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Models For Predicting Corporate Financial Distress
2,341 wordsFACTORS AFFECTING FINANCIAL HEALTH 3 Capital Structure and Capital Adequacy 3 Operating Cash Flows and Cost Structure 4 Asset Conversions Growing Broke 5 Asset Utilisation Efficiency/Turnover 5 Other Statistical Failure Prediction Models 10 Alternative Models - Artificial Neural Networks 12 A company trying to achieve its business plan faces problems similar to those faced by a driver embarking on a long trip. The likelihood that car and driver will reach their destination is dependent on: 1) ho...
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Chaos Theory Straight Lines
1,201 wordsWhere Chaos begins, classical science ends. Ever since physicists have inquired into the laws of nature, the have not begun to explore irregular side of nature, the erratic and discontinuous side, that have always puzzled scientists. They did not attempt to understand disorder in the atmosphere, the turbulent sea, the oscillations of the heart and brain, and the fluctuations of wildlife populations. All of these things were taken for granted until in the 1970 's some American and European scient...
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Concentration And Reaction Rate
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Is Macbeth A Shakespearean Tragic Hero
1,146 wordsIn this essay, I will attempt to answer the above question, Is Macbeth a Shakespearean Tragic Hero? To do this, I will need to do a number of things. Firstly, I will need to establish what a Shakespearean Tragic Hero is. Afterwards, I will look at Macbeth's character, actions, dialogue and the dynamics of the play to come to my own conclusions and ascertain whether Macbeth is a Shakespearean Tragic Hero. In order to answer the above question with any degree of competency, it is necessary to have...
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Morally Responsible Moral Responsibility
1,934 wordsIn his essay, Freedom and Necessity, A. J. Ayer maps out his argument for Determinism, the idea that humans act the way they do because of the way already existing factors in their lives incline them to, and not of their own freewill. These already existing factors are known as casual laws. These casual laws are past experiences, feelings, and other factors that make people be who they are. He believes that this theory of Determinism and the idea of freewill can coexist in relation to human beha...
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Classical Conditioning Young Man
1,154 wordsBoth classical conditioning and psychodynamic theory have played a pivotal role in the development of social psychology. For nearly all of the past century they have shaped and influenced the way psychologists, philosophers and ordinary people have felt about the nature of the human psyche. It is because of this that we continue to use those theories today to predict the outcome of certain situations. In our particular case we have a situation where one hundred women have been asked to rate the ...
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Are Financial Accounting Statements Useful To Investors
993 words1. 1 Introduction Financial accounting statements are summaries of monetary data about an enterprise and are used in an attempt to help make informed decisions in the present and future. Financial statements portray the effects of transactions and other events by grouping them into broad classes (or elements) according to their economic characteristics. The three basic financial statements are the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement. There are many different entities ...
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The Enhanced Green House Effect
1,723 wordsThe Enhanced Greenhouse Effect For the past ten thousand years the earth's climate has been extremely good and beneficial to mankind. Today however, major changes are taking place. Humans beings are changing the face of the entire planet by destroying the rain forests and pumping our pollutants into the air and water. Some of these gases are very toxic and they are destroying our ozone layers which allows life to exist on earth These things are changing the make-up of the earth's biosphere and i...
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Group Of People Set Of Circumstances
2,090 wordsUnderstanding Issues in Organizational Behavior (1) The most recent movie, I have watched, where, in my opinion, can be found many examples of Organizational Behavior, is Fight Club, which was released in 2000. The plot of the movie revolves around person ability to completely change his outlook on life, with his act being adjusted accordingly, because the new set of socio-political circumstances comes in to the play. The character of the movie, Jack, finds it increasingly hard to exist in the L...
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Stock Price Factors The News
682 wordsStock Price Factors The News Stock market prices can be influenced by various factors, such as world news and company events, business fundamentals, supply and demand, oil prices, inflation, industry stocks, chart patterns, company earnings and company growth, economy, todays and years market, analysts targets, human psychology, and many others (Stock Price Factors). Although such business factors like estimated future earnings and current companys earnings play an important role in determining ...
