...Intuit Inc Financial Assessment Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Title Date Background Information The company chosen for the purpose of this project is the Intuit Inc. This is a technology company founded in 1984, with headquarters in California. Intuit Inc. is a provider of that seeks to provide financial management and innovative solutions to its customers who are the SME’s Accounting professionals and financial institutions. Intuit Inc. provides solution to its customers on significant business problems such as income tax filling, digital banking solutions to financial institutions by providing products such as Quickbooks, Turbo tax and Quicken (Intuit Inc, 2014). Intuit Inc. company is a publicly listed company, which is has some potential of wealth maximization to investor. According to the company’s management assertions, it seeks growth by growing its core businesses by acquiring new users through expansion of its product categories and increased awareness and building businesses and venturing to new markets through acquisition and partnerships. Thesis statement Intuit Inc has been doing enough to warrant the wealth maximization for its shareholders. This has involved the maximization of the intrinsic value of the shares, that is, the price of a share that incorporates all information available to an investor. Financial statement review The choice of Intuit Inc. was influenced by factors such as its dedication to value maximization of shareholders wealth and...
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...Lawrence Carroll Workforce 2020 Executive Report Module 5 Assignment 2 Perspectives in Change Leadership B6027 Argosy University Fiserv, Inc. (Fiserv) is a worldwide organization that gives monetary administrations innovation to more than fourteen thousand five hundred customers that incorporates all kinds of financial institutions. The organization was established in 1984 and is as of now driven by Jeff Yabuki from Brookfield, Wisconsin. Fiserv's main goal is to give incorporated innovation and administrations arrangements that empower excellent results for their customers. The organization brags one-hundred and forty six areas around the world, utilizes more than twenty-one thousand partners, and produced over five billion in income in 2014 (Fiserv, n.d.). This year, Fiserv is perceived by Fortune Magazine as one of the "World's Most Admired Companies 2015" and Forbes as one of "America's Best Employers 2015" (Fiserv, n.d.). Fiserv is a business pioneer of data administration and computerized business frameworks and gives incorporated innovation that makes both esteem and results for their customers and conveys the accompanying: * Payment Solutions to streamline parts of installments making effectiveness and compelling development * Processing answers that oversee record based exchanges dependably and safely * Risk and Compliance answers for avoid and moderate danger * Customer and Channel Management answers for pull in, hold, and develop client relations...
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...EILEEN NEWMAN RUBIN Research has shown that there are more than 30 differently named leadership styles, ranging from micro-management to hands-off, each with its own proponents. Six, however, stand out as most com- monly found in business: authoritarian, democratic, transformational, laissez-faire, servant, and situa- tional. A review of the experiences of six leaders who embody these styles reveals that each mode of operating has its pros and cons; there is no sin- gle best approach. Being aware of one’s leadership style and that of others makes it possible to lever- age strengths and compensate for weaknesses and to properly match individuals to a particular role or task—for the good of the entire organization. ©C 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Whether they are involved in politics, corporate America, or a nonprofit endeavor, the style in which managers and other professionals exert their lead- ership can determine the outcome of their efforts. As the American businessman and political fig- ure Erskine Bowles said, “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts” (Kruse, 2012). But what is the best leadership style to use? There is no simple answer to this seemingly simple ques- tion. One’s leadership style depends on several fac- tors, including the personality of the leader, the or- ganizational culture (and the many subcultures that may exist within it), the personalities of the people to be led, and the overall state of the organization. Certainly, exploring...
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...A technology company focused on making online travel better A technology company focused on making online travel better IEOR 4550 Spring 2013 IEOR 4550 Spring 2013 Feb. 2013 Feb. 2013 Jeremy Bernier, Jingxuan Li, Zhuran Jiao Jing Wang, Kevin Wheeler, Xiaolu Yan Jeremy Bernier, Jingxuan Li, Zhuran Jiao Jing Wang, Kevin Wheeler, Xiaolu Yan KAYAK Software Corporation KAYAK Software Corporation Group Member Contributions: Business Concepts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Market Dynamics | Figure [ 1 ]-Taken from IBISWorld Overview of Customers and Consumers | Kayak is part of an industry of fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines. Other examples of travel metasearch engines include: Google Flights, Cheapflights.com, Mobissimo.com, etc. Kayak’s main customers are the online travel agents (Priceline, Expedia, etc.). This is because Kayak is paid to bring the website’s user to the online travel agent. They also have advertising revenue from Featured Advertisements on the sidebar. The main users of Kayak’s website are people who are searching for the cheapest flight and prefer not to pay for the more personalized service of brick-and-mortar travel agencies. These are people who are looking for their airfare and hotels irrespective of brand loyalty-programs. This probably means infrequent fliers who will not benefit from airline’s mileage programs. These users also need discretionary funds for travel....
