Microsoft's Failed Attempt to Acquire Yahoo
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Finance
When Microsoft made its public bid on February 1st 2008, it surprised many investors. Even if Microsoft's interest in Yahoo had been rumored for a while, Yahoo was actually facing hard times. With the value of Yahoo's stock declining over the last few months, restructuration and lay-offs were...
Financial Management : EADS
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Finance
The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company or the EADS was created by the combined will of several states to be competitive in the space and aeronautics sector. Yet, at the beginning of the 1990s, many concentrations were developed on the American market like Northrop and Grumman which...
Mergers and Acquisitions
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Finance
The acquisition of a company involves several significant steps that one must assess in order not to fail and lose money in the process. This is the case of David Kuchen, a 30 year-old graduate from a top MBA school, who is looking for a business to acquire or some other related opportunity. He...
EADS : a cross cultural merger
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Finance
Since the early 1980s, mergers and acquisitions have been developing in Europe and worldwide. After the dramatic increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s leaves its mark by rapid cross-border connections and increased significant value of...
Northern Rock Bank: an english exemple of the sub-prime mortgage crisis
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Finance
One of UK's largest mortgage lenders is The Northern Rock. Northern Rock has become the highest profile (UK based) victim of the fallout from the global credit crunch. The reference to the credit crunch is the one which stemmed from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US. The Bank of England...
Mergers and acquisitions: examples of GDF/Suez, Air France/KLM y Thomson/Reuters
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Finance
?GDF/SUEZ' is the famous French energy provider group which specialized in the transportation and distribution of natural gas. Since the invention of the European energy market, GDF has diversified itself on the electricity market area by developing and creating offers to provide and supply...
Case study: Southwest Airlines and United Airlines
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Finance
In 1998, the US airlines carried a record 551 million passengers . At that time, the whole industry was in pretty good shape. Unfortunately, many things have changed since then. The 2001 terrorist attack on the twin towers has marked a turnaround in the industry and especially in the United...
Evaluation of the security transaction, the consistency of the portfolio construction and management with client's profile
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Finance
This year, Pro Fund is very proud to have a new client, Mr Lucent who is 47 years old. He sold his firm during the summer and received 1,000,000€ for it. He doesn't really need this money but he wanted to have a new challenge in another sector. He wants to keep the money for the future...
Financial management: Bic
Étude de cas - 20 pages - Finance
The year was very important for BIC Group, with an increase in the challenges of the global economic, from raw material price increases to currency fluctuations. BIC is actually gaining market share in highly competitive categories. And also, it launched the first disposable phone in France. That...
Is the CAPM a valid model for small investors?
Étude de cas - 31 pages - Finance
The CAPM is one of the most famous theories of finance. It was developed by William Sharpe in 1964 with the help of others known researchers. This theory is based on the relationship between risk and return and permits us to calculate an expected return of an investment with few variables....
Modelling the interest rate risk management with portfolio selection: the case of Crédit Foncier de Monaco
Étude de cas - 40 pages - Finance
Since the primary activity of banking is the intermediation between borrowers and lenders, its core business is the transformation of collected deposits into distributed loans. This process generates a net interest margin in the profit and loss statement but engenders financial risks in the...
The value of the Chinese Renminbi (RMB), its management and risks associated with investing in China
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Finance
Ever since China adopted its Open Door policy, it has received unparalleled attention from international scholars. In recent years, this has been evident with respect to the exchange rate regime that China has applied. At first, the policy was lauded because it helped China steer the dire waters...
The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Finance
“Where businesses cannot develop, countries cannot flourish. Let us use this International Year of Microcredit to put millions of families on the path to prosperity. I extend my gratitude to the nation and people of Bangladesh for helping to show us the way.” the former UN general...
Michelin : financial case study
Étude de cas - 14 pages - Finance
The world tire market was equal to 80 billion dollars in 2005. That is to say that each year more than 1 billion tires are sold for cars and light trucks. 75% of the sales are for European, North American and Asian countries. Michelin is the leader of this market in those areas because it deals...
Managerial finance, Tesco - publié le 12/06/2008
Étude de cas - 25 pages - Finance
Tesco Plc. is the biggest retailer by sales in U.K (T.N. Sofres, 2012). Its market share has grown since 2010, 30.6 to 2012, 31.5, through 2011, 30.9 (Tesco, 2012). The company recorded revenues of £64,539 million during the financial year ended February 2012, an increase of 13.1 from 2010...
