Corporate Finance Essays and Term Papers
650 Essays on Corporate Finance. Documents 226 - 250
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Corporate Sustainability
It is an organization’s goal to maximize shareholders’ wealth. At the most basic level, every organization has an economic responsibility to make a profit so that they can provide a return to their owners and investors, create employment and keep the economy flowing through contribution of goods and services. However, an organization must be also able to understand the importance of human and natural resources in the environment. Resources from the environment are not unlimited
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Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Global Communications Corporation
Running head: SITUATION ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM STATEMENT: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Global Communications Corporation University of Phoenix Situation Analysis and Problem Statement Global Communications (GC) is a technology firm struggling with the after effects of the bust in the Information Technology Industry. GC is faced with how to rebound, based upon the strategic initiatives presented by the Senior Leadership Team. This paper will explore the real problem that Global Communication faces
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Corporations
Mr. and Mrs. TP are in a very unique situation. They have four children ages 20, 22, 25, and 27, all of whom have no money management skills whatsoever. In order to keep their children with money in their pockets, the couple decides they want to transfer their investment portfolio of stock that they own to a new corporation in which the couple will own 20 shares of the voting stock and the four children
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Leadership Within Target Corporation
Leadership Within Target Corporation Started by a man named George D. Dayton, Target Corporation has been leading since day one. In 1918 Dayton creates the Dayton Foundation with only one million dollars. By 1946 the company had established laws stating that atleast five percent of the company's profits would go to the community. The national corporate average at this time was only at about one percent, so this was already an example of Dayton leading
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Nucor Corporation in 2001: Pursuing Growth in a Troubled Steel Industry
Nucor Corporation in 2001: Pursuing Growth in a Troubled Steel Industry Table of Contents Introduction 3 Nucor's History 3 Current Strategy and Future Expectation 4 Analysis and evaluation 4 Dominant Economic Characteristics of the Steel Industry Environment 4 Competition analysis in the Steel Industry 5 SWOT Analysis 6 Recommendations 9 Introduction Nucor's History Nucor Corporation is the second-largest steel producer in the United States and has had net sales of $4.6 billion in 2000. Nucor
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Corporate Culture
Introduction Corporate culture is the shared values and meanings that members hold in common and that are practiced by an organization’s leaders. Corporate culture is a powerful force that affects individuals in very real ways. In this paper I will explain the concept of corporate culture, apply the concept towards my employer, and analyze the validity of this concept. Research As Sackmann's Iceberg model demonstrates, culture is a series of visible and invisible characteristics that
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Corporate Social Responsibilty
From a business perspective, working under government contracts can be a very lucrative proposition. In general, a stream of orders keep coming in, revenue increases and the company grows in the aggregate. The obvious downfalls to working in this manner is both higher quality expected as well as the extensive research and documentation required for government contracts. If a part fails to perform correctly it can cause minor glitches as well as problems that can
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Corporate Analysis of Oakley
Oakley Oakley is a respected sunglasses manufacturer attempting to spread into new product categories. Founded in 19, Oakley has transformed from a company providing a single product line into a diverse action sports brand. Strong brand equity and innovative design command premium prices and make Oakley the brand that it is today. Culture devoted to innovation Oakley’s culture has been dedicated to innovation since its inception. The company’s first mover status began with a revolutionary
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Problem Solution: Global Communications Corporation
Problem Solution: Global Communications Corporation Global Communications has faced problems in the past, and they are facing more problems now. Still, Global Communications has been a profitable company and it can be profitable again. Through researching other companies and using the principals of generic benchmarking illustrating changes that have been successful for other companies, it will be shown the steps that Global can and will take to bring them into a new era of success.
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Scenario Financing Solution: Lester Electronics Inc.
Scenario Financing Solution: Lester Electronics Inc. Publicly traded corporations are continually faced with important decisions which will affect the financial health of the firm and because these firms depend on financial investments from shareholders; all decisions should revolve around maximizing the shareholders wealth. The wealth of shareholders can be maximized through many financial tools which include: the analysis of financial statements, capital structures, accounting, and financial stability. Financial statements, capital structures, and company accounting can
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Managerial Finance Drug Industry
ROE = Net Income /Shareholder’s Equity Managerial Finance Spring 2008 January 11, 2008 Rico Spencer Financial Ratio and Analysis of Walgreens Company and Rite Aid Corporation 2005, 2006, 2007 1. Introduction Needless to say, a large percentage of the drugstore industry sales are driven by prescription sales. As the number of aging increases, the necessity for more drugstores will also increase. The drugstore industry has become increasingly competitive over the past decade. Not only do
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Marriott Corporation and Project Chariot
Marriott Corporation and Project Chariot The Marriott Corporation (MC), had seen a long, successful reign in the hospitality industry until the late 1980s. An economic downturn and the 1990 real estate crash resulted in MC owning newly developed hotel properties with no potential buyers in sight and a mound of debt. During the late 1980s, MC had promised in their annual reports to sell off some of their hotel properties and reduce their burden of
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Affirmative on Resolved: The Actions of Corporations Ought to Be Held to The Same Moral Standard as The Actions of Individuals.
