Netherlands Reports Samples For Students

Analytical Framework

Section-A
There are two different companies which have been taken into consideration for the analysis and the names of the companies are Royal Dutch Shell and Endeavor International Corporation.

Net Present Value Analysis

Net present value (NPV) is a financial tool that is deemed as the difference between current value inflows and outflows. Generally, it is used for calculating budgeting to analyze the probability of an investment on any project that. It is required to analyze the NPV and IRR on the basis of two years like 2012 and 2013.
The NPV of Shell Plc. is -250,386 $ while it is, -1, ...

Norway in Scandinavia

Norwegians are as a rule punctual and take their business seriously. Going to a formal meeting with a Norwegian businessman, try never to be late. In case, you can not arrive on time, you must telephone and do your best to give details on the cause. A formal meeting would begin with common introductions and only then you proceed on to the subject. Address people by their first name followed by their surname. Norwegians are strong on equality, so everyone is included and given an opportunity to express oneself. They will make a summary of a meeting and try to reach certain conclusions or agreements. ...

Introduction

The increasing convergence of global businesses across geographies has made human capital and service exchanges commonplace. By moving across physical and virtual (i.e. web) boundaries, cross-cultural encounters become increasingly a necessary requirement for effective work experiences locally and globally. This emphasis on cross-cultural competence in current business ecosystem is made more necessary in financial service industry. Indeed, of all cross-border services, financial activities are probably one most sensitive to global influence. Notably, by exchanging services via banking-based and non-banking financial systems, influence of not only provided services but also of people offering such services is well embedded in day-to-day ...

Strategic management

Introduction
Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a very common strategy that combines two or more organizations to become a new business. It is agreement between two companies’ to combine their different resources and run operations. In merger, one company is completely absorbed by other company. The merger and acquisition are changes in control of organizations that involve combining the operations of different entities into a single organization. The horizontal merger is a common method that exists between two organizations that are competing in the same industry such as energy sector. It can increase the market share and decrease the ...

Abstract

This report is a detailed summary of a stock market analysis. A sample of stock price indices in the year 2012 have been selected from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and New York stock markets. The inspiration for this project is to provide a statistical analysis on the performance of stock prices in these markets by assessing their trends and performance in a period of one year.
In general, the findings on market trends shall enable investors to predict future strong economies among the seven selected markets. This project shall major on regression analysis and Microsoft Excel, as basic tools for ...

Introduction to prototyping

1.1 Definition and objectives
A prototype is a functional model that works similar to the component of the product. In most cases, the client only has the general perspective of what is expected from the product of software. In such a situation where there is no detailed information concerning the system input, processing requirements and the output requirements, the prototyping model can be used. Prototyping has a number of objectives. First, it is employed in order to overcome the possible client misinterpretation and also to test technical feasibility of the proposed design and its purpose. Next is that it is meant ...

Part 1.

The cost, time, specification triangle is a visual way of expressing the constraints that govern all project management projects (Lock, 2007, p. 7). It is a useful way to show the relationship between the key components of a project and because of their inter-relationship, it provides a reminder that changes in any of the three constraints will have an impact on the remaining ones. However, there are issues when attempting to use this approach as the sole way of determining if a project was successful. In particular, the cost, time, and specification are always determined in relation to the needs of the client for ...

State

Executive summary
Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as shell is oil and Gas Company operating in many parts of the world. London it is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. It is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and trade. However, the company has entered into partnership with many international organizations to conserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock exchange and its financial statement are presented in accordance to ...

English Report

We wish to thank various people for their contribution to this paper. Special thanks should be given to our informant, Mrs. Jenny Tranter who contributed her time and provided valuable information for this paper.
We would also like to acknowledge all the lectures for giving us such a good opportunity to do ECL305 Project. Also thank them for providing guidance for us to conduct the whole project.
Finally, we are grateful to language support staff for their constructive and comments. Their comments and suggestions have greatly improved this paper.

Introduction:

A career is an important part of person's life, ...

