Course: Risk Management and Insurance Remaining   Number of Sources 3 Number of Pages 6 Paper Format MLA Paper Details: explain how Catastrophe bonds are structured and how they are trigger (their should be different type of trigger). how it has impacted the insurance and reinsurance market. and how Citizens Property Insurance Utilizes Catastrophe bonds to reduce thier risk exposure and/or how it has change […]

coca cola company   Overview: Liquidity Ratios   This week we look at evaluating the company’s liquidity ratios and comparing them to the industry average. Lenders, creditors and suppliers find liquidity ratios quite useful in deciding whether or not to grant credit. Be sure to review the Financial Ratios Guidelines document that will guide Discussions 5-8.    If you wish to change companies, go to the discussion […]

b-1. Mr. Bright, the Vice-President of Finance, suggests that stockholders often prefer a stable dividend policy to a highly variable one. He will assume that stockholders apply a lower discount rate to dividends that are stable. The discount rate to be used for Plan A is 11 percent; the discount rate for Plan B is 13 percent. Compute the present value of future dividends. (Do not […]

Quantitative research involves the analysis of data. Often there are databases available or government data available for free on the internet. There are also proprietary databases that can provide data as well. For this assignment, you will collect data and begin the analysis of the data. NOTE: save the data collected because you will continue to perform additional analysis of the data as the term […]

In this assignment, you will undertake calculations in order to evaluate a project, and decide if it should be accepted or rejected. Texas Roks, Inc. is considering a new quarry machine. The costs and revenues associated with the machine have been provided to you for analysis: Cost of the new project $4,000,000 Installation costs $100,000 Estimated unit sales in year 1 50,000 Estimated unit sales […]

  Assignment 2: Case Analysis—Corporate Sustainability   This assignment presents a powerful illustration of a company thinking beyond the traditional objectives of earnings and value maximization.   Read the UPS 2009 Sustainability report at: http://www.responsibility.ups.com/Sustainability  and address the following:   Describe the changes in stakeholder expectations of firms such as UPS in the recent past. Describe UPS response to these stakeholder expectations. Discuss the key […]

Week 7 – Assignment: Evaluate a Capital Budgeting Case Study Instructions Part I: One duty of a financial manager is to choose investments with satisfactory cash flows and rates of return. Therefore, a financial manager must be able to decide whether an investment is worth undertaking and be able to choose intelligently between two or more alternatives. To do this, a sound procedure to evaluate, […]

Airvalue Airways is a regional carrier whose strategy is to expand gradually as they can identify routes that offer an attractive return on the investment necessary to support successful coverage of the route.  As part of this expansion, the company is planning to buy a new plane in the upcoming fiscal year. The purchasing department has narrowed the choice down to two models.  One is […]

Ashford 5: – Week 4 – Assignment   Types of Risk   View the following video:   This video introduces the concept of business risk and risk management. It notes that business risks can generally be classified into four categories: property, market, employee, and customer. Using each of the four categories of risk, develop an analysis of how financial management techniques or policies can be […]

  DIscussion: Think about Unit VII and the importance of understanding the cost of capital to a business. Comment on why it is important, and explain why as debt increases (in capital structure), eventually the WACC will increase (despite the fact debt is usually the lower cost component cost of capital). How does your current or past company, or one you know of, decide on […]