PRIVATE EQUITY – A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR GHANAIAN SMEs By Joseph Ciici Arthur Ghana’s workforce is predominantly employed by the informal sector. This sector of our economy is largely made up of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) and sole proprietorships (“one man business”). This is confirmed by available data from the Registrar General which indicates that 90% of companies registered in Ghana are SMEs. Over time‚ this target group has been identified as the catalyst for
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A Project Report On “TO STUDY OF EQUITY VALUATION ON INDIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY” Submitted To: Bhulabhai Vanmalibhai Patel Institute of Business Management‚ Computer & Information Technology‚ Gopal Vidyanagar. Submitted By: BHAVINI SHAH T.Y BBA- I 09 BBA 11 Acknowledgement I wish to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Poonam Mittal‚ Director of Bhulabhai Vanmalibhai Patel Institute of Business Management‚ Computer & Information Technology‚ Gopal Vidyanagar‚ Tarsadi‚ who gave me the chance
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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Accounting 2200 Project 2 Responses to the Form 10-K of NVE Corporation Professor Jane Morton Muhan Li‚ Madhur Mittal‚ Adam Rosen ------------------------------------------------- Question 1 NVE Corporation is in the business of nanotechnology‚ founded in 1989 in Minneapolis. NVE develops and sells devices that use a new technology known as “spintronics‚” and was founded by James M. Daughton‚ Ph. D.‚ and spintronics pioneer. NVE has been awarded $50 million+ in government research contracts
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CASE STUDY CASE OVERVIEW Company Background EEI Corporation was one of the oldest construction companies in the Philippines who is engaged in the business of building industrial plant facilities‚ installing equipments‚ providing replacements parts and supplies‚ and providing specialized engineering services to industrial companies in the Philippines and overseas‚ principally in Middle East. Highlights of Operations EEI Corporation struggled in mid 1980s where they faced financial difficulties
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on new equipment. (c.) just reports a loss which wouldn’t change anything. (d.) would decrease cash because the firm would pay out cash to stockholders. Problem 3-11 Statement of Cash Flows You have just been hired as a financial analyst for Basel Industries. Unfortunately‚ company headquarters (where all of the firm’s records are kept) has been destroyed by fire. So‚ your first job will be to recreate the firm’s cash flow statement for the year just ended. The firm had $100‚000 in the bank
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Marriott Corporation (A) Introduction In 1927 J.W. Marriott Sr. founded the Marriott Corporation (MC) and during the 1980s experienced a huge growth. Marriott’s main strategy in those days was developing hotel properties around the world and selling these properties to outside investors while retaining lucrative long-term management contracts. MC was a conservative company and it stressed the themes of careful attention on the details‚ the organization and its employees. Quality was the one of the
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Equity theory The motivation theories highlighted in the case which are Equity theory and Vroom’s expectancy theory. For the Equity theory which is developed by J.Stacey Adams‚ proposes that employees perceive and assess a ratio of jobs inputs related to the outcomes they received for their performance to seek either equity or inequity in their situation and then corrects any inequity. The term of equity in the Equity theory is related to the concept of fairness‚ justice‚ and treated equally between
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Brand equity Brand equityis a phraseused in the marketing industry which describe the value of having a well-known brand name‚ based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name‚ as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.[1][2][3][4] Another word for "brand equity" is "brand value". Some marketing researchers have
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EQUITY THEORY • This process theory focuses on workers’ perceptions of the fairness of their work outcomes and inputs. Specifically they strive to maintain ratios of their own rewards to contributions which are equal to others’ ratios . EQUITY EQUATIONS • Equity – Outcomes (self) Inputs (self) = Outcomes (other) Inputs (other) •Underpayment Inequity Outcomes (self) Inputs (self) • Overpayment Inequity Outcomes (self) Inputs (self) < Outcomes (other) Inputs (other) > Outcomes
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