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Pre-Management? How To Best Prepare: A Brief Overview For Potential Accounting, Finance, And Information Systems Students, Ammon Kou
Marriott Student Review
Many pre-management students are curious about the accounting, finance, and information systems majors offered at BYU. This article features an overview of each major and how best to prepare for those majors’ programs.
Unexpected Connections: Full Issue Of Volume 1, Issue 3, Marianna E. Richardson
Unexpected Connections: Full Issue Of Volume 1, Issue 3, Marianna E. Richardson
Marriott Student Review
Unexpected Connections is the Fall 2017 Issue of Marriott Student Review.
Private Equity In Family Firms: Drivers Of The Willingness To Cede Control, Marisa Henn, Prof. Dr. Eva Lutz
Private Equity In Family Firms: Drivers Of The Willingness To Cede Control, Marisa Henn, Prof. Dr. Eva Lutz
The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
Our aim is to empirically examine how reasons for using private equity (PE) and prior experience with PE affect the willingness of privately held firms to cede company control. Based on a questionnaire entailing 75 privately held firms backed by PE, we show that family firms cede less control than non-family firms when entering a PE transaction. However, if firms seek funds due to challenges related to ownership changes, the difference between family firms and non-family firms decreases. Moreover, we find that family firms sell more company shares if they are run by a PE-experienced manager.
Financing Strategies For Real Estate Investments, Joshua Parr
Financing Strategies For Real Estate Investments, Joshua Parr
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Most people have a dream of being financially independent and in order to do so it is necessary to save and invest their money. The key is to invest wisely so that one can earn a solid return on their money. Real estate investments are a great way to build wealth because of the benefits they have over other investments. Many are under the misconception that they cannot invest in real estate because of a lack of capital. This belief is entirely untrue and there are dozens of different strategies for investing in real estate with little or no capital …
Factors Affecting Access To Finance Of Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) Of Bangladesh, Mohammed Chowdhury, Zahurul Alam
Factors Affecting Access To Finance Of Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) Of Bangladesh, Mohammed Chowdhury, Zahurul Alam
Graduate School of Business Publications and Research
This study addresses the issues that impede SMEs of Bangladesh in obtaining finance from the financial institutions. To accomplish our goals we collected data from a sample of 86 SMEs to investigate the problems and suggest policy recommendations. We collected data by directly interviewing the respondents with the help of a questionnaire for self-guidance. We also used secondary data for this purpose. Findings revealed that the size and age of the firms, education and skills of the owners, and unfavorable credit terms such as high interest rates, lack of collateral security, corruption by bank officials etc. are some of the …
Crowdfunding As A Financing Resource For Small Businesses, Melissa Cohen
Crowdfunding As A Financing Resource For Small Businesses, Melissa Cohen
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Although small businesses borrowed $1 trillion in 2013 from traditional lenders, 35% of small business owners were unable to obtain adequate financing and subsequently sought alternative sources such as crowdfunding. Guided by the pecking order theory, the purpose of this exploratory case study was to explore how 6 small business owners in Tennessee successfully used crowdfunding to start, grow, or sustain their businesses. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and a review of crowdfunding project data on the internet platform including the project description, target goal, amount achieved, number of backers, and locations of the funders. Data were inductively analyzed, …