Assessing Three Fast Food Companies; McDonalds, Yum Brands and Burger King Holdings
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This 84 page paper is an in-depth analysis of three companies all competing in the fast food industry; McDonalds, Yum Brands, owners of the Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell, and Burger King Holdings. The paper examines the corporate governance, looking at the CEO, the board of directors, the share voting and share ownership structure and the type of stockholder that have an interest or an influence. The assessment of risk and returns, looking at how the companies have performed on the stock market and using historical figures to create a beta as well as estimating the cost of capital, looking at investment returns and dividend policies and applying models of valuation. The bibliography cites 35 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessing Three Fast Food Companies; McDonalds, Yum Brands and Burger King Holdings

Assessing Two Companies; BMW and Fiat
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This 22 page paper examines two companies using a range of tools to assess which may be the best investment. The paper starts with the use of ratio analysis and then moves onto different share pricing tools such as the book value, dividend discounting model and the capital asset pricing model. The paper ten argues there are many non financial influences and examines the way the companies compete looking at their competitive advantage strategies and using Porters Five Forces model. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessing Two Companies; BMW and Fiat

Assessing Two Sets of Data
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This 3 page paper analyses two sets of data provided by the student. Each is a data set of amounts of commission earned by sales teams. The two sets of data are analysed looking at the range, median, mode and mean with the standard deviation. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessing Two Sets of Data

Assessing WACC; Case Study
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This 8 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student. An investment manager needs to estimate the cost of capital for Nike. The paper looks at why WACC is important, assessing the calculation that has been used in the case study using CAPM to estimate the cost of equity. After this new cost of capital figures are calculated with a different Capital Asset pricing Model (CAPM) calculation as well as using dividend discount model and capitalization rate to assess the cost of equity. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessing WACC; Case Study

Assessment of a Project
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This 9 page paper helps a student to assess a project. The paper starts out by calculating the cash flow and then looks at the NPV and how it will be impacted by different inflation rates and the impact of changing set up costs.
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Paper Title: Assessment of a Project

Assessment of Central Banks' Future Role
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A 3 page paper discussing the declining influence of central banks in the global economy dependent more on the movement of exchange rates than on actions arising from monetary policy. The paper uses an older (1997) article for comparison and assesses the statement in a 2004 context. It appears that the observations of the author of the primary article (Posen, 2004) are correct and that central banks – at least in developed nations – are facing a future of far less influence than in the past. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessment of Central Banks' Future Role

Assessment of Feasibility for a Project
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This 8 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student and undertakes a feasibility study looking at the income and expenditure to create a five year cash flow and then use a net present value (NPV) calculation to assess whether or not the proposal meets the assessment criteria. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessment of Feasibility for a Project

Assessment of the Rondo Calculations
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This 5 page paper considers the way in which calculation undertaken to help a student with a case study were in line with instructions given by a teachers and given preliminary results. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Paper Title: Assessment of the Rondo Calculations

Asset Allocation and EMH
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This 10 page paper is written in two parts. The first part (2 pages) considers asset allocation, what it is and how it can be used. The second part of the paper looks at efficient market hypothesis and examines if brokers or investors use this theory to help with their investments. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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Paper Title: Asset Allocation and EMH

Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization
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This 36 page paper considers the use of stochastic modelling in the determination of asset allocation. The paper considers multi-stage stochastic programming and stochastic dynamic programming by comparing this to other models that may be used in assessing the contents of investment portfolios. Other models considered include models with their origins in mean variance theory leading to CAPM, efficient market hypothesis and the Warren Buffet method. The bibliography cites 29 sources.
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Paper Title: Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization