Essays on Return

a. Indicate which passage you have chosen and summarize it in no more than 3 sentences. The passage that has been chose for analysis is Luke 4:14-30. This passage describes Jesus' return to Galilee. During this time he begins to preach to the community, and gives them the prophecy that had been spoken to him. The people become angry with him, although impressed by his wisdom. He then leaves town by parting the crowd and walking through. b. Introduce the reader to your argument. Within the passage, the people of the community at first seem to see him in ...

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to be given to an artist “who created the most distinguished picture book of the year.” (www.ala.org) In 1992, the winner of that prestigious award was David Wiesner, the children’s author and illustrator of the book Tuesday. Known for books with little or few words, Tuesday stays true to this artist’s format. The book opens with the words, “TUESDAY EVENING, AROUND EIGHT”. It is easy to see why it became such a favorite. Simply it is the story of frogs unexpectedly taking flight from their pond, on lily pads. Through pictures ...

Analysis of Samsung Corp.

Introduction Samsung Corporations operates as a multinational company operating in electronics industry with the headquarter in Suwon, South Korea. It is a blue chip company listed in Dow Jones. The company makes profits in terms of trillion with over 200 trillion of assets and 168.088 trillion of equity (Michell, 2010). As of 2015, the company had around 307,000 employees contributing to its operations. This makes the company a big corporation thereby forming a platform for practicing how to analyze businesses. The profitability of a Samsung’s operation is dependent on the efforts put by the management towards ensuring ...

Understandably, change is inevitable in business. Keeping with the trend of business and being proactive to the possible change ensures that the business remains profitable in the market. With the increased need for efficiency and the introduction of the new technology, businesses are forced to change their methods of operation and adopt new technologies for efficiency. Accordingly, they are expected to study their customers who are also changing with the technology to make informed decisions during the change process. Supply chain does not operate in a vacuum and hence cannot assume the changes in technology. It must adopt new ...

WACC Calculation: Arrow Electronics Limited

Calculation of WACC WACC: Weight of short-term debt* Cost of ST debt(1-tax rate)+ Weight of long-term debt* Cost of LT debt(1-tax rate)+ Weight of equity* Cost of equity = 0.0019* 0.0274+ 0.2987* 0.0378+ 0.6994* 0.0707 = 6.085%

Calculative Notes:

i) Cost of debt: -Cost of Long-term debt

The cost of long-term bonds issued by the company has been calculated on the weighted average basis:

-Cost of Short term debt The information relating to the short-term debt of the company was available in Note-6 of the financial statement where we found that during the year the amount of short-term debt owed by the company amounts to $13.454 million. The company has also disclosed that short-term borrowings were used exclusively ...

Part one: Click and Mortar vis-à-vis Dotcom retailers The advent of information technology significantly revolutionised the retail business and the supply chain networks. Technology put pressure on business to develop platforms that would allow customers to purchase various goods and services online. This revolution resulted into traditional physical warehouses developing parallel online consumer platforms to increase profits (Bozarth & Handfield, 2015). This model of business is called click and mortar model and involves brick and mortar business to open an online store. However, this reverse of this model (click and brick) involves online stores developing physical presence. This paper ...

How to Manage Diabetes

Managing diabetes is a daily challenge that is worth the effort. The most important thing in managing diabetes is to ensure the blood sugar maintains the levels recommended by the physician (Yee Cheng et al. 3). Eating the right foods and substituting regular soda and juice with drinking water, eating foods such as bread pasta, rice, and whole grain cereals since they contain more fiber helps maintain the right blood sugar levels. Also, it is advisable to avoid high-calorie foods and instead, choose foods like vegetables, whole grains, cereals, and skim milk. It is also important to be active ...

Upon the discovery of the mistake, you should take the responsibility of reporting the mistake to the supervisor, of which you did and is commendable. You should inquire how the mistake came about and how the firm can take responsibility of the mistake. You should try to share with his supervision in the firm on ways through which the mistake can be rectified. You have the ethical requirement of being transparent and should not in any way utilize the mistake to your own advantage. You also have an ethical requirement keeping the information regarding the mistake within the firm; ...

