The following chapter outline's some of the literature and scholar works about risk tolerance, decision theory and financial performance of the firms. This research aims to find out the relationship between risk tolerance and firm performance of the Australian exploration and production companies, considering some other control variable; thus the literature review chapter is mainly divided in to three separate but related fields. First field to be reviewed is the works on the topic of risk to...
Introduction Accounting is one of the most essential parts in a business. In another word, it could be a core of the company. According to the Atrill (2005), accounting is related to the financial information collecting, analyzing and communicating. All these information is very important to an organization, company can use these information for make decision on some business operating like develop new product or service, increasing or cutting the price, arrange distribution in different area...
Visa Overview: Visa Inc. offers a global payment technology platform that provides payment gateway processing network and helps financial institutions and merchants in global commerce and enables digital currency payment instead cash or checks. Furthermore, Visa owns, operates and facilitates the processing of transactions on behalf of financial institutions and merchants through VisaNet, one of the world's most advanced processing networks capable of handling more than 10,000 transactions pe...
THE BUSINESS & FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE over A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS INTRODUCTION This report presents the business and financial performance of Nishat Chunian Ltd. (NCL), one of Pakistan's leading Textile Company over a period of three years. NCL is the fifth largest textile listed company of Pakistan with a turnover of over USD 140 million. It is a vertically integrated unit comprising of spinning, weaving, dyeing and stitching units and employs more than 6,000 people. The following section wi...
Tesco financial performance listed on the bases of London stock exchange, with the symbol of TESCO the London stock market is listed. Tesco financial performance of last five years is as fallows. The financial performance includes Turnover(£m) Profit before tax(£m) Profit for year(£m) Basic earning per share(p) Years Turnover(£m) Profit before tax(£m) Profit for year(£m) Basic earning per share(p) February 2010 62,500 3,200 3,090 29.02 February 2009 54,300 3,128 2,130 28.92 February 2008 47,2...
Concept: Free-float Methodology refers to an index construction methodology that takes into consideration only the free-float market capitalization of a company for the purpose of index calculation and assigning weight to stocks in Index. Free-float market capitalization is defined as that proportion of total shares issued by the company that are readily available for trading in the market. It generally excludes promoters' holding, government holding, strategic holding and other locked-in sha...
This chapter reviews the literature on the risk management and corporate governance in the banking sector. Part of the literature also attempts to provide a relationship between the independence and financial knowledge of the board of directors and audit committee, and risk management practices by referring to both empirical and analytical research. 2.1 Risk Management in the banking sector When discussing the challenges faced by financial institutions in managing risk, it is important to hav...
Abstract Credit card debit on college campuses is rapidly growing. Entering college freshman are not aware of how credit cards can influence their future. Understanding the basics of a credit card are the first thing that college freshman needs to understand before applying for one. Credit cards can be an ally or enemy to freshman students. Once in debt what can be done to help future students from making the same mistakes? There are many things that can be done to help prevent this but the o...
Introduction Nowadays financial intermediations play the important role in the economy. Firms and individuals can find sources to finance its new project. Also lender can invest their money in secure positions. Financial intermediations raise funds from the depositors for short term and lend them to the borrower for long term. The main job of those institutions is to provide finance through taking extra risk. So there are three parties engaged in those investments process. The lender or the d...
Since the beginning of the era of globalisation, there have been significant changes in managerial decisions in local and multinational companies. This is due to the expansion of capital and labor markets throughout the world and a massive increase in the number of rivals which force companies to enhance their core competencies. Acquisitions which can be defined as acquiring corporate control of another firm that is called "The target company" is one of the various methods that enables busine...
