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    Role of Predictive analytics in Asset Optimization in Oil and Gas Industry In recent times, Predictive analytics has started to play an important role in asset optimization in various industries. One such industry which is highly asset intensive is the oil and gas industry, a capital intensive and equipment heavy industry with lot of scope for improvement in asset management, supply chain network optimization, and operational management with its multiple assets ranging from drilling rigs, wells in

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    Executive Summary This is a detailed report on the National Storage REIT, with key information regarding its history, location, property types and assets. By utilising tables and figures, it presents key information regarding the REITs major occurrences in the past year. Currently standing as the third highest major competitor in the storage industry, the pathways the National Storage REIT follows to achieve their strategy and goals are listed including the current financial standings of the company

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    Executive summary Recently, importance of intangible assets for a reporting entity has been increasing continuously. This report will discuss intangible assets with indefinite or infinite useful life and research and development expenditure in SEEK Ltd annual report 2014. This report will state the background of SEEK Ltd and the increasing importance of intangible assets. Furthermore, the disclosure of intangible assets and research and development expenditure will be revealed. Moreover, this report

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    definitions of assets are constantly expanding. According to the text book (Deegan, 2012, p. 67) “Defined in the AASB conceptual framework as a resources controlled by the entity as a result of past event and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow the entity”. In simply words, asset is a valuable item that can be control and have future economic benefits. For examples building, land, and equipments. This paper is going to talk about the definition of the assets, recognition of

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    Troubled Asset Relief Program Leroy Shepherd Jr. Webster University Basic Finance for Managers BUSN 5200 Instructor, David Fish Ed.D March 21, 2012 Troubled Asset Relief Program The Troubled Asset Relief Program as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was an initiative signed into law on October 3, 2008 by then President George W. Bush. TARP authorized the U. S Treasury to purchase up to $700 billion in assets and securities from financial institutions in a response

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    capital asset pricing model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and the Fama-French three factor model when estimating the cost of capital and explaining performance of investment portfolios. The CAPM model was developed by Sharpe (1964) to explain how capital markets set share prices. (Pike and Neale) In result of research by Sharpe (1964), Litner (1965) and Black (1972) the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) states “the relationship between beta (measure of volatility on portfolios/assets) and expected

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    “The Division of Foreign Assets Control was established in the Office of International Finance by a Treasury Department order in 1950, after People 's Republic of China entered the Korean War. On October 15, 1962, through a Treasury Department order, the Division of Foreign Assets Control became the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). ” The U.S. Department of the Treasury started administering the US economic sanctions against foreign states with the War against Britain in 1812, where Secretary

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    Introduction: Asset pricing takes a vital role in the literature of finance. It forms a cornerstone for participants trying to manifest intrinsic/predicted values/prices for assets. Since 1965, when Sharpe introduced his CAPM formula, the field of asset pricing had shifted to a new paradigm. The model of Sharpe suggested that market beta as a variable is sufficient to explain stock returns. Sharpe’s work was preceded by Markowitz (1959) portfolio theory, where the lack of computer power at that

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    Abstract: This thesis paper compares the in and out of sample predicative accuracy of 3 CAPM based models, “The Capital Asset Prising model” Sharpe (1964), “The Three Factor Fama-French Model” Fama-French (1993), “The Fama-French Five Factor Model” Fama-French (2013). The relationship of in-sample model strength to out-of-sample predictive accuracy is to be determined, by dividing each models portfolio into four segments, High Adjusted R2 , Medium Adjusted R2, Low Adjusted R2, and a random mixture

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    A REPORT ON Case Study on Measuring Intangible Assets – Indian Experience - 1 - BEYOND BALANCE SHEETS… Measuring Intangible assets- an Indian case study “Just as you can 't measure what you can 't describe, you can 't manage what you can 't measure...” While many companies have strived to differentiate their annual reports and make them informative, attractive and easy to read, most still take a rear-view-mirror approach, focusing almost exclusively on history and analyses of past performance

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