When a famous bank ( Société Générale ) is plunged into the world's largest financial fraud ever known by a simple junior trader
Étude de cas - 16 pages - Finance
In January 2008, the financial world was disrupted by the world's largest financial fraud case known to date. The famous French bank, Société Générale, recorded a loss of 5 billion euros due to false positions taken by a junior trader, Jérôme Kerviel. To fully appreciate how he did this, it's...
Accounting and finance report: the case of a pharmaceutical business
Étude de cas - 26 pages - Finance
Easter Gate Scientific Supplies Inc. is a major global supplier of instruments equipment and services to the scientific community with a 17.5% market share of the global market, making it the largest business in the industry. E.G is pursuing a strategic growth, seeking to increase its market...
The workings of mergers and acquisitions
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Finance
The fever of mergers and acquisitions reigns over the big, world companies (American, European etc.). Billions of dollars are exchanged every day from hand to hand. Oil, Hi-tech, pharmacy, banks, insurance, aeronautics, everywhere companies are merging. To be efficient a merger must bring some...
Gus Van Sant vs. Johnny Depp
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Finance
I am the new Chief financial officer of a US film studio and i have to make recommendations on four projects in order to produce a profitable movie. Firstly, i am going to calculate Net Present Value for each scenario because i have to make a selection. Indeed, i must determine the negative and...
Reporting analysis: Daimler-Chrysler (1998-2006)
Étude de cas - 32 pages - Finance
We assume for the analysis of the group that the impact of IFRS in year 2004 is insignificant given that IFRS and US GAAP are closed. Moreover a complete analysis was impossible given that we didn't have all the figures before 2004. From 1998 to 2006 we can see that inventories increased from...
LEGO Group vs. MATTEL Inc.
Étude de cas - 19 pages - Finance
The gross profit margin ratio measures the profitability (or gross profit margin) that is generated from each dollar of sales. Profit margin is very useful when comparing companies in similar industries. A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control over its...
The ethical problems linked to hostile acquisitions ? Example of Mittal/Arcelor
Étude de cas - 17 pages - Finance
Since 2004, I have been particularly interested in finance and more precisely in the 'stock market world'. This is why I wanted a topic related to finance. My topic can be summarized in this sentence, 'The ethical problems linked to hostile acquisitions'. Instead of acquisitions,...
Financial Advertising
Étude de cas - 18 pages - Finance
Financial advertising generally refers to two different topics. Indeed, on one hand, it concerns the financial information published by big companies specialized in different branch industries,and, on the other hand, the advertising made by specific financial businesses such as banks, or...
Strategies of expansion at the time of deceleration: The case of LVMH
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Finance
The year 2004 represented one of the best year that the world economy has experienced since the beginning of the millennium. Indeed the growth of the Gross World Product (GWP) has increased by 4 per cent in 2004 compared to only 2.8 per cent in 2003. However this high rate of growth in 2004 can...
The Kent-Smirnoff Project
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Finance
In his big building of Metropolis, Clark KENT is working on the last reports of his latest foreign investments, when he receives a call from Igor Smirnoff, an old friend from HEC Paris. Igor owns a foodstuff distribution network in Russia, and offers Clark to enter into a new business. He is...
Virgin Mobil's proposed takeover by NTL
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Finance
NTL proposed a £871 m takeover of Virgin mobile but was rejected, then a second proposition was made at £961 m. On the 3rd of April they announced a total of $1.66 billion for Virgin Mobile. The negotiation will be ready to receive both cash and NTL shares in a deal. Virgin Mobile will have a...
The case of H&M and inditex
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Finance
The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) dates back its formation to 1973. It was however restructured in 2001 when the name was changed to ?The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)'. The IASB is an independent private sector body. The prime objective of the IASB is...
France Telecom - Company analysis
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Finance
France Telecom is a communications access provider offering customers access through multiple platforms: France Telecom has its presence in four business sectors. It is the first telecommunication service provider in France. (under the brand France Telecom). It is also the first mobile service...
Managerial accounting: Decathlon
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Finance
Since 1976, Decathlon has been the largest trade name in the distribution of sport articles in France and today is one of largest in Europe. Decathlon also kept in-house control of its logistic and data-processing activities. Michel Leclercq started this company in the year 1976. In 1986,...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of the...
