...News Corporation is the world’s second largest media conglomerate founded by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. The company conducts business worldwide with operations primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America. News Corp has operations in eight industry segments which are filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite television, integrated marketing services, newspapers and information services, book publishing, and other assets (News Corporation 2009). News Corp’s competitive strategy in creating economic value lies in its ability to acquire new media assets through the steady revenue generated by its already well-established newspaper, television, and movie industries. Murdoch created News Corp in 1979 as a holding company for News Limited, which was Murdoch’s original business interest in Australia before becoming part of News Corp during the growth of his media empire. News Corp’s growth and success can be analyzed using the Balanced Scorecard’s four perspectives; financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. Because News Corp is a publically traded company, its main goal is to increase the company’s profitability to provide shareholders with greater returns. According to News Corp’s 2009 annual report, revenues were down for the year. Murdoch addresses these losses in a letter at the beginning of the report reassuring shareholders that the recession...
Words: 1848 - Pages: 8
...Fairfax Media Limited (FXJ) and News Corporation are two media companies, the former is an Australasia's leading media company while the latter one is an American company, which is on a larger scale than Fairfax Media. Good investors must have their own analysis and their own decision. In order to know which company is worth to invest in, we analyse the finance statements of these two companies throughout the three - year period, from 2007 to 2009 by comparing the financial ratios, evaluating the red flags, identifying non-financial information, analysing Notes to the financial statements. 1. Trend Analyses and Financial Ratio Analyses over Three - year Period, from 2007 to 2009. Company Financial ratio 2009 2008 2007 Profitability Return on investment (ROI) (%) N/A 7.8 5.3 Gross margin (%) 19.3 27.6 23.5 Liquidity Working capital (%) 79.4 127.9 171.5 Quick ratios (%) 73.2 119.2 161.4 Fairfax Leverage Leverage ratio (%) 38.1 50.6 47.3 Media Interest cover (times) N/A 3.8 4.0 Efficiency Asset Turnover (%) 34.2 35.0 26.4 Inventory turnover (times) 49.5 45.0 38.4 Shareholder Dividend per share (cents) 2.0 20.0 20.0 Return Earnings per share (cents) N/A 22.9 22.7 Profitability Return on investment (ROI) (%) N/A 18.8 10.4 Gross margin (%) 35.9 37.8 34.9 Liquidity Working capital (%) 148.8 156.4 212.2 Quick ratios...
Words: 1926 - Pages: 8
...Unit 1 – AO1 – Investigate the roles and responsibilities of two contrasting public services and describe their purpose AO2 – Investigate the internal structure and functional areas for two chosen public services The two public services I am going to speak about are the prison service and the army. The reason is because both have a very important part of the keeping Britain safe. The prisons vision is to provide the very best prison service as possible and to help secure the following points. * Hold prisoners securely and safely * Reduce the risk of any prisoners from re-offending * Providing safe and well-ordered establishments in which we treat prisoners humanely, decently and lawfully To make sure the prison service actually completes their objectives they work in * close partnership with our commissioners and others in the Criminal Justice System to achieve common objectives * Obtain best value from the resources available using research to ensure effective correctional practice * Promote diversity, equality of opportunity and combat unlawful discrimination, and * Ensure our staff have the right leadership, organisation, support and preparation to carry out their work effectively. This is what the prison set out to achieve and how they plan to do it but there is a lot more involved in running a successful prison because a prison is a business. The prison has it goals but the prison needs top security to complete the goals. No...
Words: 1493 - Pages: 6
...NewCorp Legal Scenarios Employment laws and regulation are created to protect the rights of employers and employees. The relation between employer and employee creates a variety risks that affects both parties. Businesses have to analyze the consequences of dismissing an employee, and take the appropriate measures to prevent legal issues; however, some agents are not aware of employment regulations and make decisions that violate the rights of employees, which create big risks for the organization. This context consists of legal encounters involve NewCorp; as an employee of the company, one is require to provide an assessment to latter refer matters to an attorney to save money on legal advice, and have a brief answer to the questions asked in each encounter. Legal Encounter 1 What liabilities and rights do NewCorp and Pat have in this situation? NewCorp have the rights to dismiss an employee at will; however, the company can be liable of wrongful discharge. Pat has the right to know the indication of the problem and to a corrective plan to improve his deficiencies before he is dismiss. What legal principles, such as statutory or case law, support those liabilities and rights? Employment at will is a doctrine supported by statutory law, and wrongful discharge is supported by case law. NewCorp hire Pat as a manager, Pat signed an agreement that show his understanding that NewCorp observed employment at will and it can discharge anyone without a motive; however, part of...
