Academic papers on Accounting & Personal Finance

Time Value of Money
This 4 page paper looks at different aspects concerning the time vlaue of money. The paper explains interest rates and compounding, present value and future value of investments, opportunities costs, annuities and the rule of
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Forecasting
This 24 page paper looks at the importance of forecasting in a business environment and looks at a ranger of forecasting methods, explaining how they can be used. The paper starts with basic supply and demand forecasting and moves onto statistical...
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GDP Questions
This 3 page paper answers three questions concerning GDP. The first part of the paper looks at what is meant by GDP and how it is calculated. The second part looks at the drivers and the last part makes prediction for future GDP growth giving...
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Rondo Case; Additional Funds Needed
This 7 page paper looks at the projection for years 2006
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Financial and Managerial Accounting
This 5 page paper discusses the difference between financial and managerial accounting and the types of reports prepared by financial and managerial accountants; the types of business decisions that might be made using the two types of accounting;...
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Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization
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...
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Mortgage Backed Securities; Valuing with the Problem of Prepayment
Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) became a popular investment during the 1990
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IT Use in Hotels; The Impact on Room Rates
This 7 page paper considers the impact that the use of information technology (IT) in the hotel industry has and is still having on the prices or rates charged for rooms. The paper considers the benefits and the disadvantages and the way these have...
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Valuation of Rondo Securities
This 5 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student and values the securities on the balance sheet; the loan, the bonds and the common stock, using present value, net present value, yield to maturity, dividend discount model and CAPM....
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Effects of the Global Economy on the US Economy
A 10 page paper discussing how changes in the global economy affect the US. Though the transition is difficult and painful at times, it is likely that current difficulties of the US in global markets point to integration of the US into those...
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Apple Computers
This 5 page paper considers the history and development of Apple Computers and then examines the company
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Measuring Value in Publicly Owned Organizations
The way that value is measured in firms usually focuses on financial or economic measures. This 8 page paper considers the measurement of value in publicity owned organizations and whether traditional measures such as profit levels or market value...
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Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?
A 3 page paper discussing the operation and ethics of payday loan companies. The need for the existence of payday loan companies is regrettable, but the business can be expected to grow as the economy continues to favor greater numbers of...
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Cost of Capital at Rondo
This 5 page paper looks at a case study provided by the student and calculates the cost of debt, the cost of equity and then brings them together to calculate the total cost of capital. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Economic Bubbles
Economic or speculative bubbles have been seen over many centuries where investors seek to make a profit and assets become over valued. This 16 page paper looks at some of the bubbles that have impacted on the United States of America, starting wit...
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