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Pioneer Corporation Group Members: Arun Prakash Muralidhar Babu (Section 2); Anindita Pal (Section 6) and Raghav Sharma (Section 5) Please comment critically on the following: 1- Do you agree with the way the company computes its weighted average cost of capital. Why or why not? Be specific? How would you compute the WACC? Use RF= 8.08%, Beta of equity for Pioneer = 0.8 and RM-RF = 7% I disagree with the way the company computes it’s WACC. They are assuming a cost of equity based
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what is and what is not. Reading through my responses will help you to decide also. I deal with people who want to be the center of attention and think they are the best. However, those people do not succeed at work. Those people are often the ones that do the least amount of work and with the worst quality. These people stress me out when I have to work with them. Taking the Symptoms of Stress self-assessment helped me to realize what I do without even realizing it and that lets me know when I am stressing
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numerous accounts of “political obligation,” or a moral obligation to obey the law of whatever state or country one lives in. Yet, a satisfactory account of political obligation—one that most political philosophers can agree on—has not yet been made, though attempts go back to at least as far as Socrates’ time. I will argue that there is no general prima facie moral obligation to obey the law, though there are various ethical reasons to obey most laws. Hobbes views fidelity to law as necessary for two
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McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds recorded hitting statistics that were previously unachievable in professional baseball. If you do not know who they were, these players were known for their power, they were known for their home runs. These kind of players do just randomly appear out of nowhere, they trained their entire lives to get to this point, they deserve it, or do they? These kind of players showed everyone who loved the game of baseball that even though their numbers were
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If you are a devoted Heartie like I am, you will probably remember season three of When Calls the Heart when the character Hattie made her inaugural appearance, and you might even remember your initial reactions to both the character and the actress who portrayed her. Imogen Tear, whom I had the opportunity to meet last month (November 2016) at the Joey Awards, is the incredible actress who has given life to Hattie as well as a few other well-known character on Hallmark and Lifetime networks. In
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been that the boy has to ask the girl out, because this shows that he can be a man and take charge. a. This tradition goes back far as the eighteenth century. b. Most boys who took interest in a girl they liked or were attracted to, nine times out of ten wanted to get to know her and in doing so by asking her out. c. A girl will never understand how much pressure and sense of masculine it puts on a boy to ask a girl out. II. Nowadays, people live in a civilized society with
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together an oppression journal which contains oppressive behavior I have witnessed and challenged and a list of questions I have interest in regarding oppression in which I collected others opinions. I also have done quite a bit of self-reflection as to how these two things have changed my view on the world around me and helped me gain a better understanding of oppression. Oppression can be defined in four categories, unequal power, inequitable distribution of resources, inflexible policies and practices
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record of events from past to present. Most of society would agree that history is based on records of events; however there are those who believe history was written by victors. As individuals we all have our own meaning or interpretation of how history was written or recorded. As society may agree that history is written by the victors, we should keep an open mind to how history was written, as the accounts of events back that far are hard to verify as those who live that era are now deceased
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that stood right next to the IMF until a few days ago. No, it's absolutely not true that this was caused by a loose cannon planted within the World Bank. Dear Joe: Like you, I came to my position in Washington from the cloisters of a tenured position at a topranking American University. Like you, I came because I care. Unlike you, I am humbled by the World Bank and IMF staff I meet each day. I meet people who are deeply committed to bringing growth to the developing world and to alleviating poverty
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