Stock Course Works Samples For Students

Introduction

The sole aim of injecting capital into a stock market it to generate a favorable return on the investment. Many investors not only try gain profitable returns but also try to beat or outperform the market. However, one of the major stock market states that the prices of a particular share or security at a given time fully reflect the available information and data about a specific market or stock. Thus according to this hypothesis, shares and securities prices exclusively respond to the available information in the stock market and since all the participants in the market have equal access to similar information, nobody ...

1. Bevan Industries’ current cost of capital

Discussed hereunder is the step by step calculation of Bevan Industries’ current cost of capital (Barber, 2004).

Cost of Debt (Cd)
Cd = I (1 - TR)

Where I is the Interest Rate on Debt

TR is the Tax Rate
Cd = {(30,000,000 X 0.06) / 25,000,000} X (1 – 0.28)

= 0.072 X 0.72 = 0.05184

= 5.184%

Cost of Common Stock (Ccs)

Based on the given information, the cost of common stock is calculated using the formula
Ccs = Cd + risk premium
rf = (20 X 8) / 160 = 1 (rf is the risk free rate)
Ccs = 5.184 + 0.75(1)

= 5.934%.

Cost of Preferred Stock (Cps)

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- The difference between common and preferred stock

Common stock, also called ordinary stock, are part of equity stock, which earn variable dividends. The amount of dividend they receive depends on the company’s performance and the decision of the board of directors. Thus, the dividend varies from annually and in some years, they may not receive dividends. Furthermore, common stock has residual claim on dividends after preferred stock have been paid. Common stock have an ownership stake in the company, accompanied by voting rights either in person or by proxy. They can, therefore, participate in some aspects of decision-making such as board membership, stock splits or ...

Introduction

The economy is never steady and it never follows a predetermined course. There are various factors that influence the functioning of an economy and thereby force it to experience period of boom or recession. The various securities that are traded in these markets, whether government or private, also get influenced by these factors and experience fluctuations in their stock prices, in the case of shares, and in their yield, in the case of government bonds and securities. In most cases, it is easy to analyze and understand the cause behind the trend that emerge when one studies minutely the ups ...

Introduction

Comparing stock exchanges from two countries at different stages of economic development is an interesting case, because it can show what aspects of capital market theory have universal application and what the limitations are. In addition, recommendations could be made for a developing country, based on the example of the developed one. With this perspective, the report reviews the business and regulatory developments of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as well as assesses present challenges facing them. All stock exchanges function within the economic, regulatory and general institutional frameworks of their countries, therefore a brief ...

QUESTION 1:

INTRODUCTION:
Pet.com is an e-business, founded by two graduates and Ms. Solberg, with a total equity capital of $1.5 million. Despite greater losses the company has tolerated, investors are eager to invest in the shares. Seeing the excitement, company decided to go public with the sale of 500,000 shares in initial public offering by the three existing shareholders, along with the sale of additional 750,000 shares by the company so as to provide funds for expansion. Further, the underwriters suggested placing price at $18 a share instead of $24, but financial manager was worried about the fact that ...

Executive summary

Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as the shell is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It is oil and Gas Company operating in various parts of the world; to stay relevant to climatic and environmental changes it engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. In addition, it is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and marketing. Apart from its core activities, it has entered into partnership with various international organizations to preserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock ...

Private placement is the sale of a company’s securities to a few, select investors as a means of raising the capital. The investors may include insurance companies, banks, pension funds, and mutual funds. Such a placement does not require registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This work appraises the market performance of a group of companies that announced their intention to sell private placement shares. The market considered herein is the NASDAQ Global Market. For this market, two companies (issuers) are considered -- NeurogesX, Inc. and Solar Capital Ltd. The information herein is current and is sourced from various sites including the ...

Question 1

Stock flipping refers to buying stocks during an initial public offer with the intention of reselling them immediately at a profit. It is a short term investment strategy that takes advantage of existence of liquid markets. Institutional investors engage more in stock flipping than individual investors since they have more shares availed to them at the offer price .

