Personal Finance Management Personal finance management is a topic that very few actually understand. There were no finance classes given when I was coming Into adulthood. So I had no understanding of credit scores, credit reports, and credit cards. Nor did I have a clue about interest rates and what it meant to have good credit. I was in the dark about finance period. Over […]

Introduction According to Little (2005), philosophy of social science is a scholarly discipline that attempts to analyse the logic, methodology, modes of explanation of the social sciences, in which its studies include psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and economics. Social science provides understanding of everyday interactions of individuals and interactions among human society in social institutions. Providing prediction and explanation for human behaviour and its consequences […]

PROBLEM:01 The formula which breaks down the return on equity into three component parts is referred to as DuPont formula. PROBLEM:02 The Purple Martin has annual sales of $687,400, total debt of $210,000, total equity of $365,000, and a profit margin of 4. 80 percent. What is the return on assets? ROA = net income / total assets ROA = (687400 * 4. 80) / […]

The Mutton Gold loan portfolio is the largest in India as well as all around the globe. It is humbling to know that more than 80,000 people avail our trusted services on a daily basis. For the past 126 years, the company has been serving the interests of customers as its top most priority. Our Journey through centuries coupled with the fact that we are […]

The correlation coefficient as we calculated earlier is also 0.74, an important figure that we’ll revisit later. So now we can choose to invest 100% in asset A or 100% in asset B or 50% in each as per the weightings of the previously constructed portfolio. First and foremost we can see the benefits of diversification with the portfolio risk being 2.96% which is lower […]

Study Guide for Final Exam (TCO B) Which of the following statements concerning the MM extension with growth is NOT CORRECT? The tax shields should be discounted at the unlevered cost of equity. The value of a growing tax shield is greater than the value of a constant tax shield. For a given D/S, the levered cost of equity is greater than the levered cost […]

The aspect of foreign exchange rate is captured by international finance and international economics. It is an important phenomenon in analyzing the level of international relations in foreign exchange. As important microeconomic variable, foreign exchange helps to gesture the portfolio with which a country’s balance of payment would be in relation to the others. A broad array of effects of exchange rates to the international […]

Nike got its venture started as a athletic shoe (Blue Ribbon shoes) selling company for athletic players exclusively. The main strengths of the company then were low capital requirement and the necessity to develop the market which captured the market totally with its reputation of authenticity and highest quality products. Finally Blue Ribbon started its first retail outlet in the year 1966. In 1970 the […]

In the same way, Americans themselves were scammed by their own internal EHM—the US banker. As Moolanomy Personal Finance (2008) asserts, “Over the years, mortgage lenders were happy to lend money to people who couldn’t afford their mortgages. ” But the bankers did it anyway because they “were able to pass the risk off to mortgage insurers or package these mortgages as mortgage-backed securities. ” […]

Fiscal Policy in Kenya: Looking Toward the Medium-to Long-Term By Kamau Thugge, Peter S Heller, and Jane Kiringai[1] Executive Summary Kenya’s authorities, in articulating their vision for the next two decades of Kenya’s development, understood clearly that fiscal policy would need to play a critical role in influencing the pace at which the economy will grow and its capacity to deal with the key challenges […]