...Financial Analysis My analysis on this paper was derived from this year’s numbers of both companies because I wasn’t able to get their averages because of data limitations. My paper contains information about the attempt I made in analyzing the biggest corporation in the beverage industry and these are PepsiCo, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company. The type of analysis I did was vertical analysis which others may know of as a common-size analysis. Using this technique means that every item in the financial statement is expressed as one part of another base figure. The equations used in my analysis include the assets account and its base account which was Total Assets, liabilities and stockholder’s equity had its base as their stockholder’s equity and total liabilities, last, income statement had its base containing the accounts for their net revenues and sales. In this paper is my version of a horizontal analysis, it involves and evaluation of all the financial statements I have a hold of over the course of time. Behind this analysis is a purpose and it determines all the changes that took place in those figures over the years. Representation for these changes may come as different amounts or percentage changes. With the thorough examination I did on the financial reports, I gathered from these two beverage industry giants my analysis came out like this: In general, I saw improvements in all their figures over the years from the two different analysis techniques that I used on...
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...performance tuning will send a query to the server and come back with an answer in a certain amount of time with the little resources being used on the server side. 2. This process is being done on the server with the DBMS. The best way to this is to see how long a response takes from a client machine to the DBMS. The faster the response the better. 3. Performance tuning would mostly be focusing on input/output (I/O). Measuring the performance of how fast data is moved through the disks on the server. You don’t want the server to always use I/O instead they are going to want the data cashed because it doesn’t have to search the disks to retrieve the data. 4. Database statistics are measurements from the DBMS. They usually look at tables, columns and indexes that are being used. By measuring those that can see the performance of the system and make critical decisions to make the system better. 5. There are many different programs out there that can measure database statistics. Some commands that are built in the system to obtain the stats are to use to ANALYZE command. 6. Most measurement that are typical are the number of disk blocks being utilized, also the number of rows and how long the length of the rows are. Also including the smallest value within each column, including column that also are utilizing indexes. 7. They are two different command that do two different outputs. A DML statement manipulates the data. But a DDL updates the data directory...
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...Plant Competition INTRODUCTION This experiment was used to show the different types of competition between species. Competition was defined as being a “relationship between members of the same or different species in which individuals are adversely affected by those having the same living requirements, such as food or space” (Competition 2010). There are two different types of competition that we will be observing during this experiment. The first type would be intraspecific, which means “competition between same species” (1976). The second type of competition is interspecific, which is defined as “competition between different species” (1976). These two types of competition have helped us look at the different types of interactions between plants species. The lab manual says that intraspecific competition experienced in plants is often very intensely prevalent, and the interspecific competition has the potential to be, mainly because they use most of the same resources (2015). For the experiment conducted for this report, intraspecific and interspecific competition was looked at using numerous set ups of radish and bean plants, and measured through the leaf length and biomass of each particular pot planted. The hypothesis that was fomred was that there would be intraspecific competition occurring between the radishes when planted in low density and high density, as well as intraspecific competition occurring between the beans planted in low density and high density, and...
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...Executive Summary Over the last few years, the capital market of Bangladesh has witnessed a haughty growth which is not in line of development in the real sector of the economy. Although, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Bangladesh has tried to correct the irregular behavior observed in the market, very often it is argued that lack of proper and firm decisions from the regulator’s side has contributed to make the market more unstable rather than to reduce it. The paper attempts to identify the inter relationship between the capital market and money market. The Capital Market of Bangladesh is passing tough times since December 2010 as high volatility is eroding the capital of Thousands of Investors that might turn into social instability. This fall is caused by many factors that I tried to identify and tried to link up between causal factors of market crash and regulatory failure and also tried to find out the inter-relationship between capital market and money market. Primary issue related problems was faulty listing methods and IPO overpricing, few numbers of new listings, revaluating assets before company listing, high premium in issuance of right share/Repeat IPO etc. while secondary market related problems was stock splits and stock price manipulations through block trading, circular trading and insider trading. Investor’s greed and irrational behavior played a big rule to make the stock prices sky rocking as they were crazy to buy shares without judging...
