The primary objective of this paper is to provide small retail traders with a heuristic model in the form of a derivative trading strategy. It is an effort to design an easy and effective derivative trading strategy for retail traders who often lose money in the stock market as a result of...

Over the period, investment in mutual funds has played an important role in the financial market and its popularity has increased at a very fast rate. India has seen phenomenal growth in both the number and size of diversified equity mutual funds in recent years. The market associated with...

Capital structure is one of the most important decisions that every finance manager has to carefully take since it affects the value of the firm. As the objective of every firm is to maximize the shareholders' wealth, it should select such a financing-mix which facilitates the organization to...

Experts say that with Activity-Based Costing (ABC), enterprises were able to improve their efficiency and reduce the cost without sacrificing the value for the customer. Even after the strong advocacy in favor of ABC by Cooper and Kaplan and many others, its acceptance rates are not overwhelming...

Theoretically, a company needs to maintain a liquidity level that is not detrimental to its profitability. Empirical evidence shows a negative correlation between liquidity and profitability but a company cannot operate with zero liquidity in order to maximize its profits. Normally firms try to...

Theoretical and practical features of the widely used discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation approach are examined in depth in this paper. This research evaluates Exide Industries by using the DCF Valuation technique. It is widely accepted that the discounted cash flow approach is an effective...

The Economic Value Added (EVA) is the difference between the firm's after-tax return on capital and its cost of capital. It has received a good amount of interest in recent years.Description - Traditional approaches for measuring "Shareholders' Value Creation" have used parameters such as...