Investment Essays

In 1995, AB Capital and Investment Corporation was tapped by the UP Foundation, Inc. (UPFI) to manage an equity fund of 2.5 million pesos, which is a small portion of their 260 million peso endowment fund. The interests earned from the fund, which is used to support the professorial chair …

Case Summary: David Jacobs founded Spyder Active Sports in 1978 as a mail order producer of high-end ski sweaters. In the early days of the company, Jacobs sold his stock in Spyder to Hanson Industries. When Hanson faced financial distress in 1982, Jacobs was forced to join forces with his …

A firm must decide whether to make a component part in-house, or to contract it out to an independent supplier. Manufacturing the part requires a non-recoverable investment in specialized assets. The most efficient suppliers are located in countries with currencies that many foreign exchange analysts expect to appreciate substantially over …

Midland Energy Resources is a fairly successful global energy company which had been incorporated more than 120 years previously and in 2007 had more than 80,000 employees. It has three main operations, oil and gas exploration and production (E&P), refining and marketing (R&M), and petrochemicals. E&P is the most profitable …

Abstract Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client that aligns with its investment goals. Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. The assignment will cover the following …

One of the biggest ones was getting married and having 2 kids at a very young age. I would never regret my kids but at 22years old having 2 kids puts a lot of weight on pursuing my dreams to become a singer/song writer because I couldn’t focus on just …

With the High Performance Corporation Energy Gel case before us, we recommend to Florence Vivar, chief financial officer of HPC, that the company should not invest in the energy gel project. We came to this conclusion after amending the existing capital budgeting process, and assessing the opinions of Harry Wickler, …

Balance of Payment is the recording system of economic and financial flows that take place over a specified time period between residents and non-residents of a given country. The residents of a country compromise of the general government, individual, private and non- profitable bodies serving individuals and enterprises. The Balance …

Westlake Lanes is far from being one of Raleigh’s and the United States leading marketers of bowling. Shelby Givens, the new appointed general manager of Westlake, wondered if the company was on the right path. The imperative issues facing the general manager were, its sales revenue, expenditures and accounts payable …

According to a June 5, 2013 news article in the MSNBC Post, “China’s strength could become its weakness”, by John W Schoen talks about why China is imbalanced. China economy is based on very little regulations. China is trying to allow market forces to set interest and exchange rates and …