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Sat Scores November 21
697 wordsSAT SAT stands for Scholastic Assessment Test. This test is used to predict the facility with which the individual will progress in learning academic school subjects. An aptitude test is a test for determining the probability of a person's success in some activity in which he is not yet trained. The definitions given above tell what the SAT is, and what it does. SAT is the main test required when one is to apply for college or university studies after school. Overall, the SAT is a long, grueling...
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Data Mining Consumer Behavior
954 wordsMarket Basket Analysis Marketing and its techniques have made a tremendous progress in the last 50 years. There are many tools known for the best possible estimation of the target market, consumer behavior, etc. Various consultant firms offer their services to businesses to reach their full potential in profits. With the appearance of the computer technology, it became simpler, faster and cheaper for companies to have various kinds of software that aid in marketing decisions. These computer prog...
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Bloom Taxonomy Taxonomy Knowledge
372 wordsBloom? s Taxonomy is the higher order of thinking. Imagine a pyramid; to get to the top, you must first finish what is on the bottom. Bloom? s Taxonomy is divided into 6 different sections, each one specifying what skills are being demonstrated. The first and easiest block is knowledge. In knowledge you observe and recall of information, knowledge of dates, events, places, major ideas, and of subject matter. Some clues to identify knowledge is if it asks or you list, define, tell, describe, iden...
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Commit A Crime Ability To Choose
1,252 wordsBrain frees Humans The topic I wish to discuss deals with the freewill of humans. For example, say a guy has an enemy, which he hates. One day this guy makes a conscious decision to kill his enemy. Should blame fall on this man for killing his enemy? Currently, all places in the world, which I can think of, are built around some moral basis that holds a person responsible for their actions. Although, a hard determinist would have to disagree and say that people are not free. Human acts are cause...
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Level Of Reality Aristotle
2,324 wordsThroughout history there have been many attempts to explain the origin and workings of our universe. Most every culture has their own cosmogony. Nearly every individual has his or her own idea of what our universe is. During our modern era of advanced scientific knowledge, we feel that we have a good grasp on how the universe works. We have our Chemistry and Physics, along with Mathematics, to examine the universe with. Any person educated in these fields will tell you that they know our univers...
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Number Of Deaths Earth Surface
537 wordsEvery year there are about a million earthquakes. Fortunately, not all of them are destructive. The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Richter Scale, which goes from zero upward. Major damage generally occurs from earthquakes ranging from 6. 0 upwards. The damaging earthquakes also occur either in the narrow belt, which surrounds the Pacific Ocean or in a line, which extends from Burma to the Alps in Europe. Earthquakes are one of natural wonders of the world that cause the most death...
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Opposite Direction Jet Stream
1,782 wordsEconomical Effects of El Ni? o El Ni? o is a warm coastal current that flows south along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru (Wyrtki). El Ni? o is a Spanish term meaning the child. The name refers to the Christ child because it usually begins around Christmas and ends around Easter (Cane). El Ni? o has recurred about twenty four times in the last century (Erickson). It is first recorded as far back as the early 1500 s and returns on average of once every four years (Cane). El Ni? o causes much destru...
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Million Years Ago Millions Of Years
923 wordsReptiles Enjoyed Warm Arctic (Global Warming) An article written by ABC News writer Kenneth Chang discusses the change in climate of the arctic from ninety million years ago. Seven hundred miles from the North Pole, lies an island called Axel Heiberg, a barren land that scientists have dug up fossil bones of a cold-blooded reptile known as a champsosaur. How does this happen in an arctic, freezing land? How does a reptile that needs the warmth of the sun to survive, live in a frigid climate? Wel...
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Life On Earth Kilometers In Diameter
1,119 wordsWhat would happen if the moon was destroyed? I have often wondered what would happen if the moon were destroyed and how it would be destroyed. Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all large objects in space that are larger than 500 kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be headed towards our moon. Based on this information, the only conclusion that I can come up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Southern United States El Nino
2,315 wordsEl Nino has been a reoccurring phenomenon for centuries. Man has only started to realize how much of the worlds weather is effected by it. The term El Nino refers to an irregular warming of the seas surface. During the last 40 years there have been 10 significant El Nino occurrences. Most affecting the coast of South America. Water temperatures increase along the coast as far as the Galapagos islands. Weak events will raise the water temperature 2 to 4 degrees Celsius and will have minor impact ...
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