Finance Creative Writings Samples For Students

Literature:

An ironically chilly summer evening
Paranoia and uncertainty cover the land as the surrender by the Germans and victory by the allies appear imminent and at this point more than certain
The war has raged on for five years and both sides of the battle field are reeling from the effect of the war with casualties tending to their millions both in terms of civilian lives as well as military personnel. The damage on the infrastructure is unmentionable at this time with entire cities being leveled to the ground such as the French capital of Paris which ...

Question 1

Subsequent to completing my college studies at MSc, I aspire to acquire a job in an international consulting company such as Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey, where I will work for approximately 3-6 years. Considering that I will have a chance to interact with different kind of people of deferent profession. My main objective while working will be to acquire the necessary skills, knowable and experience, particularly as it relates to business consulting projects. While working, I will apply the knowledge gained in class to my work at the top management consultancy. I plan to focus more on accounting and financial ...

Riots that broke out in Hong Kong, set a difficult choice before the Communist Party of China. Violent suppression of protests in the 7.2-million-autonomy may deter investors from it and harm the economy, while mild reaction would encourage dissidents and separatists on the mainland with a 1.3 billion population.
The unrest in the heart of Hong Kong began on September 26. Organization that gathered demonstrators "Occupy Central with love and peace" was planning to organize a movement by the scenario that broke out in New York in September 2011 "Occupy Wall Street", which provides blocking important administrative buildings (Campbell).
This ...

Page Numbers

Many successful companies practice open-book management that includes disclosing financial information to all employees. What are the potential benefits of this disclosure?
Disclosing financial information to the staff and assisting them in understanding the statistics, because not every employee has economic education and can understand a database, they can observe company’s operations from inside and be aware of the path towards its objectives. When there is some bonus or income distribution plan, workforce will better value program’s performance and see how its labor helps the company achieve these objectives. Furthermore, employees can produce own strategies or strategies ...

Story of the product

Wheretoget.it is a ​​young online project, which helps people to find their favorite clothing items from photographs. It works quite simple. Once registered, users upload pictures of things that want to find and buy, and readers help to identify a brand of clothing, give a link to an online store, where the thing is sold, or at least find similar things. Usually to find a necessary thing takes less than three hours and in 84% of cases the search is successful.
The site was launched in 2011, but now it is very popular. Its creators, Nicholas Metske, Gilles Babinet and Romain Moyne ...

Civil Rights Movement and American Paradox

Introduction
In 1960s, Republican overwhelmingly supported the Civil Right Movement and believed the idea from constitution “all men are created equal” and Northern Democrats supported the cause too. The Southern Democrats were “conservative” and were against the Civil Right Movement and they wanted segregation to stay within their society. They believed blacks being treated as “separate” were enough in itself.

Some examples of American Paradox to Civil Rights Movement:

Ku Klux Klan: Ku Klux Klan used to be very violent with the Blacks and they were against Blacks being treated as “Equals”. They used to do their best to ensure Blacks didn’t manage to vote and ...

Q1: Which qualities & skills do you possess that make you suited to the role to which you have applied?

After reading the requirements for the intern position in your organization, I am confident that I have the relevant skills and vast experience applicable to the organization. My dedication in class has helped me acquire a GPA of 3.81 with As in Economics, Calculus, Statistics, and accounting in my Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, which I believe are mandatory to research. I am a self-motivated team worker with proven leadership qualities that are also instrumental to learning as a group. I have attended and completed trainings on leadership in investment banking, private equity, real estate, ...

As a woman, I am always concerned about safety. There are many categories of safety including physical, social, financial, and environmental safety. Due to their physical weakness and maternal roles, women are susceptible to physical attacks, rape, emotional abuse, and economic discrimination. Safety is therefore a major concern for me because I believe that when they adequate security, financial freedom and environmental protection, women will proper and social institutions will be strong.
Global warming is the second issue of concern. Human activity has contributed immensely to global warming and the extreme weather patterns being witnessed are a clear indication that global ...

