and accounting academics will find the issues discussed in this paper useful in their work with financial ratios. Keywords: Financial ratios, Comparability, Homoscedasticity, Outliers INTRODUCTION Financial ratios play an important role in the analysis of financial statements and accounting research. However, the use of financial ratios comes with its hazards. Both accounting academics and financial statements’ users need to understand the problems and limitations in working with financial ratios
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main goal for the company is to motivate and retain their employees with competitive pay and working in a team-oriented environment. The business needs and current technical specifications of their current HR system needs to be defined first before analysis is to begin. The current HR system at Riordan was
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-6119.htm IJCHM 23,6 The effects of employee empowerment on employee job satisfaction A study on hotels in Turkey Elbeyi Pelit School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey 784 Received 22 April 2010 Revised 31 July 2010 8 October 2010 28 December 2010 18 February 2011 Accepted 26 February 2011 ¨ ¨ ¨ Yuksel Ozturk ¨ ¸ Faculty of Tourism, Gazi
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relationship between business and society Considering the purpose of the modern corporation Knowing what is a stakeholder and who a corporation’s market and nonmarket and internal and external stakeholders are Conducting a stakeholder analysis, and understanding the basis of stakeholder interests and power Recognizing the diverse ways in which modern corporations organize internally to interact with various stakeholders Analyzing the forces of change that continually reshape
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Investment Principles and Analysis Trinity University FNCE 3352 Spring 2010 INSTRUCTOR: Carl M. Hubbard, Ph.D., CFA Office: CGC N3l6; phone 999-7283, carl.hubbard@trinity.edu OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 – 11:30 MW; 2:30 – 4:00 TTh; Other times available by appointment. TEXTBOOK: Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus. Essentials of Investments, 7th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. CALCULATOR: Texas Instruments BAII Plus Calculator COURSE OBJECTIVES The learning objectives for students
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component, political/legal component, and global component (Chapter 2, Management Environment, slide 5). As for Apple, they have their own factors which is P.E.S.T. (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) factors that affect them to make a decision-making process. These are the explanation about PEST : 1. Political Factor Political factor is a factor by looking at federal, state, and local laws, as well as other countries’ laws and global laws, include a country’s political conditions
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California is faced with increasing productivity while controlling costs internally. In short, Kudler Foods has to manage costs and use technology to aid in the process of streamlining operations in all locations. The purpose of this analysis is to provide a clear and concise analysis of the method Kudler Fine Foods is currently using and offer recommendations to improve efficiency by capturing important data rather than extemporaneous data. Specifically, the current system used by Kudler Fine Foods does
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controlling projects with respect to schedule, budget, deliverables, customer satisfaction, technical standards, and system quality. 3)System owners -Interested not in raw data but in information that adds new business knowledge and helps managers make decisions. Business entities and business rules. Concerned with high-level processes called business functions. Business function – a group of related processes that support the business. Functions can be decomposed into other subfunctions and eventually into
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products or services, against which the sales force is a key element in achieving these ends. The SWOT analysis involves the review of external and internal conditions, favorable and unfavorable affect organizations in order to prepare them to understand the future challenges of a competitive environment (David, 1999.) MSO Puerto Rico, Inc. is the company, which we make an analysis of the internal and external factors. The company has been established several years and it was originally
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DEMAND FORECASTING: EVIDENCE-BASED METHODS Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics Christopher R. Thomas and William F. Shughart II (Eds.) Subject to further revisions File: Demandforecasting-17-August-2011-clean.docx 17 August 2011 J. Scott Armstrong The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 747 Huntsman, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. T: +1 610 622 6480 F: +1 215 898 2534 armstrong@wharton.upenn.edu Kesten C. Green International Graduate School of Business, University of
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