Background3

External Environment....4

Political Factors.4

Economic Factors..5
Social Factors....6

Technological Factors6

Internal Environment6
Critical Evaluation.7
Dutch Model Problem Solving 8
Goal-Setting Theory in the Retraining Program..11

Implementing the Retraining Program.12

Consultancy Role.13
Conclusion13
Reference List..15
Hai Di Lao Hot Pot Strategy
Background
Hai Di Lao Hot Pot is a chain of restaurants established in Cihina in 1994 and is now spread across China, South Korea, Singapore and the USA (Haidilao 2016). As the name suggests, its specialty is the Chinese Sichuan hot pot, a dish in which the ingredients are assembled together and are cooked in a hot pot at the table of the diner. The humble beginnings, ...

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this report is to furnish the results of a state-of-the-art investigation of wind turbine systems, including a review of the theoretical premises of its operation.

Problem

Increasing energy crisis and global pollution make any investigation on wind energy very important, because wind energy has the possibility to reduce the above two problems. For example, the demand of electricity has increased very much throughout the world because of increased activity in industrial and digital sectors and that is causing very high fossil fuel emission, which has a direct link with global pollution. In this situation, wind energy brings high hopes of ...

Tourism Business Analysis and Planning

Tourism has today become one of the fastest growing industries. The rapid expansion of the industry globally contributes to economic improvement by creating employment opportunities and especially developing foe host countries like Malaysia. Statistics put it that in 2005 there were 806 million tourists worldwide, and the number of tourists is expected to increase to 1 billion tourists annually by 2010 (Bok and Holland, 2007). Malaysia is a South East Asian country that covers an area of 336,700 square kilometers and has two regions, west and east Malaysia. The Western region shares its borders with Thailand to the North ...

The book “Band of Brothers” is a 1992 classic on the events of a group of soldiers named Easy Company of the 506th Airborne Division in the U S Army. The book has 19 chapters and the following is a book report on the second half of that book. The major issue tackled by the book concerns the perseverance and the bravery shown by the soldiers during the World War II.
The second half of the book continues the tales if what happened at various places where the soldiers of Easy Company went to engage the forces allied to ...

The Name of the Class

In recent years, the Earth’s climate varies considerably: some countries suffer from heat waves, the others from too harsh and snowy winters, unusual for these places. Environmentalists talk about global climate change, which includes an increase in mean annual temperature, causing the melting of glaciers, and rising sea levels. In addition to warming, there is also imbalance of natural systems, which leads to changes in rainfall patterns, temperature anomalies and the increased frequency of extreme events such as hurricanes, floods and droughts (Biello, 2016). According to scientists, humanity cannot fully prevent climate change. But the international community is ...

IMMIGRATION CRISIS

Impact of immigration crisis on travel industry
Introduction
The European border has been open for refugees and countries never applied strict restriction on immigrants before the crisis of 2015. Due to globalization, the process of migration has increased, and Europe has to face surge. People due to several reasons started moving from their homelands to Europe. The flow of these immigrants is a mix of extremely complex factors. Even majority of immigrants arriving Europe because of the security reasons, but as the crisis is increasing it has to turn out to be necessary for Europe to take serious measures ( ...

Eastlink Project

The Eastlink Project was the conception, design, procurement and construction of a tolled section of 39 km from the Whitehorse-Manningham in the Nunawading-Donvale area of Melbourne to Frankston in Seaford. The highway has a pair of three lines each with an average time from the first to last station of 25-30 minutes. The tolled section opened to public Sunday, 29 June 2008 on a free basis and one month later the toll system started to work.
The Eastlink Project has its origins in the 1969 Transport Plan of the city, but the approval of the project was in 1999. ...

Abstract

This report shows timeline of South Africa and also describes how historical events have shaped the country today. A particular emphasis has been placed on explaining the outcomes of apartheid and racial conflicts on economic conditions.

South Africa preserves one of the earliest and most complete records of human evolution, dating back to 3 million BC.
4th century – Migration of humans, joining indigenous Khoikhoi and San people.
1497 - Vasco da Gama’s crews lands on Natal coast in South Africa.

1652 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch East India Company, set up the Cape Colony.

(See Appendix A - Early Migrations)

1795 - British seize the Cape Colony.