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...Modron Technologies, Inc. GM600 BUSINESS PLANNING SEMINAR KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT BUSINESS PLAN FOR: PREPARED BY: MICHAEL BARTHOLOMEW KHANG HUYNG ROLAND RIEGO HYUNG RYU GM600 Group B Page 1 Modron Technologies, Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview......................................................................................................................... 4 Mission Statement........................................................................................................... 4 Marketing Plan................................................................................................................ 4 Operation Plan ................................................................................................................ 5 Financial Plan.................................................................................................................. 5 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 5 MARKETING PLAN........................................................................................... 6 Opportunity ..................................................................................................................... 6 Product Description ........................................................................................................ 6 Product offering ....................................................................
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... Results Expected Upon completion of this chapter you will have: l. Developed a definition of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process that spans lifestyle to high potential ventures. 2. Examined the practical issues you will address and explore throughout the book. 3. Learned how entrepreneurs and their financial backers get the odds for success in their favor, defYing the pattern of disappointment and failure experienced by many. 4. Examined the Timmons Model of the entrepreneurial process, how it can be applied to your entrepreneurial career aspirations and ideas for businesses, and how recent research confirms its validity. Demystifying Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, reasoning, and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach, and leadership balanced. 1 Entrepreneurship results in the creation, enhancement, realization, and renewal of value, not just for owners, but for all participants and stakeholders. At the heart of the process is the creation and/or recognition of opportunities, 2 followed by the will and initiative to seize these opportunities. It requires a willingness to take risksboth personal and financial-out in a very calculated fashion in order to constantly shift the odds of success, balancing the risk with the potential reward. Typically, entrepreneurs devise ingenious strategies to marshall their limited resources. 1 Today, entrepreneurship has evolved beyond the classic startup notion to include companies and...
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...CRM JOE PEPPARD, Cranfield University School of Management, UK Today, many financial services organisations are rushing to become more customer focused. A key component of many initiatives is the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Our research has highlighted that most institutions take a rather narrow view of CRM and as such, benefits have been limited. While second generation CRM has emerged to embrace the total organisation (hence Enterprise CRM), success in general has still not been widespread. In the paper, a framework is presented which is based on incorporating ebusiness activities, channel management, relationship management and backoffice/front-office integration within a customer centric strategy. © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Once upon a time retailers, banks, insurance companies and car dealers had a close relationship with their customers. They often knew them individually, understood what they wanted, and satisfied their needs through personal customised service. As a result, they earned loyalty and a large share of their customers’ business. This, however, was a costly and inefficient system and customers effectively subsidised this relationship by paying higher prices. Over the years, through mass marketing and increased consumerism customers traded relationships for anonymity, reduced variety and lower prices. Today, through the effective use of information and communications technology, such a tradeoff is now not...
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...specific companies.” – The Washington Post “A key reference for those who want to know what it takes to get hired by a law firm and what to expect once they get there.” – New York Law Journal “Vault [provides] the skinny on working conditions at all kinds of companies from current and former employees.” – USA Today VAULT GUIDE TO RESUMES, COVER LETTERS & INTERVIEWS © 2003 Vault Inc. VAULT GUIDE TO RESUMES, COVER LETTERS & INTERVIEWS HOWARD LEIFMAN, PhD, MARCY LERNER AND THE STAFF OF VAULT © 2003 Vault Inc. Copyright © 2003 by Vault Inc. All rights reserved. All information in this book is subject to change without notice. Vault makes no claims as to the accuracy and reliability of the information contained within and disclaims all warranties. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Vault Inc. Vault.com, and the Vault logo are trademarks of Vault Inc. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, contact Vault Inc.150...
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...Instructions Plus, each month you can win valuable prizes by entering our Dummies.com sweepstakes. * Want a weekly dose of Dummies? Sign up for Newsletters on • Digital Photography • Microsoft Windows & Office • Personal Finance & Investing • Health & Wellness • Computing, iPods & Cell Phones • eBay • Internet • Food, Home & Garden Find out “HOW” at Dummies.com *Sweepstakes not currently available in all countries; visit Dummies.com for official rules. Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ Cloud Computing FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, and Dr. Fern Halper Cloud Computing For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,...
