Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis

Banking Activity The banking business has significantly evolved. It’s an activity rapidly integrating into universal service strategies, where financial activity is now commonplace. This development highlights the merging and integration of entities. Retail banking (private clients, small businesses, shops, etc.) and wholesale banking, which includes corporate banking (dealing with large companies), merchant banking (specializing in global business), and institutional banking (serving public bodies)

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Company Financing and Resource Allocation

Profit Allocation

Company profits, derived mainly from social contributions and undistributed profits (specifically reserves), are allocated through the following steps:

  1. Proposal: Administrators propose the application of results.
  2. Resolution: The general meeting of shareholders approves the proposal.
  3. Agreement: Administrators and the general meeting agree on interim dividend payments.

Profit allocation options include:

  • Legal Reserves: Mandatory for corporations, set at 10% of annual profit up to 20% of
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Financial Obligations and Accounting Principles

Financial Obligations of the Company: Annual Accounts

Definitions

Accounting System: Organized information based on a development and classification process that considers economic events.

Basic Functions of an Accounting Information System:

  • Identify economic events.
  • Rate the accounts.
  • Annotate accounting records.
  • Prepare reports for accounting decisions.

Accounting information is relevant to managers, partners/owners, the State, workers, suppliers, creditors, and lenders.

Heritage

The set of quantifiable

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Market Dynamics and Economic Indicators

Item 6: Market Concepts

Market Characteristics

  • Concentration: Absence of dominant businesses or vendors.
  • Price Influence: Perfectly competitive (no influence) vs. imperfectly competitive (significant influence).
  • Homogeneity: Interchangeable products in a homogeneous market.
  • Competition Intensity: Level of competition among sellers and trade policies.
  • Transparency: Buyer’s access to transaction price information.
  • Entry/Exit: Ease of entering or leaving the market.

Market Types

Perfect Competition

All goods

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Understanding Economic Policies and Public Finances

Economic Policies

Economic policies are actions taken by public administrations to improve the economic situation. These policies fall into several categories:

  1. Fiscal Policy: Utilizes public income and expenditure.
  2. Monetary Policy: Manages the money supply.
  3. External Policy: Handles international economic relations.
  4. Incomes Policy: Aims to control income earned by economic actors.

Fiscal Policy

Fiscal policy uses government revenue and spending to achieve economic goals.

Types of Fiscal Policy Instruments

  1. Discretionary
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Marketing Principles and Strategies

Marketing Principles

What is Marketing?

Marketing is the process of creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers while managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. It involves understanding consumer needs and wants, developing products and services that meet those needs, setting the right price, promoting the offerings effectively, and ensuring they are available to the target market.

Key aspects of marketing:

  • Researching consumer behavior
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