PART 1: ART AND ARCHITECTURE THEME REFLECTION

Part 1: Thinking Through Theme and Image

The theme chosen for discussion within this particular project is the theme of duality and conflict as a result of duality. This is a common theme throughout arts and literature; it can be seen in a grand sense in the Bible, with the duality of the divine, as well as in classical literature like Frankenstein. It is also present in many famous works of art, including works of art like Picasso’s Guernica. Duality and conflict—and associated themes of war and strife—are common themes because they are universal in many ...

Racism in the United States continues to be a big issue nationally and in states, institutions, offices and daily commute. However, it is not as severe as it were in the past few centuries. Regardless of the vice, America should be at a point in life when everyone enjoys equality and a chance to interact with whoever they want. Racism is existent in concentrated areas like schools and prisons where different races forms alliances amongst themselves. It leads to constant racial fights and drifts. The new generation of racism should be a national issue whereby everyone should change their ...

Human Resource Management

Gap Incorporated.

Executive Summary3

1.Company Overview and Introduction6 1.1 Company mission..6 1.2 Company vision.6 1.3 Sources of revenue.7 1.4 Industry information and Market share.7 1.5 Number of employees and their demographics..8 2.Problem Definition and Research Objectives..10 2.1 Problem.11 2.2 Decision statement12 2.3 Research objectives12 3.Business Case for Business Research14 4. Research Plan and Methodology.16 4.1 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data17 4.2 Secondary Data Collection.19 4.3 Primary Data Collection Tools20 4.4.Sampling Approacp0 5.Survey22 5.1 Survey Design Rationale.22 5.2 Focus Group Questions Rationale24 6. Implementation and Communication Plan26 6.1 Implementation Plan26 6.2 Timeline..28 6.3Budget..29 6.4 Communication plan30 8. References.32 7. Appendices

A: Survey Questions.34

B: Focused Group ...

Business Decision Making 3 of 3

Business Decision Making 3 of 3

A Gantt chart is a scheduling technique used to assign a time scale and sequence to a project or plan. A Gantt chart comprises of horizontal bar charts drawn to scale for every project activity. The length of the horizontal bars shows the time to attain completion (Ghionea, 2014). The steps involved in the creation of Gantt charts include the establishment of horizontal axis to represent time, use of vertical axis to represent activities, and representation of each bar using suitable length. The activities represented by the Gantt chart include lot preparation, creating ...

I would rather receive proceeds from an investment paying 5% compound interest. The compound interest will be higher than the simple interest because the compound interest accrues on the principal amount plus accumulated interests of the previous periods. On the other hand, simple interest only accrues on the principal amount. The future value interest factor for 10% 2 years is greater than the present value interest factor. This is because future value involves compounding while the present value involves discounting.

When the interest rate increases, the present value of annuity decreases but the future value of an annuity increases.

I would prefer a savings account paying interest compounded daily. The more frequent the compounding, the more interest the ...

Memorandum to: Supervisor

The Lack of a Budgetary Theory There is significant aridness in the American budgetary literature regarding one of the most important issues of public budgeting, which is the distribution of public budget for varied purposes so that highest return can be achieved (Fao.org, 2016). However, the energy absorptions in the building of mechanical institutions for purposes of budgeting have created a diversion in attention from problems of basic budgeting. The issue is identifying the basis on which allocation of dollars for activities A and B is decided. There are some aspects of pure economics associated with public expenditure but ...

The problem facing the organization is to select the optimal strategy regarding development and marketing decision for Ski Right Helmets. The options presented in the scenario from with the organization can select the optimal are five (5) in number. First option is partnering with Progressive Products (PP) to develop the product and share profits evenly; second option is giving the contract the making and marketing to Leadville Barts (LB) and Progressive Products (PP); third option is a combination of TalRad (TR) and Progressive Products (PP) to make the product; fourth option is contracting the production and distribution to Celestial ...

In his book called the Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli deals with a wide spectrum of issues, including the interaction of government and authority, military affairs, qualities that should be prescribed to true rulers, historical perspectives of Italy's development, the issues of politics and morale, etc. All the author's reflections, arguments and conclusions constitute a unified logical sequence representing coherent stages of the construction of a durable and powerful state. With that, the state should be headed by a wise and brave ruler - a prince. In his book, Niccolo created a collective image of a ruler. In the author's opinion, ...