Investment banks encourage stock flipping for various reasons. If an IPO is allocated only to long term investors, there will be no trade in the secondary market. The stocks will be in the public but they will be illiquid since nobody is selling. ...

A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow

One of the most important concepts in finance is time value of money that means that money has its value. This means that a dollar in hand today will be worth more than a dollar a person will have in the near future. For example, that a dollar that is invested today in saving account or in some bond will have an interest added in it on an annual basis that will eventually result in the rise of dollar value in the future. (Business Finance Online, 2013) This occurs because of:

- Risk and Uncertainty is always present because no one can pre-determine ...

Our explanation over how these terms are related to each other during building blocks of Theory Construction will be based on Modern portfolio Theory. The Thoery suggests that StockPrices is affected by multiple factors while the hypothesis in this study will be if there is a negative relationship between inflation and stock prices, a positive relationship between foreign exchange rate and stock prices and again a positive relationship between Real GDP and Stock Prices. In other words, the main core thrust of the hypothesis is to study the effect of Macro Economic Variables on Stock Prices.

However, many people confuse the terms ...

The capital is the lifeblood of any company and the major constraint for the entrepreneurs because of the limitation of the sources through which they can raise capital. Raising equity and debt is believed to be the life of the economy. Raising money from the local citizens is a remarkable act but it seems to be miracle to raise money from the foreigners and this is what the globalization aims at. During the recent decades, the cross-border financial flows have been steadily increasing around the world. With the tight integration of the world’s economy, there has been an increase ...

The issuance of common stock involves the asset and equity accounts no matter if it was issued below, above or at par. To illustrate how these accounts are used differently in all three situations, we shall make the following journal entries:

Situation A: Issuance of 10,000 stocks at the par value of $10.

Cash 100,000
Common Stock 100,000

The journal entry is straightforward when stocks are issued at par. We just have to debit cash and credit the common stock account for the exact amount of cash received which is also equal to the par value of the stocks.

Situation B: Issuance of 10,000 stocks at $12 (par value of $10)

Cash 120,000
Common Stock 100,000
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Accrual Base Accounting and cash based accounting are 2 methods employed by managers in financial reporting of the earnings of a company over a period. As per Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), a company has a choice in application of accounting methods which is often referred to as earning management.

Accrual based accounting is a form of measuring the income where the effect of transaction is recorded when the transaction occurs rather than being recorded when cash is received or paid, which is the cash based accounting method. This method enables the combining of the current cash inflows and outflows with future expected cash ...

Introduction

This paper discusses inventory management techniques used by firms. It also discusses techniques used by American Airlines to minimize costs and maximize profits.

Inventory management

Inventory management entails the processes and functions responsible for the maintenance, record keeping, reception and delivery of inventory and related products in any given business concern. The inventory management is one of the functions that any business organization should strategically address if is to achieve its profit maximization and costs minimization objectives. Inventory should be managed well so as to incur related management costs in the least way possible. Businesses employ different techniques and approaches in ...

Question 1

In business terms, risk can be explained as the inability to make correct anticipations or predictions about the incomes a business expects to realize in the future. A business faces risk due to the fact that it cannot accurately predict whether it will earn enough money to sustain its existence in future periods. Diversification, on the other hand, refers to the process of making several different investments that are not related so as to reduce the level of risk an investor faces.

Businesses may measure the amount of risk they face by analyzing the level of standard deviation they record ...

Task 1

Explain the nature and role of accounts. You need to also explain why James and Rebecca need to produce accounting information in order to make financial decisions.

Answer

Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and reporting economic information to the owners of business and all interested parties (Joel, 2008). Business transactions have financial implication on a business in both short term and long term (Frank & Allan, 2005). Some of the transactions are sale or purchases of fixed assets or current assets, paying of business expenses, and settling current liabilities among other business transactions. Accounting involves identifying, measuring and reporting ...

