Essays on Financial Capital

Introduction

The chosen article was titled Impact of Globalization on Human Resource Practices in a Manufacturing Firm in Nigeria. The article was published in 2013 in the European Journal of Business and Management by Akanbi and Itiola. The article was chosen because it reflects on one of the developing countries in Africa and which is among the top countries embracing globalization in the continent. Moreover, the article was chosen since it has featured in a peer-reviewed journal and was published recently. Additionally, the paper has content that easily sparks discussion in the major effects of globalization on the different human ...

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CONTENTS I. Background3 II. St. Regis Mumbai: Strategy & Implementation: Overview...5 II.I. External Operation Environment: Opportunities & Threats6 II.II. Internal Operation Environment: Strengths & Weaknesses..7 II.III. SWOT Chart...8 III. St. Regis Mumbai Strategy: Evaluation..9 III.I. St. Regis Mumbai Strategy: Mission & Objectives9 III.II. St. Regis Mumbai Strategy: Business Model9 III.III. St. Regis Mumbai Strategy in Theory..10 III.IV. Recommendations11 IV. Conclusion..12

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St. Regis Mumbai: Strategy Implementation Analysis I. BACKGROUND St. Regis has a global presence of 58 hotels in four continents: North America, Africa, Asia and Europe in 23 countries ("Global St. Regis Hotel List," n.d.). St. Regis Mumbai, one of St. Regis's hotels ...

Problem Statement

There are a number of reasons, defined by the ethical as well as the economic and the political scenes, for the non-diminishing interest in addressing the gap between the rich and the poor. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism, which outlines the major views on economic inequality and the criticism, seen in academic and business literature, towards the philosophy of free market and capitalism in general. One of the principal works, laying the foundation for the discussion, is the work by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), who places the idea ...

The United-States of America is a country that has always favored immigration. Since its founding to the early twentieth century, it has had practically open borders. With this policy of favoring immigration, the United-States has greatly increased its population, its standard of living, and its per capita income. The historical success of American immigration policies supports the view that it should continue to support the idea of integrating new waves of immigrants. It is plausible that doing so will lead the United-States to even greater prosperity. While there are many who believe that immigration should be curtailed, in this ...

Strategic Issues Faced by Nucor

The operational focus of the Nucor Corporation is to “Take Care of Our Customers.” The company operates under this philosophy by providing the highest quality good at the lowest cost maintaining highest operational standards in the industry. The company has a strong culture and follows environmental stewardess by paying back to the communities where it is operating. However, the corporation I facing some strategic issues that are given below:

Plant Efficiency and Cost reduction effort

New plants construction International growth through joint ventures Increased competition High population and economic growth Increased bargaining power of buyer. Cost Reduction Effort NUCOR is always trying to increase the ...

Collaborating with partners across the world is one of the main strategic advantages of Procter & Gamble, a fast paced company that continues to grow despite the low barrier for new entrants in the fast moving consuming goods. Rihard Boateng’s (n.d.) article “Value Chain Analysis of Procter and Gamble Case Studies” describes P&G’s business model, based on international procurement, rapid adaptation to the market and the partner’s requests and solid financial capital for sustaining further business opportunities. The author of the article also informs about the limits of P&G to reinvent itself through new products, which allows its ...

Introduction

Accounting and Finance are two different fields, but most of the people associated both of them are identical. However, the concepts of both of these provisions are totally different from each other. Accounting is the name of recording the day to day transaction, while finance is the name of utilizing the funds of the company at a place from where the likelihood of earning would be on a higher node. Both of the concepts of Accounting and finance are two important things from the standpoint of an organization and no organization could be in the line of economically based prosperity ...

All Possible Investment

Investment is an important aspect that associated with an organization as well as business, as it has a tendency to deliver future aspects and benefits in the future (Baker & Powell, 2005). Investment has a clear cut strategy in the mind which is to deliver future consequences and prosperity in the future. The tradeoff between the risk and investment can be extremely essential for taking different investments into consideration, and reach on a certain conclusion regarding the providence of effectiveness in the market (Dayananda, 2002). This particular part of the assignment specifically deals with the analysis all the possible investment that can ...

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays social and economic development is characterized by the increasing role of the human factor. Today, human capital role takes on a new meaning. In business, it is the main criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of any company in achieving competitive advantage and ensuring qualitative parameters of economic growth, defined as the set of natural innate abilities, talents, creativity, moral, and psychological health; accumulated and improved as a result of investment knowledge and professional experience necessary for purposeful activity in certain sphere of social reproduction, bringing in the income to the owner. Moreover, analyzing human capital it is necessary to pay ...

Introduction

Financial statements are the end product of an organization, in which information of the financials and non financial based things would have been recorded accordingly. Succinctly, it could be said that a financial report is basically a piece of document, in which information pertains to the total expenses and revenues should be recorded for different users of the company. There are certain users of the financial statement, which deems extremely important for the organizations. Some of the major users of the financial statement of a company are the investors, bank’s officials, governmental officials and other important things. Generally, there are ...

Introduction

Since the end of World War Two (WW2), the world has attained high achievements in terms of economic, political, social, and cultural development. During the World War 1 and 2, many nations took part in the war and were unable to exploit their natural resources, generate adequate income through economic activities, and establish industries. The period was characterized with political unrest, military invasion, outbreak of contagious and non-communicable diseases, hunger and famine; aspects, which lowered productivity and economic development in the world. However, the end of WW2 marked a turning point in the world’s history as it provided a favorable ...

The movement being referred to here is the ‘occupy WallStreet’ movement. This movement started in the month of September,2011 at the WallStreet, and its major purpose was to occupy WallStreet which is the country’s financial capital. The pioneer behind this movement was a Canadian group and magazine called Adbusters, which made the initial call for people to protest. It was largely aided by Workhorse, which is a public relations firm, which assisted Adbusters to draw immense media and public attention to the movement. Indeed its contribution to this cause was acknowledged by industry publication PRNews, which awarded the firm ...