1860-1911 – Thousands of traders and laborers arrive from India
1880-81 – European farmers ( ...

the name of the class(course)
the name of school (university)

Career Development Project :Judith Gray

Choosing future career is one of the most important decisions we make in our life. Today in 21st century counseling and career guidance became system of theories and strategies with developed empirical and theoretical base. These theories can help us to understand the process of our career development.
We would like to thank all those people who made this project possible and very valuable experience for us. First of all, we would like to express deepest sense of Gratitude to our Teacher, Mr. /Mrs. (put here last name), ...

This court observation report is based on a trial that I attended on Monday November 17, 2014 as part of course work in business law. The goal was to observe two hours of actual live court proceedings at any local state courthouse in order to get a real-world experience in a courtroom, including interaction with participants, and to gain an appreciation and understanding of the litigation environment involving businesses.
The court case was ANGLO-DUTCH ENERGY LLC vs. CRAWFORD HUGHES OPERATING CO; a lawsuit of 3.5 million dollars over four oil wells between the two oil companies. I attended this grand jury trial ...

Sustainability is a broad concept in the world that is growing consensus. Sustainability is the preservation of certain status and having the capability to always endure. In the 21st century major issues is to create better economy as well as societal well-being with no environmental deterioration and resource depletion. Individuals leaving today should be able to protect, develop, and use resources at a reasonable rate so as to meet their needs and the needs of generations to come.
Arguably, controlling of the world’s population is one of the most important ways of achieving sustainability. In the recent past the ...

Part A - For the Organization

Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder analysis refers to the method uses qualitative data to know the interests and effects of different groups on the company. Internal stakeholders are the individuals within an organization, who are directly affected by the company’s activities. External stakeholders are the individuals outside the organization, but are indirectly affected by the performance of the company (Holland 126). The internal and external stakeholders of Cancer Council NSW are identified in table 1.

Scope of Risk Management

SWOT Analysis
Political: The government of NSW has taken various initiatives in relation to cancer prevention that indirectly also affect the Cancer Council NSW. For ...

Rock and roll began to emerge shortly after the Second World War somewhere in the mashup of cultures and peoples that comprise the American South. It is a hybrid form whose mixed heritage is marked by poor blacks singing Delta blues, hillbilly descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants, working-class factory heroes, Christian country folk, and urban teens crooning a cappella on street corners. Its journey of 70 or so years has taken it from the margins of society to the center of today’s multi-billion dollar global music industry. Its course can be charted by examining a select handful of the ...

The battles of the two coalitions during World War II deployed on the space of the four basis theaters of war: the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the West European and the Eastern ones, with the Pacific playing the role of the primary battleground that witnessed the great sea battles between the Japanese and Allies. Apart from Nazi Germany, Military Japan also had expansionist plans in its strategy during WWII. As long as in 1931 it made an attempt to occupy Manchuria and North China, as well as the invasion into the depth of China in 1937 (Japanese Conquest). The expansion ...

1. Analysis
The city of Melbourne is considered the Australian city with the highest growth population rate of the country creating new challenges to the city in universal services and traffic. From the 1970's there was an infrastructure project to build an express highway that communicates from north to south the city improving the transportation and introducing a relief to the existing roads of the city.
The Eastlink project developed and built a tolled highway of 39 km from Whitehorse to Donvale area in Melbourne. The stakeholders of the project were the Provincial Government of Victoria, the municipal government ...

Vibration Analysis

Vibration Analysis

Vibration analysis is the process by which there is evaluation of the condition of an equipment with an aim of ensuring that there is avoidance of its failures.

Causes of vibration

Wear
A vibration can be caused due to the wearing out of components like roller or ball bearings, gears or drive belts. That is, a gear tooth which is heavily chipped or worn produces vibration (Agrawal and Evan-Iwanowski, 2011).

Shaft run-out/ misalignment

When a machine’s shaft is not in line, it can cause vibration. Similarly, when any parts of a machine are misaligned, the resultant can be a vibration.

Imbalance

When an ...