Introduction

The entire concept of both of these things is vital for an organization and the importance of the same thing cannot be derailed from any standpoint. In finance, the name of Financial Modeling is one of them, which has its own significance and importance. Theoretically, financial modeling is basically a task of building an abstract of representation of a real world and financial institution. Financial Model is usually known as a mathematical model represents the asset class of a financial based asset or a portfolio of a business or an individual . The essence of financial modeling is increasing day by day in number of countries ...

1. Project management is often defined as a process of applying managerial tools, knowledge and skills in order to achieve the project goal and to fulfil the requirements set by the customer within a predefined schedule and at a preset cost. The main benefit of the project management is customer satisfaction. It is achieved through the completion of a project in full, on time, in a quality manner and within a predefined budget (Gido, & Clements, 2009). In my career I have often relied on project management in order to define project objectives and to design a plan for project implementation. As pharmaceutical industry is time ...

Introduction:

The analysis was conducted so as to study the behavior of two stocks i.e Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ABM resources. We began our analysis using various financial and government websites. For Instance, the risk free rate was derived from RBA, Australia using 30 Day Bank Accepted Bill as a proxy. On the other hand, all the stock related and market index(S&P 500-APX 200)information was derived from Yahoo Finance. We concluded the report by conducting a regression analysis between the excess return of each stock over risk free rate and excess return of market index over risk free rate

Stocks Analyzed

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Managers as well as accountants need financial information to help them make managerial and accounting decision that are very crucial for both internal and external consumers of this information (Drury 2008). To be successful in this area both managers and accountants need to have full understanding on the different types of cost and their calculations. There are different ways of classifying cost for example, manufacturing costs verses Non-manufacturing costs, fixed costs versus variable cost and finally product cost versus period costs. The most important thing that managers and accountants need to know is how to treat variable costs and ...

Issuing Common Stock

A company may issue its’ common stock at par value, below the par value or above the par value. When a company issues common stock below the par value, the company will transfer an amount equivalent to the aggregate par value to the common stock account. The amount in excess of the aggregate par value of the common stock is then transferred to the Share premium account.

For Example:

Assume that Green Marketer Ltd is a public listed company. On 2nd June 2010, it issued 10,000 shares of its common stock with a par value of $5 to the public at $10 each ...

Callable preferred stock is a kind of preferred stock in which the issuer has the right to redeem or call in the stock at a price which is preset after a specific date. All terms involved in a callable preferred stock issue, which include; call price, the call premium, and the specific date after in which the stock can be called are all well defined in the prospectus provided at the time of issue and can, therefore, not be altered afterwards. Companies and corporations have various reasons for issuing preferred stock which differs from one company or corporation to another.

Why do Corporations Issue Such Stocks?

One of the ...

Background:

With a rich history of success, Pepsi was an establishment of the 1898, in Carolinas. The drink was an original invention of Caleb Bradham. Based in New Bern, North Carolina, he was a pharmacist and drugstore owner ("Pepsi History," n.d.).

It was five years after the introduction of Coke that Pepsi came into existence, in the year 1893. This was the time when the inventor Caleb Bradham decided serving customers his soda machine produced ‘Brad’s Drink’. In response to the positive feedback that he received from the drinkers, he began advertising his samples in 1898, after naming ...

Managing inventories is a key operation for any business. With the advent of technology computer software have been developed to make the control even easier. Sales companies mostly use the fixed order period inventory system, also called periodic inventory system. This method works on the idea of only updating your company’s inventory balance. Orders are placed periodically with varying quantities. For one to do it effectively, the balance of the stock has to be determined. In determination, the number of products sold is usually tracked so that it is much cheaper to know the balance and when the inventory ...

Introduction

British Telecom and Vodafone are two giants in the telecom industry. After the financial burst of 2008 in the US Economy and the financial troubles in Europe, the telecom sector got badly impacted. In fact the whole sector instead of growing has slid into a negative growth which has affected almost all the telecom companies. British Telecom and Vodafone are trying to diversify their portfolios by making efforts to come up with innovative product packages to fuel growth. So far the initiatives have not shown much improvement in the results. In such conditions it is becoming very difficult for those ...

