Corporate Finance Essays and Term Papers
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Industry and Corporate Risk
Introduction Organizations today face several business risks that can have an effect on their financial statements. The audit risk model is a tool that auditors use to help identify those risks. To better understand how the audit risk model can help identify risks, we will examine how the model can be applied to the Coca-Cola Corporation and the limitations of using the model. Components of the Model The audit risk model is composed of
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Intersect Investment Services Corporation
Problem Solution: Intersect Investment Services Corporation In order to maintain competitiveness in an ever-changing market, a company must be aware of external and internal forces which affect the company and rapidly respond to those forces. According to Kreitner & Kinicki's Organizational Behavior, 6th Edition (2003), external forces of change include technological advancements, market changes, as well as social and political pressures such as war, values, and leadership (673). Some of the internal forces of change
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Enzone Petroleum Corporation
CASE CONTEXT: • Formed in1924 with the merger of several formerly independent firms operating in the oil refining, pipeline transportation, and industrial chemical fields. • All computations were based in 19 data PROBLEM: • Determination of a minimum acceptable rate of return on new capital investments in 19. • Should the company adopt a system of multiple cutoff rates? FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS: • WACC • Return on Assets • Cost of Common stock equity ANALYSIS:
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Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper
Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper Many companies are involved positive and negative risk that it takes. Enron was a company caused by poor corporate governance. It has also triggered a flood of legislative and regulatory changes and codes of conduct across the developed and emerging worlds to improve systems for ensuring that public companies are run properly in shareholders' interest (Good practice boost performance. Euromoney, [serial online]. September 2003). The situation Enron faced as a
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The Microsoft Corporation
The Microsoft Corporation has been around for many years now, and for many years, they have provided the leading operating system to consumers and businesses alike. Throughout the years Microsoft has not been able to rest on their laurels while consumers and businesses invest billions of their dollars to purchase their software. For as many years as MS-DOS and Windows have been in existence, Microsoft has seen competition from many different computing giants. Some
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Corporate Stategy
First of all, in this paper will take critically discuss the approaches to developing strategy. Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a changing environment and to fulfil stakeholder expectations (Johnson, G. & Scholes, K.2002, p.10). Defining strategy as intended and conceiving it as deliberate, as has traditionally been done, effectively precludes the notion of strategic learning.
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Skeletons in the Corporate Closet
Case 4: Skeletons in the Corporate Closet 1. A leader's role in creating and maintaining an ethical organization start with setting an example for the whole organization through their own actions. In order to build an ethical organization the leader must show high ethical standards, be held accountable for their own actions so that all of the employees and stakeholders will believe in that leader, follow that leader's good ethical behavior. By doing these you
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Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation - Organization and Trends
Introduction This paper will compare and contrast the perception of organizational power and politics among Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation, it will compile a list of strategies for managing stress, as well as evaluate the business and ethical considerations of operating organizations on a global scale, finally, the paper will assess the evolutionary trends in organizational behavior and how they might impact organizations. Organizational and Trends Perception of Power Kaiser Permanente focused on keeping various
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Strategic Audit of a Corporation
Strategic Audit of a Corporation I. Current Situation A. Current Performance . How did the corporation perform the past year overall in terms of return on investment, market share, and profitability? B. Strategic Posture What are the corporation’s current mission, objectives, strategies, and policies? 1. Are they clearly stated or are they merely implied from performance? 2. Mission: What business(es) is the corporation in? Why? 3. Objectives: What are the corporate, business, and functional objectives?
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Corporate Governance in India
THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES IN INDIA By Mrs.ShilpaJain Faculty Members ICFAI National College Yamuna Nagar- Haryana INTRODUCTION: Corporate governance is defined as the system by which business entities are monitored, managed and controlled. Corporate governance practices have become an essential prerequisite for the ability to acquire and retain financial resources necessary for restructuring long term investment and sustainable growth. At one end of the spectrum the shareholders are the owners of business entity as they
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Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper
Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper Many companies are involved positive and negative risk that it takes. Enron was a company caused by poor corporate governance. It has also triggered a flood of legislative and regulatory changes and codes of conduct across the developed and emerging worlds to improve systems for ensuring that public companies are run properly in shareholdersпїЅ interest (Good practice boost performance. Euromoney, [serial online]. September 2003). The situation Enron faced as a
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Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Global Communications Corporation
Situation Analysis and Problem Statement This paper deals with the issue faced by the telecommunications company known as Global Communications. Global Communications competes in and industry that is known for unusual competitive pressures and very quick changes in technology. However, as stated by Dennis Drogseth (2005, p. 52) "The challenges faced by global networks have more to do with management and process than with pure technology." This paper will address the issue faced by Global
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Finance Case: Rapid Fire
Finance Case: Rapid Fire 1. How much has it cost Rapid Fire to produce each Advantage battery? Prepare a per-unit statement of revenue and expense for the firm covering 1991-93 period. Per Unit Statement of revenue and expense 1991 1992 1993 Average Units sold 20 000,00 50 000,00 100 000,00 56 666,67 Average selling price, $ 43,00 43,00 45,00 43,67 cost of good sold 13,50 13,50 14,00 13,67 Direct material 8,67 8,67 9,00 8,78 Direct
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Nucor Corporation - Structuring for Efficiency and Effectiveness
Nucor Corporation - Structuring for Efficiency and Effectiveness Introduction Nucor achieved its position as one of the largest steel producers in the United States by carefully monitoring costs and paying attention to the needs of its markets. This strategy of providing its customers with a competitive product at competitive prices has brought success and growth to Nucor, in sales, income, and stock price. Recently, however, the control of the organization has been brought into question.