International Operations

McDonald’s global management strategies cover the many different organizational functions of operations, marketing, human resource management, finance, research, compliance and other aspects of management. Because of the size and complexity of operating in the international marketplace, these functions confound McDonalds with many different, complex and often inter-related issues. On top of these functionary requirements, the food chain gian also has to deal with external factors that complicate the situation such as a country’s culture and the legal and administrative framework that an international corporation must work with to be eligible to compete in that said market place. Thus a ...

Introduction

This document analyses the mission statements of three banks namely National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and Al Hilal Bank. The mission statements will be compared and analyzed in an effort to understand their clarity, scope, and consistency with the respective company’s line of business. The document revolves around three main banks in Abu Dhabi. The banking industry has grown over the years since it was first established catering for a number of financial services such as monetary savings, loans, investments and financial consultations services. The key driving factor behind the growth of this industry is ...

As the project was involved visiting towns and bringing awareness to consumers on the company’s new product. We faced a challenge of how to draw attention of people. To overcome this we were accompanied by a musician, and a loud system of music in one of the company’s trailers. All the entertainment expenses were catered for by pioneer electronic company due to the use of their system which was a form of promotion.
The planning and tracking of this project was done by the company’s project manager, making it to take effect on the recommended seven days. With the ...

Fundraising practices have changed over the recent past with a majority of the shift recorded being the complete shift from transaction to relationships. In order to ensure proper fundraising, development and maintenance of long-term relationships with donors should be enhanced. The relationships maintained may be either aimed at one time donation or lifetime relationships to enhance better donor relationships.
With the complete shift from transaction to donor relationship management approach, it should be more than playing with words. There should be a concise strategy to ensure better donation luring modules that emphasizes on performance rather than the need to generate ...

Communication

Power Point is a powerful and ubiquitous program Microsoft developed to aid in making presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint offers a facility to create attractive presentations, which incorporate video and animations. Its primary function is to help in designing, creating and editing presentations. A presentation is a collection of screens; slides presented by one to a group of people. In order to make effective presentations, the most noteworthy thing is to understand the content of the message. One should keep the audience attentive and interested.
Making an effective presentation, which maintains the attention and interest of the audience, can be a challenge but practice helps ...

Dear Editor,

I am writing today in response to comments made recently by Congressman Paul Ryan indicating that a massive overhaul of the social security system is needed. While I agree that perhaps the system needs to be tweaked in light of the demographic change that is occurring due to the retirement of the baby boomers, I do not believe that the kind of change Congressman Ryan seeks is going to improve the system, but instead would help to dismantle it.
Ryan’s proposal would cut benefits dramatically and take steps toward privatization. Doing so would break a promise not only to ...

Project Name: “Bukhoor”

An appraisal of the project from an investors perspective casts light on to a number of issues that need to be addressed so as to make the project appealing to an investor. First and foremost is the need for a comprehensive executive summary. This section should highlight the key points within the project, that should be made to stand out to the investor. Such a summary should communicate to the investor, the scope and size of the opportunity, the business and profit model as well as what creates a unique value proposition, or advantage for the company, in relation to the other players. ...

Abstract

The Affordable Health Care Act has been a misrepresented misinterpreted issue in American politics from since its first introduction as one of President Obama’s strategies of improving health care in America. It has met immense criticisms to the extent of factions in the society referring to it as ‘Obamascare.’ The following pages of the paper will advance some evidence based perspectives regarding its role in reducing paperwork and administrative costs through the adaption of clinical information systems technology

Introduction

Overview of reducing paper work and administrative costs (Affordable Health Care Act)

The Affordable Care Act is a law which seeks to ...

Vision

I am an optimistic and ambitious young person. I want to achieve each and every goal that I have set; therefore, I have a bias towards action. I am an accounting major, and my short term goal is to graduate with honors. Thereafter I want to sit for CPA examinations so that I can realize my childhood dream of becoming a certified public account. My long term goal is to start a successful Audit firm and to be able to provide for my family.

