internet-based companies, Google stands out as both particularly successful and particularly innovative. Not since Microsoft has a company had so much success so quickly. Google excels at IT and business architecture, experimentation, improvisation, analytical decision making, participative product development, and other relatively unusual forms of innovation. It balances an admittedly chaotic ideation process with a set of rigorous, data-driven methods for evaluating ideas. The company culture attracts
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University {cshleung, csfzhang}@comp.polyu.edu.hk Abstract Software cost estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop a software system. Many estimation models have been proposed over the last 30 years. This paper provides a general overview of software cost estimation methods including the recent advances in the field. As a number of these models rely on a software size estimate as input, we first provide an overview of common size metrics. We then highlight the cost estimation
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ratios. Liquidity ratios attempt to measure a company's ability to pay off its short-term debt obligations. This is done by comparing a company's most liquid assets (or, those that can be easily converted to cash), its short-term liabilities. In general, the greater the coverage of liquid assets to short-term liabilities the better as it is a clear signal that a company can pay its debts that are coming due
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Report Outline Government regulation over business mergers and acquisitions Introduction 1. Should the government regulate mergers and acquisitions more carefully? 2. Purpose of the Study 3. Scope of Study 4. Method and Procedures Analysis 1. Positive opinions 2. Negative opinions 3. Government action Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation 1. Summary 2. Conclusion 3. Recommendation Government regulation over business mergers and acquisitions Prepared
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0, BI&A 2.0, and BI&A 3.0 are defined and described in terms of their key characteristics and capabilities. Current research in BI&A is analyzed and challenges and opportunities associated with BI&A research and education are identified. We also report a bibliometric study of critical BI&A publications, researchers, and research topics based on more than a decade of related academic and industry publications. Finally, the six articles that comprise this special issue are introduced and characterized
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increasing at a decreasing rate in investment-related tax incentives. The effect of the income tax burden on property is more pronounced for states mandating unitary taxation or the throwback rule. Triangulating our empirical findings with prior analytical and simulation studies suggests the following hierarchy for the relative importance of major attributes of state corporate income tax regimes: the unitary or throwback requirement is most influential on incremental capital investment, followed
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ANALYSIS Calamiong, Yna Marie Espejo, Jean Macabuhay, Minorka Salenga, Darlene Samia, Mark Valloyas, Hazel Marie BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Bill French is a staff accountant at Duo Products Corporation. He has been doing routine types of analytical work and is reporting to his boss, Wes Davidson; a controller of the said company. French was a business school graduate and was considered by his associates to be quite capable and unusually conscientious. It was this latter characteristic that
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lasted until the 1960s. Industries, like the flour industry, were producing more than customers could consume and competition was growing (Crane, 2014). Companies like General Mills had to find ways to persuade customer to purchase their products. During sales era, General Mills created Betty Crocker. Betty Crocker was created because General Mills was receiving thousands of inquiries about baking during one of their gold-medal winning flour promotions, and to personalize their responses
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HELP University College Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting Department of Business Studies INTERNAL SUBJECT OUTLINE Semester 3, 2011 FIN304 Global Financial Management Subject Lecturer / Tutor Mr. Mohd Jamil Jelani Telephone Fax Room Email 603-20961511 603-20957063 12, KPD Block B, Level 2 mohdjj@help.edu.my Class Contact Please refer to timetable Consultation Please call or email for appointment FIN304 Global Financial Management – Semester 3, 2011 SUBJECT DETAILS
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expenses committed to advancing the charitable mission of the organization, and the fundraising ratio, defined as the ratio of fundraising expenses to donations revenue). Nonprofit managers have an incentive to over-report the expenses classified as program services and under-report the expenses classified as administrative and fundraising in order to improve these ratios. We examine whether nonprofits respond to these incentives, and we find evidence consistent with opportunistic cost shifting to
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