SVCL is a wholly owned subsidiary of State Industrial Bank of India (SIDBI), incorporated in 1999. SVCL’s main aim/mission is to work upon the entrepreneurship idea by providing adequate capital and strategic inputs at various stages of the business for all round growth opportunities and also maximize the returns on investment. [...]

Media has always played a vital role in our lives. However, about a decade ago one would never have imagined how this channel of communication would grow on to us. Today we eat, sleep and drink media.  Is this because our interactions with families and friends have reduced due to the rage of [...]

February 20, 2011

(CMP: Rs 63.7)
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Target Price: Rs 110
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Company Profile:

• Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd. is an India-based company. Royal Orchid engages in the operation and management of hotels/holiday resorts, as well as the provision of related services in India. The company operates 15 business & leisure hotels [...]

How Venture Capital raise their money?
Venture Capital (VC) raises pool of money from limited partners and invest the money in new ideas business and helps the new idea to come into existence over the period of time and then gain liquidity out of that investment by either going public or by merger [...]

February 06, 2011
(CMP: Rs. 224)

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Target Price: Rs 310
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Company Profile:

Venus Remedies incorporated in 1989, is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The company provides formulations in area of anti-biotics and oncological therapeutics.
Company has two manufacturing facilities located in India and Germany. Company manufactures Oncological and Cefelosporine Injectable products. Its manufacturing facility located in [...]

Dated : 31/01-2011

(CMP: Rs. 1,251)

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Target Price: Rs 1,610

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Axis Bank has reported excellent set of numbers with net profit up by 36% y-o-y at Rs 891 crore which is higher than market expectations. NII grew 28% y-o-y and 7% q-o-q driven by robust loan growth and sequential margin improvement. [...]

A book that helps you make more money from equity markets by making you understand – When is the right time to invest in a stock and at what right price and when is the right time to come out of the stock.

Table of Content

Introduction
Understanding Charts – Convention used in the book
Moving Average Indicator – Simple [...]

Argentina Economic Crash – 2001

Argentina had been having a see saw economy ever since the beginning of 20th century. It was the 4th largest economy in early 1915, fell down drastically in late 70s & 80s and then again recovered to become 56th economy in 1996. It suffered its [...]

Oral communication

The list of communication skills presented below should be helpful in developing oral communication skills in business, for presentations and also in general.

Pronouncing the words clearly is an important thing to be remembered. Need to repeat a particular word/sentence affects [...]

Technical professionals are highly specialized and managing them according to traditional principles may meet with only minimal success.

Technical professionals want autonomy: They are frequently achievement-orientated people who seek motivation from their work.  Technical professionals’ desire for autonomy usually means that they want a large role in setting [...]

A business leader creates a cohesive, dynamic team by:

Clearly stating the team’s mission and goals.
Helping the team members to operate creatively.
Increasing synergy of the team.
Helping the team to focus on the results.
Clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the team members.
Making the team well organized.
Coaching the team members to build upon individual strengths.
Influencing the [...]

To be a good business leader, one needs to develop an articulated vision.  Do not imbibe a rigid, ‘one size -fits all’ approach to leadership.  Learn the leadership principles, adopt them, modify and re-modify them with your one-of-a-kind style, unique values and individual strengths.  The following are some pointers to effective [...]

Fixed Exchange Rate Systems –

(a)                Currency Board – In this system, currency notes issued by the country depend upon the declared exchange rate and the amount of foreign currency reserves. If India has a forex reserve of US$ 150 Billion and exchange rate is Rs 40, India can issue [...]

Window Dressing done by “SAIL”

The annual report for 1997-98 reveals, the Rs 16,403-crore Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) bottomline is not worth its weight in steel. By resorting to complex accounting changes, and despite 11 qualifications from 5 statutory auditors–as well as the venerable Comptroller [...]