Archive for March, 2007
Malaysia Moving Forward – Foreign Exchange Administration /Liberalization of Foreign Exchange Regulation
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In earlier article, the Prime Minister has announced the abolishment of real property gain tax (wef 1/4/07) and proposed special incentives for Iskandar Dvelopment Region (IDR).Coupled with this, there is also the liberalization of the Foreign Exchange Administration Policies
With effect from 1 April 2007, the [...]
March 26, 2007
Posted in: Forex Management, Malaysia 
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Malaysia Moving Forward – Abolishment of Real Property Gains Tax & Special Incentive Area –Iskandar Development Region
At the Invest Malaysia Conference 2007 held on 22 March 2007, our Prime Minister during his speech presented at the Invest Malaysia Conference 2007 on 22 March 2007:
The Government has decided not to impose Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) throughout the country commencing 1 April 2007.
A first incentives package was announced for the Iskandar Development [...]
March 25, 2007
Posted in: Corporate Tax, IDR No Comments
What is Growth Companies?
Whilst analyzing the annual reports of companies, can we spot what are so called growth companies?
Let’s look at different definition or interpretation of growth companies from the view point of the following two great investors:
Benjamin Graham:-
considers it as a company that has performed better than the industry average over a period of years and is [...]
March 25, 2007
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Glossary Of Accounting&Finance Terms-Alphabet B
ALPHABET [ B ]
Bad Debts
Amount owing by customer(s) which is not collectible despite all collection efforts.
Needs to be written off and the value of the Accounts Receivable should be reduced according
Balance Sheet
A financial statement which show the assets, liabilities and shareholders’ equity of an enterprise AT a particular point in time.
Bank Reconciliation Statement
Normally a [...]
March 25, 2007
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Assessing The Quality Of Management
In earlier article, we have looked at the quality of earning as this forms an important criteria for investing in a company.
So what next? Of course, we need to mention the quality of Management. Do you know that it’s not only the company’s performance that is of concern by investor! Incidentally, in the 2007 Survey [...]
March 24, 2007
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Quality Of Earnings
Earlier article mentioned about cash flow statements are reliable whilst earnings can be manipulated by creative accounting/fraud.
This article deals with another aspect of earning which is the quality of earnings.
As investors or analysts the atttractives of an investment in a company is simply the quality of earnings.
Quality of earning really depends upon subjective/qualitative consideration rather [...]
March 24, 2007
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Market Value Added (MVA)
Earlier, the market/book ratio has been mentioned now we look at another useful market based ratio which is known as the Market value added ( MVA).
MVA is the difference between the market value of the company and the total capital invested in the company.
The formula of MVA is =
market capitalization ( number of equity shares [...]
March 24, 2007
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