Noble motives cannot justify a policy that consistently fails to deliver what it promises or that creates greater long-term problems than it solves Walter A. McDougall Currently it is to easy for corporations to find loopholes in corporate laws that are Set in place to try and protect people and other companys from the immoral actions of these corporations Solution! Affirm now before we continue I must provide the following resolution all analysis of this
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The Contrasting Views of Milton Friedman and Ralph Nader on Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporation is a legal entity made of natural persons or other legal entities that holds legal identity within the society. Corporate social responsibility is the duty of a corporation to create wealth in ways that avoid harms to, protect, or enhance societal assets. The idea of Social Responsibility interrelates the obvious interrelationship between business corporations, government and American society, is based on the fundamental idea that the corporations have duties that go beyond carrying out
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Ibm - International Business Machines Corporation
IBM- International Business Machines Corporation History: Though the building blocks of IBM reach back into the mid 1880's, the company was officially founded in 1911 when Charles F. Flint engineered the merger of Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company, Computing Scale Company of America and International Time Recording Company. The agreed upon name was Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company or C-T-R. C-T-R soon found itself struggling do to over diversification of its product. In 1914 Thomas J. Watson,
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The Implementation of Tax Increment Financing as an Economic Development Policy
The Implementation of Tax Increment Financing as an Economic Development policy By: Randy L. Jacobs, J.D. ABSTRACT: With Tax Increment Financing (TIF) a municipality pays for economic development expenditures out of future increases in tax collection. The TIF method has achieved widespread popularity as a funding source to finance local infrastructure investment and improvements; however the TIF program has several shortfalls and many critisms. This paper will focus on the criticism that TIF programs are
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Corporate Culture and the Indian Software Industry
CORPORATE CULTURE AND THE INDIAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY Introduction This article tries to explain the concept of corporate culture in general, its effects on the performance of employees in an organization. It then dwells on the specifics of the Indian software industry and then goes on to find out how organizational culture affects the performance of the software industry giving examples of specific software companies. Understanding and assessing your organization's culture can mean the difference between
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Interpretative Notes to the Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing
Objective Special Recommendation II (SR II) was developed with the objective of ensuring that countries have the legal capacity to prosecute and apply criminal sanctions to persons that finance terrorism. Given the close connection between international terrorism and inter alia money laundering, another objective of SR II is to emphasise this link by obligating countries to include terrorist financing offences as predicate offences for money laundering. The basis for criminalising terrorist financing should be the
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Morrisons
Morrisons recently published last April its “Corporate social responsibility report” (CSR report, 2006) for the previous financial year. The report puts high regard on Morrisons’ effort to minimise the impact of its business operations on the environment. Moreover, the report stresses the catering of the interests of its “key” stakeholders, namely its customers, suppliers, colleagues and shareholders. Recalling way back before it completely took over the ownership of Safeway in 8 March 2004, Morrisons expressed
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Corporate and Social Responsibility
CRITICAL REVIEW OF ARTICLES D. Birch (2002). Social, Economic and Environmental Capital. Corporate Citizenship in a New Economy. Deakin University, Melbourne J.M. Darley (2005). How Organizations Socialize Individuals into Evildoing In recent years, Corporate and Social Responsibility has become an ever increasing concern and source of community debate. It is now socially accepted that corporations have some ongoing responsibility, though sometimes ignored, to set a good example, make decisions based on social good and on
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Multinational Corporations; There Definition and Evolution
A Multinational Corporation has been described as one that has production facilities or other fixed assets in at least one foreign country and makes its major management decisions in a global context. In marketing, production, research and development, and labor relations, its decisions must be made in terms of host-country customs and traditions. In finance, many of its problems have no domestic counterpart-the payment of dividends in another currency, for example, or the need to
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Agency Cost & Corporate Governance
Agency Costs and Corporate Governance I Introduction Before analysing problems that occur when institutional ownership and control are separated, it should be outlined why institutions exist at all. Therefore, chapter two examines why organizations occur in economy. Chapter three addresses the agency problem, based on this organization. Chapter four addresses the common ways to solve the agency problem and chapter five gives a comparison over the three most important corporate governance systems, namely the US,
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Corporate Governance in Pakistan
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN PAKISTAN ICAP constituted a Committee comprising its elected past Presidents, Presidents of the three Stock Exchanges in Pakistan, President of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan and a nominee of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). The Committee’s Terms of Reference are set out in the exhibit. A sub-committee was formed to undertake the task of formulating recommendations for the Code. THE NEED OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE While the
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Confucian Philosophy and Corporate Responsibility
Freedom devoid of responsibility would result in the collapse of the social network. It would cause strife among individuals, between individuals and society, and essentially would lead to the sacrifice of the future in order to fulfill short-term desires. Coming under much scrutiny for allegedly doing just this is today's dominant institution, a legal establishment with pervasive influence on contemporary life: the modern corporate enterprise. We live in a world plagued with human exploitation and
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Marketing and Finance
Business process reengineering (BPR) is a management approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating efficiency and effectiveness of the processes that exist within and across organizations. The key to BPR is for organizations to look at their business processes from a "clean slate" perspective and determine how they can best construct these processes to improve how they conduct business. Business process reengineering is also known as BPR, Business Process Redesign, Business Transformation, or Business
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