In the present era of Corporate Modernization, unlike the traditional activities, it is not the owners which runs the company, infact they hire competent management to work on their behalf. Moreover, every owner(shareholder) consider that the managers so appointed to work on their behalf will act in the best interest of their owners and will assure shareholder’s wealth maximization. Infact, in present complex corporate era, the performance of the company depends upon, how competent the management is adapting the dynamic business environment and related circumstances. Thus, the ability to properly adapt and implement the changes in the ...

The use of Capital markets share to the markets where interest tax, along with stock and

Bond prices are settled on. It was also issued that the monetary organization could supply resources to businesses. Banks, venture banks, mutual helper funds, insurance organizations, they raise together “savers” who let their money to be invested and be assistance to the starting businesses, individuals, and other industry that needs funds for different purposes. Governmental organizations like the Federal Reserve System, which manipulates and deal with the financial support to those who invest to organizations like so. With Money market, securities are generally much protected investments, which could return with a low interest rate that is suitable for those ...

Answer 1

Common stock has several issue characteristics. The first is that it represents ownership in a company. The second characteristic is that it has voting rights for the holders. Thirdly, this stock has volatility for its holders. Another characteristic is that the holders of these shares have the right for receiving dividends as determined by the management board of the company. This stock has a number of advantages. The first is that it has the potential to deliver high gains as due to dividends and capital gains. The other advantage is that the potential loss from an investment in stocks is limited ...

Introduction

For any company to maximize profits, it must try to implement Just in Time (JIT) demand based system, forecast driven system or lean manufacturing. This is done while considering their advantages and disadvantages i.e. how they affect the company in terms of workers and the equipment they use. Companies must also dispense proper management so that production of goods and services is increased (Perry, 2008).

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In the manufacturing industries, JIT demand based systems are used in operations management. They need accurate specification and handling of materials to attain minimal inventory levels. They also use stock as a market defense in ...

- P/E Ratio stands for Price-Earnings Ratio. The variables that affect P/E ratio are market price of a share. Market price of the share is what it is trading at the stock exchange. The second variable that affects the P/E ratio is the Earning Per Share. Earnings per share are calculated by dividing the Net Profit after Interest and Taxes divided by the number of shares outstanding. All of these calculations reveal how much the firm is valued in terms of stock valulation.

- Stock valuation uses the time value of money in the calculation. There are several concepts ...

Introduction

Talent Management, the process of identifying, attracting, acquiring, retaining and compensating the human capital, has been undergoing a series of transitions over the years. This is due to the introduction of managerial technology such as the SAAS (Software as a Service) as well as the emerging trends in the HRM (Human Resource Management) that has steadily evolved from the manual paper work to a more unified automated method Burkely (2009).

The Talent Management has basically undergone a four-phase evolution; each stage being an improved state of its previous as they tend towards the forth coming future. The first stage in this chain of ...

Question 1

Explain why Nestlé’s supply chain should cope with the market challenges?
The management should be keen to improve its supply chain network due to the improvements in technology that have come in the recent past. This is especially through the use of the internet to facilitate a greater integration and globalization of its market. If the management does not try to meet competition at its level, or at a higher level it will be phased due to lack of progression. The market today is especially attracted to the use of new technologies in the provision of goods. The management ...

Part A

Details of Decision Making Process and the Tactics Adopted Along With the Attitude towards Risk
An initial meeting was conducted by all the team members for the purpose of distributing tasks to different group members which was in accordance with their abilities to handle. The entire distribution of tasks was based upon the Four Color Personality Test (Hartman, 1987). This personality test is being used by many companies these days so as to develop an ideal environment in which the employees give out the best from their productivity panel.

The decision making process was divided within five major ...

