Bodie, Z., Kane, A. & Marcus, A. J. (2014). Investments. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
The book reviews investments on a broader aspect when it comes to the business market. The authors of the book got the information through secondary sources on the topic. The secondary sources had to be during the period not more than ten years from the publication of the book. The book focuses on how financial prediction is used to determine a worthy investment in the business market. The book is useful as it looks at asset allocation and its treatment for future options and derivative security markets. The only limitation of the book is that it only looks at the aspect of investment only. The book is vital as it shows how a business’ managers can use financial spreadsheets to make their businesses worthy companies for investment in the business market.
Chakravarty, S., Dash, P. K., Pandi, V. R., & Panigrahi, B. K. (January 01, 2011). An Evolutionary Functional Link Neural Fuzzy Model for Financial Time Series Forecasting. International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (ijaec), 2, 3, 39-58.
Patro, C. S., & Raghunath, K. M. K. (July 01, 2015). Impetus to Supply Chain Decisions with IT Tools: An Empirical Study. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (ijeis), 11, 3, 52-67.
The article reviews the use of technology in the supply sector by most organizations and to enable the company to attain competitive advantage. The authors got the data for the article through analysis of major businesses and how they use IT to maintain their success in the market. The focus of the article is the use of IT tools for Supply Chain Management (SCM). The article is useful as the authors looked at the contribution IT regarding redistribution to achieve higher service levels, lower inventory and lower costs of supply. The limitation of the article is that it only looks at the management of supply by a company. The content of the article will be useful as it analyzes the IT usage in data collection, refinement, and collation, the same data used for financial forecasting. Apart from that it also shows the importance on surviving in the market by beating the competition and managing the future of the market through managing information.
References
Bodie, Z., Kane, A., & Marcus, A. J. (2014). Investments. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
Chakravarty, S., Dash, P. K., Pandi, V. R., & Panigrahi, B. K. (January 01, 2011). An Evolutionary Functional Link Neural Fuzzy Model for Financial Time Series Forecasting. International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (ijaec), 2, 3, 39-58.
Patro, C. S., & Raghunath, K. M. K. (July 01, 2015). Impetus to Supply Chain Decisions with IT Tools: An Empirical Study. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (ijeis), 11, 3, 52-67.
