Journal of Business & Financial Affairs

This paper conducts an extensive analysis of the strategy of a leading UAE company in the precision tooling industry. The work starts by an introduction about the company and a comprehensive literature review about the strategy concept, how the scholars perceive strategy, and the tools that can be used to assess and analyze strategy. The paper analyzes the company’s strategy in the light of Mintzberg’s Ten Goals, Mckinzey’s 7S model, Porter’s Value Chain, Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT analysis, and recommendation on Balanced Scorecard for supply chain analysis. Since the company is a leading one and has outreaching involvement in vital UAE businesses such as aerospace and oil and gas, the analysis serves as an insight into strategy for UAE companies.

This article, author consider the fair value of financial instruments whether it is appropriate for economic development and the volatility of the stock market or not through investors’ financial statement analysis and to help the Managers, Investors and someone else understand about reasonable economic information in financial statements. Because, Use of fair Value method plays an important role in measurement of financial instruments and help entity can decrease risk financing. However, Vietnam entities have not applied fair value method yet to revalue financial assets. So value financial assets in financial statements are not exact. This problem impacts on Vietnam financial market for long time. This article shall consider the fair value and historical cost methods measure financial instruments on the stock market through economic transactions to find out the difference of value financial assets, when using two these method to revalue them. The usage of fair value measurement accounting is a necessary factor for the development of Vietnamese stock market. Currently, Vietnamese accounting is using a book method for financial instruments; besides that the fair value accounting has not been thoroughly applied by entities under the standards of international financial instruments accounting.

Using separately AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE stock market data for the period 1968-2011, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether negative multiple firms are different from positive ones by examining the performance of negative P/E or P/B firms and how this performance compared with the most widely examined positive multiples firms. We find that firms with negative multiples are indeed different than firms with positive in that (a) a relatively small number of firms with negative multiples experience high forward stock returns even though the majority of them does not resulting in a large difference between mean and median returns and (b) the small firm-low liquidity effect observed in positive multiple firms is not as clearly observed in the case of negative multiple firms. This indicates that prior academic research was right in excluding negative multiple firms from their analysis as inclusion would have affected the homogeneity of their sample and would have diluted their findings and tests of significance.