Essays about: "Financial Distress"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 118 essays containing the words Financial Distress.

  1. 26. Goodwill Impairment and Earnings Management in the year of the pandemic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Christine Dicken; Oskar Unger; [2021]
    Keywords : Goodwill Impairment; Earnings Management; Discretion; IFRS 3; IAS 36; COVID-19; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of the research is to analyze managers’ use of accounting discretion in goodwill impairment losses of European firms in 2020 – a year of financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic – and whether the discretion employed reflects earnings management. Methodology: The difference in earnings between impairers and non-impairers is analyzed by employing a Mann-Whitney U-test and an independent T-test. READ MORE

  3. 27. Bitcoin vs Gold, The Hedge Game - Volatility and Portfolio Analysis of Bitcoin and Gold during Market Distress

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Axel Löveråsen; Erik Tyrsing; [2021]
    Keywords : Bitcoin; Gold; Hedge; Volatility; Portfolio Analysis; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Over the recent years the interest in cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin has increased significantly. The price of Bitcoin has gone up substantially since the end of 2020 and more individual and institutional investors are incorporating Bitcoin to their portfolio. READ MORE

  4. 28. Going Public and Stepping Up: Do companies become more productive after listing on the stock exchange?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Folke Schröder Frykhammar; Gustav Sandelin; [2021]
    Keywords : Productivity; Initial Public Offering; Stock Price Informativeness; Total Factor Productivity;

    Abstract : This thesis examines whether Swedish companies become more productive, i.e., achieve higher total factor productivity (TFP), after going public. Additionally, it extends previous findings about stock price informativeness to a Swedish context and tests whether it has any ex ante going public implications on productivity. READ MORE

  5. 29. Crisis or Consolidation? Predicting Bank Distress in Sweden 1917-1923

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Easton; [2021]
    Keywords : Financial Crises; Commercial Banking; Financial Instability; Bank Distress.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Crises are inherently connected to the strengths and functions of the financial system in creating and expanding credit (Broberg and Ögren, 2019). They are as much products of the innovation and expansion which precede them as they are a cause of the realignment and adjustment that follows them. READ MORE

  6. 30. The role of Preventive Restructuring Directive for cross-border companies in financial distress: rescue for efficiency?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Arina Tsekanina; [2021]
    Keywords : Preventive Restructuring Directive; preventive restructuring frameworks; EU insolvency law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the recent Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventive restructuring frameworks (‘Preventive Restructuring Directive’) that was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 20 June 2019. The purpose of this thesis is to examine and assess the EU legislator’s intentions in harmonisation of national laws on restructuring and to clarify the rationale behind business rescue. READ MORE