...INTRODUCTION ASTRO MALAYSIA HOLDINGS BERHAD is the region's top cross-media administrator with direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV benefits in Malaysia and Brunei. It is likewise the essential business radio supporter in Malaysia and a noteworthy distributer of TV aides and way of life magazines in the area. Astro has made joint ventures in different nations to dispatch new television, sight and sound and Internet administrations. The Group has vital concurrences with top programming engineers and substance fabricators to mutually create both innovation and substance to give satellite-conveys, broadband, IP upgraded mixed media and intuitive administrations over different stages, including telephony, over the Asia Pacific area. (Astro, 2015). Astro was established in the United Kingdom and registered in England and Wales on 22 July 2003 under the United Kingdom Companies Act, 1985 and is enlisted as a foreign business in Malaysia under the Companies Act, 1965. The Company was recorded on the Main Board of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad on 1 October 2003. The recorded cost is on the site with a delay of 180 seconds, the last value review was on 23th July 2015 at RM 2.990 for the day. The volume of outstanding shares is 5.2 Billion (The Wall Street Journal, 2015). This research paper will analyze and discuss the internal and external economic standings of the company and will provide an in-depth analysis of the global positioning of the company as well. The paper will undertake...
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...Case 1: Astro Incorporated 1. For the following investments, determine if Astro should record an other-than-temporary impairment as of December 31, 2014, and if so, for what amount: * Happy New Year & Co. – Astro should not recognize because it has no intention to sell and there is not a permanent decline. * Beary Beary – Astro should recognize because it has an intention to sell and recognizes an impairment loss of $7 per share ($95-$88). * Buy-A-Lot Company – Astro should not recognize because it has no intention to sell and credit rating upgraded from BBB to BBB+. * ASC 320-10-35-21: “An investment is impaired if the fair value of the investment is less than its cost.” * ASC 320-10-35-33: “When an entity has decided to sell an impaired available-for-sale security and the entity does not expect the fair value of the security to fully recover before the expected time of sale, the security shall be deemed other-than-temporarily impaired. * ASC 320-10-35-33F: “There are numerous factors to be considered when estimating whether a credit loss exists and the period over which the debt security is expected to recover.” 2. Assuming Astro has determined its investment in March Madness Incorporated stock is other-than-temporarily impaired, how much should be recorded as an impairment charge as of December 31, 2014? * $5,000 of CV – ($72/share * 50 shares) = $1,400 * ASC 320-10-35-33 other-than-temporary impairment is difference between...
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...business industries as it helps to recruit and serves as the blue print for future organizations and it is regularly conducted yearly via location of organizations in the case of if a new organization has to be selected. The job market always kick off with the internal desires of any industry and its prediction of their target market in the long and near future with the estimations of determined workforce that they are going to need and their future trends as this will also help industries to survey competencies and gap analysis skills within the organization, there are also skills and requirements which needs to be fulfilled and they consists of factors such as: (1). Technological skills: in other to acquire jobs in the job market in this recent times the technological skills and abilities is needed due to the fact that almost every business organization these days tends to work with advanced technological skills such as computers, fax machines and scanning processes. (2). Educational requirements: in order to gain employment in the job market also a standard and quality education requirement must be fulfilled via your specified area of study as this will help to determine an individual skills and abilities in the process of gaining employment. Although the job market main focus consists in the areas of: (1)....
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...competition will have a significant impact on the sustainability of Sealed Air potentially reducing sales by 55% and eliminating 40% of 1980 EBIT (see exhibit for backup). Given the significant impact we feel Sealed Air must employ a defensive strategy and start production of uncoated bubbles. Sealed Air can use a current production process which would allow them to effectively compete with the new competition requiring no additional capital. Company Analysis Sealed Air produces 2 main products (see exhibit for product breakdown, sales and market share) and also licenses to Astro its patented technology to produce coated and uncoated bubbles. Sealed Air’s core strengths include 1) 1st to market and leader in R&D, innovation and technical development, 2) best trained sales staff in industry, and 3) premium pricing position 4) patented manufacturing process for sealed bubbles. Significant weaknesses include 1) limited resources, 2) having premium products aimed at niche segments of the protective packaging customers, 2) lots of cheap competition and lack of easily demonstrable universal superiority confusing end users. Deciding to start manufacturing uncoated bubbles does not significantly leverage Sealed Air core competencies and is inconsistent with current company culture and organizational image. Exhibit 2 shows key competencies and the positive of negative impact of starting production of uncoated bubbles. Despite the high cost of coated bubbles relative to the uncoated...
