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A Land Development Financial Model, Bruce Saunders

Master's Theses

Often the term "real estate industry" is casually used as if sufficient in accurately describing a well defined segment contributing to the GNP. In actuality, real estate is a very large complex industry, involving a variety of corporations, partnerships, trusts, and individuals with different functions and objectives. A comprehensive profile of the industry would include investors, lenders, and government regulators. These players may be involved with a vast array of projects such as undeveloped land, single family and multifamily housing, office building, shopping centers, industrial buildings, hotels and motels, mobile home parks, resorts or recreational complexes. This variety illustrates the …

A Retail Branch Profitability Measurement Model For The Thrift Industry, Rex L. Smith Iii

Master's Theses

Deregulation of the financial services industry has created a need for management to adapt a different approach to operations. Drastic regulatory and environmental changes have forced thrifts and banks to concentrate on increasing efficiency and core profitability from the retail branch network. Once considered to be highly bureaucratic, financial institutions are trimming back off ice review and focusing on a more decentralized leaner operation. Expensive mergers and large conglomerate financial powerhouses have created a need for increased management controls and reasonable methods of measuring the true profitability of the individual business units within a financial services company.

The Valuation Of Closely Held Stocks For Federal Estate Taxes, Carroll Lee Saine

Master's Theses

The purpose of the thesis, stated simply, is to give some insight into the problem of intelligent valuation and attempt to show that no rigid formulas can be developed to solve the unsatisfactory situation that now exists in taxing closely held stocks.

A Critical Analysis Of The Uniform System Of Accounting For Motor Carriers As Prescribed By The Interstate Commerce Commission, Carroll E. Miles

Master's Theses

This paper will look to analyze the uniform system of accounting for motor carriers as prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission by critically examining the fundamental and quintessential foundations of the uniform system and what constructs its infrastructure.

Economics Of Defense Procurement And Small Business, Charles Sayre Karis

Master's Theses

Since the end of World War II and particularly since the Korean incident, military procurement has achieved a peacetime volume never before contemplated in our history. This high level of activity and the likelihood that it will continue for a long time gives defense spending a new importance in the national economy. It is therefore desirable that small business should seek participation in this new and large opportunity since it always has been in competition to serve other kinds of economic demands.

This thesis will examine the magnitude and nature of militacy procurement and the special commercial considerations involved. The …

An Improved System Of Cost Control And Budgeting By Product, For A Specialty Paper Mill, Linwood Douglas Hogge

Master's Theses

The large kraft and newsprint mills dominate the paper industry, by the sheer enormity of their size and production. The paper industry is a major growth segment of our nation's industry in all its aspects, however, and the specialty mills and their products continue to grow proportionately with the industry. Fllters, gaskets, and saturated products, once the sole property of leather, rubber and more sophisticated materials, are predominately made of high grade paper products. To further increase their use we must find more and better ways to reduce and control these costs -- It is hoped that we have contributed …

A Historical Approach To A Unitary Type Of United States Paper Currency, Roger Perry Schad

Master's Theses

Perhaps the most indispensible of all the economic tools which we use today is money. While money has been a crucial factor in the financial and economic growth of the American economy, what we have today is not a scientifically developed system but consists of past emergency actions, measures taken to cater to special interests and the like.

An Analysis Of Instalment Credit Within Commercial Banks, Wayne Atwell Freeland

Master's Theses

Within the past two decades, the rapid expansion of consumer installment credit activity by commercial banking has been a noteworthy development. Commercial bankers have made an about face in a brief period of financial history. As recently as the early 1930's the attitude of commercial bankers toward installment credit was one of hesitance and reluctance. Since that period commercial banks have expanded to become the largest single holder of installment credit.

The primary purpose of this thesis is to review and evaluate the principles, methods and procedures used in the investigation and credit decision of consumer instalment credit as established …

Valuation Of Closely Held And Untraded Stocks Held As Collateral By Banks In Support Of Loans, Richard Mortensen Linder

Master's Theses

It is recognized that one of the primary functions of modern day banking is the extension of credit. Properly administered, the fulfillment of this function is, either directly or indirectly, of importance to the general welfare. Properly loaned money is a source of income to the bank, and hence to the stockholders and employees; it enables the retailer to carry his inventory; the wholesaler to purchase and distribute a variety of products; and the manufacturer to produce a needed finished product. Direct loans to individuals are likewise of vital importance for many reasons. Borrowed funds may enable an individual to …

Modern Fire Insurance, Charles Allen Levey

Master's Theses

It is not the purpose of this thesis to provide a dissertation on the inner workings of a fire insurance policy. That has been done many times in the past by persons far more capable. In fact, that has been almost the sole approach uaed in writing in the fire insurance field

The attempt is rather to provide a different approach to te business . . . that of the agent, the fieldman, and the production staff.

It has been necessary to define the terms to be used just as in any other project. However, the space and effort given …

Marketing Curriculum In American Universities And Colleges Having Separate Schools Of Business Administration, Edwin Beverly Brooks Jr.

Master's Theses

One of the organic as well as universal functions of business is the transfer of goods from the producer to the consumer. This function, called distribution, is a vital factor in the economic structure of society, for it enters into the affairs of every business and touches the life of every community.

There has been very little written on the subject of the teaching of marketing, and it is hoped that this thesis will aid in the furthering its advancement both by a stimulation of interest in the subject and by clarifying certain existing details about which there are very …