The usefulness of the balance sheet

a. No, the focus of accrual accounting, different to cash accounting, gives more accurate information about the company in the financial behavior. The accrual accounting matches the revenues and expenses operation in the generation date and not when there is cash transference. The income statement is more important than the balance sheet because the income statement explains the behavior of the company in the fiscal year and explains the capacity of the company to generate value to stakeholders. The balance sheet gives a "static photograph" of the current situation of the company. Only making the comparison of balance sheets ...

Tax Research – Disposition of Property

The repossession is treated as a sale or exchange from (Foreclosures) and reported the original sale (Publication 225). The gain or loss is the difference between adjusted basis in the transferred property and the amount realized. (Publication 537), The investment land, is sold again this year will be counted as a short-term gain.

For now the gain is:

644,000-562,250=81,750$ As for the Mrs. Nittany rent property, it has been owned for more than 2 years (Gains, Reporting). It is a business property.

The gain is as follows:

Realty 338,200-41,920=296,280 $ 385,000-28,750-4,293-296,280=55,677 $

Furnishing

21,400-15,000=6,400 $ 15,000-6,400=8,600 $ ...

Almost everyone knows the simple concept of direct relationship between risk and return on investments. The underlying reason is clear: investors are not playing games, they work with real money, and would suffer real losses; therefore, they want ‘premium’ for taking excessive risk and the higher this risk, the more return they desire. However, the issue is estimating such risk, and more important is ability to measure the relationship between risk and return; in other words, investor want the answer on the question: how much exactly he will earn, if he invests in some asset with the given risk ...

Introduction

Strategic management plays a vital role in the development of every organization as it provides the opportunity to the business to expand in the future. The strategic management process is also referred as the science of experimenting and formulating the long term and short term plans for the business including the initiatives with the purpose to optimize the objectives of the organization. The process is important as it is linked with the mission and vision statement of the organization/company. There is a need to supervise and amend/edit the strategies of a corporation with the analysis and demand of external ...

Risk and return relationship has always fascinated portfolio managers, economists and researchers. With modern portfolio theory, it is generally assumed that risk and return have a direct relationship, i.e. higher the risk of an instrument, higher the return it is expected to generate. Most of the modern portfolio equations and theorems are based on this assumption that return increases as risk taken increases and that higher risk instruments outperform the lower risk instruments. This relation holds true for all instruments. Total risk associated with a product or an instrument can be broken down into credit risk, market related risk ...

Research Paper

Research Paper

Introduction

High Technology Corporation (HTC) is an established maker of a variety of electronic components, and it serves an international market. HTC is now fully-integrated wireless communication service for worldwide use. However, to establish its brand in the global market, it has to dominate in its B2B activities. In this regard, it is useful if HTC invests in a global electronic brand in the international market. In the assignment, Apple Inc. has been selected for investment by HTC. The paper would conduct the financial assessment of Apple from a comparative perspective, to provide investment feasibility for HTC.

Background and Industry

Apple ...

<<Author>> <<Date>> In the fast changing competitive world in which companies operate today, the importance of strategic management cannot be overemphasized. A company statement is helpful to define and communicate the company’s goals and strategy to all stakeholders (MaRS, 2013). Company statements are designed to act as a guide and a motivating element; targeting all the stakeholders. The Mission statement defines the ‘reason for existence’ of the organization. Next is the Values or Goals statement, which defines how an organization will work, what it believes in, what will be the organization’s ...

Introduction

The success of any business is determined by how the employees are working. Motivated employees always work their level best in order to get more satisfied with their jobs. Demotivated employees on the other hand are less productive and their work is always characterized by many mishaps. Industrial/organizational psychology, commonly referred as I/O psychology, is the scientific study of the behavior of human beings in the workplace or organizations (Spector, 2000). I/O psychology is a specialty whose main focus is coming up with principles concerning individual, group or organizational behavior and using the knowledge gained afterwards in coming up ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

In his work, Plutarch once said: “For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.” (Babbitt, Helmbold, Einarson, Clement, & O'Neil, 1927) That was true in Plutarch’s times and remains true until now. I am inclined to believe that it’s better to develop oneself in the field that is interesting to you rather than to fill your head with any “useful” information. Another question – what is interesting to me? I entered college 15 ...