Words: 1010 - Pages: 5
...COMPANY PROFILE | | News Corporation Limited (NWS) is an international media company engaged in the publication of newspapers, magazines and books; production and distribution of movies and TV series; TV broadcasting; cable and satellite subscriber TV; and owns and develops internet properties. NWS operates primarily in the US, the UK, Australia and Asia. It is the world's second-largest media group as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009. The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (DIRECTV) is one of the leading providers of digital television entertainment services in the US and in Latin America. The company is engaged in acquiring, promoting, selling, and distribution of digital entertainment programs. They serve both commercial and residential customers through satellite. DIRECTV is also engaged in producing its own entertainment programs such as Hometown Heroes, Supreme Court of Comedy, Passions, Championship Gaming Series and others. Company Vision, Mission Statement News Corp. : "Creating and distributing top-quality news, sports and entertainment around the world." DirecTV: “To provide customers with the best video experience in the United States and Latin America both inside and outside of the home by offering subscribers...
Words: 3170 - Pages: 13
...XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS AND FORT BRAGG DFAC SCHEDULE SNAPSHOT NOVEMBER 2014 XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS & FORT BRAGG DINING FACILITY OPEN/CLOSE SCHEDULE November 2014 1-2 CLOSED POPE AAF Weekday 8-11 CLOSED 15-16 OPEN 22-23 CLOSED 27-30 82ND CAB CLOSED 1 Phone# 396-9993/ 7685 DINING FACILITY Location Goldberg Street Weekend Br: 0930-1300 Sup: 1600-1730 Find Your Location Bldg# M-5530 SMOKE BOMB CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 2 Phone# 396-2592 /0103 Essayons Street Bldg# H-4842 2nd BCT Closed Weekends Br: 0930-1230 Sup: 1530-1730 Br: 0930-1300 Sup: 1600-1730 Br: 0930-1300 Sup: 1600-1730 Br: 0930-1230 Sup: 1530-1730 Brk: 0800-1000 Lun: 1130-1330 Din: 1530-1730 Brk: 0800-1000 Lun: 1130-1330 Din: 1530-1730 Brk: 0800-0930 Lun: 1200-1330 Din: 1530-1730 CLOSED OPEN CLOSED OPEN CLOSED 3 Phone# 643-6929 Gruber Road Bldg# C 9453 525th BFSB OPEN OPEN CLOSED OPEN CLOSED 4 Phone# 396-8063 Ricketts Street Bldg# 2-5112 WTB CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED OPEN 5 Phone# 396-3436 Normandy Drive Bldg# A-4-1832 SWCS OPEN CLOSED OPEN CLOSED OPEN 6 Phone# 396-7291 Merrill Street Bldg# D-3624 3rd BCT OPEN OPEN CLOSED OPEN CLOSED 7 Phone# 432-8798/ 2298 Butner Road Bldg# A-3556 1st BCT OPEN CLOSED OPEN CLOSED OPEN 8 Phone# 643-6886 Bastogne Drive Bldg# B-1732 82ND SBDE CLOSED CLOSED OPEN CLOSED CLOSED 9 Phone# 432-5538 Longstreet Road Bldg# 3-5103 3rd SFG CLOSED...
Words: 509 - Pages: 3
...Background/overview of organization * Size of company URS Corp has nearly 100,000 employees blend technical expertise with local knowledge to deliver innovations that have a positive physical, social, and environmental impact on our world. URS Corp operates throughout more than 150 countries around the world. URS Corp also holds the largest federal and state contract for VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation). * Type of industry URS Corp is the leading industry provider of management and technical support services to U.S. government agencies the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security in particular positioned URS among the ranks of the leading U.S. federal services contractors. * Product or service URS Corp is North America’s leading providers of production, construction and maintenance services to the oil and gas industry (URS Corp & AECOM, 2015). URS Corp provides a service of multidisciplinary professional services firm providing skilled management and technical personals for federal contract positions. * Brief synopsis of quality management processes: An URS Corp quality management process begins with employees who have showed the skills of technical expertise in all fields and they must have an intimate knowledge of how that equipment has been designed to be put together. URS Corp believes that without their employees having an adequate background in management and in the new technology, he/she cannot possibly identify quality problems in...
