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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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1,645 wordsEdmund Graves, personnel manager used to consult legal, moral, and personnel practices. Graves, employed by Walker Space Institute for fourteen years, has been asked to supply guidelines and recommendations surrounding the pending cutbacks of the engineering department. Walker Space Institute requires the elimination of three engineers due to industry cutbacks. In doing so, Walker must evaluate each member and induce cutbacks which mitigate social, economic, and legal considerations while exerci...
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Myths Of World View
1,890 wordsMYTHS OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORLD VIEW A MYTH IS a traditional story that offers an explanation of some fact or phenomenon. Myths are neither wholly true nor wholly untrue. They may have been more true in the past than now, but people act as if they are still true, even when they no longer really believe in them. Some modem usages of the word have connotations that suggest that myths are irrelevant or wrong, but this is not necessarily so. Myths are of considerable importance to people, and ...
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1,609 wordsThree of the four highest rated possible reasons for student dropout essentially support findings of previous research; "loss of interest, "scheduling conflicts, " and "lack of parental support" apparently are perceived as continuing problems with respect to loss of students in instrumental music programs. However, the reason perceived by directors as the major contributor to student dropout, student "lack of commitment to work, " had not emerged in previous research. Apparently this psychologic...
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Du Pont Competitive Advantage
1,438 wordsThe DuPont Company was founded by Eleuthere Irene du Pont in 1802. Eleuthere was a student and protg of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who is often called the "father of modern chemistry. " DuPont originally used Lavoisier's technology for manufacturing black gunpowder. Thomas Coleman du Pont, Alfred I. du Pont, and Pierre Samuel du Pont offered to buy the firm in 1902 after a loss of competitive advantage in the gunpowder business. DuPont began placing great emphasis on discovery and a continual "r...
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1,847 words4. THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: THE CONTINUING NEED TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND PROMOTE INCLUSION Affirmative action was established as part of society's efforts to address continuing problems of discrimination; the empirical evidence presented in the preceding chapter indicates that it has had some positive impact on remedying the effects of discrimination. Whether such discrimination lingers today is a central element of an analysis of affirmative action. The conclusion is clear...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,791 wordsIn this essay, British historian and broadcaster Asa Briggs looks at how technological advances made in recent decades have created a revolution in the media, allowing people to communicate in ways they had never dreamed of. Briggs notes that although these new modes of communication including the television, the personal computer, the Internet, and other digital technologies are available throughout many parts of the world, these media may be used in different ways depending upon the prevailing...
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Head Of State Point Of View
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Abuse Their Children Child Abuse
1,864 wordsChild abuse in the United States has become a growing problem in recent years. Generation after generation, child abuse continues to occur down the family tree. The problem has not shown much sign of positive progression lately. As population has grown, there have been more reported cases of child abuse. It has been observed that families with history of violent child abuse have continued down the family line. Many people feel that these problems will eventually work out for the better, but the ...
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Company Profile Of Executone Information Systems
1,055 wordsExecutone Information Systems, based in Milord, Connecticut, which designed and marketed telecommunications products for small-and medium-sized businesses, has become a major telecommunication company competing with AT& T and Northern Telecom since 1988. Because of economic recession in 1993, many companies had to change their product strategy to overcome this unbreakable situation. Not only the largest company in this business area such as AT& T decided to lower price and revenues, but ...
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Twenty First Century Order To Survive
1,284 wordsRecent trends appear to be supportive of a greater role for nonprofit organizations. Indeed, we see the continuing increase, expansion and strengthening of nonprofits in the decade ahead. However, their long-term financial viability will remain in question unless they undergo radical transformation in how they operate in today's new public and private economies. Eight trends in particular lead us to this conclusion: 1. Nonprofits are taking on more "public" responsibilities as governments contin...