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...01 Introduction to Social Media Measurement with HootSuite By: Nichole Kelly - Social Media Measurement Coach In Partnership with HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard www.fullfrontalroi.com 01 Introduction to Social Media Measurement with HootSuite Introduction Measuring social media is now an expectation that marketers need to deliver on. Marketing Sherpa released a report that showed 53% of marketers have increased social media budgets in 2011. That’s great news but for many it came at a cost they weren’t prepared for; accountability. According to the report from Bazaarvoice, 74% year. Many marketers have found that the reality of measuring social the expectations for the ability to measure have risen dramatically. As a marketer who has successfully measured social media ROI, I can tell you it isn’t as easy as everyone thinks, but it is possible. — Nichole Kelly marketers, but it is something that can be overcome. www.fullfrontalroi.com 1 Introduction The makers of HootSuite, the social media dashboard, recognized the need for real social metrics and released the new Custom Social . This platform provides a new level of insight for how social media is impacting your business. It provides metrics beyond those available anywhere, like fans and followers, and gives decision making metrics like how many site visits your social media activities generated and how many of your social media contacts converted on your site. Combining this data with basic executive measurement...
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...quantify subjective human experience? - What are the limitations of operationalizing subjective human experience? Limitations: - Perceived happiness – no guarantee stats will prove happiness - Cultural differences (e.g HKPride / Prestige) - Difference between primary (universal) + Secondary emotions - Emotions vary over time Imagine you were a human scientist (geographer or psychologist) who was interested in comparing the happiness of different populations Decide whether you would like to use statistical indicators or a questionnaire * For those choosing to use indicators – which indicators would you use? * For those choosing to use a questionnaire – what questions would you ask? How do you think the following would impact on human happiness? * Wealth/poverty: People with higher income are generally happier because they have the ability to satisfy their wants * Freedom/Stability: The more freedom they have they will be happier because people get to do what they like to do. * Social Welfare provision: * Religiosity: Religious give people a sense of purpose and a resource coping with negative life experience * Crime: Happy people are less likely to be involved in crime activity Conduct research into Bhutan’s high levels of national happiness and their role in measuring it * Make notes on your findings * Record your...
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...crime When measuring crime and deviance sociologist tend to look at the different types of ways that we can measure crime; this includes, Official statistics, Victim survey and lastly self report studies. Each of these methods focuses on very different things, they also have strong and weak points but by combining them, a possible general picture of crime and deviance could be drawn. Firstly, official statistics show that public fear of being a victim of crime is rising. This stark difference between the level of crime and fear of crime has been attributed to the way of crime is reported in the media. Tabloid papers often use alarmist headlines about crime and deviance to grab the attention of readers causing a moral panic. It’s been argued that these exaggerate the chances of being victim of crime. Official statistics have strong points such as they are relatively cheap and readily available. They are published annually and they provide data on crime across the whole of the UK and also provide insight into regional differences in crime. This means that sociologists would be able to compare between different parts of the UK for example rural and urban areas. Positivist sociologists such as Functionalists are very supportive of the Official statistics; they see that this method of measuring crime is reliable, representative and valid. It also provides a true picture of the extent and nature of crime. However, this method does come with disadvantages. The official stats only records...
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...not even look real. A women is assaulted every 9 seconds, three women are murdered due to domestic violence and between 3- 10 million children witness domestic violence every year. Domestic violence is so apart of culture that 1 in 5 teenage girls are threatened by their boyfriend when she suggests breaking up with him. The worst part of domestic violence is that over half of all victims never contact the authorities or shelters for help. (“Domestic Violence Statistics”) Since money has and will always be a major part of domestic violence s courts, domestic violence costs more then 37 billion dollars a year when you add up law enforcement costs, medical and mental health treatment and lost productivity at companies. (“Domestic Violence the Stats”) Domestic violence specialty courts aim to solve the growing issue in this country. These courts want to lower recidivism rates, and make more women and children safe. The courts have supporters and people who are against them, but these courts are so new no one really has the authority to judge one side or the other. I have decided to look into how affective these courts are and if they are helping keep more people safe and helping offenders become valuable and good members of society. Before I go into my finding I want to make it clear that I am for domestic violence courts and that the data I found did not make or change my opinion. I am interested in this topic because I have witnessed domestic violence first hand and will never...
