Business owners are often overloaded with tons of activities revolving around their business, and they have very little time left for managing cash flows or scratching their heads on company’s finances. On the other hand, mismanaging your company’s funds might lead to total failure of your business. Even though you have the brightest of ideas […]
Once a company is up and running, it tends to stay in operation until some occurrence prevents it from continuing, businesses don’t stop working for no reason. Though occasionally they suffer a slow decline to closing, more often a firm’s shutdown is the result of an internal or external misfortune that compromises the integrity of […]
For entrepreneurs, it is often easier to come up with a variety of ideas for new businesses and more difficult to actually implement those concepts. A business concept is a bridge between an idea and a business plan. It focuses one’s thinking so that the entrepreneur can identify the specifics of his or her proposed […]
Most Entrepreneurs are so consumed with getting all the tangible aspects of their products and services just right, other than dealing with the intangible like creating a company culture. At the outset of most new business ventures, the principle actors are usually a small nucleus of collaborating individuals who fill multiple roles. The company culture, […]
What Diversification Is It is rare to find rational investors concentrating their entire wealth in a single security or investment. Instead, they tend to invest in a diversified portfolio of securities. The reason is that pooling imperfectly correlated stocks together helps to diversify away diversifiable (unique or non-systematic) risks. It has been found that risk of a portfolio is less than […]
T INTRODUCTION Every investor who wishes to transact business in the securities market will need the services of a brokerage firm unless such an investor is a member of an organized exchange or a registered dealer in securities. TYPES OF BROKERAGE FIRMS Brokerage firms and dealers insecurities can be classified according to the three broad […]
STEPS IN INVESTMENT Undertaking an investment is a very important decision in life. Therefore all care must be undertaken to ensure the success of such an investment. There are certain things that need to be considered no mater the type of investment you want to undertake. This may be the difference between a successful investment […]
FUNCTIONS OF THE SECURITIES MARKETS The securities markets perform very important functions that benefit the economy, the corporations and the individual investors To The Investor These Are Some Of The Benefits: a) It enables investors to spread their risk through diversification. The existing of a stock market makes it possible for an investor to spread […]
FUNCTIONS OF THE SECURITIES MARKETS The securities markets perform very important functions that benefit the economy, the corporations and the individual investors. Gains Of The Securities Markets To The Economy It improves utilization of existing domestic savings and encouraging new savings. The existing of the securities market for example the Stock Exchange makes it possible […]
PRIMARY MARKETS Companies can raise external funds through borrowing or issue of shares. If securities are issued they are sold in the Primary Market. The Primary Market is purposely for trading of new securities (IPOs) never before issued. That is to say, securities available for the first time are offered through the Primary Market. The […]