Upon graduation, I would like to work as an accountant or an auditor with one of the leading ...

Abstract

Financial strategy formulation and implementation involve substantial planning, analysis and forecasting. In the dispensation of that duty, managers and employees alike must consider risk. Risk refers to the possibilities of occurrence of events whose results ordinarily cause losses of a financial nature. Interestingly, risk is not predictable or certain. This makes factoring risk in the financial strategy problematic. In addition, risk in itself is a broad term that could be manifested in different ways. Some manifestation of risk includes business risks, credit risks, interest rate risks, political risks, default risks and reinvestment risks. The uncertain nature of risks makes it fundamentally ...

Following The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Introduction

Verexus Inc. is a financial institution specializing in regular, updated corporate financial reports for both minor and major companies. Its purpose is to provide financial advice for companies both for managing and projecting their future costs in order to determine company goals and status. My internship was dated July 18, 2012 to August 17, 2012 as a summer training program in which many companies submitted posted advertisements to reputable schools to provide internship opportunities and creating job-ready students upon graduation.

Objectives Learned

The University of San Fransisco in recent years has created mandatory training ...

Abstract

A call option can be defined as a contract which gives its holder the purchase rights a financial security or commodity at the exercise price. On the other hand, put options could be defined as contracts which gives its holder the purchase rights a financial security or commodity at the exercise price. Usually call options and put options must be exercised within a given duration or period as agreed in the contract. Call options and put options are normally used to hedge risk by one party which is risk averse while the other party uses call options to make a profit by assuming the ...

Introduction

Hedging refers to an investment strategy that employs financial instruments with the aim of cushioning oneself from the incurrence of losses on other investments. Hedges can be formulated by using a number of financial instruments; these include: options, swaps, future contracts, derivatives, among others.Hedging strategies are diverse in nature. The spread strategy is commonly applied in the markets. This involves the use of more than one option of a similar class or category on the same underlying stock. There are a number of spreads that could be employed by the company in accordance with the volatility. These include the following:

Bull spread

In this ...

A swap as a financial instrument refers to a notional principal contract in which one party undertakes to make payments to the other party using a specified variable rate, the notional amount. On the other hand, the other party undertakes to make regular payments, which would, be based on a different rate or index in application to the notional amount. In other words, swaps refer to derivatives in which the parties engage in the exchange of cash flows hence the term swap. The benefits inherent in a swap depend on the kind of financial instrument exchanged. The agreement of the swap includes the dates ...

Trading Issues and Basics of Forward and Future Contracts: DB2

Derivatives provide investors with the opportunity to create wealth in the future. Besides being very secure investments, these financial instruments provide investing firms with a good mechanism of hedging multiple currency transactions. Many companies are now embracing derivatives as one way of securing their future financial stability and strengthening the company’s hedging policy on currencies.

Difference between contango and backwardation markets

A contango market is one where prices of futures are set higher than the expected future prices. Therefore, the prices of futures in this kind of market decline gradually until they reach the expected price level just before the date of delivery. On the ...

Derivatives - DB1

Future trading is a kind of investment involving speculation of commodity price movements in the future. The commodities in question vary and the trading is referred to as speculative paper investing. This implies that the investor does not hold the physical commodity but a paper called a futures contract. Like any other contract, the futures investment has expiry dates. Future trading is a lucrative business opportunity for organizations and individual investors. This is because it can be used by organizations to avoid market risks as well as currency risks.

There are many benefits that can be derived from futures markets. When a firm invests ...

The knowledge I got from studying Corporate Finance while at school will be very instrumental to your company. This is because the different topics contained in Corporate Finance have given me insight in various aspects of finance and financial skills that will enable me to make correct managerial decisions. My study of Corporate Finance covered a wide variety of issues that affect managerial decision making.
My study of Corporate Finance taught me to evaluate the time value of money before making financial decisions. The study of the time value of money enabled me to understand that the current value ...