The industry I will explain the issues undertaken by CKDBS is that of the pharmaceutical industry. This industry is tasked with manufacturing many types of drugs. The components of these drugs will vary from one area to another one. The concentration of the drugs has been done in order to prescribe the drugs to the clients basing on the severity of the disease. The concentration will also be done in order to vary prices. Another variation is the originality of the drugs. In drug manufacturing, there are those drugs which are considered to be original and effective and those ...

In the management of inventory by a firm there exist different techniques of valuing inventory at hand and that which has been acquired. The most famous and employed techniques are LIFO and FIFO.LIFO is an acronym referring to Last in First Out while FIFO refers to First in First Out.

The gross difference between the two techniques is how the inventory is valued before it leaves the warehouse to the processing unit,(walther,2012)

In last in last out (LIFO) model the inventory per unit leaving the warehouse is valued at the price in which the last acquired inventory is ...

Pepsi versus Coca Cola

Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a US multinational beverage company, manufacturer, marketer and retailer of alcoholic-free drinks. The company has it’s headquarter in Atlanta. A pharmacist known as John Stith Pemberton in 1886 invented the Coca-Cola drink. In 1889, Coca-Cola formula was bought by Asa Griggs Candler, who used it to found the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 (Bodden, 2009). Under Cander’s leadership, the company grew and increased its distribution beyond Atlanta. In 1894, due to high demand for the drink, the company, through Joseph Biedenharn, installed bottling machinery that enabled the bottling of the drink.

Large scale bottling of ...

The National Beverage Corporation’s website, www.nationalbeverage.com opens with a repeating slideshow of people of different races, ages and demographics drinking, and enjoying, a combination of beverages, bottled water and soft drinks. The message over a drum loop is “Get a taste of our flavors!”
Clicking continue takes you away from the opening slideshow and to the main page of the website. The website employs a sparse design that begins with an overview under the heading “A Formula. A Philosophy. A Tradition.” The paragraph below goes on to explain how “we” strives to be the best in everything that ...

The interconnectivity between the world’s largest stock markets is based on the world’s interdependent global economy. No longer does one country exist without interaction with other countries. No longer are countries isolated from each other. Instead, countries rely on each other for everything from raw materials to the production of goods and services. This interdependence is reflected in the stock market and other facets of counties economic systems.

I believe that Japan has the most influence on the United States’ stock market. The correlation between Japan and the United States’ high market movements is high at most ...

Information systems

Trading stocks and futures require close monitoring and valuation of transactions. It requires scrutiny and thoroughness. Any small sign that a stock will gain or lose should be a source of information for the traders. One aspect and feature of an information system that is used for this trade is that it should be efficient and fast. This will enable the readers to execute orders in the shortest time possible. Stock prices keep on shifting using the shortest time possible. These changes should be captured. The information system should capture these changes and reflect the same changes to the traders. Another ...

Check Your Understanding:

Feasible set are all possible portfolios that could be constructed from a certain group of securities available to an investor whereas an efficient set is that portfolio in the feasible set that offers the investor maximum returns at a given level of risk .

The rate of return on publicly traded bonds can be used to assess and compare default risk. The higher the default risk the higher the rate of return to compensate investors for taking extra risk. Therefore publicly traded bonds with a higher rate of return have a higher default risk.

Real rate of return is the rate of return realized ...

Limitations of the internal control systems

Internal controls are the procedures that the management institutes in the company in order to ensure the operations are running smoothly. The objective of implementing an internal control system is to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the business, enable management detect, prevent and correct irregularities and ensure the organizational assets are safeguarded from misuse or theft. The internal control system however has some limitations. They are events that occur that will prevent the system from accomplishing the mentioned objectives (Pfister, 2009). The three inherent limitations of the internal control system are:
1) Collusion
One of the crucial ...

Introduction:

NASDAQ index is made up of industrial, healthcare, media, technology, telecommunication and service companies. The biggest companies in US which had listed in the stock exchange when it was incorporated are the main composers of this index. It consists of both local and multi-national companies.

