The Financial Detective‚ 2005 proportion Financial characteristics of companies vary for many reasons. The two most promi_ nent drivers are industry economics and firm sfategy. Each industry has a financial norm around which companies within the industry tend to operate. An airline‚ for example‚ wourd naturary be expected to have a high of fixed assets (airplanes)‚ manufacturer would be expected to have a lower gross margin than a pharmaceutical manufacturer because commodities such as
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The Financial Detective Kyle Cornelius This case set contains information for two separate companies in eight different industries. Our task is to differentiate the companies based on what we know about them from a qualitative stand point and the financial data that we are provided. The first one we will examine is in the healthcare field. One firm develops and manufactures prescription drugs and sells them to healthcare professionals directly using sales people. They have several unique
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1. THE INVESTMENT DETECTIVE This case presents the cash flows of eight unidentified investments‚ all of equal initial investment size. The student’s task is to rank the projects. The first objective of the case is to examine critically the principal capital-budgeting criteria. A second objective is to consider the problem that arises when net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) disagree as to the ranking of two mutually exclusive projects. Finally‚ the case is a vehicle for introducing
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Tazrin Hossain UGC 112 Brian Campbell Detective Notes # 1 Arana Xajilá‚ Plague in Central America (1519-1560) The document‚ written by Arana Xajilá in 1519‚ illustrates for the reader the lasting impact and implications the plague had to the Cakchiquels tribe and the reader can then infer how the plague paved for the Spanish conquest of what is now present day South America. Arana Xajilá‚ Plague in Central America is a first person account of Arana Xajilá (also known as Francisco Hernàndez)
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The Financial Detective 1. Health Products: The first firm is company A and the second firm is company B because company B has a higher gross profit and higher intangibles as seen in the financial data. This is due to the additional costs and expenses company A has in comparison to company B. 2. Beer: The first firm is company C and the second firm is company D because company C has higher fixed assets and company D has higher gross profit as seen in the financial data. This is due to firm C owning
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Case Study: The Investment Detective Primary consideration is the capital availability. If the firm has unlimited access to capital and no other investment options‚ Net Present Value would become recommended quantitative method. On the other hand‚ if the time horizon and payback period matter‚ the company should use Internal Rate of Return Calculation. 1. Looking at the cash flows doesn’t really say much. The assumption is that the firm is in the business to make profit. Profit is equal return
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mythology of detectives‚ criminals‚ police‚ and suspects in a classic form that is almost pure mystery. Edgar Allen Poe first noticeably expressed the traditional detective story in the 1840s‚ but it did not become a widely popular genre until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This rise in popularity of the detective story coincided with the success of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes is widely regarded as the most famous of all fictional detectives and is
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The Financial Detective‚ 2005 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with the financial profile derived from the ratios. The primary objective of this case is to introduce students to financial ratio analysis—in particular‚ the range of ratios and the insights each one affords. This case presumes that students have already been introduced to
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The Ladies Detective Agency- by Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe 1948. Smith’s first year as a student was in Botswana but then moved to Scotland and was educated at law school. Today he is professor in Medical Law and writer to several world-famous novels‚ including the series about Mma Ramotswe. Smith has been teaching at universities in several African countries‚ including Botswana‚ where he has lived for some time. The Ladies Detective Agency is the first
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First we will analyze the first industry presented in our case‚ the health products. Company A and B of the health products industry have a different scope in terms of their customer and market base. Company A is the world’s largest prescription-pharmaceutical company and obviously has more market share than Company B. In fact at first glance‚ we can see that for most data of the assets‚ liability& Equity‚ and Income/Expenses section‚ company A values are higher than those of company B. Taking
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