More than often, financial analysis using calculated financial ratios of different companies act as a measure of the financial performance in terms of profitability, market value, leverage and liquidity levels in operations. In most cases, price-earnings (P/E) ratio is used by investors to measure the market value of company’s viability in terms of investment relative to its earnings in the market (Davies & Pain, 2011). Considerably, as a market value measure price-earnings (P/E) ratio expresses the relationship between the market price of a share of common stock and the prevailing earnings per share. As a result, investors use the calculated value of price-earnings ...

Arguably, conflict of interest between organizations and individuals are very common given the large number of relationships and transactions that occur in various departments and professionals. As a matter of fact, there is a potential conflict of interest between investment bankers and security analyst working in the same firm. Despite the existence of conflict of interest, there are potential solutions that exist to remedy the situation. If the situation goes out of hand, the firm will have tremendous setbacks. Hence, it the conflict of interest should be addressed. In every organization, ethics play a tremendous role in the operation of the firm. ...

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International Trade Relations
Introduction

Trade restrictions are export or import barriers created by nations, against the principles of a free trade economy, to protect their industries and consumers. Such restrictions can be posed in the form of tariffs or non-tariff protection policies. Tariffs are duties or fees levied against import or export of a particular economic good. Non-tariff protections policies include anti-dumping policies, fixing import or export quota and restrictive licensing.

The company I work with is a multi-brand retail chain that is contemplating to begin trade in India. The objective of this paper is to understand the types of trade ...

The Canadian Asbestos Industry

The history of the asbestos industry in Canada can be traced to as far back as 1888 when an article in the Financial Times indicated that asbestos had been discovered in the country. This was in the Kumali fields. This industry did not start off immediately but later in 1891 after the reports in 1888 had been validated (Jones, 2007, p. 15). Initially the asbestos was used to make objects such as coffee pots, clothes, and even in dough to be used by children in their play. There was a craze for the mining and many investors took interest in ...

(Reforming the financial systems)

Introduction

The term financial crisis is mainly applicable to situations where certain financial assets suddenly lose a large part of the nominal value. Through the crisis, the financial institutions equally lose value and become incompetent in the local as well as international financial markets. Financial crisis is a major cause of economic crisis where the economy experiences a downturn in liquidity as well as unpredictable inflations. However, when the financial crisis occurs several things may be done as a solution but the reformation of the financial system is one of the actions that may be undertaken. ...

Abstract

The current paper covers the financial statement presentation and disclosures. International Accounting Standards (IAS) 27 provides clear guidelines on when an entity has to consolidate its statements with another entity. The paper first identifies the four conditions needed while making presentations and disclosures of consolidated financial statements. One of the conditions is the company is not required but may present the consolidated financial statements if the parent is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary. The consolidated financial statements need to disclose the nature of the relationship between the parent and subsidiary to establish whether it is a direct or indirect relationship. ...

The overall aim of every investor is to make a profit. There are various investment tools that are designed to meet the specific needs of the investor. Thus, depending on the investment goals and objectives, an investor can opt for an investment option that best suit his needs. There are both long-term investment and as well short term investment tools. The long-term investments are generally considered to be investments that an investor wishes to hold for a period of more than one year. On the other hand, short term investments refer to the investments that are likely to expire ...

Reflection of MBA

The experience during MBA was quite interesting as I learned many useful things that are related to business. The learning outcomes of the whole MBA were attractive as many important queries regarding business administration had been solved. The aim of joining MBA was to analyze substantial the areas of business and learn how to manage different functions of the business. The tactics and techniques to analyze the situation and provide rationale decision over the analysis were learned from different outcomes of the program. The learning outcomes of the program were helpful in analyzing the situations and find out effective ...

1. Explain the inpatient and outpatient reimbursement methodology for Medicare as a payer
Reimbursement is calculated in outpatient regarding the case date, the contract rate, the fee charged for the services received as well as the percentage of the bill incurred. In patients, however, get a difference at the rate whereby it is calculated as a percent of the incurred cost per diem.
2. Explain the inpatient and outpatient reimbursement methodology for commercial payer
For commercial payers the for outpatient, the services are reimbursed using either of the methods; percentage of the accrued charges, the fee for the service, ...

