Essays on Corporate Finance

I. INTRODUCTION The burgeoning economic growth that corporate India witnessed since the 1990s brought to the forefront the need for Indian companies to adopt corporate governance practices and standards, which are consistent with international principles. Industry groups, notably the Confederation of Indian Industries (“CII”), spearheaded...

Financial planning links the goals a business wants to achieve in the future and the resources it will need to achieve these goals. It is also concerned with evaluating the financial resource of a business. Financial management is about setting the goals throughout the business...

Convertible is a bond that is exchangeable at the option of the holder for the issuing firm’s common stock. Companies issue convertible debt is the decision to issue new equity, convertible and fixed income securities to raise capital money is managed by some factors. Their...

Of the indelible truths of the world, none are so ubiquitous as that of Greed. It has been this ancient vice which has both spurred and spurned Mann from ages untold. For Mann is a weak creature, a slave to his vices, even in the...

The divestiture is a strategy for the company to remove some of the assets under its current business portfolio. A divestiture often occurs when the business is underperforming. This helps to reduce the cost of operations, meeting the organizational efficiency and as such, the company...

Executive Summary Billabong international is being has a challenge of how to expand the company. With an impressive performance in the preceding five years which has been characterized by slow yet steady growth. The companys growth has been limited partly due to the small size...

Introduction Mergers or acquisitions have become a norm for companies aiming at growth. Various companies resort to mergers and acquisition, to form strategic alliances. In majority of cases the underlying reason for these is to guarantee long-term sustained achievement of “fast profitable growth” for the...

Equity crowdfunding Crowdfunding is a collective resource-pooling practice used to organizations that aggregate rather small amounts of capital in a limited time-frame from many individuals who share a common interest in a specific idea, project or business. It’s a form of alternative finance that operates...

Concerning my academic interests, I am genuinely passionate about the Finance and doing a major in Corporate Finance is my ambition. From my perspective, Corporate Finance provides methods to analyse complex corporate situations and develop the best strategy to maximize clients’ diverse objectives. Ultimately, these...

Financial tools – financial literacy Financial tools can be understood only when entrepreneurs are financially literate. By understanding the important five elements of finance an entrepreneur can be succeed which can be achieved only through financial literacy. Understanding the fundamentals of the financial tools that...

Profit is the lifeblood of every form of business, be it a sole proprietorship, partnership or a corporation. In its simplest form, profit is defined as “the money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and...

The secret of getting ahead is to get started. “Business” means all those human activities which are related to the production and distribution of goods and services with the object of earning profit. Every business enterprise whether it is carried on a small or a...

In context of corporate governance, there are two vital elements that needed to be maintained in order to ensure efficiency and transparency of organizational operations. These two elements are accountability and performance. Shareholder’s confidence is enhanced by good corporate governance practices. Thus, Good corporate governance...

This study examines the Adaptive Market Hypothesis is appropriate for the Chinese Stock Market by carrying out descriptive statistics and validating GS test, AQ test, AVR test including dynamic and static comparison, BDS test, and rolling window approach. In this study, the Chinese stock market...

The global financial system is one of the finest outer elements with a purpose to, in the end, impact your enterprise. Market variances in light of governmental issues, fear mongering attacks, wars and cash cheapening in the long run circulate down to maximum commercial enterprise...

In any investment, investors are seeking to obtain return and trying to get information from the future amount of profitability of companies. One of the most common methods to examine financial information is to prepare financial ratios. This study aims to find the variable with...