Words: 776 - Pages: 4
...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization The Peace Corps is a federally funded national organization that helps people in mostly third world countries with education, health, nutrition, youth development, and agricultural needs by means of volunteers (“Peace Corps”, 2012). The following will go into detail about this organizations vision, how it is staffed, who the stakeholders are, public relations, diversity, and environmental trends of the Peace Corps. Vision and Mission The vision and mission statement of the Peace Corps is very clear and simple. According to “Peace Corps” (2008), “The Peace Corps' mission has three simple goals: 1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. 2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans” (About Us). Governed and Staffed The Peace Corps is a national organization that is governed and staffed by people who are dedicated leaders. The leadership involves not only a director and deputy director, but also is staffed globally by three different individuals which are regional directors in Africa, Asia, and Inter-America and the Pacific (“Peace Corps”, 2010). Although the Peace Corps is a national organization the U.S Government is part of the executive branch because this is a federal agency. The person that selects the directors is...
Words: 1154 - Pages: 5
...Peace Corps Volunteers Speak Out on RapeBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: May 10, 2011 Recommend Twitter comments (17) Sign In to E-Mail Print Single Page Reprints Share Close LinkedinDiggMySpacePermalink. WASHINGTON — Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.” She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by a knife-wielding gang. Enlarge This Image Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times Jess Smochek, who was raped in Bangladesh in 2004, advocates for former Peace Corps volunteers who were sexually assaulted. Related Times Topic: Peace Corps Enlarge This Image Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times From left, Kate Finn, Meg Long and Casey Frazee of First Response Action, an advocacy group for former volunteers. Readers' Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (17) » When she returned to the United States, the reception she received from Peace Corps officials was as devastating, she said, as the rape itself. In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack. For years she kept quiet, feeling “ashamed and embarrassed and guilty.” Today, Ms. Smochek is among a growing group of former Peace Corps volunteers who are speaking out about their sexual assaults, prompting scrutiny from Congress and...
Words: 820 - Pages: 4
...Easting Headed due east on the afternoon of February 26, 1991, VII Corps was advancing with a front of four armored/mechanized divisions. In the center of this front, leading the way and conducting reconnaissance for the corps, was the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR). The 2nd ACR’s job was to locate the forward elements of the IRG divisions suspected to be in the area, fix them in place, then pass the heavy divisions of VIII Corps through their lines so that they could smash the elite Iraqi units with a single killing blow. It was a difficult assignment, made more so by the weather conditions. The winter of 1990/91 was one of the wettest on record in the Persian Gulf, and had been a major problem during the preceding six weeks of the Desert Storm air campaign. Now the wind was howling, causing a sandstorm that was grounding the Army’s aviation assets and limiting visibility to as little as a thousand meters. Air reconnaissance was limited mostly to signals intelligence data, which meant that finding where the IRG divisions were located, would be up to the 2nd ACR. Like the prairie horse soldiers of 150 years earlier, the troopers of the regiments would grope forward until they physically ran into the enemy, in this case the IRG Tawakalna Division. Generally known to be the best and most aggressive of the various IRG formations, Tawakalna was the unit that would bear the brunt of the coming battle with VII Corps. As 2nd ACR moved forward, the regiment’s three squadrons were line...
Words: 1786 - Pages: 8
...John Pierce published an article in Laurier University’s Canadian Military History journal in 1992, which suggested that in the summer of 1936, “the historical reality of the battle was re-worked and reinterpreted… to symbolize Canada’s coming of age.” The construction of the memorial at Vimy began in 1925, and was intended to represent the entire contribution of the Canadian Corps to the First World War. Further, the monument served as a commemoration to the 19,000 Canadian soldiers who had been buried in unmarked graves. The inscription of the names of these men, the vast majority of which had not given their lives at Vimy, had the effect of “transforming Vimy into hallowed ground, an empty tomb, a place of pilgrimage” according to...
