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Finance Techniques

Forecasting

Forecasting

The concept has been created to help practitioners learn how to explore and analyse their firm’s data and understand its forecasting performance. It introduces the fundamentals of forecasting methods and processes, and summarises its strengths, success factors and performance measurements.

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Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment

The concept describes the importance of foreign direct investment in today's increasingly globalised world. Using research and case study examples, it explains the strengths and drawbacks of FDI and outlines some critical factors for success.

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Gearing Ratio

Gearing Ratio

The concept explains how organisations can use gearing, or financial leverage to manage their growth strategies. It describes the advantages and risks of different levels of financial leverage, and provides step by step guidance on how to calculate the gearing ratio.

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Gross Domestic Product

Gross Domestic Product

The concept explains the importance of gross domestic product (GDP). It offers a summary of its key strengths and weaknesses and provides helpful advice on measuring GDP.

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Income Elasticity of Demand

Income Elasticity of Demand

The concept describes the importance of understanding income elasticity of demand for determining how changes in income levels affects demand for a good or service. It highlights several strengths and weaknesses of the concept and provides case study evidence of the concept in practice as well as implementation advice.

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Inflation

Inflation

The concept explains inflation, its benefits and drawbacks and provides useful case studies and step-by-step advice on how to calculate and measure it.

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Information Management

Information Management

The concept is created to help practitioners better understand the notion of information management, its history, practical use, implementation strategy and limitations.

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Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Management

The concept provides a brief but comprehensive overview of the history and fundamentals of intellectual property and provides some practical information on how companies can protect their own intellectual property.

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Leveraging

Leveraging

Stepping up on the capital front displays credibility to other parties. This concept describes the principles of leveraging and discusses its risks and advantages.

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