Essays about: "financial performance and statement analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words financial performance and statement analysis.
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1. Impact of the Capital Structure Choice on Firm Performance: A Quantitative Study of the Biggest Healthcare and Energy Companies in the USA
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Purpose The aim of this research paper is to provide valuable insights to existing theoretical foundation of choice of capital structure, and exploring the relationship between capital structure and firm performance through testing whether capital structure affects firm performance in the USA listed healthcare and energy companies. Theoretical perspective The presented theories cover different views on the preferred choice of capital structure and academics views on its effect on firm performance. READ MORE
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2. Deep Learning Approach for Time- to-Event Modeling of Credit Risk
University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistikAbstract : This thesis explores how survival analysis models performs for default risk prediction of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) and investigates when survival analysis models are preferable to use. This is examined by comparing the performance of three deep learning models in a survival analysis setting, a traditional survival analysis model Cox Proportional Hazards, and a traditional credit risk model logistic regression. READ MORE
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3. “Technology can always crash; pen and paper will always work.” : The Internet of Things in the Swedish Hockey League
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, InformatikAbstract : Background: Internet of Things is one of the most important areas of future technology and countless of industries are directing attention towards it. IoT has now started to appear in the sport industry. One sport that has not been investigated to the same extent within the terms of IoT is ice hockey. READ MORE
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4. Assessing materiality of sustainability issues and their financial impact from an investor perspective. A study in analyzing materiality as a sector-specific issue, applied to the Swedish Textile and Apparel Industry.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Background & Problem: Based on the assumption that sustainability efforts hinder the objective of profit maximization, companies have been thought to lack incentive for conducting their operations in a sustainable manner. There is however an increasing amount of stakeholder demand for corporate sustainability. READ MORE
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5. Do not Throw the Baby out with the Bath Water. An Analysis of the Potential Effects of the Legal Measures Adopted in the EU and the US in Response to the Proliferation of High Frequency Trading
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Following the recent expansion of High Frequency Trading and other types of Algorithmic Trading, the financial markets law of the EU and the US has seen the introduction of numerous new rules, all of which have been adopted within a rather tight timeframe. The main purpose of these measures is, and has been, to counter the chaos allegedly characterising markets. READ MORE
