SHORT ANSWER. Write a short answer to explain the following State the Rate of Return rule for making investments This is identified as an essential rule of making investment. It note that an investor ought to make an investment where the rate of return is larger than the prospective cost of capital. Essentially, CFI (2022) note that the required rate is the minimum acceptable compensation for the investment’s level of risk. This is hence a core aspect in the corporate finance and equity...

Chapter 4- The Value of Common Stocks Question 1: Understanding of Earnings Per Share (EPS) According to Investopedia (2021), earnings per share is used in comparing earnings of various organisations. To obtain this ratio, it is calculated as an organisation profit divided by the outstanding shares of its common stock. Hence, the outcome evidence on the organisation profitability. Hence, the higher the EPS value, the higher the profitable the organisation. For the investors, they need ...

Chapter 4: The Value of Common Stocks Number 1 Earnings per ratio (EPS) entails the firm’s profit divided by the outstanding shares of the common stock in a specific duration. The figure or the answer indicates the organisation’s profitability. EPS also entails the amount of money that the company makes for every share of its stock. Besides profitability, it is applied to assess the firm’s value. A high EPS indicates the more profitable a company is, which is essential for the investors w...

The Economics of Dividends Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction. 3 2.0 Defining Dividends. 3 2.1 Relationship Between Dividends and Stock Prices. 3 3.0 Cash and Stock Dividends. 4 3.1 Reasons for Giving the Types of Dividends. 4 4.0 Dividend Yield and Dividend Payout Ratio. 4 5.0 Buying Shares of Firms that Pay Dividends or Buying Growth Stocks 5 6.0 Conclusion. 5 References. 6 1.0 Introduction This report entails the economics of dividends. Critical areas in t...

Case#2: Is there an Ethics of Writing Papers? For the case shared, it delves on an evaluation of the different types of plagiarism currently existing in the academic world. This is with the ethical nature of these plagiarism issues noted. Through a reference on the 2010 survey report highlighting that upto 43,000 high school learners use internet wrongly leading to plagiarized assignments, a relevant finding has been obtained. Albeit the scope of seriousness of the plagiarism offence in any ...

Driving the Future: How Autonomous Vehicles will Change Industries and Strategy Question 1: Thoughts on the trend towards autonomous vehicles (AV); Decisive And Irreversible; reasons As evidenced in the provided case study, the Autonomous Vehicles (AV) represent a modern innovation which have broad implication in societal practices. In particular, they ease human motion and also sustainability in the environment of operations. The irreversible and decisive nature of the autonomous vehicle...

Essay Question #2 Negative Consequences of Entrepreneur’s Strong Internal Locus of Control Entrepreneurs are defined in Brown et al. (2018) as possessing of immense internal locus of control. Considering the current module notes, locus of control is applied in defining the scope in which a person agree/believe with a holistic control of their future or another person controlling this. A case example is where a person is experienced operating in a leadership position, there are people la...

LIST OF CASE QUESTIONS  Case #5 - Fonderia Di Torino S.P.A Questions for Case Preparation.  The following questions will help you in the preparation and analysis of this case. Use these questions as a guide in your study of the case. However, do not limit yourselves to these questions only, but rather allow yourselves to expand your thinking and analysis of this case. Please assess the economic benefits of acquiring the Vulcan Mold-Maker machine. What is the initial outla...

Did Barker have the right people in the right roles on the executive teams? If not, what should be changed? Yes As evidenced in the case study, the executive members had been identified as passionate, entrepreneurial, knowledgeable, competent, self-motivated and dedicated. This is while being super-talented in all their roles, passion-oriented and loyal to the organisation. This is affirmed by Arcot and Gröschl (2019) which note that the determinants of executive teams being appropriate...

Case #3, Ethics After an oil Spill Question 1: Motivation of the Company Decision to offer the community $5,000 to hire its own expert? Why community was insulted and recommendations as a company local manager As an ethical best practice, organisations operating in different sectors must appreciate wrong doing and own up to their mistakes. To support this, Yang (2017) which had focused on a similar phenomenon of China oil spills core findings were obtained. The report found that there is ...