1. Suppose the NASDAQ index increase by 7 percent annually over the next decade while the S&P 500 increases 6 percent annually, on average you are better off holding the NASDAQ stocks than the S&P 500 stocks. On average are you better off holding the NASDAQ stocks than the S&P 500 ...

Introduction

A strategy is essentially a high level plan that is used by an organization to achieve one or more goals under uncertainty conditions. The concept of strategy therefore becomes ever crucial when it is suspected or is known that insufficient resources are present to achieve the desired goals. It is thus about both attaining and maintaining an advantageous position over adversaries through successive exploitation of emergent or known possibilities rather that an institution committing to particular fixed plan that is actually defined at the onset.
Strategy formulation is the task of a manager in every institution hence it is a requirement ...

Introduction

The IFRS are accounting standards, rules and principles that were introduced by an independent organization in the United Kingdom, known as the International Accountants Standards Board. The institution puts forward that the standards would better serve public companies worldwide than the local standards in the country due to the aspect of comparability, transparency and economic growth. There are several countries that have adopted the IFRS over the recent years. The transition to IFRS for the companies in these countries has considerable costs. There are technical and training costs that are incurred that may cause several companies to be cautious ...

Finance: Finance as a term can be defined as a science of managing money and other related assets. This management has to do with banking, investment and credit. This science of management also involves monetary resources, funds and especially funds in government or any corporate body.

Efficient Market: An efficient market is a market that is assumed to have all the pertinent and the necessary information which help the market participants to transact fairly. This information should be available to all the participants fairly at the same time and the prices in the market are expected to respond to this information. ...

Exam #1

- What are the two types of statistics? (5pts.)

The two types of statistics are descriptive and inferential. In descriptive statistics, the data of a population is summarized graphically or numerically through derivation of statistics related to central tendency and dispersion around the same. The shape and nature of distribution is also used in descriptive statistics.
In inferential statistics, the parameters of a population are inferred according to sample statistics. This involves the estimation of statistics of a group allowing for approximation of information data relating to the entire population. In this type of statistics, modeling are used to generate mathematical ...

The two concepts of accounting are very vital when it comes to the realization of the ones profit in a given business premise. They enable the manager to come up with the best policy in realizing the best profit for a given sale. They depend on the ability of the sales being on a fixed cost or at some points it can rely on some factors like the case of the absorption costing which is believed to be an absorption that is based on all issues dealing with the manufacturing costs into the issue of the inventory rating.

The various costs that ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this research is to determine current advantages of the system of corporate governance, decision-making process and their compliance to the corporate culture and goals of further strategic development, as well as assess the possible areas of improvement.

Recent changes within Kraft Foods, Inc. which resulted in the separation of the company into Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and Mondelez International, reflect the change of the corporate development strategy. Specialization of the former on the North American market of groceries and the latter on the global market of snacks is the result of an attempt to diversify financial ...

Winford Plc is a company that has been awarded a contract by Westriver Borough of operations of the local swimming pool. In order to manage the sales and revenue generated by the services offered, an accounting system, has been developed. The main components of the new system in relation to sales revenue and tickets from vending machines will include principal documentation, the processes involved and the records to be kept (Champlain p.45).

The Principal documentation of the new system will be made up of two parts. The first part is the user documentation. The main purpose of the user documentation is ...

Winford Plc is a company that has been awarded a contract by Westriver Borough of operations of the local swimming pool. In order to manage the sales and revenue generated by the services offered, an accounting system, has been developed. The main components of the new system in relation to sales revenue and tickets from vending machines will include principal documentation, the processes involved and the records to be kept.

The Principal documentation of the new system will be made up of two parts. The first part is the user documentation. The main purpose of the user documentation is to assist ...

Just the same way as music plays a significant role in Native American culture, art has a very special place as well. Native Americans have traditionally used art as a way of expressing their culture for many years. Most of the art was created as a symbol such as eagle, bear, walrus, or people. On the other hand, the Victorian art depicts the cultural belief of the time about romance and beauty.