Organizations that behave ethically are more apt to earn the trust of their customers, employees, and stockholders and to have a reputation as successful, competent and responsible professionals. It is important that organizations follow strict guidelines aimed high standards of quality, reliable services, high professionalism, social responsibility and ethical behaviour it their activity – only that way they can bring benefits to their clients, staff members and shareholders. The main ethical principles that each organization must follow in its activity are decency (avoidance of illegal and unethical practices), honesty (the urge to be honest with themselves, team members, customers and ...

Abstract

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act changed the ethical nature of accounting for publicly traded companies. The Act requires new forms of ethical behavior from companies, such as creating and maintaining a code of conduct that all employees, even executives, must follow. It also requires that they honestly and accurately report financial reports and maintains that the executive officers of a company have the most responsibility in reporting and certifying that the information is correct. The Act also changes the auditor-client relationship by making auditing more independent of the client, establishing an auditing committee overseen by the SEC, and ensuring transparency.
The ...

Introduction

As one who have decided to take up an accounting course and later pursue a career in this field, I have always come across the importance of financial accounting in any business organization. However, it was when I finally took this particular course that I gained adequate realization on the significance of the different accounting theories and practices. In reflecting back upon my learning experience in financial accounting, I think that the most profound thing that I learned from this course is the significance of arriving to a complete, relevant and timely financial information for businesses. Further, I found ...

Recent U.S. BOP Performance: Is the Sky Falling?

In the case, the sky is falling has two theories that involve the statement that US economical industries are non-competitive in the international market and foreigners are taking the step of buying assets in the US which are valuable and making a country a debtor in the history of world economy.
In this condition, everything seems so wonderful from the top, which also has a meaning, that foreigners are much fascinated with the US market’s future prospects. It also depicts the democracy of economy that the investors are eagerly investing in US ...

Business Network

Abstract
Over the last decade, the competitive business environment has seen significant changes. Corporations use business networks instead of traditional marketing methods. High-tech companies and large industries have a challenge of aligning their management to suit this new trend. The management has to look far beyond regular clients and suppliers, into a complex web of companies establishing research and development networks, reliable supplier’s web and ambitious partnerships. SMEs are also adopting and implementing the business coalitions in their operations just like their large corporation counterparts. The goal of business networks is to enhance competitive advantage and draw closer ...

The WorldCom Company is the second largest distance phone company that has been "caught" reporting costs incorrectly. The company is found to have improperly booked around $3.83 billion in expenses resulting to filing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. The company crushed by the $41 billion debt load which is the largest world bankruptcy in the United States history. Notably, the impact was due to the misuse of the data and dissemination of the wrong reports by executives who pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Under chapter 11, the company was allowed to operate while it was bankrupt and they developed ...

QUESTION NUMBER TWO

Societal marketing is the activity of an organization which attempts to identify the wants, needs and interest of the consumers and strive to provide the quality products and services as compared to their competitors and a way that the well being of the society as wells as consumers are preserved. In a nutshell the organization ensures the equilibrium among the consumer’s satisfaction, its profit and the long term welfare of the society.
Societal marketing is a new marketing strategy which tries to avoid and reduce the inequalities experienced in the various levels. It stresses that organization should take the initiative ...

The name of the business will be “Mr. Sheeda.” It is a fictitious comic character that, and the name is of this character. This name has been used to form unique associations with the business name. The name has its origin from one of the workers working at a Desi Restaurant. Mr. Sheeda is a unique name and is not used by any other business corporation operating in New York State. It will be checked from the “Division of Corporations, State Records, and UCC.” This division is a subset of Department of States of the State New York. It ...

Business:

Introduction
Leadership Foundation has been profitable, from the formation time in 2008, all the profits have been reinvested back to the organization. However, how to secure long-term and sustainable funding is a very important issue to be considered so as to ensure the sustainability of the organization in future. Being a social engineering organization, the organization can initiate some strategies to attract long-term sustainable funding by engaging in alternative projects to sustain the foundation. By adopting all these new strategies, the Leadership Foundation shall focus on leading the way to diversify their programs so as to serve concerned individuals, ...

