Accounting Case Solutions

Catastrophe Bonds at Swiss Re Case Solution In 2002, Swiss Re, the world’s second–largest insurance company, is considering securitizing parts of its risk portfolio in the capital markets. This would be a first for the firm that, until then, had never transferred threat off its balance sheet. Head of the Retrocession Group, Peter Giessmann, is contemplating […]

Eskom and The South African Electrification Program (A) Case Solution Eskom, which is a South African electric utility business, spends about 30% of its yearly gains to execute a national societal-initiative job, a countrywide infrastructure development plan to supply electricity to the citizens of South Africa, who were frequently refused access to fundamental services under apartheid. […]

Eskom and The South African Electrification Program (B) Case Solution After Eskom establisheda workable strategy for supplying electricity to more than 1.75 million South African families, many of its customers failed to pay for service, which resulted in a debt of about $400 million by 1997. This negative consumer behavior wasn’t always unjustified, as South Africa’s black […]

General Property Trust Case Solution It was in1994, General Property Trust, an Australian property investment trust, was anticipating future cash needs beyond those that the Trust could finance with internal cash flows. The supervisors of the Trust were contemplating a funding construction that was new whereby it’d sell call options on the components of the Trust. The […]

Eskom and The South African Electrification Program (C) Case Solution Spendingaround$400 million per annum to supply 1.75 million South African households with electricity by 2000, Eskom had to forfeit an additional $300 million because of consumers’ nonpayment for service. The firm also faced increasing operational costs as an effect of consumers’ tampering with their electric connections. […]