Takamore v Clarke [2012] NZSC 116, [2013] 2 NZLR 733. This case concerned the burial of Ms Clarke’s long-term partner, Mr Takamore, who was of Tūhoe descent. Without Ms Clarke’s permission, members of his Tūhoe whānau buried Mr Takamore in accordance with Māori tikanga in the Bay of Plenty. Ms Clarke, executor of his will, sought to recover his body and bury him in Christchurch, where they had lived together for the previous 20 years with their two children. Ms Clarke succeeded in the
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BIG DATA ANALYTICS WITH TWITTER Aug 23, 2012 Marti Hearst & Gilad Mishne WHAT IS TWITTER? TWITTER AS CULTURAL PHENOMENON Some 15% of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, and 8% do so on a typical day. Although overall Twitter usage has nearly doubled since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project first asked a stand-alone Twitter question in November 2010, the 15% of online adults who use Twitter as of early 2012 is similar to the 13% of such adults
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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING Case Study Report How Starbucks Corp. should improve its business Syndicate Group Number 1 24/08/2007 The following group assignment report was prepared for a business unit at Macquarie University, Sydney. The information given does not need to be correct. The suggestions given and conclusions drawn remain (as the whole report in itself does, too) the intellectual property of the authors. Do not use this report for plagiarism. Do not copy this report
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Case Study: Eight Glasses a Day (EGAD) The student picked the third strategy because strategy 3 of 556 is less than strategy 1 of 636 and strategy 2 of 558. Strategy three is the lowest cost to use 15 hours of overtime a month and using inventory for variations. This strategy is lees that the strategy to use overtime and contractors to do the job needed. The strategy to use the leveling of the amount to 10 tankloads a month would not work if most of the predictions are off for the six month period
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the following specific objectives 1. To develop an understanding of the nature of accounting and its role in business decision-making. 2. To prepare, comprehend and analyze financial statements demonstrating both technical and analytical capabilities. 3. To develop a working knowledge of using Annual Reports. 4. To demonstrate techno-savvy capabilities to manage integrated environments. Pedagogy The course shall be delivered essentially through a fusion of lectures, exercises, and by discussing
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full year of operations, 1990, the net working capital needed to support that year’s business ($1300, Exhibit #3) must be acquired at 1/1/90. 15 c. Assume start-up marketing expenses (footnote c, Exhibit #3) and start-up capital expenditures are incurred at the beginning of 1990. 2. What is the Internal Rate of Return of the new product line and how does it compare to the cost of capital? 3. How does your answer to question #1 change if the net working capital for the year is put in place at the
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HW #6 Your homework assignment for this week's lecture is on Bonds, from Chapters 14, 15, and 16 You are to work on 10 problems. Due date: Saturday, July 12, by 11:59 pm Chapter 14: 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 Chapter 15: 7, 11, 14 Chapter 16: 8 and 12 SOLUTIONS Chapter 14: 10. a. | Zero coupon | 8% coupon | 10% coupon | Current prices | $463.19 | $1,000.00 | $1,134.20 | | | | | b. Price 1 year from now | $500.25 | $1,000.00 | $1,124.94 | Price increase | $ 37.06 | $
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Bottling Company Case Study Imagine you are a manager at a major bottling company. Customers have begun to complain that the bottles of the brand of soda produced in your company contain less than the advertised sixteen (16) ounces of product. Your boss wants to solve the problem at hand and has asked you to investigate. You have your employees pull thirty (30) bottles off the line at random from all the shifts at the bottling plant. You ask your employees to measure the amount of soda there is
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Used as DV later in course of Management Accountants (IMA) publishes an annual Salary Guide In Strategic Finance magazine sfmag@imanet.org Annual survey of members “…based on a regression equation derived from survey results.” Slide #3 Slide #4 IMA Salary Guide (cont.) SALARY = 35,491 + 18393TOP + 8392SENIOR – 10615ENTRY +914YEARS +10975ADVDEGREE – 8684NODEGREE + 9195PROFCERT + 8417MALE IMA Salary Guide (cont.) Average IMA member (1999) TOP=1
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Case C-426/11: Mark Alemo-Herron and Others v. Parkwood Leisure Ltd. Introduction This issue was about collective agreements that are negotiated regularly, whether they can bind an employer following a transer of employment. It is really a fundamental question, mainly in contracting out services, when the new employer may wish to make savings by not increasing wages. In this case it should be decided if in the transferred employees' terms and conditions of employment can continue to rise due
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