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...or halogen lamp which heats a tall (often tapered) glass bottle containing water and a transparent, translucent or opaque mix of mineral oil, paraffin wax and carbon tetrachloride.[1] The water and/or mineral oil can be coloured with dyes. The density of common wax is much lower than that of water and would float on top under any temperature. However, the carbon tetrachloride is heavier than water (also nonflammable and miscible with wax), and is added to the wax to make its density at room temperature slightly higher than that of the water. When heated, the wax mixture becomes less dense than the water because wax expands more than water when both are heated.[2] It also becomes fluid, and blobs of wax ascend to the top of the device where they cool (which increases their density relative to that of the water) and then descend.[3] A metallic wire coil in the base of the bottle acts as a surface tension breaker to recombine the cooled blobs of wax after they descend. Briton Edward Craven-Walker invented the lava lamp in 1963. His U.S. Patent 3,387,396 for "Display Device" was filed in 1965 and issued in 1968.[4] Craven-Walker's company was named Crestworth and was based in Poole, Dorset, in the United Kingdom. Craven-Walker named the lamp Astro and had variations such as the Astro Mini and the Astro Coach lantern. Craven-Walker presented it at a Brussels trade show in 1965, where the entrepreneur Adolph Wertheimer noticed...
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...Introduction In the world of rapid changing environment and globalization, for an organization to compete favourably and competitively, the performance of their employees goes a long way in determining the success of an organization (Ajila and Abiola 2004). Both public and private sectors organizations are putting increasing attention on human resource management to maintain and motivate its most valuable and worthy assets, the employees. According to Catalini (2012), organizations are taking more of a proactive stance towards ensuring employees are satisfied with their place of employment and feel a level of commitment and connection to employers. Back then, employee satisfaction is often not a primary focus of an employer. Organizations routinely focus on finances, production, and pleasing customers and neglect the impact their actions or lack of action has on employee satisfaction. The consequences may be seen in products or services that are not up to standards and an increase in turnover and increase in cost for employers. Hence, finding the right balance between employee satisfaction and its enhancement of employee motivation and performance is imperative as it will have positive effects on several aspects of an organization, including lowering turnover rates and increasing productivity and profit. The use of rewards has been found over the years to be one of the management tools in the organization to increase job performance. Besides, it is common...
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...Case study 1 Whenever ending inventory is overvalued it automatically results in Profit being overstated in the income statement. But if it is opening inventory, it results in the profit being understated. The inventory valuation error will affect the profits for Loch Ness Ltd. As follows: In the year ended 30 June 2008, the profit is understated by $ 55,000 In the year ended 30 June 2009, the profit is overstated by $ 70,000 In the year ended 30 June 2010, the profit is understated by $ 35,000 In the year ended 30 June 2011, the profit is overstated by $ 55,000 In the year ended 30 June 2012, the profit is overstated by $ 90,000 An incorrect inventory balance causes the reported value of assets and owner's equity on the balance sheet to be wrong. This error does not affect the balance sheet in the following accounting period, assuming the company accurately determines the inventory balance for that period. Errors in inventory do not affect the Liabilities that Loch Ness Ltd has, instead only the owner’s equity and subsequently Assets. Retained earnings are also affected. Below is a list of tables that shows the errors in the respective years balance sheet entries. 30 June 2008 Balance sheet Understated Overstated Inventory 55,000 Accrued Liabilities (additional income tax payable) 5,500 Retained earnings 49,500 Current Assets less Current liabilities 49,500 30 June 2009 Balance sheet Understated Overstated Inventory 15,000 ...
