Communications of the Association for Information Systems Volume 17 Article 8 2-23-2006 Using the Balanced Scorecard to Achieve Sustained IT-Business Alignment: A Case Study Qing Hu Florida Atlantic University, qhu@fau C. Derrick Huang Florida Atlantic University, dhuang@fau Follow this and additional works at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais Recommended Citation Hu, Qing and Huang, C. Derrick (2006) "Using the Balanced Scorecard to Achieve Sustained IT-Business Alignment: A Case
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capacity utilisation plans and robust infrastructure investment decisions will be important as regulatory pressures increase and margins are eroded. The ability to locate nodes of the supply chain in tax havens and optimise trading and transfer price structures results in interesting degrees of freedom in the supply chain design problem. Prior even to capacity planning comes the problem of pipeline and testing planning, where the selection of products for development and the scheduling of the development
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determine reasons of the stock market crash in Bangladesh in 2010-11 and roles of the regulators and government since the crash took place. The theoretical background of the study includes brief introduction of Bangladesh stock market with its structure and different regulatory and intermediary organizations. It also describes one international stock market crash and stock market crash of Bangladesh in 1996. For the theoretical part investigation report of Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled is used as the
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Journal of Accounting and Economics 50 (2010) 344–401 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Understanding earnings quality: A review of the proxies, their determinants and their consequences$ Patricia Dechow a, Weili Ge b, Catherine Schrand c,n a b c University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States University of Pennsylvania
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derivatives instruments, and questionable banking practices. In addition to these causes, management incentives, as well as certain US accounting standards, contributed to the financial crisis. We outline the significant effects of these incentive structures, and the role of fair value accounting standards during the crisis, and discuss implications and relevance of these rules to practitioners, standard-setters, and academics. This article is based on a presentation by Deputy Dean and Professor SP
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American Economic Association Financial Dependence and Growth Author(s): Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 559-586 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/116849 Accessed: 06-07-2015 21:29 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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decision whether the project should be accepted on the basis of standard capital budgeting techniques. • Explain three reasons why corporate risk is important even if a firm’s stockholders are well diversified. • Identify two reasons why stand-alone risk is important. • Demonstrate sensitivity and scenario analyses and explain Monte Carlo simulation. • Discuss the two methods used to incorporate risk into capital budgeting decisions. • List four different types of embedded real options
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School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PAYBACK METHOD IN CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION. By Alaba Femi, AWOMEWE & Oludele Olawale, OGUNDELE Supervisor: Anders Hederstierna Thesis for the Master’s degree in Business Administration Fall/Spring 2008 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PAYBACK METHOD IN CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION. By Alaba Femi, AWOMEWE & Oludele Olawale, OGUNDELE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
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1 The Value of Synergy Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business October 2005 2 The Value of Synergy Many acquisitions and some large strategic investments are often justified with the argument that they will create synergy. In this paper, we consider the various sources of synergy and categorize them into operating and financial synergies. We then examine how best to value synergy in any investment and how sensitive this value is to different assumptions. We also look at how this synergy
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sale of product in the parent company (incase of MNC) and live up to other irrational clauses in the registration form, inhibit the companies from entering. • The pharmaceutical industry is a very capital intensive industry. This requires large amount of investment, and since, we lag behind in the capital industry, and it has to be imported. Thus, limiting new entrants. • With no stress and emphasis on research and development in our country, it is most likely that the new entrants will produce a
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