FNCE30001 Investments Semester 2‚ 2011 Introduction and L1: Risk Aversion and Capital Allocation Subject Administration Issues See the Study Guide on LMS for details! Lectures given in two streams: Wednesdays‚ 12:00pm - 2:00pm (The Spot‚ Basement Theatre) Fridays‚ 10:00am - 12:00pm (The Spot‚ Basement Theatre) First five lectures (on stocks) given by Dr Joachim Inkmann Consultation time: Fridays‚ 1:00pm – 3:00pm Remaining six lectures (on bonds) given by Professor Rob Brown Consultation
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INTRODUCTION Performance appraisal has been one of the most-debated management practices for several decades. It has generated a wide variety of viewpoints. There are those who see performance appraisal as making an important contribution to human resource management‚ in that organizations require systematic information on how well employees are performing in their jobs as a key element in ensuring that human resources are used as effectively as possible. Employees at all levels experience a need
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Performance Appraisal Any procedure that involves: 1. Setting work standards 2. Assessing the employee’s actual performance Relative to those standards: 3. Providing feedback to the employee with the aim of motivating him or her to eliminate performance deficiencies or to contribute and continue to perform above par Why Assess/Appraise Performance? 1. To provide feedback about strengths and weaknesses 2. To distinguish between individuals in allocating rewards 3. To evaluate and profile
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place‚ organizations are dedicated to continual individual and organizational improvement. Performance appraisal is considered to be an important tool in accomplishing this improvement. In a study conducted by the American Productivity and Quality Center and Linkage Incorporated several organizations declined to participate in performance appraisal research as they believed their performance appraisal system to be a source of competitive advantage. One executive compared the revealing of his organization’s
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Brailsford 4e: Solutions Manual Chapter 1 The investment decision Learning objectives After the completion of this chapter‚ the reader should be able to: ● understand the nature of an investment ● describe the key steps in the investment process ● recognise the major investment asset classes ● understand the role and function of financial markets ● understand the concept of return‚ and be able to distinguish between realised returns and expected returns ● understand the relationship between
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An advertisement taken from the September 9‚ 2002 People magazine issue uses the straight sell and educational technique to encourage people to buy a digital watch. This article describes an atomic digital watch that is controlled by radio and automatically reads the official standard frequency and time transmitter in North America. The radio signal gets the time from the most accurate clock in North America‚ which is based in Colorado. In Colorado‚ the United States Government has an F-1 Fountain
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“Performance appraisal is the process through which employee performance is assessed‚ feedback is provided to the employee‚ and corrective action plans are designed” (Youssef‚ 2012). So basically‚ a performance appraisal is the process of evaluation workers’ performance in correlation with previously determined standards of the organization. Performance appraisals are one way of giving employees feedback about their performance at work; they record the employee’s performance to date‚ their potential
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analysis of credit appraisal system with reference to Axis Bank. Axis banks one of private sector banks in India‚ which provides loans and advances when it is required by individuals or companies and accepts the deposits from the public. while providing loans advances to the public it faces number of problems like : * Of interest loans * Default interest security inadequate OBJECTIVES: * To study the credit appraisal methods. * To study existing credit appraisal system . * To understand
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money in a right way. The idea behind unit trust is the better investment through collective investing.
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Investment Trusts Trading At Discount TOPIC # 3 Introduction According to Cheng et al. (1994‚ p.813)‚ ‘an investment trust company (ITC) is a UK public limited company‚ the business of which consists of investing its funds mainly in securities‚ with the aim of spreading investment risk and giving members of the company the benefit of the results of the management of its funds.’ In the UK‚ investment trusts started to form as early as the mid 1800s and helped small investors to diversify
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