Finance

American Superconductor is the leader in alternate energy, providing electric power infrastructure generation to distribution through two main business units AMSC power systems and AMSC Superconductors. American Superconductor is a publicly listed company. After years of losses and shortage of cash, the company has finally indicated profit of 1.3 million for first quarter of 2009.   Capital Structure Since equity and debt financing solely do not provide all advantage of earning profits...

Part One    The article Why People Dont Help in a Crisis by John M. Darley and Bibb Latane talks about situations wherein people are not able to help others in times of crises and immediate need. This is based on the assumption that these bystanders are mostly unconcerned and depersonalized. The article enumerates various situations and cases, as well as experiments conducted by the authors regarding the responsiveness of people during these times of crises. The article is concluded...

Banks are the largest financial institution for century, and banks have enjoyed financial growth for several decades.  Financial capacity of some banks is more than overall resources of some countries such as Gambia or Guinea. For example, most banks in the UK enjoyed rapid growth where the FTSE 100 index recorded increase from 2003 to 2007. Typically, between 2003 and 2007, many banks in the UK declared surplus dividends to their shareholders. However, since 2007, many financial institutions...

1. What is the key issue    After reading and analyzing the case (in Bartlett, Ghoshal  Beamish, 2006, p. 665-682), it is quite apparent that the primary issue is the companys lack of unified goal and command. Their current set-up is the kind courting internal disagreements. Devolution of functions is, on the most part, productive for a company, especially for an international one like BRL Hardy. However, what complicates their situation is the companys underlying history. Since...

    Insurance is a tool in compensating ones loss over an insurable interest for health, life, limb, piece of property like a car or a house.     In this case, The Higgenbottom Family took great pains of precautions in planning and securing ahead their future vis-a-vis their present availability of resources. Hence, in choosing an Insurance Company or an Insurer for their house, they never considered the cheapest but they took consideration of the promise as a whole....

Asianic Brewery, a company based in Hong Kong, produces various malt beverages such as beer, iced tea, bottled water, hard liquor, and carbonated soft drinks. Its products are sold on a very limited scale and it owns about 15 of the alcohol market. Because of this, the company seldom buys and instead opts to lease major equipments. One of the major equipments that it leases is the bottle washer. A bottle washer keeps bottles clean and free from contamination prior to bottling beer and other beverages. A...

Before moving toward the Capital structure analysis of a company we should first understand the concept of Capital StructureDebt financingIf you are borrowing money for your business then it is debt financing. This can be done for short term loans as well as for long term loans. These loans are to be remunerated according to the rules and policies of the lender company related to interest. And the whole amount including the total loan and the interest earned over it are to be paid back within limited...

Identify at least three problems facing the FED in achieving its goals of monetary policy and give your recommendations on how to deal with each of the problems you list. The Federal Reserve which is commonly referred to as FED is the central authority to the US money and banking system.  It utilizes the monetary policies at its disposal with the aim of ensuring that prices, foreign exchange rates as well as long term interest rates remain stable.  Stability in these three areas is beneficial...

  Most companies are interested in knowing how their current or future debt will impact their profitability or if it would impact profitability at all.  Some ways of doing this is by conducting some regression analysis on historical data.  Regression analysis can determine if there is a relationship between different variables and can also help to forecast what the future might bring if the pattern continues.  Although regression analysis is a valuable tool it is not the...

After reading and analyzing the case (in Bartlett, Ghoshal & Beamish, 2006, p. 665-682), it is quite apparent that the primary issue is the company's lack of unified goal and command. Their current set-up is the kind courting internal disagreements. Devolution of functions is, on the most part, productive for a company, especially for an international one like BRL Hardy. However, what complicates their situation is the company's underlying history. Since BRL Hardy is a merged company, it is...

Asianic Brewery, a company based in Hong Kong, produces various malt beverages such as beer, iced tea, bottled water, hard liquor, and carbonated soft drinks. Its products are sold on a very limited scale and it owns about 15% of the alcohol market. Because of this, the company seldom buys and instead opts to lease major equipments. One of the major equipments that it leases is the bottle washer. A bottle washer keeps bottles clean and free from contamination prior to bottling beer and other beverages. A...

The ascend of Silvio Napoli up the corporate ladder of Schindler was swift enough to give him greater responsibilities than most managers possess at the age of 33. The business plan to enter the Indian market was a strategic one – one which meant greater presence of Schindler in the market elevating its market share and revenues. There were several challenges though, in the process that presented themselves like two-edged swords to Napoli and company. Napoli was in-charge of the project and had...

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In the case study titled “ABB’s Relay Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix”, the author attempted an examination of the success and challenges that occurred as a result of the decision to merge two medium scale telecommunications companies - Asea and Brown Boveri. The merger was necessitated by the depression in the utility equipment market. As a result of this, the chairmen of both companies met and decided it was in the best interest of the two companies to come together in forming...