Barclays bank: Strategic management
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
Barclays is a British bank based in London UK and is over 100 years old. Its history began in 1896 when several small London banks decided to join their forces to form a new bank that takes the name of Barclays & Company. In this area, it represented 182 new bank branches, now it has 4800...
Analyzing financial assignments
Case study - 14 pages - Finance
Current Assets: The current assets are coming from three mains accounts in balance sheet of the financial year of a company. Indeed, the current assets show us a picture of the financial state of the company at the end of this year: -At first the amount of cash or in other words the money earned...
Case study: France telecom
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
The French government created France Telecom in 1988. The company was privatized in 1997, and in the following year lost the state monopoly as the telecommunications industry opened up to competition. Given the context, the company then began to expand through a number of partnerships and...
Financial analysis of the French company Carrefour
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
Carrefour SA is a France-based company that is engaged in retail distribution. It was founded in 1959 and opened its first supermarkets and hypermarkets in France in the 1960s. During the following two decades Carrefour expanded in Europe (UK, Italy) and widened its service range (consumer...
Financial analysis of Microsoft
Case study - 30 pages - Finance
Microsoft, a global company in the informatics system, was founded in 1975 by two American students, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Microsoft hires almost 80000 people in more than 100 countries. Its most important activity is to develop informatics system for computers with revenues worth 70...
The identification and management of financial risks
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Finance
Financial risk exposure to adverse events that erode the profitability of the company and may in, extreme circumstances,lead to the collapse of the case. They may be doubtful, unfavorable changes in exchange rates, dependence on one supplier, the loss of a major customer, the loss of foreign...
Financial reporting: The new conceptual framework
Worksheets - 2 pages - Finance
The current framework was approved in July 1989, and was adopted on April 2001 by the IASB. It sets out the concepts concerning the "preparation and the presentation of financial statements" for users external to the company. However, during these last two decades, the market, the business...
Financial analysis: Case LVMH
Dissertation - 4 pages - Finance
LVMH is the world's leading brand in the luxury sector. It is based in Paris and possesses more than 60 sub companies which include Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Christian Dior perfumes, Guerlain. Each company functions more or less autonomously. These companies operate in five major activities that...
Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...
Strategy marketing of the companies Carriere and Nivert
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
The two companies in this study are quite similar. The family canneries were created centuries ago in the Loire Valley. They preserve the same type of vegetables, and cater to the same type of customers. Their production methods differ and are targeted towards the upstream market. The company...
Financial statement of the Nestle group
Case study - 14 pages - Finance
A financial analysis aims to make an assessment of the financial position, market position and performance of a company in order to analyze the possible problems, make recommendations and to inform both the internal (staff, manager) and external stakeholders (investors, general public) of the...
Analysis of the results of the Volkswagen automobile Company
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The automaker Volkswagen's range of activities includes the design, manufacturing and marketing of automobiles. This division includes the brands Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamborghini, Scania, Audi, Skoda, Seat and Bugatti. The finance division is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group and Volkswagen...
Analysis of Pernod-Ricard
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
In this document, we will develop the various aspects of Pernod-Ricard with particular emphasis on the security industry. This company was chosen because it is listed on the CAC 40, and it represents an interesting topic in its evolution and its various changes and finally it affects us, because...
Is the Subprime crisis a financial or global crisis?
Essay - 25 pages - Finance
Was the subprime crisis predictable? Some analysts predicted it in 2005 as a continuation of a long boom, during which loans to U.S. households rose sharply. Now the U.S. Federal Reserve (FED), led for over 20 years by Alan Greenspan takes a systematic approach to support the banking crisis stock...
Money laundering in the financial community: one of the dark sides of globalization
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
Economically, globalization may appear beneficial in that it enhances trade between men and generates growth. Many of its adverse effects are, however, the game of criminal organizations. Indeed, with the rise of movements of people, goods and capital, globalization tends to increase the capacity...
Does IFRS enhance the presentation of financial statements?
Essay - 14 pages - Finance
The international financial environment is constantly changing ever since the International Financial Reporting Standards [International Financial Reporting Standards] (IFRS) have been implemented. Moreover, the unprecedented financial scandals of recent years have further accelerated the...
