Management and Finance

Define the term “claim?” Can you measure the amount of truth in a claim? What is an example of a claim?

MGT402 – Entrepreneurship and small business – Answer in 15 hours

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How could an entrepreneur use the Internet to advertise his/her business?

FIN405 – Financial Derivatives – Answer in 15 hours

Discuss contango and backwardation?

your answer needs not to exceed 100 words.

FIN401- Banks Management

Discuss the concept and different types of Credit derivatives. [150 Words]

MGT402 – Entrepreneurship and small business

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Discuss the barrier factors before launching into an e-commerce.

MGT312 – Decision Making and Problem Solving

Learning Outcomes:

1.Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts and business situations. (C.L.O :1.2)

2.Demonstrate effective leadership skills and teamwork capacity for efficient decision making with the problem owners and other stakeholders as either a team member or a team leader.(C.L.O :3.1)

3.Analyze ethical issues and dilemmas that businesses often face and employ ethical standards in all manners and circumstances.(C.L.O :3.2)

Assignment Instructions for Part-I:

Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
In the search bar of EBSCO find the following article:

Title: “Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other”

Author: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Date of Publication:January–February 2019

Published: Harvard Business Review

Assignment Question(s)

Read the case study titled as “When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other” by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

1.Identify the main problem and subproblems of the case?

2.Identify the causes of problem based on the following techniques?

a.Cause of the problem- 5 Why Technique

a.Why-1

b.Why-2

c.Why-3

d.Why-4

e.Why-5

b.Develop a Cause-and-Effect Diagram

3.What information should you gather, that would be helpful to know before making decision?

4.Develop a mind map for decision making,

5.Write all the alternative choices of your decision. As HR Manager, what will be your decision to resolve this issue and why?

6.Weighing the alternatives

When weighing the various alternatives, how well each alternative fulfills the variables to consider can be expressed as scores. A different rating scale will be used to assess each alternative:

+2 very suitable

+1 quite suitable

0 neither suitable nor unsuitable

-1 not quite suitable

-2 not suitable at all

Note: Positive numbers (+2 or +1) indicate that the alternative is able to fulfill the variables, whereas negative numbers (-2 or -1) denote the opposite.

7.Write the conclusion and overall assessment.

8.HR Manager may face Ethical dilemma in resolving the issue and finding solutions. What could be possible ethical issues in the above case?

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FIN401 – Banks Management

1.What are the different types of risks the banks and other financial institutions are exposed to?

2.What are the Asset-Liability Management Strategies? Explain.

3.Explain the loanable fund theory of Interest Rate Determination.

4.What are the different types of derivatives? Take an example and explain Interest rate swaps.

5.Calculate the interest-sensitive GAP (IS GAP) and Relative IS GAP ratio for a financial institution if interest-sensitive assets (ISA) are $100 million and interest-

FIN405 – Financial Derivatives

Assignment Question(s):(

Q1.Explain each of the following concepts as they relate to call options.

Rho
Theta
Vega

Q2.Discuss the covered Call strategy and protective Put strategy? And describe their advantages and disadvantages?

Q3. Consider a stock worth $35 that can go up or down by 15 percent per period. The risk-free rate is 10 percent. The exercise price of European call option is $35.Use one binomial period.