CLAS 2095 EL 10

Dr. S.Katary

Introduction
Ancient Rome has several rituals that have served as phenomenal aspects of its era as it flourished. Those have given vibrant color to the characterization of Roman life at that time, as it stood as among the most interesting points of study in the history of humankind. Among those who have partaken in the rituals of the empire were the Vestal Virgins (Vestals), who were women priestesses heralded for their virtues as they present themselves to Roman society as among its institutional characters.
This study seeks to present information on the Vestals ...

Social Media refers to marketing using media such as online communities, social networks and blogs. The top four social media tools are Facebook, twitter, linkeldn and blogs. There has been an increase in the use of social media as it fulfils certain human needs. People want to connect with others and make friends. They want to know what others are doing and hear their views on what is happening in the world. People also want to express their feelings and even tell people what they are doing right now and what they plan to do in the future.

The Advantages of Social Media Marketing

Social ...

Introduction to Information Security and Risk Management

Risk management is a process of determining the vulnerabilities that are present in an organization’s information system. It is done by taking carefully planned out steps to assure confidentiality, availability and integrity of all the components inside the organization’s information system (Whitman & Mattord, 2003). Managing risks is not an easy task with limited resources and the changing landscape of threats and vulnerabilities in the system. This makes mitigating all the risks impossible that is why it is important that professionals must have the right tools to help them to be consistent in managing the uncertainties present in ...

Industrial Revolution and development of capitalism focused around the key rational drivers to raise productivity, as a result society approached to issue of "complex relations among cultural products and processes, consciousness, and the economic and social organization of society" (1991, Halley, p.228). How successful was a solution of these complex relations in the capitalist world through attempts of delegitimation and reenchantment of rationality?
Cultural Processes: New processes need the new cultural drivers. Gradually separated from their generic and institutional origins the cultural activities followed the historic processes. This movement was not easy often followed by the cultural resistance, taking the ...

Almanaser,

Doha,
Box 2654.
Mobile 55559180
FINANCIAL GUARANTEE LETTER
The Embassy of the United Kingdom,
Doha,

Qatar.

Sirs,
With reference to the visa application of Mr. , Surname .., passport no: 000000000, Nationality of Yemen, I hereby state that he is a best friend of mine since childhood and he will travel with me to the United Kingdom during his holidays. I am currently pursuing my Final Year B.E (Hons) Chemical and Process Engineering Degree at South Bank University, London. I guarantee to support his stay in the United Kingdom and he will stay with me at my residence, Flat 1, SE1 ...

The interest rates for the central bank of Kenya have had different faces since 1991 with the rate changing as the economy of the country keeps on shifting from worst to best. At the moment, the exchange rates in Kenya stand at 8.5 percent as compared to that adopted by the Federal Reserve System (FED) of America which stands between 0 and 0.25 percent. From the year 1991 to 2014, the average exchange rate for Kenya is 14.62 percent. Kenya recorded a record of 84.67 percent in July 1993. At this time, the FED was enjoying the exchange rate of ...

Single-entity businesses like Professional organizations habitually have a code of ethics developed and adhered to by its employees (Schwartz, 2002, p. 31). While the oncoming employees and other members of staff consent to the business’ core principles, it’s not always smooth sailing when comes to sticking to the existing codes and the principles are not always easily and clearly stipulated. As a new Chief Executive Officer of the single-entity business that provides financial services, I will be looking to develop plans and evaluate ways to cut ethical lapses through training and support. The material items needed are ethical training, professional ...

Introduction

Social entrepreneurship is business concept in which the entrepreneurs engages in the innovation or creating products in the market while eat the same considering the social responsibility as well as the welfare of the people. It mainly concerns the social responsibility of the people in the society. The foundation or the basic principles of the social business are different with the normal business goal that mainly aims at profit maximization other than social responsibility. Social entrepreneurship therefore involves the social business where the main goal is the social welfare or philanthropic rather than profit maximization. The non-profit making organizations ...

