Fintech: You Are A Newly Appointed Equity Analyst At A Prominent US Asset Manager: Markets & Services Assignment

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University Dublin Business School (DBS)
Subject Fintech: Markets & Services

ASSESSMENT BRIEF

You are a newly appointed equity analyst at a prominent US Asset Manager. Senior management has asked you to write a report analyzing the financial sector of the S&P 500 index as of the market close March 9th, 2020.
You have been specifically asked to evaluate the XLF (Financials) ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) of the SPDR (Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts) – see links & spreadsheet on Moodle.
You have been asked to make recommendations, where appropriate, regarding a potential rebalancing (for example: increasing or decreasing the index weightings) of the current holdings.

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Your report should focus upon the commercial challenges/opportunities facing the financial sector, and the potential disruption of existing financial business models from so-called ’Fintech’s’.
The financial sector portfolio manager has also asked that you utilize a range of valuation techniques to justify your investment recommendations.
Students are encouraged to independently research, present their own findings, and support their work with figures, graphs and examples wherever applicable.

 
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Based On An Organization Of Your Choice, And Using Inputs From A Minimum Of 3 Relevant Key Personnel: Innovation And Creativity Assignment

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University University College Dublin (UCD)
Subject Innovation and Creativity

Assignment 2 – Innovation Audit

Your Innovation Audit: Based on an organization of your choice, and using inputs from a minimum of 3 relevant key personnel, you should prepare a report (maximum 7,500 words) that describes and analyses your findings under the following headings;
(a) A brief overview of the focus of the study, the company, and its entrepreneurial and innovation profile)
(b) Application of the Innovation Pentathlon Framework

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(c) Identification of the opportunities (process/product/service) the audit brings to your attention (supported by a clear business rationale)
(d) Identification of strategic, leadership and project management issues impacting innovation in this organization
(e) Strategic innovation recommendations (with specific goals and actions noted and their impact on organizational functions)
(f) What lessons can be learned from this audit?

 
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all Towers Centre (“TTC”) Is An Entirely New, Large, Sprawling Shopping Mall: Equity And Trusts Law Essay,

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University University College Dublin (UCD)
Subject Equity and Trusts Law

Question 1

Tall Towers Centre (“TTC”) is an entirely new, large, sprawling shopping mall which is managed by Tall Towers Centre Ltd Management (“TTC Management”). TTC is located in EU-Ville. TTC Management leased the anchor tenant space (i.e., the largest, and most central space in the ground floor of the tallest tower) to Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net Corporation (“CGH”). It was a 5-year lease. The rent was €100,000 per year. The lease was in writing, signed by both parties, valid, and enforceable.
The lease included a covenant: CGH would remain open for business 6 days a week during normal business hours. CGH is a high- speed internet company. CGH’s many customers and employees are dispersed all over the world and deal with one another only by telephone. CGH has only 2 employees (both repairpersons) at TTC, where CGH merely operates a large hub (“the EU-Ville Hub”) of high-speed computer servers. The EU-Ville Hub was just one hub in CGH’s worldwide network of 100 hubs.

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CGH was TTC Management’s first tenant. Over the course of the year following the start of CGH’s lease, TTC Management signed leases with many other tenants. During negotiations with these other prospective tenants, TTC Management notified them that the anchor tenant space had been leased to CGH for 5 years. These other tenants were in retail. By the end of that first year, CGH determined that its worldwide operations were profitable, and were making about €10,000,000 per year, but 10 of its individual hubs, including the EU-Ville Hub, were running at a small loss: i.e., less than €1,000 per hub per year. This information was not secret. It appeared in CGH’s annual reports for stockholders. TTC Management’s President, Dominic Deeds, read those reports, and he contacted CGH to ask if TTC Management could supply any additional services to make its premises more attractive and profitable for CGH. CGH’s
President, Anthony Soprano, responded: he sent a signed letter, on his personal stationery, indicating that all was well and that CGH even had some thoughts to renew the lease at the end
of the remaining 4 years. Simply put, Soprano’s claims were not true. Indeed, CGH was moving forward with internal plans to close all 10 unprofitable hubs. One week later, a CGH manager,
acting in conformity with company policy sent TTC Management a written notice of termination of the lease and removed all their servers. At this juncture, 4 years remained on CGH’s lease.Dominic and Anthony had long-standing social ties. Dominic’s wife and Anthony’s wife were sisters. Dominic and Anthony attended the same college; they both served in the same army unit during the last war; and, now, they both live on the same posh street.