In native American art, basket weaving served as a very popular form of artwork that served two functions. Cornhusks and reeds were woven together to make complex baskets. The finished basket would ...

Introduction

Sony one of the leading electronic company around the globe, is one of the leaders in the technological industry. The company also have an innovative culture that successfully increased in the market and effectively spread from one epic of the globe to another. On the other overview Apple Company is also one of the key leaders who have flooded the technological industry and effectively became the major role players in the industry.

In the market set up Apple Company remains one of the impressive companies around the globe in the context of the services provision. This is also illustrated ...

1. Discuss the reality and significance of the Civil War in U.S. history. What were the factors that led to the outbreak of war? What were the long-term consequences of the conflict? Discuss Lincoln s role. What did emancipation mean to both sides in the war?

The reality of the US Civil War lies with the then economic and social differences between the Northern and Southern parts of the US, where Northern Federal states, grew industrialized, welcoming new cultures, while the Southern confederate states maintained an antiquated social order, and agriculture, utilizing the slaves in their farms. These socio ...

Answer.1

There can be various alternatives to the traditional job based approach of employee compensation. One of the important alternatives is that of Delayering. Delayering is the process by which we reduce the number of job levels. Delayering promotes greater flexibility in job assignments and hence the assigning value increases. Another alternative is by the means of Banding. Banding is the process by which many different job levels are combined into smaller number job levels. There is an increased opportunity responsibility, training, and pay attached to seniority or performance. But there are decreased opportunities with delayering and banding.

Another answer ...

Issues that Stewart and Bacanovic Faneuil missed their decisions about their stock sale

Stewart invested in Imclone upon the recommendation of her friend in spite of the company being headed by Dr. Mendelson whose reputation had come into scrutiny following the scandals at Enron. There were also indications that the Food and Drugs Agency (FDA) would not approve the cancer drug Erbitux that was poised to become one on the best performing products for the company (Jennings, 2006). Moreover, Stewart’s investment partner Dr. Waksal had placed his shares as collateral for loans. It was therefore risky for Stewart to rely on the investment. Stewart used a stockbroker who had conflicting interests with ...

Abstract

This paper will discuss the importance of measuring performance of balanced scorecard and economic value added. The crucial relation of the two disciplines which is a determinant of an organization’s overall financial performance. Every business organization has their own vision of how the company will be after a specific period of time. This vision is guided with a mission that dictates the decision of the company in the course of their operations. Mission and Vision must go hand in hand to ensure smooth sailing business operations and it entails the success of the organization once the mission and vision was embodied ...

Analysis of Essar Energy’s Objectives and Structure

Essar Energy Plc is an Indian energy producing company that has been in operation for nearly twelve years and is also the second largest power producing private company in the country (Espinasse 218). This company has projects and operations in gas, oil and power and aims to be the world’s largest oil refiner. To achieve this, Essar Energy aspires to raise nearly three billion dollars in the London Stock Exchange by going public (Kirk 34). This paper explains the key operating characteristics of Essar energy plc in comparison with Drax Group plc and investigates whether Essar’s initial ...

Accounting Cycles

Adjusting Entries: These are entries made at the end of an accounting year usually at the end of year. These are journal entries to ensure incomes and expenses are allocated in the period that they were earned and incurred respectively. The money may not have been received or paid out in the particular period but the expenses and income are accounted for in the particular year they were earned or incurred. This is known as accrual accounting. It is also the principle of matching principle since revenue and associated costs are accounted for in the same accounting period. There ...

- The Red Scare which occurred after the end of WW II was caused by many factors including the Soviet Communists acquiring nuclear weapons through stealing US bomb secrets via spies, the cold war with the Communism, some American and British Communist spies working with soviets being discovered, and an invasion of South Korea by Communist. Moreover, American politicians used these issues to instill fear and witch hunt so as to increase their positions or power. Some of the major results of the Red Scare were expatriation or deportation of foreigners and barring the socialists from office.

McCarthy was ...