In this article, McDermon highlights on the various surviving paintings done by Hieronymus Bosch many years ago that are now on the display in his hometown in the Netherlands. Hieronymus Bosch, who was a Dutch painter, died 500 years ago, and in commemorating this occasion, his hometown made the decision of assembling his first major exhibition to display for a least a few centuries. Through his major works, Bosch paintings were depicting human depravity and divine punishment basing on the perverse imagination. The article entirely sets out to highlight these surviving paintings by Bosch, which thus sends the message ...

(Institute/University)

Executive Summary

The subjects of suicide among the terminally ill and the severely despondent is one of the most heated in the international community. Though various states have proffered the immoral nature of intentionally killing someone even though that person is suffering from an incurable and aggressively illness that medical science cannot cure as of yet, it must be noted that patients that are suffering in these situations do not automatically request for the operation of processes that will ultimately result in the quickening of their death. Research literature shows that though it is correct to hold that there are ...

Pareto optimality is a condition of distribution of assets in which it is difficult to improve any one individual off without making any individual worse off. The term is named after Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), an Italian architect and financial expert who utilized the idea as a part of his investigations of monetary productivity and pay dispersion. Given a starting allotment of products among an arrangement of people, a change to an alternate distribution that improves no less than one individual off without aggravating whatever other individual off is known as a Pareto change. An assignment is characterized as " ...

BUSINESS LAW

Abstract
When it comes to setting up a business, it is important to gain a thorough understanding of what needs to be done in order to guarantee the success of the endeavor. Primarily, business owners must be able to identify the business structure that is more appropriate for the company that they intend to put up, including information on the type of workers that they should hire and what are the implications of hiring employees versus independent contractors. It should also include understanding issues that could arise as businesses interact with the public, other corporations, and the national government. Business ...

Introduction

Headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, Marks and Spencer Plc. is one of the leading British multi-channel retailers of garments and high quality food products. Founded in 1884 by Thomas Spencer and Michael Marks, the company has 766 stores in the UK alone with 361 more stores spread across globally in over 50 nations (M&S #3 2014). With about 82,000 employees worldwide, the company aims to provide an excellent shopping experience to its customers, whether in stores, by phone or online. The company seeks to follow a green way of doing its business and hence it has engaged ...

Introduction

The entire field of marketing is extremely broad, and it is equally applied on numerous things particularly (Berry and Wilson, 2001). Planning in terms of marketing can be taken into account by the companies for their core effectiveness and measurement. More dominantly, marketing plan would have been considered on the basis of a certain product or services, which is not gaining a smart choice of act for its consumers. The same has been applied on this particular assignment as well, in which a product of Etihad Airways would have been considered followed by a perfect and well organized marketing plan. The product which ...

Research analysis indicates that hydraulic jumps may occur in places like rivers and any other fast flowing liquid channels. They occur when liquids with a high rate of kinetic energy are slowed down immediately leading to its format. These hydraulic jumps can happen in in places like waterfalls and also in fast flowing cataracts. According to Bonn 2009, a hydraulic jump occurs in open channel flows which include spillways and rivers. A high velocity of liquid discharges into a lower velocity zone and an immediate rise occurs on the surface of the fluid. An immediate slowdown of the rapidly flowing liquid occurs ...

Identification of Policy Area

Traffic congestion is when vehicles travel at speeds slower that it would be desired because there are more vehicles than a given road or road section can handle (Wigan, 1974; Cahill, 2007). Singapore was the first country to implement an urban traffic congestion-pricing scheme. The government of Singapore through the Land Transport Authority (LTA) formulates the policies to control traffic congestion in the country especially in Singapore city (Doli, 1993; Holland & Watson, 1980). The government came about the traffic control policies upon noting that the Singapore was growing at a fast rate, many people could afford cars. In early 1970s, the ...

An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for

Brisbane City Council Library Services
Collection Development for Library Services and Course Number
3. Initial ESL Collection Development
The “Success in Reading English: An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for Brisbane City Council Library Services (BCCLS)” is our group proposed library collection project. As part of the detailed overview and discussion of the library and information services, the context in which we anchor our initial ESL collection development is at the city of Brisbane Queensland, primarily; and secondarily, the online community. Brisbane, as Australia’s largest local government, has to serve its more than two million ...