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...Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 27, 417427. Baker, M. and J. Wurgler (2006). Investor sentiment and the cross-section of stock returns. Journal of Finance 61, 16451680. Baker, M. and J. Wurgler (2007). Investor sentiment in the stock market. Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, 129151. Baker, M., J. Wurgler, and Y. Yuan (2011). Global, local, and contagious investor sentiment. Journal of Financial Economics . Barberis, N., A. Shleifer, and R. Vishny (1998). A model of investor sentiment. Journal of Financial Economics 49, 307343. Ben-Rephaela, A., S. Kandela, and A. Wohla (2012). Measuring investor sentiment with mutual fund ows. Journal of Financial Economics 104, 363382. Bergsma, K. and D. Jiang (2013). Let's celebrate! cultural new year and stock returns around the world. Working paper, Florida State University. 30 Bodurtha, J. N., D. S. Kim, and C. Lee (1995). Closed-end country funds and u.s. market sentiment. Review of Financial Studies Vol. 8(3), pp. 879918. Bollen, J., H. Mao, and X. Zeng (2011). Twitter mood predicts the stock market. Journal of Computational Science 2 (1), pp. 18. Brown, W. G. and M. T. Cli (2005). Investor sentiment and asset valuation. Journal of Business 78(2), 405440. Campbell, J., S. J. Grossman, and J. Wang (1993). Trading volume and serial correlation in stock returns. Quarterly Journal of Economics 108(4), 905939. Choi, H. and H. R. Varian (2009). Predicting...
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...University, 1700 North Broad St., Suite 201, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, 1700 North Broad St., Suite 201-F, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States c College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Niagara University, St. Vincent’s Hall, Room 304, NY 14109, United States b A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: Corporate social responsibility Hospitality industry Financial performance In spite of growing concern for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in various industries including the hospitality industry, the relationship between CSR activities and financial performance is a rarely examined subject in the hospitality context. Especially, research measuring the separate impacts of positive and negative CSR activities on companies’ financial performances remains, as yet, unconsidered. Thus, this study examines different impacts of positive and negative CSR activities on financial performance of hotel, casino, restaurant and airline companies, theoretically based on positivity and negativity effects. Findings suggest mixed results across different industries and will contribute to companies’ appropriate strategic decision-making for CSR activities by providing more precise information regarding the impacts of each directional CSR activity on financial performance. ß 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction With a...
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...Running head: MEASURING THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM 1 Measuring The United States Healthcare System Luc John Arnaud HCM 550 Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare Colorado State University Global Campus Dr. Gloria Wilson March 27, 2016 MEASURING THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM2 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is based in Paris, France, and it is essentially an assembly that comprises over thirty members (countries) who work with each other and who all share common commitments to democratic states and market economies. The goal of the OECD is to promote and improve economic growth, prosperity, sustainable growth, and expansion of each nation (OECD United States Mission, n.d.). The OECD “tracks and reports annually on more than 1,200 health system measures across 30 industrialized countries, ranging from population health status and nonmedical determinants of health to health care resources and utilization” (Anderson, F., Squires, D., 2010, para 1). The article titled Issues in International Health Policy clearly exposed the fact that the United States of America fundamentally lacks behind the majority of other developed nations as it’s related to the efficiency, effectiveness, and solvency of its overall healthcare system industry. The facts and data within the article come from an analysis of health data from 2006 from the OECD, ...