Words: 1086 - Pages: 5
...at 5:30am 30,000 Canadian soliders who formed the Canadian troops accomplished something that the French and British has failed to do in two years. Leading the Canadians into battle was master and commander Arthur Currie, he was the first Canadian to lead the Canadian troop. Currie developed a new artillery war strategy called the "creeping barrage". The Canadian were given the task of recapturing the ridge, they built railroad tracks so their artillery could keep up the creeping barrage against the German position. When the Canadians weren't controling the front lines they were in a secret training area practicing their assault plan, this new tactic allowed the Canadians to advance on the German trenches that were at the base of the ridge. One of the reasons why they Canadians manage to do things successfully was because the Canadian corps soldiers were given maps of their objectives and given instructions to each individual. This allowed each man knowing what he was doing in the periods of time given, the planning was done until the very seconds to when it would happen. On April 9th 1917 at 5:30am, the Canadians corps begin firing all the field guns This battle gave Canada a new identify, an identity which would give them a much more respected title. The Canadian soldiers who did the impossible of taking over the ridge which was something the French and British had failed the accomplish Paris peace conference The Paris peace conference was an...
Words: 294 - Pages: 2
...the best times in your lives I have put thought into joining the peace corps and have researched it on many different occasions -The Peace corps not only helps others but also will help yourselves -In my speech I will talk about the benefits of joining, What the Peace Corps is, and how it has helped america First I wanna talk about The benefits of joining the Peace Corps ____ Some different types of benefits that volunteers can get are things such as _+*(_)(*_* You can earn help for school 1. University credit toward a master’s degree, as well as scholarships and assistantships at many U.S. universities. 2. Many programs consist of ways to prepare for college life after you get out of the corps, by giving you supplies and classes held on how to be a good student. Hhi;j;poiWorking with Supervisors and Counterparts.. Washington, D.C: Peace Corps, Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support, Information Collection and Exchange, 2002. Print. B. Financial Benefits 1 Financial Benefits consist of volunteers get a monthly living allowance so they can live like co-workers in their host country community. 2. Volunteers also receive medical and dental care, transportation to and from the host country, and 24 vacation days per year. III. What the Peace Corps is Internal Transition: These are some things I want you to know about the Peace corps A. What it does 1. The Peace Corps is a volunteer organization headed by the U.S. Department of State that...
Words: 626 - Pages: 3
... We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." On October 14, 1960, in the wee hours in the am, Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of eager students at the University of Michigan at a presidential campaign speech. In his improvised speech, Kennedy asked, "How many of you, who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service, and spend your lives traveling around the world?" His young audience responded to this speech well with a petition signed by a thousand students willing to serve abroad in the Peace Corp program. Kennedy asked R. Sargent Shriver, to direct a Peace Corps Task Force. Shriver outlined seven steps to forming the Peace Corps in a remembrance to Kennedy in February 1961. Tanganyika and Ghana were the first countries to participate in the program. President Kennedy welcomed the inaugural group of volunteers at the White House on August 28, 1961, to give them a personal farewell before their departure to Africa. President Kennedy understood the urge to...
Words: 553 - Pages: 3
...Ridge, but the battles always ended in a stalemate because the Germans had the advantage of controlling the ridge. The ridge, located in France was much higher than the rest of the flat plains which made it both an offensive, and defensive position. Apart from driving the Germans further back, this was another reason why the Allied forces wanted to capture Vimy Ridge in the first place. Finally, after many failed attempts and over 100,000 casualties, Canada was assigned to capture Vimy Ridge. Planning & Preparation In order for the Canadian corps to capture Vimy Ridge, lots of meticulous planning and training was done. The Canadians dug tunnels and bunkers underneath the ridge so that at the time of the attack, they could use them to transport troops secretly, store ammunition and sometimes even detonate areas. Likewise, they rehearsed the battle strategy countless times and finally, a week before the actual assault, the Canadians corps continuously shelled enemy bunkers and trenches to weaken their forces and to keep them from knowing when the attack would start. The Battle...
Words: 500 - Pages: 2