Analysis of Changes in Earned Income Tax Credit and American Opportunity Tax Credit

Chief of Staff McDermott
The U.S. economy has been slowly recovering from the the recession it faced in the recent past years. A number of factors, both economic and political, have caused this. With reference to this, several arguments have been raised in proposal to the best way of solving the economic downfalls. Policy makers have even had some members propose of immediate ways of solving the economic unrest. This among other raised the decision of the policy makers to reconsider either increasing the generosity of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for the childless or ending the ...

Executive Summary

Mission Statement
Genesis Entertainment is a modern entertainment business that focuses on exceptional rap music, merchandise, and entertainment normally overshadowed by the mainstream ideologies. The entertainment business aims to bring music joy to the individuals of all the ages, provide services, which exceeds customers’ expectations, and quality products at pocket friendly prices. What’s more, Genesis Entertainment aims to offer fair compensation to its members of staff and a fair return to the owner.

Goals

- Create a steady revenue stream from sales of the new album, ‘Genesis’, merchandising, digital sales, and live performances.
- Establish and grow the corporation into a ...

Abstract

The Australian cruise sector has witnessed significant growth in the last couple of years, relative to the wider tourism sector, mainly measured by total visitor nights. Statistics from the Australian department of tourism indicates that the tourism industry figures have been on the decline because of an unfavorable exchange difference. This paper explores the market for cruise sector players, and makes a critical analysis of various issues affecting the cruise sector, as well as the market segmentation and positioning of the various players in this industry.

Introduction

The cruise liner market in Australia for the year 2013 will be composed mainly ...

Business – Personal Review Paper

Introduction
Assessing one’s own ability based on personal observations and observations from peers and colleagues can spell the difference between a forward and a backward progressing career. These reviews are largely based on feedbacks. Without such feedbacks, any individual can linger in an incorrect career path for God knows how long. The worse thing is that without having received proper feedback, any individual can linger on that wrong career path for forever. Cases like these are not so uncommon which only tells career-oriented individuals, and professionals from various industry the importance of conducting self-assessments or being a subject to a company-sponsored ...

Introduction

Personal improvement is an essential element of working in a team, and on a larger scale, within an organization. A higher potential for growth usually leads to higher chances of earning a reputation in a large corporation and being placed in a sweet spot filled with other employee perks and privileges. While this may seem to be one of the most common and strongest type of motivation for self-improvement and personal growth, especially at a time when studying in a university and enjoying the advantages and enjoyment associated with college or university life are already over, there is more to self-improvement and personal growth within an ...

Introduction

Theory of mind refers to the ability presumption that people or other beings have a mind.This stems from the fact that one can only intuit existence of his/her own mind via introspection and there is no direct link to another persons mind.Theory of mind will always allow a person to have thoughts,wishes,intentions and desires to others,prediction or explanation of other people actions and even elaborate on the intentions of those actions.In most cases,Theory of mind seems to be like innate ability in humans,although one needs social and other much more experience over some period of years ...

Currently, China ranks the top in the world in producing Rice, potatoes and wheat. China has a variety of crops and a range of different fruits, flowers and vegetables. It also boasts of animal farming since it has a lot different breeds of the same. This has been possible because the climate of China is favorable. The climate is varied of rainfall and temperate and zones but during winter it becomes cold and dry and in summer it is hot and rainy (King, 2000). It has also been made possible because of the cooperation of the farmers with the government. The government ...

Introduction

What is international trade and how is international trade significant to a mature, robust economy such as that of the United Kingdom’s. We know that experts say that international trade is an essential cog that keeps the wheels of the economy turning, and that wheel is an essential contributor to keeping the global economic machine in motion. It is therefore imperative that the concept of International Trade be fully understood and presented with respect to the UK economy and the world.

P10: The Significance of International Trade to UK Business Organisations

International trade is defined as the exchange of goods and services between two or more countries (Investopedia, 2013). ...

The Boston Tea Party was a campaign by the Boston sons of liberty against the British tax policy and the India Company that controlled the importation of tea. On December 1773, some colonists boarded and demolished the tea after Boston officials declined returning the taxed shiploads of tea (Burgan 23).
The Tea party was termination of a resistance progress in British America against the Tea Act that the British government had passed in 1773. Colonists rejected the Tea Act since they thought that it desecrated the Englishmen rights to taxation. Protesters successfully prohibited those who unloaded the taxed tea in ...