The question among a majority of the world population is why some countries are more developed than others are. In the world, United States of America and other European countries are considered to have superior economy compared to the developing countries. The situation is so, despite these countries having a richer economic history and a pool of both natural and human resources. The explanation for this situation remains elusive to many researchers with different reasons fronted by the investigators (Acemoglu, 385). However, to answer this question we need to understand the terminology; economic institution and its link to the ...

The paper attempts to analyze the financial performance of Wal-Mart Inc. and Target Inc., for the financial year 2014. Wal-Mart Inc. and Target Inc. are giant industry retailers of US and are the close rival of each other. Selective financial ratios are considered in this paper in order to evaluate the financial performance of the entity and to decide on the investment decisions. Return on the capital employed ratio is used to determine the firm's capability to revenue by making use of its invested capital. Return on capital employed of Target was 9% which was considerably lower as compared ...

The answer is yes. There were so far two companies that got a lower ROE (Return on Equity) during their fifth year, compared to the same value they got during their first year. Those two companies were Yahoo (from 12% to 4%) and Proctor and Gamble (38% to 17%). The reason behind this, that is also evident on the data presented in the Financial Cockpit case study, would be the fact that both companies came up with a lower ROA (Return on Assets). ROA, just like what ROS (Return on Sales) is, is also an important component of ROE. ...

According to the Directory of Supermarkets, Grocery, and Convenience Store Chains, Ralph is a supermarket series in the southern area of California and the biggest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger (469). It is the oldest series of its kind in the western part of River Mississippi. Kroger also operates stores under the Foods Co. and Food 4 Less labels in California. During my visit to the store, I found out that Ralph runs two programs to reward its customers. There is also contribution program where a customer uses Ralph’s Card during shopping, and a share of their buying sum ...

In the middle of the 20th century, after the World War II, all countries were highly disturbed and scared of a new war which could appear. United States, being a powerful country, the influence and power of which helped to end the WWII, were a kind of an enemy for the other countries, who lost at the war. After World War II United States and its enemies and Soviet Union were in the state of a Cold War. According to John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum “Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to discuss the dividend policy of German car manufacturer, Volkswagen and analyze whether the past three year dividend payments is in accordance to the dividend policy of the company. As part of this paper, we will also calculate the weighted average cost of capital(WACC) of the company.

About the company

Founded in the year 1946, Volkswagen AG is a german car manufacturer and at present is the second largest automobile manufacturer in the world. The company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells automobiles in Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific. In addition to automobile manufacturing, the company has ...

The desire of a soldier to return home after fulfilling his duties during a war is evident in Homer’s writing of “The Odyssey”. After the Trojan War, fought between the Achaeans and the Trojans, Odysseus seeks to return to Ithaca so he could take his rightful place as King. However, Odysseus meets multiple hindrances that delay his return by ten years during which, his people assume he is dead. Now, the man’s experiences throughout the mentioned period evidently end in the arms of his wife Penelope but as John Scott writes in his article, “The Close of ...

Introduction

The taxation system is the largest contributor when it comes to government revenue. There are five basic principles when it comes to the idea of taxation. These principles are: 1) to raise revenue, 2) reprice certain goods and services (tobacco, alcohol, etc.) to meet social objective, 3) income and wealth redistribution, 4) raise representation within the democratic process, and 5) to reorganize the economy (Murphy, 2009, p. 211). It is a firm argument that all of these principles must be in place in order for the concept of taxation to work.

The meaning and importance of equity (fairness) in UK taxation

In 1776, Adam Smith introduced the principles of ...

Company Analysis: Arrow Electronics Limited

Answer 1) The cost of long-term bond issued by the company has been calculated on the weighted average basis. The calculations follow hereunder: It is considerable that every organization has an appetite for capital. However, while there are many sources to raise capital, it is extremely important to weigh the pros and cons relating with each such source.Below we have discussed some of the likely benefits and limitations of issuing bonds, in relation to Arrow Electronics: -Advantages of issuing bonds: i) Tax deductibility: One of the biggest advantage offered by bonds is the tax deductibility associated with it. It ...

