Essays and Research Papers on Personal Finance

This 10 page paper looks at a three sets of questions posed by the student. All questions concern the use of adjusted accrual accounting in government. The first part looks at some of the basic elements of accounting, these are short answers examples include defining when revenue is recognised and what is meant by available, ...

This 7 page paper looks at the concept of inflation, including several definitions which look to the symptoms and causes. The paper then goes on to consider approaches the governments may utilize to control reduce inflation and uses real-life examples to illustrate the use of the tools. The bibliography cites 7 sources.

A 10 page paper arguing against government involvement in shoring up manufacturing industries. When the topic is bailout, the government needs to limit any involvement to effective guarantees that fill gaps in the interest of the people but otherwise essentially "butt out" and let market forces operate. Market forces are immensely more efficient ...

This 8 page paper answers four questions posed by the student; How do government transfer payments help reduce the severity of a recession caused by a contraction in aggregate demand? What are the two core macro-economic policies targets and how are they achieved theoretically with nominal GDP targeting? Explain why government debts are not ...

This 12 page paper is a comprehensive look at the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), used by the UK government. The paper consider the advantages and disadvantages as a system such as this, concerns such as control and security as well as the advantages to the government in accounting terms and how this results in the ...

A 6 page paper assessing the economic effects of government payment for all or a portion of seniors' prescription drug needs. The desire to provide seniors with greater assurances that they will be able to afford health care in their latter years is an admirable one, but any route of direct government payment for prescription drugs can be ...

A 5 page essay answering the question of types and numbers of policy instruments necessary to attain the most advantageous position for the US economy, both domestically and internationally. Using Singapore as an example of a blend of a strong central government yet an economy based on totally free entrepreneurism, the paper concludes that (1) ...

A 4 page answer to 3 macroeconomic questions, one of which seeks to classify government education spending as public consumption or public investment. The other two questions deal with the effects of large cuts in government spending within the ISLM framework. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper evaluating governments' approach to taxing business activity. One observer of the growth of industrialization in the world has stated, "The state's goal is to maximize its own wealth by collecting taxes." Using the examples of just-industrializing Germany and Switzerland, the paper argues that government will collect greater revenues when tax ...

This 16 page paper examines how successful has the government in Syria been in running the economy. The paper then describes and evaluates the main macro economic policies used by the government in Syria. The bibliography cites 8 sources.

A 4 page paper discussing the macroeconomic costs of rebuilding New Orleans in the wake of two record-breaking hurricanes and the floods resulting from levee breaks. The paper suggests that reestablishing the French Quarter as a tourist attraction and giving 10,000 households $100,000 each perhaps could be more beneficial than intense government involvement. ...

5 pages. Government spending on goods and services is a significant fraction of the total output of the economy. Total consumer spending, investment, government spending and net foreign spending on final goods and services are the components that make up most of the gross national product. This paper goes into lengthy detail of ...

In five pages this paper examines the Great Depression in an overview of what happened to the economy, how people were affected, what the government did to generate the economy and get people back to work. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration is the federal government agency that is described in detail. Five sources are ...

This 6 page paper answers four questions set by the student. The first looks at the consumption function and how to calculate marginal propensity to consume. The second question considers the way the equilibrium point can be calculated when knowing industry investment and government expenditure. The third question outlines how the government may increase ...

This 16 page paper looks that the causes of the global credit crisis of 2008/9 considering the causes of the crisis and how these were able too impact the international markets and the way that this impacted on aggregate supply and aggregate demand. The paper then moves on to look at the way that governments’, ...

This 9 page paper examines the use and potential use of accrual accounting for governments and the public sector. The writer considers the take up of accrual counting by non commercial organizations, the way it compares with cash accounting, how the accounting approach is seen internationally and looks at examples of governments adopting ...

5 pages in length. Answers three questions regarding leakages in the economy, government expenditures and automatic stabilizers. Explains the ‘bathtub metaphor’, defines automatic stabilizers and gives examples as to tax cuts as well as tax expenditures by the government. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6 page paper is written in three parts. The first part briefly explains briefly what fiscal policy is and how fiscal balances, and the Public Sector Net Cash Requirement (PSNCR), can both affect and be effected by cyclical fluctuations. The second part explains the main problems governments encounter when trying to achieve high and ...

This 6 page paper provides an overview of the new rules created by the Government Accounting Standards Board in 1999. The paper looks at the rules' potential effectiveness in relaying a government's financial position to the public. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

24 pages in length. According to the Government Accounting Standards Board, their proposed Statement 35 is a revision to Statement 34. This revision will amend Statement 34 to permit public colleges and universities, in separately issued financial statements, to use the guidance for special-purpose governments engaged only in business-type activities, engaged only in governmental activities, or engaged in both governmental ...

An 8 page research paper investigating the wisdom of investing in Italy. Known for its history of tumultuous government, Italy has enjoyed a relative period of calm since early 1996 when Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left Olive Tree Alliance took power with a primary goal of being among the first of the European countries to ...

A 7 page research paper on Chile's society, economy and recent governmental history, in which they moved from parliamentary government, to socialism, to military control, to democracy, and all within a period of less than 20 years. Other countries would have dissolved into civil war with such extreme swings in policies, but Chile's response has ...

A 6 page paper discussing Fidel Castro, his life, and his influence on United States' foreign policy. Castro was, and is, a very unique individual, unlike anyone perhaps, ever maintaining great power. He frightened the American government because of his uniqueness and because he overthrew a government that supported the economy of the Untied States. ...

An 8 page essay examining the economic policies of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Panhellinion Socialistiko Kinima-PASOK), the style of Greek government first put into place in the 1970's but brought to full invasiveness under the leadership of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou beginning in 1982. Originally intended to pull Greece up to the economic levels of ...

A 10 page essay on some of the effects of unthinking tax levies of state and local governments in their desperate attempts to increase their revenues. With an extreme lack of forward-thinking, many state and local governments attempt to have businesses bear the brunt of their budget deficiencies for the short-term without thinking through the ...