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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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Models For Predicting Corporate Financial Distress
2,464 words... ny, logit analysis has been compared to a more advanced analytical tool, neural networks. Research has found that the approaches perform similarly and should be used in combination (Altman, Marco, and Varetto 1994). Based on multiple discriminate analysis (MDA), the model predicts a company's financial health based on a discriminant function of the form: Z = 0. 012 X 1 + 0. 014 X 2 + 0. 033 X 3 + 0. 006 X 4 + 0. 999 X 5 X 3 = earnings before interest and taxes / total assets X 4 = market val...
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Computer Based Training Business Interchange
4,711 wordsComputer-based training (CBT) is an all-encompassing term used to describe any computer-delivered training including CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. CBT courseware curriculum development involves the use of integrated multimedia training tools that have taken the lead in developing training courseware. We have always had workplace learning systems. People best learn many tasks and skills at the workplace or very close to the workplace. There is also plenty of evidence to suggest that if people le...
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U S Attorney Ethical Dilemmas
1,696 wordsWhen a company's interest are the same as those of an individual employee, in-house lawyers generally can avoid multiple-representation problems. But once there is a conflict of interest -- or a perception of a conflict -- the picture changes dramatically. It is important for in-house counsel to know how to spot such conflicts and what steps to take in response. Corporate counsel clients normally include the company, its board of directors, its most senior management, the heads of the company's ...
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Income Statement Cash Flow
1,354 words... used the installment plan) and cash outflows (Traditional compensated suppliers for equipment purchases up-front and paid the commissions to sales representatives at the time of sales). The company had liquidity problems in 1987 despite its optimistic statement in the Annual Reports Financial Review. According to the companys low liquidity we could predict even in 1987 that Traditional would have difficulties in repaying the companys debts later in the future. And that really happened in 198...
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Ocier Tan Guat Aggressively Solicit Proxies Belle
1,600 wordsOngpin mounts proxy campaign to regain control of Belle Corp. by: Rocel C. Felix 5 / 21 / 00 Ousted Belle Corp. chief executive officer and former Trade Minister Roberto Ongpin is gearing up for a full scale war to reclaim his seat and recover control of the property and gaming firm from the camp of Willy Ocier and his father, Benito Tan Guat, who last year staged a successful mutiny against Ongpin's camp. Ongpin's legal counsels have sought the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) approva...
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Airline Industry Low Fares
1,746 wordsThe airline industry has been subject of intense price competition since it was deregulated, and the result has been a number of new carriers which specialize in regional service and no-frills operations. These carriers typically purchase older aircraft and often operate outside the industry-wide computerized reservations system. In exchange for these inconveniences, passengers receive low fares relative to the industry as a whole. This research examines two low fare air carriers, Valu Jet and S...
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Proposed Capital Structure For Du Pont Corporation
1,323 wordsThe Du Pont Corporation was founded in 1802 to manufacture gunpowder. After nearly two centuries of operations, the company has greatly diversified its product base through acquisitions and research and development, , and is one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world. In 1995, Du Pont had revenues of $ 42. 2 billion and net income of $ 3. 3 billion. In this same period, 50 percent of the company's sales were outside the United States. Du Pont operates in approximately 70 countries wo...
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Complete Analysis Of The Starbucks Coffee Company
2,051 wordsStarbucks Coffee Company is North America's leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffees. Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Starbucks has 931 retails stores and 75 major airport locations. The Company's objective is to establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand of coffee in the world. To achieve this goal, the Company will continue to rapidly expand its retail operations, grow its mail order and specialty sales operations, and selectively pursue other opportunities to levera...
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Complete Analysis Of The Starbucks Coffee Company
2,218 words... orld's coffee-growing regions. On October 20, 1995, Starbucks Coffee Company released their "Framework for a Code of Conduct" in response to a grassroots campaign demanding that Starbucks set minimum standards for working conditions at the plantations from which they buy. In addition to pledging to limit child labor and support workers' access to safe housing and healthy workplaces, Starbucks code states that "we believe in the importance of progressive environmental practices and conservati...
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Company Description Of Dewhirst Group Plc
1,934 wordsDewhirst Group Plc manufactures and distributes clothing and toiletries. Operations are carried out in the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Morocco and Indonesia. Manufacture of clothing accounted for 91 % of revenues for the year ended 14 th Jan 2000 and toiletries accounted for 9 %. Competitor Analysis Dewhirst Group Plc operates in the Diversified Apparel Mfrs. sub-industry, which is a sub sector of the Apparel & Textiles industry. They supply clothing to companies such as Marks & Spencers a...
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Marketing And Ethics United Colors Of Benetton
1,322 words... he Benetton Group "constitutes the traditional and innovative "heart" of the system." The Benetton Group operates in 120 countries, with the 6, 000 stores, but it gets only 5 % of sales in the world's biggest market, the US (Sansoni, 1998). "Our products are maybe too frivolous for American tastes, " says Luciano Benetton (Sansoni, 1998). Critics say, that clothing is not a problem: the company's practices of using advertisement based on provocation and playing on customer's emotions, are re...
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Long Term Debt General Mills
1,515 wordsFinancial Accounting Case Study Module 1: A. General Mills Consolidated Statements of Earnings: 1. The recorded sale amount of almost $ 8 billion is not the actual amount of cash collected. The amount of $ 8 billion includes cash and credit sales. 2. Sales increased each year from 2000 to 2002. The difference between the year 2000 and 2001 was a 5. 35 % increase (5, 450 - 5, 173 / 5, 173 = . 0535). The difference between the year 2001 and 2002 was a 45. 85 % increase (7, 949 - 5, 450 / 5, 450 = ...
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Vertical Integration Auto Makers
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Board Of Directors Ethical Dilemma
1,790 wordsThe paper is devoted to the discussion of the issue if corporations should be responsible to shareholders, stakeholders, or both. As these issues often become essential for the companies it is necessary to base their evaluation on the real environment with the application of the appropriate theories Should corporations be responsible to shareholders, stakeholders or both? A summary of the ethical dilemma In any environment, especially in public sector corporations, it is necessary to make the bu...
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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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Windows Xp Client Server
1,769 wordsMicrosoft's Strategic Position Microsoft executives are examining the company's marketing strategy for enterprise products to ensure that they address customer needs in changing computer environments. The company's Windows XP operating system mirrors its focus on reliability and scalability and serves as the foundation for Microsoft's electronic commerce and knowledge management initiatives. The focus on software product development that brought the company so much success in the past is being r...
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U S Government Laws And Regulations
2,555 wordsEthics Programs within the Organization The purpose of this paper is show the reader the how vitally important it is for companies to implement some sort ethics program that would foster corporate culture oriented on dealing with unethical behavior within organization. Ethics is a key part of all businesses in the professional world today. For many companies, a quality ethics program lays the foundation of what that particular company is all about. Where would a company be without an adequate et...
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