Introduction

In order to make sound investment decisions, one is encouraged to evaluate all the possible alternatives. In this case, there are two sites that have been earmarked to host an Italian food business namely London and Brighton. As such, the paper shall evaluate the suitability of each site and make a recommendation on the best location using both quantitative and qualitative means. 2.0. Quantitative Analysis 2.1.1. Break Even Analysis 2.2.2. Best Decision Based on Break Even Analysis Break-even analysis is one of the key considerations in committing financial resources to an investment. Fundamentally, any commercial venture must be concerned ...

The issue of increasing expatriates turnover has badly affected the reputation and position of XYZ Inc. in the global market. The problem refrains skilled employees to move to other countries for the company’s assignment. During last two years, many expatriates return to their native countries without fulfilling their respective responsibilities. Their reasons allow me to develop some effective strategies to continue sending employees in different countries. There are two effective strategies to allow expatriates to continue working in which they are sent to accomplish the task. These employees will get special benefits that other local employees cannot enjoy ...

In her article for New York Times Public & Private; No Place Like Home, Anna Quindlen tells about a new building in Rio constructed to serve as permanent housing for the homeless people. This project was started out of the initiative of a non-profit group and is an alternative to providing homeless with temporary shelters. The buildings constructed for the project are fully functional homes with kitchens, baths, rooms and everything like in real homes. Moreover, alcoholic and drug addictions treatment will be provided as necessary. The tenants will participate in job training and will be able to pay for ...

Part 2

The return will be computed using the yield to maturity formula. YTM captures all the relevant information in the valuation. 1)

Corporate bond

YTM = C+(F-P)/n(F+P/2 C is the coupon payment = 10.125% *1000 = 101.25 F is the face value = 1,000 P is the price = 879.625 N is the periods to maturity = 25 YTM = 101.25+(1,000-879.625)/25(1000+879.625)/2 = 11.6%

Government Bond

YTM = C+(F-P)/n(F+P/2 C is the coupon payment = 6.825% *1000 = 68.25 F is the face value = 1,000 P is the price = 975.42 N is the periods to maturity = 25 YTM = 68.25+(1, ...

Today, most people live in a very dynamic world and face the lack of time. Each day more people are turning to the basics of time management in order to optimize their time expenses. However, the self-time management is both simple and complex science, which is necessary for all people who try to live their life with maximum efficiency. This assignment is a reflective essay, which describes the author's experience in self-time management. My everyday duties are quite similar every day. As many people, I try to combine studying, work and housework. Given that I am about to graduate ...

Interpersonal physical violence (committed against women and children)

Human trafficking and concomitant criminal sexual exploitation of women and children in the XXI century is becoming the fastest growing and highly lucrative activity for transnational organized crime. Statistical data of different sources irrefutably specify on the tendency of increasing human trafficking in many countries of the world. It is necessary, to mark that this crime is not a problem of one state and an issue that has gained an international dimension. The danger of human trafficking is that the buyer gets as a result of the deed of sale full control over the victim and may dispose of ...

INTRAPRENEURSHIP PLAN

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY HDI Securities Inc. is a participant in the Philippine Stock market and had been incorporated since May 26, 1992. The company formation was dated back to the patriarch of the Chai clan (Singapore based clan chia family) who come together to own a seat in the Philippine stock market. The aim and objective of the company is to function as a brokerage firm to cater for the investments of its fund providers. Currently the company is facing the challenges provided by the economy in which it was rank as the 37th position spot in the overall performance ...

Portfolio of an average person can comprise of various investments made either through banks, equity market, mutual funds, insurance products etc. The weightage of these products or asset classes in different people’s portfolio depends on a lot of factors such as their income, return objectives, risk taking appetite, liquidity constraints etc. Each market or asset class has its own advantages and disadvantages, which can be related to either liquidity, rate of return, lock-in period etc. A person can open a savings account through any bank. It offers convenience to park funds and withdraw any amount any time. But ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis for West Marine Incorporation. As part of this analysis, we will be a performing a comprehensive analysis of the raw financial figures of the company and will use the tool of common-size analysis and ratio analysis to unearth the trend that led to led to changes in the financial position of the company for the past three years. However, before introducing the analysis section, we will be introducing some of the facts related to the company and some statistics related to the stock price movement. The report will finally be culminated ...

