Ch.1 financial intermediation results from economies of scale and the specialization of financial transactions. (banks‚ inv. companies [mutual & pension funds]‚ insurance companies‚ credit unions‚ brokerage firms‚ investment banks). Inv. banks assist firms in raising capital‚ create the market for innovative new securities that meet the risk and return demand (CMOs‚ collateralized mortgage obligations – derivative security that separates the cash flows of a mortgage pool into different classes
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strategies for growth: ee market penetration‚ ne market development‚ en product development‚nn diversification downsizing: eliminate products/units that are not profitable/no longer fit the overall strategy prod and serv lvls of prod core cust. value > actual prod: features‚ design‚ packaging‚ quality‚ brand name > augmented prod: warranty‚ after-sale serv.‚ prod support‚ delivery/credit prod+serv class consumer prod: convenience‚ shopping‚ specialty‚ unsought industrial prod: materials+parts‚ capital
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|Turnover Ratio | |N.I. Net Income |XA Uncollectable | | |Accounts | | |~A Contra-Asset | | |(negative) | | |$ CASH | Balance sheet |Assets |Liabilities | |Current Assets |Current Liabilities | |Cash |Payable (Account‚ | |Marketable |Note‚Interest‚ | |Securities/Stocks |Salaries‚ Income | |Short Term |Tax)
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Cyber Stalking Stalking: series of actions that would cause a person to fear death or injury Spam (Bulk email marketing) Internet version of junk mail Where do they get email addys? - legitimate companies - Newsgroup Extractors - Websites Extractors Avoiding Spam - Use phoney address - Use anonymous remailer - Use “AT” in your email address instead of @. Internet Fraud / Identity Theft Credit Card Fraud: The unauthorized use of credit cards to obtain money or property Common ways
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90%= 1.645 95% = 1.96 98% = 2.33 99% = 2.575 Hypothesis Testing *A credit card company wondered whether giving frequent flyer miles for every purchase would increase card usage‚ which has a current mean of $2500 per year. They gave free flyer miles to a simple random sample of 25 card customers and found the sample mean to be $2542 and the standard deviation to be $109. n= 25 Ho (Claim) µ=2500 OR Ha µ > 2500 *Use t-table n .50 Ha
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Misuses of Language (Linguistic Misuses) 1. Ambiguity – a term/sentence has 2 or more diff reasonable meanings a. Lexical詞匯Ambiguity e.g. I don’t like love games b. Syntactic Ambiguity e.g. The CE wants ICAC to help corrupt officers 2. Shift/distortion of meaning – original meaning is shifted from 1 sense to another or distorted inappropriately e.g. stricter discipline doesn’t mean to torture children; when was you the richest? 3. Incomplete meaning – A sentence may be grammatically correct but
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Competitive Priorities The critical dimensions that a process or supply chain must possess to satisfy its internal or external customers‚ both now and in the future. Competitive capabilities The cost‚ quality‚ time‚ and flexibility dimensions that a process or supply chain actually possesses and is able to deliver. Order Winners The criterion customers use to differentiate the services or products of one firm from those of another. Productivity The value of outputs (services and products)
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The net present value (NPV) rule can be best stated as: An investment should be accepted if the NPV is positive and rejected if it is negative. The discount rate that makes the net present value of investment exactly equal to zero is b. Internal rate of return. Which of the following statements is true? If the financial manager relies on NPV in making capital budgeting decisions‚ she acts in the shareholders’ best interests. Net present value is equal to zero when the interest rate used to discount
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A boy wants to play on the volleyball team but there are only all girl team. What amendment protects his rights? The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that "no state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Added to the Constitution in 1868‚ this "equal protection clause" was aimed primarily at protecting the recently freed slaves against southern governments that had stripped the freedmen of their political and legal rights. The courts‚ however‚ have
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Disruptive Technology(Joseph L. Bower‚ Clayton M. Christensen) Issue lies at the heart of the paradox: They close too close to their customers. Companies listen to their customers‚ give product performances they were looking for‚ but in the end‚ were hurt by the technologies their customers led them to ignore. 2 Characteristics of the technological changes that damage established companies: 1) They typically present a different package of performance attributes (at the onset‚ not valued by
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