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...AS RESEARCH METHODS (UNIT 3) REVISION NOTES A. QUALITATIVE PRIMARY SOURCES (Used by Interpretivists) CASE STUDIES |Advantages |Disadvantages | |Enables you to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of a group under |Not possible to generalize on the basis of its findings. Solutions = carry | |study (Ken Pryce = single West Indian Community in Bristol. Blackman |out a number of case studies of the same type of phenomenon (Zuboff ’88 = | |(’97) = detailed study of homeless in Brighton.) |case studies of 8 organizations to discover the impact of I.T.) | |Generate new hypothesis which can be tested against other data or in | | |later studies (P. Willis = produced a no. of hypothesis about the | | |relationship between education & capitalist societies.) | | LIFE HISTORIES |Advantages |Disadvantages | |Allows the researcher to see the world from the social actor’s point of |Questions raised about the accuracy...
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...Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics Emerald Article: Globalization does lead to change in consumer behavior: An empirical evidence of impact of globalization on changing materialistic values in Indian consumers and its aftereffects Nitin Gupta Article information: To cite this document: Nitin Gupta, (2011),"Globalization does lead to change in consumer behavior: An empirical evidence of impact of globalization on changing materialistic values in Indian consumers and its aftereffects", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 23 Iss: 3 pp. 251 - 269 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13555851111143204 Downloaded on: 24-03-2012 References: This document contains references to 49 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 1778 times. Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AT AHMEDABA For Authors: If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service. Information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Additional help for authors is available for Emerald subscribers. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.com With over forty years' experience, Emerald Group Publishing is a leading independent publisher...
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...Abstract: The purpose of this experiment was to verify the relationship between frequencies, wave length and wave velocity of a transverse wave on a string, as well as the relationship between the spring tension and the number of standing waves formed. Two different strings used in this experiment are white and black in colour; the µ1 value calculated for the white string is 2.73 x 10-3 ±0.00055kg/m with an uncertainty of ±8.2932 x 10-5 kg/m while the µ2 value calculated for the black string is 1.38 x 10-3 kg/m with an uncertainty of ±8.6492 x 10-5 kg/m. However, the actual linear mass density µ0 of the white spring calculated is 2.87x10-3kg/m; compared to the experimental linear mass density µ1, the difference in error was 4.88%, however, the mass of the black spring was too small to be weighted therefore the actual linear mass density µ0 was unable to be calculated, so cannot be compared to the experimental linear mass density µ2. Introduction: A wave can be described as a disturbance that carries energy and travels through a medium form one location to another. Waves can be classified into two types, transverse waves and longitudinal waves. This experiment was based on transverse wave and can be described by the position of the particles at a particular time as well as how the position changes with time. Transverse wave can also be considered as a wave that remains at constant position. Wave produced by a vibrator travels down a string and reflects...
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...Marketing as well as other business/social disciplines. Topics include marketing strategy, customer behavior, segmentation, market research, product management, pricing, promotion, sales force management and competitive analysis. 211. (MKTG773) Consumer Behavior. (C) Cutright, Reed. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 101. This course is concerned with how and why people behave as consumers. Its goals are to: (1) provide conceptual understanding of consumer behavior, (2) provide experience in the application of buyer behavior concepts to marketing management decisions and social policy decision-making; and (3) to develop analytical capability in using behavioral research. 212. (MKTG756) Marketing Research. (C) Shen, Eliashberg. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 101, STAT 101. Students are highly encouraged to take statistics in the semester immediately preceding this course. This course examines the role of marketing research in the formulation and solution of marketing problems, and the development of the student's basic skills in conducting and evaluating marketing research projects. Special emphasis is placed on problem formulation, research design, alternative methods of data collection (including data collection instruments, sampling, and field operations), and data analysis techniques. Applications of modern marketing research procedures to a variety of marketing problems are explored. 221. New Product Management. (C) Armstrong, Adams. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 101; NOTE: Students may not take this course...
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