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  • The Key Themes of Finance for a Multi-National Corporation

    The Key Themes of Finance for a Multi-National Corporation

    ENVIRONMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT _____________________________________________ This section consists of the following subsections: пЃ¶ Determination of Exchange Rates пЃ¶ The International Monetary System пЃ¶ The Balance of Payments пЃ¶ Foreign Exchange Market пЃ¶ International Parity Conditions These five themes basically define the environment in which a MNC functions. Determination of Exchange Rates One of the basic issues which a company should consider when stepping on a foreign market are the exchange rates of this country

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    Essay Length: 2,650 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Accounting and Ethics

    Accounting and Ethics

    In a world where meeting the bottom line has become so important, the relevance of ethics has diminished and has taken a back seat in the business world especially in the accounting practice. This is evidenced by the numerous corporate accounting scandals in the recent years. Amidst these scandals, it is ever more important to place more emphasis on ethics in conducting business. Ethics is important as it binds company and its constituents to

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    Essay Length: 256 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Lester Electronics Financing Problem

    Lester Electronics Financing Problem

    Lester Electronics Financing Problem “Corporations are very adept at creating hybrid securities that look like equity but are called debt. Obviously, the distinction between debt and equity is important for tax purposes. When corporations try to create a debt security that is really equity, they are trying to obtain the tax benefits of debt while eliminating its bankruptcy costs” (Ross, Westerfield & Laffe, 2004). Since CEO and board of Lester Electronics have decided to acquire

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    Essay Length: 1,181 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Bred
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    Service description We are providing tutoring service in accounting courses that range from basic to advanced level courses. These services will be provided to students who need assistance in problem areas of their specific accounting courses. The students will benefit from these services because the sessions will allow them to grasp and understand the accounting material more efficiently. Our tutoring services are better than most services offered because of our one-on-one sessions. The customer and

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Implications of Freud’s Unconscious for Freedom and Accountability

    Implications of Freud’s Unconscious for Freedom and Accountability

    Sigmund Freud, a strict determinist who is said to be one of the fathers of psychology, had the belief that everyday occurrences are explainable on the basis of prior causes. This theory led him to begin conducting psychoanalytic studies using hypnosis and the decoding of dreams. Psychoanalysis is based on the fact that all humans have hidden drives, impulses, and internal conflicts that influence our everyday decisions. By conducting these studies, Freud discovered that we

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    Essay Length: 1,242 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Victor
  • Nature Accounts for Behavioral Differences Between Males and Females

    Nature Accounts for Behavioral Differences Between Males and Females

    Men and women behave in completely different ways. Men are often scrutinized for being too aggressive, violent and only wanting sex. Women, on the other hand, are often criticized for being too bossy, fussy and only wanting commitment in a relationship. The differences in the way males and females behave can be accounted for through both nature and nurture aspects. In regard to behavior, men and women are expected to play standard roles in life.

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparison of Financial and Management Accounting

    Comparison of Financial and Management Accounting

    Comparison of financial and management accounting There are two broad types of accounting information: • Financial Accounts: geared toward external users of accounting information • Management Accounts: aimed more at internal users of accounting information Although there is a difference in the type of information presented in financial and management accounts, the underlying objective is the same - to satisfy the information needs of the user. Financial Accounts Management Accounts Financial accounts describe the performance

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    Essay Length: 424 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • Accountability

    Accountability

    I believe that parent accountability laws have a minimal effect on the rate of juvenile deviance. I say that because the parent accountability laws have nothing that really depends on the way that a juvenile behaves. The parent accountability laws are laws that protect the juvenile's safety and care. Certain parent accountability laws are to make sure the juvenile has a place to sleep, and also is receiving food to eat. Who or where the

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Account Sheet for the Month of November

    Account Sheet for the Month of November

    Account Sheet for the Month of November Date Transaction Transaction Amount Closing Credit Balance No of days Closing credit No. of days Debit Credit 1-Nov Opening Balance $600 4.00 $2,400 5-Nov Purchases Made $80 $680 5.00 $3,400 10-Nov Payments made $200 $480 5.00 $2,400 15-Nov Purchases Made $100 $580 15.00 $8,700 30-Nov Purchases Made $50 $630 1.00 $630 Closing Balance $630 Total 30.00 $17,530 Average daily Balance $584.33 APR 16% Interest Based on Average Daily

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    Essay Length: 376 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    I - A. “ Representational faithfulness is accomplished when transactions and events affecting the entity are presented in financial statements in a manner that is in agreement with the actual underlying transactions and events” (CICA, Financial statement Concepts 1000.21 (a), 2003). It means that all of information in the financial statement such as numbers and descriptions must be factual. The independent auditors checked the computer ID tags on each piece of equipment to confirm the

