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Finance Analysis of Merck

September 29th, 2009 No comments

Introduction
The nature of financial analysis for a given company or industry has changed dramatically in the last few years. Due to both the exponentially increasing dynamic nature of business, as well as the greatly enhanced ability to gather a wealth of information, making decisions on the viability and stability of a company or industry has grown increasingly complex. One method in determining the overall health of a business is … Read the rest

ACS State and Local Solutions

September 9th, 2009 No comments

The objective of the research paper is to present ACS State and Local Solutions as an organization that can benefit from a change readiness assessment. The twenty first century points to a constant change, rapid growth, and to try to get as much business as possible, however constant search for more capital weakens and strengthens different areas of the organization.

Weisbord proposes his Six-Box model as a diagnostic framework for … Read the rest

Islamic Finance Essay

September 3rd, 2009 No comments

Islamic financial institutions now operate in over 75 countries. Their assets have increased more than 40-fold since 1982 to exceed $230 billion.

The first Islamic banks were created in the 1970s, at the time when the “aggiornamento” of Islamic doctrine on banking matters was taking shape. At the time, Islamic banks were typically commercial banks operating on an interest-free basis. Today, as a consequence of broad changes in the political-economic … Read the rest

Essay on Financial Managers

September 1st, 2009 No comments

The role of the financial manager is very crucial to an organization. They hold the most important ingredient of a company in the palm of their hands, management of cash flow of a company. Since financial managers can be found in almost every organization, it is important to understand their role in an organization. In this paper I will examine the role of the financial manager. I will further compare … Read the rest