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...exclude the value of a property from gross income. The only exclusion applies to gifts made during the life of the donor and transfers that take effect upon the death of the donor. Though, the recipient of a gift of income-producing property is subject to tax on the income earned from the property. For example, when receiving a home that is being rented it out. The income from the rent is taxed not the property itself. Now if the payment was not for services rendered, otherwise it is not considered a gift, the payment has to be made without a legal or moral obligation and you as the payor received no economic benefit from the transfer. For it to be a gift, the payment must be made more of an impulse or charity. From what I have seen from most cases dealing with gift tax, is most where ruled on the bases of the donor’s intent. We can rule out that it was a payment from an employer due to winning it at a Houston Astro’s baseball game. If it was from an employer to an employee is could not be excluded as a gift. (Freeman, L. (2012). The down Side of Prize Winning.) To answer the first question of whether not the coupon are considered income, it is considered income. The...
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...BSM 7054 – Strategic Management | Case Study - MEASAT | | This case study takes a look at MEASAT, the satellite provider based in Malaysia and what are their challenges and strategic planning taken to take further step in this area of business[2013] | Kaviraj Anandan – 1101600295Ahmad Fairus - | | | Lecturer: Mr. Mohd. Nor Ismail | Graduate Centre for Management ------------------------------------------------- MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Company History 3 1.2 Company Overview 4 1.3 Corporate Information 7 1.4 Corporate Vision 7 2 Strategic Analysis 8 2.1 Business Segment 8 2.2 Competitive Landscape 8 2.3 SWOT overview 9 2.3.1 Strength 9 2.3.2 Weakness 9 2.3.3 Opportunity 9 2.3.4 Threat 9 2.4 Business Level Strategy 9 3 Conclusion and Recommendation 15 1 Introduction 2.1 Company History MEASAT, which is derived from the full term of “Malaysia East Asia Satellite” was first develop and launched in 1992 by Binariang Sdn Bhd, to follow suit the then effort of Malaysia’s Prime Minister YA. Bhg Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed. The purpose of this effort was to develop the communication infrastructure for Malaysia moving into the new millennium. In order to develop and launch Malaysia’s first communication satellite system, Binariang Sdn. Bhd brought together a team of experience and highly motivated experts to get together and share their knowledge and...
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...CHAIRMAN’S NOTE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MODULE 1: ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE INDUSTRY Malaysian Economic Performance – Overview for the Year 2012 3 6 11 13 C&M Industry Performance – Overview 2012 Global and Malaysian GDP Growth Communications Services Contribution to Growth Bursa Malaysia ACE Market – An Overview of Licensees C&M Industry Financial Performance Overview Telecommunications Companies Broadcasters Trends of C&M Companies Financial Performance Digital Signature C&M Revenue by Services Market Segment ARPU Comparison Contribution of the C&M Industry to Bursa ...
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...Shrinath Badrinarayanan sbadrina Case 1: Xbox 360 The decision to enter a highly competitive video game market presented huge demand and supply challenges to Microsoft, and from a design and manufacturing perspective, their motivations and decision to evolve their supply chain for a global launch of Xbox 360 was more beneficial than risky, even though there are a few caveats. One of the key strategic decisions that supported their evolving supply chain was establishing a market presence with the original Xbox console, and then to introduce the Xbox 360 a year before Sony would release their next generation console. To achieve this, Microsoft, which originally was not able to reduce costs on their processing and graphics chips, and overall manufacturing costs with product design, changed its strategy and contracted with chip companies to produce the Xbox 360 chips, but owned the designs of these chips, ultimately reducing costs and providing Microsoft an increased leverage with the suppliers. Not only would this give Microsoft an increased control, but also helped Microsoft achieve increased flexibility in its global supply chain, thereby allowing it to ship the products to global locations for an early launch, ultimately beating Sony's launch of their upcoming product. The second major advantage in Microsoft's evolving supply chain strategy was the synergistic confluence in bringing their manufacturers Flextronics and Wistron into optimizing their design production for the Xbox...