Part #1

The return on sales (Net Profit Margin) is a ratio that measures the average dollar of revenue earned by a company. In most cases, the return on sales is used to provide profitability comparison between different companies. In the company provided, the return on sales has been rising and falling. The changes in return on sale are caused by different levels of sales and revenues realized by the company (Tracy 34). The return on equity is a financial ratio that measures the business profitability in relation to the profits generated from the money invested by the shareholders. Therefore, it ...

<Your Professor’s Name> <Course Name & Code>

Company history, Economy and Competition What is the recent history of the company? Apple Inc. is a multi-national company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 in California, USA. Jobs and Wozniak were high school friends who dropped out of college together to venture into the computer technology industry in 1976. The company started off with the launch of a simple Apple I computer in 1976 but has now gained enough momentum to be labeled as the most admired company and valuable brand in the world. The Company ...

Introduction

The Bernie Madoff scandal was a Ponzi scheme involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. The company was a Wall Street investment firm that was founded by Bernie Madoff himself. This scandal is considered the largest Ponzi scheme ever that ended up costing investors $64.8 billion. The main people involved were Bernie Madoff, his accountant David Friehling, and Frank DiPascalli. The three were responsible for paying investors with the investors own money rather than the profits. Madoff ended up telling his sons about the scandal. They reported him to the authorities and Madoff was arrested the next day. Madoff ...

The critical infrastructure protection was launched with the concept of acting on time to critical incidents. It involves the critical infrastructure of a region, a country or a nation. The program was launched after the presidential directive of May 1998 (Department of Homeland Security, 2015). The presidential directive further developed a nationwide policy that was aimed at ensuring the nation’s critical infrastructure safety, prosperity, security and resilience under the name National Infrastructure Protection Plan. The protection plan is supposed to be orchestrated and implemented by the municipality, but due to the current constraints and economic factors, the responsibility ...

Ischemic Heart Disease in Older Adults

Ischemic Heart Disease in Older Adults Older patients frequently suffer from ischemic heart disease either in isolation or in combination with other processes (Butler, 20120). As a common clinical syndrome, heart failure is the result of impaired cardiac functioning of the action of pumping the blood through the body. Signs and symptoms of ischemic heart disease include fatigue and an inability to tolerate exercise and edema of the abdomen, legs, ankles, and feet. Although heart disease has a poor rate of survival, early diagnosis and treatment may improve life expectancy. The goal of nursing intervention is to extend life ...

Article Review: Natural Resource Economics under the Rule of Hotelling

In 1931, Harold Hotelling published an economic paper titled ‘The economics of exhaustible resources’ in the Journal of Political Economy. This paper would later go on to shape a whole new field of economics, the economics of natural resources (Gaudet, 2007). Though at the time not taken seriously because economists were more concerned with other much pressing economic issues such as the Great Depression, the paper laid both a theoretical and empirical framework for the functioning of natural resource markets and how to solve pertinent issues in this market (Gaudet, 2007). This framework later became the Hotelling rule. Seventy-five ...

Safe Investing

Safe Investing The safest investments can be defined as to invest the funds in such manner that the worth of overall investments increases over the time in the presence of different adverse elements such as inflation and time value of money. It is rare to find the safest investments in the fluctuating business environment, however, the saving account schemes or bonds are considered as the safest investment for the investors because banks at least guarantee the return of the principal amount of the withdrawal. From the point of view of an investor, it is safe for the investor to ...

Introduction

The marketing strategy for instituting changes in a product line from low end to a higher version is a process that might need to include the mobile and internet marketing strategies to be successful in this environment. Considering the competition are two very well-known competitors Macy and Nordstrom. These two competitors have been in the vertical for many years and have established customer base. In shifting the market products from one segment, the lower priced products, to another, the higher priced products, involved many organizational and strategic changes. It is not only the price tag that gets changed but ...

