Post Graduate Diploma in Management Academic Year 2011-12 Course Title : Information Systems for Managers - II Credits :2 Area: Information Systems Term: 3 Course Instructors: Instructor 1 Prabin Panigrahi Instructor 2 Shubhamoy Dey Objectives : Advances in information technology (IT) have transformed business models, organization structures and processes, and the methods for sustaining innovation and firm performance. With information technologies becoming an important force shaping entire
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4/27/2003 CHAPTER 4 MINI CASE SITUATION Assume that you recently graduated with a major in finance, and you just landed a job as a financial planner with Barney Smith Inc., a large financial services corporation. Your first assignment is to invest $100,000 for a client. Because the funds are to be invested in a business at the end of 1 year, you have been instructed to plan for a 1 year holding period. Further, your boss has restricted you to the following
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Chapter 2: 1) Market oriented mission statement defined in terms of satisfying basic customer needs. Important questions that should be taken into consideration are what is our business, who is the customer, what do customers value and what should our business be? 2) Business portfolio planning involves two steps (1) the company must analyze its current business portfolio and determine which business should receive more, less, or no investment. (2) it must shape the future portfolio by developing
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Chapter 1: Introduction Executive Summary Associate will start a new pharmaceutical company in November 2003 at Singapore. The new company names as Body Health Care Private Limited Company (BHC). The main reason associate selects Singapore because this country has very large market potential. According to a research report from the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2000, Singaporeans on average consume around US$200 million of pharmaceuticals each year.1 The aims of associate are to provide
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WEEK 3 Homework * * * What is the relationship between a firm’s life cycle stage and its ability to accurately forecast sales? Why is this the case, and how do capital suppliers respond? Why is so much emphasis placed on forecasting sales and cash balances in building proformas and projections? * * * Professor, class, * * There is a tight relationship between a firm's life cycle stage and its ability to accurately forecast sales. The earlier a venture is at its
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| | | |II. COURSE DESCRIPTION | |Students will gain a working knowledge of financial management by learning to develop a systematic approach to financial analysis; to apply techniques for | |planning
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com/ilife/iweb iWeb Help website Contents Chapter 1: Ready, Set Up, Go 9 What’s in the Box 10 Setting Up Your iMac 15 Putting Your iMac to Sleep or Shutting It Down Chapter 2: Life with Your iMac 20 22 24 26 28 Basic Features of Your iMac Other Features of Your iMac Ports on Your iMac Other Components of Your iMac Getting Answers Chapter 3: Boost Your Memory 33 Installing Additional Memory 38 Making Sure Your iMac Recognizes the New Memory Chapter 4: Problem, Meet Solution 41 Problems That
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Objectives Some of a firm’s most valuable assets are the brands that it has invested in and developed over time. Although manufacturing processes can often be duplicated, strongly held beliefs and attitudes established in consumers’ minds cannot. This mini-elective provides students with insights into how profitable brand strategies can be created. It addresses three important questions. How do you build brand equity? How can brand equity be measured? How do you capitalize on brand equity to expand your
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Chapter 2 Time Value of Money MINI CASE Assume that you are nearing graduation and that you have applied for a job with a local bank. As part of the bank's evaluation process, you have been asked to take an examination which covers several financial analysis techniques. The first section of the test addresses discounted cash flow analysis. See how you would do by answering the following questions. a. Draw time lines for (a) a $100 lump sum cash flow at the end of year 2, (b) an ordinary
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OPENING CASE STUDY: WHAT’S REPLACING THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING FOR SHOPPING SALES? You’ve heard that the most profitable retail shopping day before Christmas is the Friday after Thanksgiving. It’s often called Black Friday, because it’s the day retailers move out of the red and into the black on their income statements. But not anymore . . . Cyber Monday is quickly replacing Black Friday as the big shopping day. Cyber Monday occurs on the Monday after Black Friday weekend
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