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...MORGAN NORTH STANLEY RESEARCH AMERICA Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Adam S. Parker, Ph.D Adam.Parker@morganstanley.com +1 212 761 1755 Brian T. Hayes, Ph.D Brian.T.Hayes@morganstanley.com Antonio Ortega Antonio.Ortega@morganstanley.com November 26, 2012 Adam J. Gould, CFA Adam.Gould@morganstanley.com US Equity Strategy The 2013 Playbook We are launching our 2013 US equity outlook today. We have been cautious on US equities for much of the last two years. Our concerns around US deficit / debt and the obvious borrowing from the future that occurs from unconventional policy, the European sovereign crisis, and slower growth in emerging markets generally remain, but the acuteness of these issues appears for now to be less sharp. Our 2013 year-end target calls for low-to-mid single digit upside (Exhibit 1) predicated on our view that 2014 corporate earnings are likely to modestly recover from our 2013 forecasted level, perhaps with profits troughing during the April 2013 earnings season. Our year-end 2013 S&P500 price target is 1434, and our bull and bear targets are 1733 and 1135 (Exhibit 1). Our EPS outlook for 2014 is $110.21, up from our 2013 forecast of $98.71, both well below consensus. Improving Michigan Confidence and tightening corporate spreads drive the relative improvement in our earnings outlook. Please see our Interactive Model: S&P500: 2013 Year-End Forecast, also published today, to play with key assumptions and change assumptions for EPS...
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...SHRM Foundation’S EFFEctivE PRacticE GuidElinES SERiES Retaining A Guide to AnAlyzinG And MAnAGinG eMployee turnover Talent SHRM Foundation’S EFFEctivE PRacticE GuidElinES SERiES REtaininG talent A GuiDe to AnAlyzinG AnD MAnAGinG eMPloyee tuRnoveR by David G. Allen, Ph.D., SPHR i REtaininG talent This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information regarding the subject matter covered. Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering legal or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent, licensed professional should be sought. Any federal and state laws discussed in this book are subject to frequent revision and interpretation by amendments or judicial revisions that may significantly affect employer or employee rights and obligations. Readers are encouraged to seek legal counsel regarding specific policies and practices in their organizations. This book is published by the SHRM Foundation, an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM©). The interpretations, conclusions and recommendations in this book are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the SHRM Foundation. ©2008 SHRM Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical...
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...Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort Business Plan The Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort business plan presented on the following pages is based on research for a Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort business in Inawayan, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. It was developed by self-made marketing specialist, Bernardo F. Basmayor, Proprietor of Bottomline Interactive Multimedia Speech Laboratory and Educational Technology. Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort Scenario Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort is located at Inawayan, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. The currently non-operational organic fertilizer facility, containing an area of 23,240 sq. m., is available for sale at Php250.00 per sq. m.. Blue Heaven Memorial Park and Resort is seeking a Php7,793,000.00 loan to completely purchase the land located at Inawayan, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur and to develop the site into a memorial park, coupled with a well landscaped resort facility. The business can have a minimum total sales revenue of Php84,000,000.00 for the total 5,600 lots available for sale at a minimum of Php15,000.00 per lot, aside from the income generated from the sales of mausoleum, maintenance service fees and the resort fees. Prevailing price of memorial lots is Php20,000.00 to 79,000.00 per lot (from actual interviews and from internet sources). The purchase of this 23,240 sq. m. area is a good purchase because this is cheap and the area is very strategically located near the Inawayan cemetery; located in an...
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...UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 _____________________________ FORM 10-K (Mark One) ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended November 29, 2013 or TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission File Number: 0-15175 ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) _____________________________ Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 77-0019522 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California 95110-2704 (Address of principal executive offices) (408) 536-6000 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of Each Class Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (NASDAQ Global Select Market) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None _____________________________ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes No Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1)...
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...UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION _____________________________ (Mark One) Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K For the fiscal year ended November 29, 2013 or ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from Commission File Number: 0-15175 to ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) _____________________________ Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 77-0019522 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California 95110-2704 (Address of principal executive offices) (408) 536-6000 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of Each Class Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (NASDAQ Global Select Market) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None _____________________________ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes No No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed...
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...Morningstar Document Research FORM 10-K ORACLE CORP - ORCL Filed: June 29, 2007 (period: May 31, 2007) ® ℠ Annual report which provides a comprehensive overview of the company for the past year Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K ⌧ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2007 OR � TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Commission file number: 000-51788 Oracle Corporation (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 54-2185193 (I.R.S. employer identification no.) 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood City, California 94065 (Address of principal executive offices, including zip code) (650) 506-7000 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of Each Class Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share Preferred Stock Purchase Rights The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. YES ⌧ NO � Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant...
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