L´argent, par définition, n'a pas de conscience (paráfrasis de A. Camus, Témoins n. 5)
Sapere aude! (I. Kant)
Un peu d'agitation donne du ressort aux âmes, et ce qui fait vraiment prospérer l'espèce est moins la paix que la liberté (Du contrat social, JJ Rousseau)
"la historia está repleta de credos e instituciones que son de valor incalculable al principio, y quedan obsoletos y casi inservibles después" (Walter Bagehot)
"El hombre que encuentra que su patria es dulce no es más que un tierno principiante; aquel para quien cada suelo es como el suyo propio ya es fuerte; pero sólo es perfecto aquel para quien el mundo entero es como un país extranjero" (Hugo de San Víctor)
"Se puede engañar a algunos todo el tiempo y a todos algún tiempo, pero no se puede engañar a todos todo el tiempo." (Abraham Lincoln)
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead." (Nelson Mandela)
jueves, 5 de mayo de 2016
GESTIÓN ECONÓMICA Y FINANCIERA DE LA EMPRESA - RENTABILIDAD
martes, 22 de marzo de 2016
TAX EVASION
- Try to define with your own words tax-purpose business delocalization. Illustrate it with an example shown in the film. Try to figure out why it has become a frequent strategy.
- What is transfer pricing? Which role do you think it plays in “fiscal planning”?
- What are offshore territories and fiscal residence?
- Why is the state of Delaware so popular for company creation?
- What is fiscal concurrence?
- What is the role played by the big auditing companies (ie EY, KPMG, PWC) in these fiscal plans?
- Try to describe OECD’s strategy to fight fiscal fraud.
- Describe the tax/expenditure situation in Greece.
- Try to define banking secrecy and the way Trusts are used for tax purposes.
- How does the film show that we might fight the banking secrecy?
- Why does The Economist think that the rich should pay higher taxes?
- Try to describe as many reasons as possible to find out why most Spanish big groups pay so few taxes.
- Try to find out why Luxembourg has become so important in aspects concerning tax evasion
QUESTIONS ABOUT "INSIDE JOB"
- What is the public body responsible for overseeing markets in the United States? Which of its departments controlled agents in whose womb the crisis began? How many workers had to carry out that job?
- Describe in your own words how the film explains the problem of bankruptcy of the Icelandic financial system
- What have been the problems that the regulators have found to carry out their function and which have been the conflicts of interests faced by regulators when they had to go to investigate entities that could pose problems?
- Try to explain in your own words the securitization and CDOs, and why they have had such an important effect on the crisis.
- What are the rating agencies? Which are the main ones? How do they rate the debt of different issuers? Why overall rating was positive although in their inside information they expressed a different opinion?
- Which working aspect of the mortgage market has perverted its normal functioning and made mortgage loans be issued to borrowers with no repayment capacity?
- Summarize how the crisis occurred chronologically as documentary follows.
- R.G.Rajan, who appears in the documentary, published an article called “Have financial development made the world riskier ?”. What is his thesis and the reasoning behind it? (you can have a look at the introduction and at the conclusion of the article in internet)
viernes, 18 de marzo de 2016
EXPOSICIÓN SOBRE LA EXCURSIÓN A BÉLGICA Y LA UE
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