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Federal Income Tax Shareholders' Equity
1,765 wordsOGDEN CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA DECEMBER 31 1988 1987 ( ) 1986 ( ) (In thousands of dollars, except per-share amounts) Net sales and service revenues $ 1, 087, 785 $ 902, 565 $ 819, 629 INCOME (LOSS) FROM: Continuing operations 57, 780 47, 802 35, 109 Discontinued operations 80, 920 Net income (loss) 57, 780 47, 802 116, 029 EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE: Continuing operations 1. 44 1. 19. 89 Discontinued operations 2. 09 Total 1. 44 1. 19 2. 98 EARNINGS (LOSS) PER ...
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Shareholders' Equity Marketable Securities
1,994 words... 24, 273, 000 Total income 983, 959, 000 879, 587, 000 812, 621, 000 Cost of goods sold 366, 040, 000 375, 794, 000 345, 097, 000 Operating expenses 478, 974, 000 374, 736, 000 342, 467, 000 Selling, administrative, and general expenses 75, 387, 000 69, 513, 000 63, 314, 000 Interest expense 10, 867, 000 8, 832, 000 20, 700, 000 Other deductions 785, 000 1, 590, 000 1, 518, 000 Total costs and expenses 932, 053, 000 830, 465, 000 773, 096, 000 Income before income taxes 51, 906, 000 49, 122, ...
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Focuses Attention Educational Process
1,996 wordsHow effective are the proposals in "SUCCESS FOR ALL" in supporting and developing teachers. Education is very important part of our life, so no wonder that our government focuses great attention on both: education process and the teachers being the integral part of good educational system. Both federal and state legislation are increasingly calling for education dollars to be spent for specific approaches and even for specific programs (Pogrow, p. 15) From the very beginning there was only one a...
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Death Penalty Racial Discrimination
2,394 wordsRACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY In 1977 the unjust law of capital punishment was once again enforced in the American justice system. The use of Capital punishment has instigated many discussions among American criminologists. The use of the death penalty as a form of justice has been banned from many countries and states but there are still a few American states that believe in this form of punishment. Some of them include Texas, Georgia and Virginia. There have been many academic articles that have ...
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Du Pont Competitive Advantage
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Wide Area Network Digital Imaging
1,097 wordsEastman Kodak Company is one of the worlds largest manufacturers of photographic equipment. It develops, manufactures, and markets photographic and chemical products for both amateur and professional photographers. The companys other products include X-ray films, pharmaceuticals, copier-duplicators, acetate fibers, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, and videocassettes. Kodak also provides film and equipment for commercial fields such as the healthcare and motion picture industries. Kodak al...
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Fossil Fuels Global Warming
1,982 wordsThe Potential Markets Hydrogen ANALYSIS The Potential Markets For Non-Fossil Fuel Hydrogen? Hydrogen, most of it produced from fossil fuels, is already widely used in the chemicals industry, notably in the manufacture of fertilizers and petrochemicals. It would therefore be possible to substitute NFFH in this market. However, the total that could be absorbed by 2040 is unlikely to represent more than about 3 % of current total world energy demand. ? NFFH could be used to satisfy much of the dema...
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Catholic Church John Calvin
2,270 wordsWhen we think of a theocracy, we usually think of a political system, governed and legislated by a religious body with religious beliefs. For the most part this is true. Historically, theocratic governments have successfully existed throughout the world, from ancient Egypt to modern Middle-Eastern Islamic states. For centuries even the Christian Church enjoyed a theocratic diversity which encompassed most of the civilized world. As well, the unprecedented spread of Islam has seeded new theocraci...
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Professional Development Continuing Education
2,524 wordsIntroduction Change which has been well planned can in effect be the most important contributory factor to any projects eventual success. Upton and Brooks [ 1995 ] say: dissatisfaction alone is not sufficient to bring about change: people have to believe that the proposed change would lead to an improvement All staff within the NHS in recent years have experienced change[ref], particularly change that has been politically led and therefore experienced a process which has in effect changed the co...
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