Financial Colsolidation at Fleet Financial and BankBoston
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A 9 page paper discussing the merger of New England's largest banking institutions and including a brief discussion of the trend of consolidation within the financial industry. Banking industry analysts watch the melding of the two dissimilar companies with interest and warnings of increased operations risk, but with optimism for the new organization's ultimate success. Individual investors and banking customers, however, are far less charitable and the Federal Reserve is watching the evolution with an eye toward ensuring that adequate competition exists in New England when the two entities combine to form the nation's eighth-largest bank. Fleet Financial will need to ensure that investors and customers are contented enough so that it maintains earnings; otherwise, the new organization could itself become the takeover target of a still-larger bank. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSfleet.doc

Financial Comparison of Three British Retailers
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A 4 page paper discussing the likely future performance of Britain’s Debenhams, using the performance of House of Fraser and Marks and Spencer for comparison. The paper provides 6 financial measures (EPS, current ratio, net profit margin, etc.) calculated from the three companies’ annual reports for 2002 and 2003. The discussion that follows cautions that assessment of any company must be made on the basis of more than only one or two financial ratios. Includes 1 table. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSfinCompUK.rtf

Financial Concerns Regarding Acquisitions
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This 8 page paper considers a possible acquisition of a leisure company (a case study supplied by the student and included in an appendix is used). The financial issues are considered including the reasons for the sale including a decrease in turnover in recent years and the measures to be taken in order to reduce risk. The bibliography cites 5 sources
Filename: TEaquist.wps

Financial Decisions
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This 10 page paper considers a case provided by the student. The company has two scenarios. With two production lines an offer has been made by a Japanese company to rent one for a fixed price, this is assessed in terms of the risk reduction against the weighted probability of the profit that will be created by that line if it is retained by the company. The second scenario looks at an opportunity of the company to purchase an identical company, and assesses if the purchase is worth the three million asking price. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
Filename: TEstarr1.rtf

Financial Decisions
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This 10 page paper shows the student how a complex business decision can be made. A printing company have to choose whether to publish a new magazine, and if they go ahead with different types of promotions which have different probabilities of sales levels. The paper shows how the results can be calculated by looking at different pricing options and different promotion options, using the level of contribution to assess the break even point and the potential profit. The best option for promotion and pricing plan are then used to assess if the project should go ahead. This information is then used to assess an offer to purchase the firm made by a rival compnay. All calculations are shown and a decision tree is shown.
Filename: TEppldec.rtf

Financial Forecasting for IVAX Corp
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This 7 page paper considers the company IVAX looking at its accounts from a security perspective and then goes on to look at potential forecasts for the company using the naive approach, the fundamental approach and trends analysis. The paper includes 4 graphs and the bibliography cites 7 sources.
Filename: TEivaxfr.wps

Financial Health at Dollar General
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A 5 page paper discussing the financial performance of Dollar General, the leading competitor in its category. Opening 2 stores daily, the company will have 7,400 stores open by the end of 2004. Despite its success, Dollar General does not appear to be managed closely enough. It has large cash reserves and no debt, but its current ratio is twice that which reflects optimal capital structure. Only 2 of its 4 primary product categories are successful across the chain, and it is woefully behind in implementation and use of technological tools. The company would be well advised to give more balanced attention to the stores it is now so adept at opening quickly. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSmgmtDollGen.rtf

Financial Hedging
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This 5 page paper discusses the concept of hedging inclusive of legal issues. Also discussed : under what circumstances the practice is most beneficial. . Financial hedging is the common practice whereby traders buy and sell a particular good or commodity in order to minimize loss which might be caused by price fluctuations or currency changes. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Hedg.wps

Financial Intermediaries
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This 7 page paper look at the different types of financial intermediaries. The benefits and disadvantages of tied agents and independent intermediaries are considered and examples given of the different aspects of each status. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
Filename: TEfinint.wps

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES AND WHY THEY EXIST
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This 2.5-page paper focuses on the business of financial intermediaries and their importance to the economy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MTfinter.rtf