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What are some situations in which you would not expect employees personalities to influence their behavior?
What are the steps needed to conduct an individual pay review? What are the main schemes relating rewards to organizational performance?
What are the advantages and disadvantages for employers and employees of work-measured payment-by-result schemes?
What are the main aims of reward management? What is reward management? What is a reward system?
Discuss How Values and Ethics Relate to Organizational Behavior in Jamaican Organizations.
Many emerging economies have restrictions on capital outflows to protect their growth and stability.
Comment on the following statement: “Since coupon rates on convertible debt are low relative to straight debt, convertible debt is a cheap source of financing.”
Do companies typically have a substantial gap between their market value and their intrinsic value? Give reasons for your answer.
Certain agencies often categorize company shares as growth stocks or value stocks. What is the difference between a growth stock and a value stock?
What do executives believe are the benefits of issuing EPS guidance? Are these benefits actually realized by companies?
Describe the benefits of a scenario DCF valuation model. What factors should be considered when constructing scenario parameters?
Discuss the relative merits of including risk adjustments in cash flow or in discount rates—especially for high-growth companies in emerging markets.
To estimate the beta for a Brazilian telecommunications company, you have collected a sample of telecom peers in Latin America and Asia and peers.
How do you estimate the potential margin and capital turnover for a young, high-growth company? Are the company’s current margin and capital turnover relevant?
Last year, GrowthCo traded at $20 per share. Over the past 12 months, the company’s share price rocketed to $60 per share.
Describe how analyst projections of cyclical company profits compare with actual performance. What are the possible reasons for the deviation?
What are the potential reasons cyclical companies invest cyclically rather than countercyclically? When should companies invest?
Why should you estimate the value of a bank by employing the equity cash flow method, rather than the enterprise DCF models stressed throughout the text?
Define maturity mismatch. Why is maturity mismatch important for understanding a bank’s risk and analyzing its performance?
Discuss its potential for creating value based on the possible underlying sources of competitive advantage for each of these three business areas.
Why is it then important to analyze the adequacy of the bank’s current loan loss provisions?
Identify the value drivers embedded in a real option. What is each driver’s effect on the option’s value, and how might they interact?
Assume a company runs a plant for which the value one year from now will be either $1,000 if market growth is positive or $250 if market growth is negative.
Do firms involved in acquisitions do a better job of realizing cost savings or revenue improvements following an acquisition? Why?
Describe the circumstances under which the acquirer is better off paying in stock rather than cash. What are the implications for the acquirers.