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    Essay Length: 1,034 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Corporate Finance Research Papers

    Corporate Finance Research Papers

    Name of the Researcher – Dr. Y. S. Vaishampayan Abstract: The Role of Subsidiary Companies from the Perspectives of Growth and Development THEME - Role of Competition, Flexibility and Trade in Economic Growth This Research Paper throws light on the efforts of Indian corporations in their objectives of maximization of shareholders wealth. To achieve this, they have taken the route of subsidiarization. This Paper only takes the results achieved by Indian business corporations in fulfilling

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    Essay Length: 1,340 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Disclosure and Accounting Practices in the Municipal Securities Market

    Disclosure and Accounting Practices in the Municipal Securities Market

    Disclosure and Accounting Practices in the Municipal Securities Market Introduction Many critically important aspects of American life, from airports to sewers and schools to hospitals, depend on the municipal securities market for financing. All bonds, notes and other debt securities issued by states and local governments and their respective agencies and instrumentalities are “municipal securities.” They are issued by such government entities to pay for a variety of public projects, cash flow and other governmental

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Scenario Financing Solution: Lester Electronics Inc.

    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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    Essay Length: 1,120 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Managerial Finance Drug Industry

    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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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Accounts Receivable Cycle

    Accounts Receivable Cycle

    Accounts Receivable Cycle Riordan Manufacturing, an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding, has facilities in California, Georgia, Michigan and China. The accounting functions are carried out in each individual location, and consolidated for processing in the corporate offices in California. The Georgia and Michigan locations, being newly acquired, are using systems that are not completely compatible with the corporate offices. This is causing problems on many levels and within this paper, Learning

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    , when I first started taking classes, which feels like many years ago, I was going to be a paralegal. After taking some research classes, I guess you could say I got bored. Knowing that I can retire from my job with having thirty years and being a young age of 48, I wanted something that I could probably do right from my home and help out with my husbands business. So after looking in

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Implementation of Tax Increment Financing as an Economic Development Policy

    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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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Anna
  • Accounting in New Zealand

    Accounting in New Zealand

    A number of legislative controls are available to shareholders wishing to exercise their rights. If it appears that the affairs of the company are not being conducted properly, shareholders have some options available to them and among which, the statutory remedy for shareholder oppression. It protects minority shareholders against being deprived of their fair share and greatly improves their ability to take action against the company alleged to be in breach of good corporate practices.

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    Essay Length: 1,704 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Victor
  • Interpretative Notes to the Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing

    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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    Essay Length: 1,026 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • Overview of Accounting

    Overview of Accounting

    Overview of Accounting By Investors term, accounting is a structural system of recording, reporting and analyzing all the financial transactions of one company or an organization (InvestorWord, 2008). In general, accounting summarizes all the financial activities and data through “income statements, balance sheets, and the statements of cash flows” (Block & Hirt, 2005). The purpose of this paper is to provide the basic information on accounting and finance to the small businesses owners with no

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Accounting

    Accounting

    1. Intuitively, which of the three firms would you say is the most risky? Least risky? Intuitively, Amazon is the most risky company and GE is the least risky company. The reason is that GE is in its mature phase of business life cycle, and is a multiple line business, which implies lower risk from diversification. Amazon is in its growing phase and is a single line business. The TJX Companies is a single line

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Talks on the Fair Value Introduced in the China New Accounting Standards

    Talks on the Fair Value Introduced in the China New Accounting Standards

    [Abstract] This paper firstly gives the concept of fair value and its application environment, and then analyzes the fair value in the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China, we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1, 2007, the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises.

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Marketing and Finance

    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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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Entrepreneurial Control and the Construction of a Relevant Accounting

    Entrepreneurial Control and the Construction of a Relevant Accounting

    Methodology The case is a longitudinal field study of an entrepreneur’s control of his Australian-based multinational packaging machinery supplier with annual sales in excess of $A60 million. The field study began over 10 years ago. It was first written up in 1992 and updated in 1995. At that time it was reviewed by the entrepreneur, who provided clarification and additional information. The case was updated in 1999 and again in 2001. Again, the entrepreneur reviewed

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What Accounts for the Stability of the Tokugawa Regime?

    What Accounts for the Stability of the Tokugawa Regime?

    What Accounts for the Stability of the Tokugawa Regime? In the first half of the Seventeenth century, the regime perfected by Ieyasu Tokugawa and his successors was based on the accepted system of daimyф domains which Nobunaga and Hideyoshi had been developing prior to Ieyasu’s rule. It was thus basically feudal in structure, but it represented a highly organised and stable stage of feudalism, unlike Europe ever experienced. The reasons for the stability of such

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Artur

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