Communication Process

Review the steps of the communication model on in Ch. 2 of Business Communication. See Figure 2.1.

Identify one personal or business communication scenario.

Describe each step of that communication using your personal or business scenario. Use detailed paragraphs in the boxes provided.

Additional Insight

Identify two potential barriers that could occur in your communication scenario and then explain how you would overcome them. Write your answer(s) below.
The potential barriers that could occur in one’s communication scenario are as follows: (1) the recipient is currently not in the position to immediate respond to the request due to any of the following reasons: too busy attending ...

The institutional affiliation

MEMORANDUM
INTRODUCTION
Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

Introduction

Managers employ different approaches that are used to steer the direction of the organization to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. The paper will discuss the various strategies that are used by managers to run the organizational operations. These management practices are unique to each organization. Also, they help an organization to gain a competitive edge in the market. The management team of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has implemented various strategies that ensure it becomes one of the most preferred hospitals in the region. The hospital is located in the centre city of Philadelphia, in the United States of America. ...

IMPLEMENTING A BEHAVIOR-BASED FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM IN A FOODSERVICE ORGANIZATION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The goals of the organization are varied, and information was collected from internal sources within Roundy’s, Inc., to better understand the needs and the structures governing the overall state of affairs. The organization is a large food service organization but it has been suffering from some financial problems in recent years, and these financial problems have been associated with expansion. However, the leadership of the company is aware of the need for food safety protocol; the need for food safety protocol transcends the need to make a profit, as lax food safety protocol can be the downfall of ...

Social Security

Dear Mr. President,
Social security program is the backbone of the American society. The current shortfalls in the fund will adversely affect many people in the coming years. Therefore, it is imperative that a long-term solution be found to solve this problem once and for all. The social security fund depends on payroll taxes paid by both workers and employers and the retirement age. Hence, the fiscal problems can only be solved by adjusting three key measures: payroll taxes, pension payouts, and retirement age.
Firstly, the government can increase the payroll tax. Currently, workers pay 6.2% of their ...

Regarding Competitive Intelligence Practices

Regarding Competitive Intelligence Practices
Upon my hire as Director of Security, a request was made for the review of the practices of the Competitive Intelligence Unit of the corporation. The present report provides the results of this review and recommendations for action related to its findings. A central component of this report is Table 1, which summarizes the competitive intelligence practices currently ongoing at the corporation. These practices are grouped into three categories: white, grey, and black. Any practice which is blatantly illegal has been automatically categorized as black. Action recommendations for each of the practices, ranging from continued ...

Maureen O’Herin

English 1A
Should the Minimum Wage be increased?
Minimum wage can essentially be described as the hourly wage rate set by the law, and it exists to ensure that people who work can earn enough compensation to support not only themselves but their families as well. The idea behind minimum wage has been in existence in American since the late 1800s and the early 1900s when the trade unions were formed and started agitation for better pay for workers from different professions. Since then, there have been various changes to the minimum wage over time, with the ...

Introduction

Cost price squeeze is increasing of costs when market pressures like competition make it hard to increase commodity prices in order to cover for the escalating costs. In agriculture it involves increasing costs of inputs like seeds and fertilizers and the decrease of crop prices. The farmers end up paying more than they get due to the squeeze between prices and costs. Increase of costs in upstream can be caused by energy costs fluctuation, consolidation, and inflation. When fertilizer and seed companies consolidate, there are no low cost inputs for farmers to buy. Prices on the downstream can decline ...

Communication is among the most essential elements in the success of any business, be it large, small, local or international. There are numerous communication methods in existence today for business organizations, thanks to changes in technology. The effectiveness of an organization’s communication will be dependent on a number of factors. For example, it is important that the essence of the communication is established, and the communicant should know whom the message is intended for. The organization of the message, the style of communication, purpose and format of communication should be considered to ensure that communication is effective and realizes ...