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Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler Corporation Chrysler Corporation, one of the largest automobile and truck manufacturers in the country, entered a financial crisis in the late 1980's, early 1990's. In May, 1998, company reports indicated that the company only sold 17,713 vehicles outside of the United States, due to powerful competitors. Therefore, due to the company's lack of competitive drive globally, the company sought out sources to merge with “the largest industrial company in Germany, Daimler-Benz; this merger
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Finance Game #3
2. Prepare one paragraph explaining why actual performance for the quarter was different than projected. Our forecasted demand was much higher than actual demand. We sold roughly 4,000 units less than projected. This caused a negative variance in Revenue of $411,280. Our cost of goods sold dropped because we had a significant amount of ending inventory leftover due to lower sales. We had a lower actual income than projected because we sold less than projected.
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Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Corporate Governance is the relationship between the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate character, bylaws, formal policies and rule laws. The corporate governance system was designed to help oversee the decisions and best interest of the shareholders. The system should works accordingly: The shareholders elect directors, who in turn hire management to make the daily executive decisions on the owner’s behalf. The company’s board of director’s position
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Apollo Corporation
Unit # 7 – Enhancing Employee-Management Relations Homework Project – Case Study The Union Drive at Apollo Corporation: ULP’s and Organizing Tactics By: Jemayne R. Cullum 705 East 179th Street Bronx, NY 10457 917-528-5741 Professor Pat Lee MT203-04 Human Resource Management March 2008 Apollo Corporation is a general component producer for the communications industry. Bob Thomas, a nineteen year manager, that has been performing less than adequately in terms of punctuality and overall work performance.
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Discuss the Challenges Facing Multinational Corporation in the Management of Global Talent
“The Jack Welch of the future cannot be like me. I spent my entire life in the United States. The next head of General Electric will be somebody who spent time in Bombay, In Hong Kong in Buenos Aires. We have to send our best and brightest overseas and make sure they have the training that will allow them to be global leaders who will make GE flourish in the future.” Jack Welch Discuss the
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Corporate Ethics
Sometimes political leaders are elected because of the wrong assumption that they possess certain core values ranging from helping the poor, relieving citizen hardship, improving the quality of life of the middle class and saving the environment,. What is unfortunate is to see that values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility that were previously taken for granted, are now strongly questioned. Many values are preached but no longer followed. History reported that when a corrupted
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Nucor Corporation Case Study
Nucor Corporation is constantly faced with obstacles and competition to overcome. This steel-making company whose name was formally adopted in 1972, has since been on a journey to join the ranks of the worlds leading steel companies. Although this is a highly profitable industry with a U.S. market of $94.9 billion, it is highly competitive and presents many bariers to entry. Three elements of competition in this particular industry include, 1.) Technology 2) Changes in
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Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Burns Auto Corporation
Running head: SITUATION ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM STATEMENT: BURNS AUTO CORPORATION Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Burns Auto Corporation Scott Watson University of Phoenix Professor: Murray Pyle MBA 510 Table 1 Issues Issues Issue: Increased inventory cost. • Details: Recent to an average of $360 million in vehicles in inventory on a daily basis; a cost of $10,800,000 to finance. Issue: No systematic approach in place to forecast sales. • Details: Richard Settle relies on manufactures
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Clerly Canadian Beverage Corporation - Inventories Anlysis
Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation Inventories analysis A. As a manufacturing company, Clearly Canadian Corporation, which produces and markets natural and flavored beverage products is expected to hold three kinds of inventories. These inventories are carried by Clearly Canadian in every phases (input, processing, output) in manufacturing the beverage. Inventories that are held by this company are raw material inventories, working in process inventories, and finished goods inventories. As we know, Clearly Canadian is a beverage
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Corporate Compliance Report
Running head: Corporate Compliance Report Introduction Technological advancements, an increase in the number of business failures and the widely publicized corporate scandals which have rocked the nation's confidence have forced companies to place more emphasis on internal control systems and audits. Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act requires public companies to include a report about the effectiveness of controls in their annual form 10-k. Internal controls consist of procedures used by management to ensure
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Car Financing in China
OVERVIEW China and its economy Capital : Beijing Population : 1.3 billion Area : 9.6 million sq km Currency : Yuan Ren Min Bi GNP : $4 Trillion (2001) GDP : PPP $7.262 trillion (2004 est.) Per Capita : $5,600 (2004 est.) Form : People's Republic Official Languages : Chinese (Mandarin) Growth Rate in Real GDP : 1999 7.1% 2000 8.0% 2001 7.3% 2002 8.0% 2003 8.4% 2004 9.1% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.1%
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