UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES FACULTY OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS THE IMPACT OF MICRO FINANCE BANKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMES IN THE TAMALE METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY SINCE 2008. ALHASSAN SAWAL ABDUL-RAZAK (FAS/2016/08) JUNE 2012 DEDICATION I dedicate this work to my mother Iddrisu Sagyelpaga. i CERTIFICATION We certify that this work is being carried out independently by ALHASSAAN SAWAL ABDULRAZAK (FAS/2016/08) in the Department
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1 Development Banks: Their role an d importance for development C.P. Chandrasekhar Among the institutions whose role in the develo pment of the less developed regions is well recognised but inadequately emphasised are the development banks. Playing multiple roles‚ these institutions have helped promote‚ nurtu re‚ support and monitor a range of activities‚ though their most important function has been as drivers of industrial development. All underdeveloped countries launching on national
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HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and
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HBS Case: AQUALISA QUARTZ – SIMPLY A BETTER SHOWER. 1. (A) After spending 5.8 million developing the Quartz‚ the product is definitely worth the investment because (1) The Quartz is the product that answer directly to the customer needs and wants. Most consumers need and want the product that can fix the problems – poor pressure‚ fluctuations in pressure and tolerance in using. (2) Choosing a shower brand depends mostly on which brand plumbers are familiar to so with new technology of the
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with community factors because they don’t want to lose its employee just “high pay level” of competitor companies offering to the employee. MFS want to leave its employee not for pay level but other things such as team work cultures‚ individual development circumstance in MFS‚ and fitness between firm’s value and its employees. They assume that the employee who want to get high pay level could have possibility to turnover MFS when other company offer high pay level compared with MFS. Considering
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Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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1.i. Test Marketing Expense: These can be identified as sunk costs‚ using the with-or-without test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide
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during this fiscal year [2000]. Dollar General handled (SEC stated) freight charges as follows: (1) Expense $4M in the next fiscal year [2001] on a monthly basis (2) $1.3M moved to Dollar General ’s Misc. Accrued Liabilities Account (3) $2.7M to bank clearing account Total Reduction in COGS (from 1-3 above): The result of the above handling of freight charges would have reduced the COGS and increased Net Income. The effects of this are as follows: YE2000 Original NI 219.4 Restated
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1. Having in regard all the information that is given in the Case Study‚ what is‚ in your opinion‚ the best Investor/Partner choice for NatuRi Corporation? Is it the Angel Investor‚ the Strategic Investor‚ Waltham Partners or Westlake Partners? Please justify your answers. We are going to discuss each investor separately before coming to our conclusion. 1. The Angel Investor An angel investor bears extremely high risk and is usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds. Therefore
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