paper carries out analyses on depreciation and amortisation, company stock, cash flow, income and management efficiency. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

This 3 page paper considers why and how CFO’s have to balance profit making with cash flow in order to create a strong and viable company that maximises its’ profit potential while reducing opportunity costs and remaining liquid. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

Using the 3 criteria of cost, quality, and access as well as political feasibility this 4 page paper discusses under what circumstances relying on the private sector may not be socially optimal. The paper discuses the provision of services such as armed forces and the welfare state as well as the control of externalities such ...

This 36 page paper examines a number of issues that are important to investors and portfolio management. Te paper looks at asset allocation, the section of investment with tools such as capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and efficient market hypothesis (EMH), multifactor models of risk and return, including Fama and French’s Three Factor mode, ...

This 3 page paper examines the housing market in 2006. Will it go bust or will the upward trend continue? Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 9 page paper considers the statement “Recent years, auditing has developed from the traditional conformance role into a broad and sophisticated variety of assurance services more relevant; there is an expectation that auditing, as a professional service, should not only provide assurance for the credibility of financial statements, but also enhance the quality and ...

This 8 page paper looks at how successful was Morrison's takeover Safeway has been. This consideration is based on the financial aspects and includes issues such as the way goodwill was treated and the creation of the negative goodwill and the impact this had on the results and the earnings per share. The bibliography cites ...

This 3 page paper looks at how and why local economic development policies are an important element of the development plans put in place in developing economies. The paper looks at this in the context of Latin American and the MERCOSUR countries. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

According to Philip Curtin trade and exchange represent “the most important stimuli to change”. This 5 page paper considers how this can be seen as accurate using only examples from England up until the eighteenth century. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the view that the profitability and survival of a company is dependent to a large extent on its financial or capital structure. The paper uses a range of theorists to examine the view, including Modigliani & Miller and Myers & Majluf. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

This 7 page paper looks at the United States economy from 2000 – 2003. In this period the economy suffered a recession. The paper looks at the different macro economic industries including GDP, inflations, interest rates and money supply. The paper then looks at how the economy was behaving and uses aggregate demand to ...

Explaining Dell’s Poor Performance Dell has been having major problem with following sales and poor publicity predicting hard times ahead. This 4 page paper briefly outlines the sources of some of these problems and then considers the way that this may be examined with statistics and defined what could be the independent variables and the ...

This 4 page paper considers the dominance of De Beers compnay on the diamond industry from an economic perspective. The paper shows how the compnay has sought to manage the process of diamonds by managing and manipulating the supply and demand factors. This is discussed with examples of De Beers strategies and practices. The bibliography ...

This 5 page paper answers questions concerning the way account takes place. The first looks at a case study to examine the way the practices fit in with the hierarchy of accounting qualities. The paper then considers the way in which accounting standards are set within the US and discusses whether the standards should be ...

This 10 page paper is written in two parts. The first part look at a case where a company needs to raise capital, considering way they may want to raise capital and assessing the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The second part of the paper is made of calculations supporting the arguments for the ...

This 7 page paper shows the student how to use net present value and internal rate of return calculations and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of using each of these discounted cash flow models. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 14 page paper examined the acquisition of Wella by proctor and Gamble. The paper looks at the different reasons that may have motivated the acquisitions and the reaction of the investors and the share prices before and after the acquisition took place. The bibliography cites 13 sources.

In November 2006 the Bank of England increased the base rate by 25 point (0.25%). This 7 page paper looks at whether the increase was expected by the market and considers if there were hints from the bank this would occur, why the increase took place and the way it was received by the ...

This 10 page paper explains the way in which consumer utility maximization takes place. The paper considers the way in which utility can be measured at different budget levels with reference to total utility and marginal utility. The use of indifference curves is explained and utility maximization is demonstrated with reference to budget and indifference ...