The Demand Side Analysis for the United Kingdom

A. Describe the evolution of C, I, G and net exports and explain if the model of growth is domestic demand led or export led. Explain if it has changed during the period (at least ten years of data). The United Kingdom’s economy is among largest economies in the world when measured by gross domestic income (GDP) and purchasing power parity (PPP). At the same time, it is the fifth most complex economy as reviewed by the Economic Complexity Index in 2013 where it experienced a massive negative balance of payment of $174B. Just like in any economy, ...

The durable competitive advantage is defined by the book when a company has sustainable competitive advantage over its competitors, i.e. long term advantage. This is called as having wide moat. Among other qualitative factors, whether or not a company has durable competitive advantage, is decided using quantitative factors such as return on invested capital, financial leverage, growth rate of equity, current market valuation, positive cash flows, liquidity ratios etc (Otuteye & Siddiquee, 2015). For the company Bed, Bath & Beyond, Inc., Return on Invested Capital shows that it has remained in a healthy range of 21% to 26% during the last ...

Background

Solow Growth Model is one of the basic Macroeconomic model in the neoclassical era. It was first introduced by Robert Solow in 1956 (Verner, 1995). The model tries to explain the long term economic growth of an economy. The dependent variable of the Solow Model is long term rate of economic growth (output) and independent variables are capital accumulation, labor (also expressed in terms of population growth) and increase in productivity (technological innovation) (Verner, 1995).

Figure: Solow Equation: Y- Output, A- Productivity, And K – Capital Accumulation and L – Labor Growth (Boianovsky and Hoover, 2009) The main assumption of Solow ...

Whether or not a company has durable competitive advantage is determined through various factors such as intangible assets, return on invested capital, positive cash flows from operating activities, profit margins, free cash flows, liquidity ratios, coverage ratios, leverage ratios and growth rates. For the company Bed Bath & Beyond Inc, we see that the return on invested capital has remained in the range of 21% to 26% for the last five years as compared to industry average of 8 to 12%. Also, the gross margin has remained around 39% to 41% range, when more than 40% gross margin shows durable ...

RE: Signing the Return with this Tax Position

I believe that the use of the strategic process set to facilitate transparent transfer prices as well as other patriotic activities is vital not only to fasten the process, but also prevent ill suspicion. This memo enlightens about the importance of evaluating the law in order to align actions to the requirements set for the transfer pricing. It informs about issues avoids through using processes and documents to prove the transparency of organizational transfers as well as preventing fines and penalties. I would only sign the return if the tax position was included. Surpassing the tax is not only ...

Volkswagen AG

Primary activity of the company Volkswagen AG is the second largest automobile producers in the world, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Volkswagen group includes twelve brands: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Ducati, SEAT, Audi, Bentley, SKODA, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Man and Scania. The Group is the largest car manufacturer in Europe: 25, 1 % of all new cars, made in Western Europe, produced by Volkswagen. The company is operating 119 plants in 20 European countries and 11 countries in Asia, Africa and Americas, occupying approximately 13 % share in the global market of passenger cars. The production of the Group ...

The Book of Revelation has yielded different interpretive possibilities for just about as long as there have been theologians around to read and explain it. This is a book that is filled with mysteries, whether it is the identity of the four apocalyptic horsemen who are supposed to usher in the judgment of God, the timing of the rising of people from the dead for that judgment, and whether Jesus Christ returns before the tribulation of the believers or after -- or whether the 1,000-year reign that the book discusses is literal or figurative in nature. After all, ...

Part A)

1) Following the CAPM Model: 0.13= 0 06+ Beta (0.13-0.06) 0.13= 0.06+ 0.07 (Beta) Beta= (0.13-0.06) /0.07 = 1 2) Beta is the measure of a stock volatility or risk embedded in the stock in response to market as a whole. It is considerable that volatility is the amount of uncertainty in the stock price, and it is the beta measure that captures the volatility in response to changes in the market index. Important to note, if the stock has a beta of 1, this indicates that the stock value will mimic the movement in the market index. Similarly, if ...