Select a publicly traded firm of your choice that enjoys a large shareholder base. What challenges may this firm have encountered (or is likely to encounter) in terms of (a) incorporating ethics into financial management practices, and (b) maintaining/sustaining ethical practices in the face of internal or external (market) pressures? Frame your response relative to the financial manager's fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder's wealth.

You observe the stock returns on two publicly-traded commercial banks, Chase MadHattan (CMH) and Spitigroup (S). Their historical returns for the past three years are:

CMH: -30%, -45%,   15%;

S: -20%,   -30%,   5%.

Consider a portfolio that consists of 40% of CMH and 60% of S. Calculate the standard deviation of this portfolio. Answer as a percentage with two decimal places, as in 1.23%.

Financial ratios are essential to provide an accurate valuation of a firm. Select a publicly traded firm of your choice. Select one ratio each in the areas of (a) performance, (b) activity, (c) financing, and (d) liquidity warnings. Provide an evaluation of the selected firm's strengths and weaknesses. Based on the ratios you selected, how well does your chosen firm perform? Explain.

There are two important questions financial managers should ask:

• What level of assets are needed to operate?
• How to finance those assets or raise capital? (The firm can use equity or debt financing or combination of both.)

Select a publicly traded company (make sure your selected company is different than your classmates’) based in KSA and look (in terms of percentage) how it finances its operations using equity or debt financing.

In addition, in Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 stated SMEs (Small-Medium Size Enterprises) struggles to access adequate funding from the financial institutions. Offer two recommendations how this struggle is addressed and be in alignment with Saudi Vision 2030.

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1.One of the risks of borrowing money is changing interest rates. For example, if a company issues bond when the market rate is 7%, what happens if the market rates goes down while the bond are outstanding? Name some action a company could take to control this risk.

2.When the stock market is going up over a long period of time, investors can become complacent about the risks of being a shareholder. After the significant decline of the stock market in 2008, people have begun to rethink the risk involved in owning stock. What kinds of risks do the owners of publicly-traded companies face? What could you do, as an investor to continue to invest in the market but minimize your risk?

1.One of the risks of borrowing money is changing interest rates. For example, if a company issues bond when the market rate is 7%, what happens if the market rates goes down while the bond are outstanding? Name some action a company could take to control this risk.

2.When the stock market is going up over a long period of time, investors can become complacent about the risks of being a shareholder. After the significant decline of the stock market in 2008, people have begun to rethink the risk involved in owning stock. What kinds of risks do the owners of publicly-traded companies face? What could you do, as an investor to continue to invest in the market but minimize your risk?

                                                                       Assignment 1( New Version)

You have the following   data on quantity demand of commodity X and its price and other factors during 1991-2005:-

Based on the above data:-

1. Draw the relationship between Q & P?
2. Using the OLS, estimate the demand function in linear form.
3. Comments on the results by taking into account any prior expectations you have about demand functions.

      4) Compute the predictable value of the dependent variable & the residuals?

     5) How much the change in Px, Py and Expenditures ( M) explains the variations in Q?

       6) Interpret the empirical results of the estimated equation?

        7) Calculate demand elasticities at the mean.

        8) Construct a confidence internal at 95% of estimated own price elasticity at the

            mean   and in the year of 2005?

         10) Construct a confidence interval of the quantity demanded in the years 2005 and in

         the year 2008 when Px=7, Py=3.5 ,Expenditures =1900

A bond issued on February 1, 2004 with face value of $47400 has semiannual coupons of 4.5%, and can be redeemed for par (face value) on February 1, 2021. What is the accrued interest and the market price (the “clean” price) of the bond on November 15, 2006, if the bond’s yield on that date is to be 6.5%? (use actual/actual for accrued interest).

please show steps and formula, Im really lost. I have tried multiple times, and dont understand where i went wrong.