Institutional Background and Investment Fundamentals
Institutional Background
Institutional Investment
Real assets: These determine the productivity and net income of the economy, such as land, machines, etc. Financial assets: These are claims on these Real assets.
Types:
- Fixed income: Payments fixed or determined by a formula
- Money market debt: Short term, highly marketable, and low risk
- Capital market debt: Long term and safe or risky
- Common stock: Equity or ownership in a company
- Derivatives: Value derives from prices of other securities such as stocks
Dignity or Hunger: The Crisis of Poverty in Britain
Introduction
The article entitled “Dignity or hunger is a hard choice´´ was published in The Guardian on February 28, 2014. This British left-of-center newspaper supports anti-conservative values and is usually opposed to liberal economic policies. It favors greater government intervention in the economy and has moral and ethical interests. These sympathies are evident in the article in which the author, Jonathan Freedlan, a British journalist, exposes a critical analysis about the way the welfare
Read MoreAnalysis of Competitive Forces in Key Industries
ELECTRIC SECTOR
1) Competitive Forces:
a) Number of Competitors: Monopolistic activity and competition (generalization and marketing). The CNE: regulator, the REE: Gestro transport network, OML: wholesale market operator. Because marketing is not new competitors enter. Endesa and Iberdrola, have high market power, dominating both production and distribution, allowing them to exert power over price. Very few consumers who have entered the free market and continue through rate.
b) Potential Clientele:
Read MoreInstitutional Factors Affecting Economic Development and Growth
Institutional factors affecting development:
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Education:
Improvements in education = improve well-being of the population: those educated and society as a whole. Leads to more efficient workforce + External benefits to society: ppl can read and communicate, and can discuss, which may lead to social change. Some benefits: Improve the role of women in society: women are empowered by education. Women should politically, economically and socially participate to increase development. // Improve the
Read MoreFinancial Accounting: Creditors, Debtors, and Commercial Operations
Creditors and Debtors for Trade Operations
I. OUTSOURCING
The process by which a particular company delegates the management or implementation of a business function to an external service provider. Invoices received by it will go to the (607). If parties are not yet billed, the (4009), and if they remain unpaid as at a (400).
II. FRAS. PTES. RECEIVING OR EXECUTE
The purchase and sale of stock to be registered at the time it shipped or received under the order, without waiting facruta wing.
(4009) Fras.
Read MoreEmployee and Self-Employed Business Expense Deductions
Transportation Expenses
- Expenses for auto, taxi, buses, plane, parking, and tolls
- Commuting expenses are generally not deductible, except for:
- Two jobs: commuting between jobs is deductible
- Miles greater than normal commuting are deductible
- Temporary assignments: all or nothing, temporary
Amounts Deductible
- Automatic mileage method (per diem rate):
- 56 cents/mile for business miles
- Tolls and parking fees
- Conditions for per diem rate usage:
- Self-employed: at most 4 cars used simultaneously
- No MACRS or 179 deduction