The Financial Index Of Corporations And Industries

In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.

Includes all corporations listed in the editions of Moody's manuals.

- The purpose of this work is to provide investors in the Stock Market with the financial statements of the companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial and the Dow Jones Utility: Sensible investment in the Stock Market or in listed companies requires understanding those businesses in which you aspire to invest. The purpose of this work is not to explain to the investor the different items of the three main financial statements, but aims to ensure that, once you have become familiar with them, you will obtain the tool you need in paper format: the financial statements of the 45 companies that make up this two stock indexes, for a period of time sufficient to draw conclusions about their performance throughout the economic cycles, about 10 years. Through this work, and the included financial statements, the investor will be able to see at a glance the strengths or weaknesses of each company, and then go on to expand information and financial data in the audited official accounts of the company that has positively caught your attention. - Companies and financial periods outlined: DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Procter & Gamble: 2009 - 2019 | Pfizer: 2009 - 2019 | Exxon Mobil Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | Verizon Communications: 2009 - 2019 | Johnson & Johnson: 2009 - 2019 Walgreens Boots Alliance: 2009 - 2019 | Caterpillar: 2009 - 2019 | 3M Company: 2009 - 2019 | Merck & Co: 2009 - 2019 | The Travelers Companies: 2009 - 2019 Walmart: 2009 - 2019 | Raytheon Tecknologies Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | Cisco Systems: 2009 - 2019 | The Walt Disney Company: 2009 - 2019 | JP Morgan Chase: 2010 - 2019 The Coca-Cola Company: 2009 - 2019 | Chevron Corporation: 2010 - 2019 | The Home Depot: 2009 - 2019 | Nike: 2009 - 2019 | Microsoft Corporation: 2009 - 2019 The Goldman Sachs Group: 2010 - 2019 | Intel Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | International Business Machines Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | United Health Group Incorporated: 2009 - 2019 | Apple: 2009 - 2019 Dow: 2016 - 2019 | McDonald's Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | Visa: 2013 - 2019 | American Express Company: 2009 - 2019 | The Boeing Company: 2009 - 2019 DOW JONES UTILITY AVERAGE Consolidated Edison: 2009 - 2019 | Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated: 2009 - 2019 | Next Era Energy: 2009 - 2019 | Dominion Energy: 2009 - 2019 | Duke Energy: 2009 - 2019 American Water Works Company: 2009 - 2019. Edison International: 2009 - 2019 | PG&E Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | American Electric Power Company: 2009 - 2019 | First Energy Corporation: 2009 - 2019 Nisource: 2009 - 2019 | The Southern Company: 2009 - 2019 | Exelon Corporation: 2009 - 2019 | The AES Corporation: 2013 - 2019 | Center Point Energy: 2009 - 2019.