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...Recruitment Questionnaire - Customer Service Representative Case 1：Answer the customer’s email in the language relevant for the position you are applying to. I purchased the Anker 25w Wall Charger on the 14th October, for a few months, It has been perfect, so good in fact, that I purchased another around December period to give as a Christmas gift. Needless to say that the recipient was delighted and too, loved it. I believe that my wall charger has become defective. I use it to charge my Nexus 5 and Ipad2 and various other bits, not necessary at the same time. Over the past couple weeks, I have noticed that my Nexus 5 / Ipad take an extremely long time to charge. Using the LG Nexus 5 charger, it charges my Nexus 5 just under 2 hours, almost at a rate of 1% per minute. This is using a 1.2a charger. With my wall charger, no matter what port I use, be it the Ipad (2.1a) / Samsung Tab (1.3a) / Android (1a). It takes the charger almost 7 hours to fully charge my phone. That is a rate of 1% every 4 minutes, which is unacceptable. I also have an Anker Astro2 battery charger, which charges at 1% per 1 minute, which is correct rate of charge. I can only deduce that the wall charger is extremely slow and does not output the correct amps. Below is my order number if you need to look into it further. Please note I am also a Anker Power user and have wrote several reviews and would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Note: This reply is informed by the...
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...2. SUMMARY The protective packaging market is becoming more competitive. Sealed Air company is encountering a growing number of competitors in its field. Similar or alternative systems are now proposed against those of Sealed Air. These new systems are often cheaper but as argued by Sealed Air less effective concerning the protection they offer and therefore less cost-effective. A new company (GAFCEL) has entered the market with an uncoated product and is having success on the New York, California and Ohio market. Sealed Air will face further erosion of its US market share. Based on the analysis of the AirCap® product as well as on the analysis of the market, we will answer questions regarding Sealed Air's reaction to its new competitor GAFCELL and the opportunity to introduce a new uncoated product in the market. We will make marketing recommendations on how to introduce this new product and in which geographical market to launch it in order to maintain Sealed Air as a leader of the protective packaging market. 3. QUESTIONS 3.1. What should Sealed Air be trying to accomplish in any decision it makes in response to the GAFCEL threat? * It should be trying to gain back the market share that was taken by GAFCEL and it should ensure it does not loose anymore market share. * It should ensure it keeps its reputation of a company built on 'technical accomplishments' and must ensure its image does not suffer from the possible introduction of this new...
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...iceberg. Most of the galaxies at this early epoch are too faint to study directly, even with Hubble. Galaxies, moreover, represent only a small fraction of all the matter in the Universe. Most of the matter instead resides in a vast network of dark matter and baryons known as the intergalactic medium (IGM). One of the primary aims of extragalactic astronomy is therefore to understand how galaxies form out of this network, and how galaxies, in turn, affect their environments. Of particular interest is how some of the very first galaxies took shape, and how they changed the properties of the large-scale IGM. One of the key features of the IGM in the present day Universe is that the gas is highly ionized. This would not always have been the case, however. After the Big Bang, the gas would have cooled and become neutral as the Universe expanded. Only after the first luminous sources appeared and began to emit ionizing photons would hydrogen in the IGM have been re-ionized. We believe that this process occurred within the first billion years, and represents one of the most dramatic impacts that early galaxies had on the properties of the baryons in deep space. In addition to direct searches for distant galaxies, reionization can be probed by analysing the evolution of the IGM. Observationally, the IGM is most readily studied in absorption against distant quasars. The spectra of these objects show a dense series of absorption lines, the Lyman-alpha forest, which arise from intergalactic...
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...Results of this study indicate a slight negative correlation exists between winning percentage and percent foreign-born from 2012-2017. The correlation coefficient confirms this conclusion as the relationship between the variables is -0.132 meaning an increase in the number foreigners on a team lessens the team’s chances of winning. Although a negative correlation exists, it is low as a perfectly negative correlation is -1. Using this correlation coefficient and the line of best fit, it was determined that an increase of foreign-born players on a team by forty percent, the range of the percent foreign-born variable in this study, correlates with the team losing seven to eight more games that season. Despite this correlation, the r-squared value generated from this study as seen in Figure 5 is quite low, a mere 0.0175. An r-squared value of 1.0 means that the line of best fit perfectly reflects the data. Therefore, in this study, the line of best fit does a poor job approximating the data. For example, the trend lines for the 2015 and 2016 seasons were actually positive, meaning that foreigners correlated with a higher winning percentage whereas on the whole time period they...
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