Answer these questions:

  1. Advice TTC Management on the legal principles applicable, and in particular, on the likelihood of TTC Management’s being granted a damages remedy (including the scope of any damages) and injunctive relief (including specific performance). Your discussion of injunctive relief should not consider Mareva, Anton Piller, and Bayer injunctions. Your discussion of injunctive relief should consider relief at the ex parte stage, the preliminary stage, and the final or permanent stage.
  2. Explain in detail why (or why not) each type of relief is likely to be awarded, and support your answers with relevant case law, doctrine, and policy.
  3. Advice TTC Management how long it can wait before seeking damages and injunctive relief, and support your answers.
 
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You Are Paddy, The Finance Manager Of Happy Larry Limited: Financial Analysis And Reporting Assignment

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University National University of Ireland (NUI)
Subject Financial Analysis and Reporting

CASE STUDY

You are Paddy, the Finance Manager of Happy Larry Limited. You have been advised by the management team that the company is considering expanding its business activities and you are required to identify a potential target company. Following intensive research, you have chosen Loopy Lou as a potential target.
Happy Larry Limited is an Irish resident company supplying tinned dog food to the Irish market. The company has a manufacturing facility in the west of Ireland and employs 50 staff.
Loopy Lou Limited manufactures wooden dog kennels and garden sheds. The company is based in Ireland but supplies its products worldwide through internet selling. The company imports the wood necessary to manufacture their product. 80% of the wood is supplied by a firm in Sweden.
Summarised financial information in respect of Loopy Lou is set out below. You can assume that all financial information is in €.

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Part (a)

Write a report to the board of directors commenting on the financial performance and position of Loopy Lou.
Your report should include:
1. List the disadvantages of using ratios as a decision-making tool
2. Using ratio analysis provides a detailed commentary of the performance and position of Loopy Lou under the headings of profitability, efficiency, liquidity, gearing, and investment.
3. Using the information in the case study above outline and discuss any other concerns you may have on investment in Loopy Lou.
You are Paddy, the Finance Manager of Happy Larry Limited
Happy Larry Limited is an Irish resident company supplying tinned dog food to the Irish
Loopy Lou Limited manufactures wooden dog kennels and garden sheds

Part (b)

Requirement:
You have been asked to prepare the year-end financial statements for Pearl Limited and outline three reasons why financial statements should be prepared. The financial statements should include the Statement of Profit or Loss for the year ended 31 December 2019 and the Statement of Financial Position at that date. You have been provided with the following trial balance.
You have been asked to prepare the year end financial statements for Pearl Limited
Additional Information
Information (that is not included in the trial balance above) has been provided as follows:
(i) Vans and Trucks are to be depreciated at a 15% straight line.
(ii) Machinery is to be depreciated at 30% reducing balance.
(iii) The closing inventory on 31 December 2019 was €25,000.
(iv) An irrecoverable debt (bad debt) amounting to €1,300 is to be written off.
(v) A provision of for bad debts (allowance for receivables) of 5% is to be made.
(vi) Examination of the expense records revealed that on 31 December 2019:
€
Administration owning            1,600
Motor expenses prepaid         1,200
(vii) The corporation tax due on profits for the year was €1,850.
Requirement:
You are required to prepare:
(a) A Statement of Profit or Loss for Pearl Limited for the year ended 31 December 2019.
(b) A Statement of Financial Position for Pearl Limited as at 31 December 2019.
(c) List 3 reasons why financial statements should be prepared.

Part(c)

You are required to prepare a bank reconciliation statement and adjust the bank account for Ruby and to discuss the purpose of control accounts.
You are required to prepare a bank reconciliation statement and adjust the bank account

 
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