The purpose of this investigation was to identify: job satisfaction levels, employee awareness of the work environment, and opportunities for improvement. A survey of 25 questions and was conducted in October 2012 with 45 HEMA employees and was based on the motivational work by Herzberg (1966), the information-processing model as associated with the accumulation of cognitive information about the workplace and one’s job (Hackman and Oldham, 1976) and the satisfaction scale of Warr et al. (1979) in relation with Maslow's (1943), the survey was designed to collect information related to employee satisfaction within eight main areas. These areas ...

The benefits associated with the use of building information modeling are increasing need to adopt its use in the building and construction industry. This paper addresses and defines building information modeling, challenges and the benefits it offers owners architectures and engineers. In addition, various aspects and functions of AutoCAD based software such as, Land Development, AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Revit architecture are discussed.

Introduction

Building information modeling (BIM) is the use of computer aided design technology in embedding objects with information into building components. Building information modeling is an integrated process that allows the digital exploration of a project’s ...

The advent of the digital age has brought along new business processes and technology that run organizations. Globalization has since taken root in concepts of products development and service delivery and thus companies are able to have operations in almost every corner of the world. Nations are now able to take advantage of such worldwide business opportunities in order to increase profits and revenue. However, this global nature of business has brought along its fair share of problems. There is new wave of competition in the market by companies consistently innovating new products to meet consumer needs. This cut-throat ...

There have been deliberate steps in Central and Eastern European countries such as Poland to attract foreign direct investment. As a member of the EU, the political and legislative climate has been favorable to multinational investors. Countries in emerging markets in Asia have also been receiving a lot of attention due to the low labor costs in the region. However, the governments have not taken certain steps to create a welcoming climate when it comes to taxation and corporate governance.

Introduction

The location of the country that a multinational company chooses to invest in is critical. There are certain risks in foreign markets such ...

Executive Summary

Fundamental analyses of company shares involve the review of the financial aspects of a company and generate metrics, such as the price and book value of a security or the enterprise value and the EBITDA to value of a stock. Conversely, the technical analysis of a company shares involves the valuing of company shares on the historical information about pricing and volume. In this analysis several assumptions are used: the market value is taken to reflect the demand and supply of the security, the demand and supply are driven by factors such as economic and information analysis which are rational and speculations which ...

The case of Terri Schaivo is a perfect example of using the right to die movement to rid ourselves of people whose lives we do not value. Terri Schaivo was by all accounts a healthy young woman who inexplicably collapsed at home while her husband was also home. Terri was just twenty-six. Over the next fifteen years, Terri’s birth family fought bitterly with her husband, Michael Schaivo, over whether Terri was in a persistent vegetative state or not and whether Terri would want to live like that or not. Terri’s parents claimed she was able to communicate on a minimal level. ...

Introduction

The success of a given economy in international trade greatly depends on the status of its currency as well as the decisions or rather policies that are put into place as far this issue is concerned. The United Kingdom is one of the countries or rather economies that has been said to be successive in international market, despite of the recent economic crisis that has been experienced worldwide in general and specifically, in America and Europe. The success of UK in the global economy is evident from the gradual increase of the number of exporters in the country. It is a ...

The aim of this report is to enhance understanding of the managers at the P &G through an intelligence analysis of the main competitors, and the comparison between the company and its main competitor. Unilever International Corporation has been investigated in detail as the main rival to the company. Its current market analysis has been elaborated in detail, while its current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat are explained in detail in the SWOT analysis section. Opinions on the industry and the marketing strategies have been sought from various sources, in order to allow managers to understand what the ...

Executive summary

The aim of this report is to enhance understanding of the managers at the P &G through an intelligence analysis of the main competitors, and the comparison between the company and its main competitor. Unilever International Corporation has been investigated in detail as the main rival to the company. Its current market analysis has been elaborated in detail, while its current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat are explained in detail in the SWOT analysis section. Opinions on the industry and the marketing strategies have been sought from various sources, in order to allow managers to understand what the ...