Many people think that one magical cure for all the ills in the financial services industry is FINANCIAL education, right? It is almost IMPOSSIBLE to say No to such a question – which almost seems like a rhetorical one…but the truth is I think FINANCIAL LEARNING is the only thing which can work. Most people [...]
http://www.thestreet.com/topic/47761/personal-finance.html A promise is a promise….! So here is the first installment in how to read financial statements…. Let us start at the very beginning….when a company files its Annual Accounts it files the balance sheet, Profit and Loss account, auditors report, directors report…ARE THESE TRUSTWORTHY? Well they are as trustworthy as your OWN CV. [...]
Many kids or most kids should I say aspire to do their MBA. Sadly the MBA degree in India has too damn high a standard deviation. From the top range IIMs to the ones at the bottom, the gap is too much. The question is – if you are doing your MBA or have done [...]
No health deteriorates overnight. Sure we have heard of cancer, liver and kidney failure – but there are always some signals. Ignore them, and you are dead. Literally. Similarly are there some signals that you can pick up from a business that pre warn you about failure? Well here a few that I remember from [...]
It is not easy being in the retail business. And surely not so for arrogant old economy companies who have sold in the control regime economy. So what should you do if you get bad service? Go viral. Yes the Indian net penetration is no patch on the US as a %age of penetration, but [...]
Let us look at 4 of them: Reliance Power ( P/e of 81, obviously not paying dividend) or Tata Power (p/e of 20 and dividend yield of 1.35), or Ntpc (p/e of 13 and div y of 2.62) or Nhpc (p/e of 8 and div yield of 3.31). could not decide, but told myself when [...]