The expansion of Clarins in India
Case study - 18 pages - Finance
The Clarins group was created in 1954 by Jacques Courtin-Clarins. It is a public company with a supervisory board and a Board of Directors, with a capital of around 325 million Euros divided into 40.6 million shares. In the beginning, Jacques Courtin first opened a beauty parlor in Paris. He...
Internationalization with a concrete example of the IKEA group
Case study - 70 pages - Finance
In specialty marketing and strategy management, in order to acquire the basic knowledge necessary for any manager, we studied the strategic concepts and phases of internationalization of a large group of Sweden: IKEA. Thus, by using personal research and theoretical concepts seen in class, we...
Report on the Italian taxation
Essay - 14 pages - Finance
Faced with economic developments and globalization, it became common to see companies in different countries better meeting the demands and also strive hard in order to save some money. The establishment of French companies is easier in Europe because of the existence of certain conventions...
Diagnosis of the Credit Management
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
The business center of Credit Agricole has enabled one to appreciate the concept of credit risk business, when the bank decided to support the company by funding needs for its operations, and on the other hand when, it decided to withdraw in order not to pursue a policy of support to ailing...
Study of the LVMH group
Case study - 21 pages - Finance
LVMH group, founded in 1987 by the merger of Moet Hennessy and Louis Vuitton is the world leader in luxury, with a unique portfolio of over fifty brands. There are more than 60,000 employees, nearly 1700 stores across the world, a turnover of 910 million euros in 2005. It is partly for these...
Impact of standards of IAS/IFRS in the financial communication
Essay - 13 pages - Finance
The advent of international accounting standards of IAS / IFRS as a reference system leads to a revolution in the world of business and communication thereof. International standards have a privilege over the economic approach to business, and are not historical as is often the case in French...
Report of training course at Deloitte
Essay - 39 pages - Finance
The author of this article was hired within the audit firm of Deloitte Consulting in Neuilly sur Seine. The decision to integrate in the firm to start on the career had been motivated by several factors. First, the undeniable reputation of the firm, coupled with financial education imparted by...
L'Oreal Group: Economic and Financial analysis
Case study - 55 pages - Finance
The L'Oreal group, created in 1909 as a small family business, has grown exceedingly since its IPO (initial public offering) on October 8, 1963. Held by the Bettencourt family (27.5%) and Nestle (26.4%), the Group is now a part of the CAC 40. World leader in cosmetics, L'Oreal has a...
Evaluation of the plan of Employee Stock Option of L'Oreal Group
Case study - 18 pages - Finance
The L'Oreal group was initially started in 1909 in a small family business, and initiated its IPO on October 8, 1963. Held by the Bettencourt family to the tune of 27.5% and 26.4% by Nestle, the group is now a component of the CAC 40. As a world leader in cosmetics, L'Oreal has a...
Financial Analysis - Vinci & Bouygues
Thesis - 20 pages - Finance
The following report presents the financial statements of two leading French construction groups: Bouygues and Vinci. With the help of several economic and financial metrics, we will analyze and assess the companies' strengths and weaknesses and give an objective opinion to potential...
The introduction of Islamic banking in France: A research on the potential market for retail Islamic banking
Dissertation - 37 pages - Finance
This study provides an assessment on the current problems and progresses made in France for the introduction of Islamic banking into its economy and contains an evaluation and an analysis of the potential market for Islamic retail banks in France. The research is divided into two distinct...
Empirical investigation on the determinants of corporate dividend policy. Sectors considered: 'Food and drugs retailers' and 'Health care equipment and services'
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
The Corporate Dividend policy, also called the Dividend Puzzle (Black, 1976) has always beensubjected to a lot of studies since, at least, the paper of Modigliani and Miller in 1961. The work ofthese authors stated that, in a frictionless world, when the firm has a constant investment policy,its...
Financing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in Morocco
Thesis - 17 pages - Finance
The early 80s was one of the most difficult periods for the Moroccan economy. This period was marked by a deterioration of the internal and external balances. This was partly due to the structural weakness of the Moroccan economy. Some of the causes for the structural weaknesses were: the...
Why does the U.S. government keep urging China to revalue its currency?
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Finance
On September 23, 2010, President Obama increased pressure on China to immediately revalue its currency, devoting most of a two-hour meeting with China's prime minister Wen Jiabao to the issue and sending the message if 'the Chinese don't take actions, we have other means of protecting US...
