Decreasing the A.M.B. YMCA Employee Turnover Rate Course Project Proposal Introduction of Organization The Young Men’s Christian Academy, also known as the YMCA, is the world’s leading non-profit organization and is present in over 10,000 communities across the nation. With more than 2,600 locations, the Y, as it is now more commonly refer to, provides programs, whose focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. (YMCA of the USA, 2012) Particularly, the Arthur
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C15.0002 Foundations of Finance Summer 2002 Section 001: TR 12:00-2:55 PM, TISCH LC10 HOMEWORK # 3 -----To be handed in 7/30/02 QUESTIONS: 1. Ameritech Corporation paid dividends per share of $3.56 in 1992, and dividends are expected to grow 5.5% a year forever. The stock has a beta of 0.90, and the treasury bond rate is 6.25%. a) What is the value per share, using the Gordon Growth Model? b) The stock is trading for $80 per share. What would the growth rate in dividends have to be
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similar to “charitable.” This summer, I am interning with an accounting firm focused on the nonprofit industry so I had an opportunity to break the myth about the industry and see a new career direction. The company I am interning with this summer is Sommerville & Associates, P.C in Arlington, Texas. The company assists individuals and nonprofits with their tax and compliance relative needs. I. Company background: Sommervile & Associates, P.C was incorporated in 2002 under the name Ratliff
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crippled the power of local school board and superintendents along with dismissing teachers as professional individuals. School boards have a history of more than 200 years of governing local school districts as a separate independent entity (Land, D., 2002, p. 229). The purpose of the school board has not change over the years. Although the primary goal of this governing bod, through the years, has shifted for different reasons usually tied to some form of politics (p. 230). For example, not long after
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industry in a wrong mind and the reason as Levitt (1960) mentioned was because they were product-oriented (railroad-oriented) instead of customer-oriented (transportation-oriented). Once again, the railroads’ illustration was cited by James R. Stock (2002) in his paper namely Marketing Myopia Revisited: Lessons For Logistics as an evidence to prove that Levitt’s view still has entire impacts on the discipline of
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Overview of the Company Ryanair started in year 1985 with only 57 staff members and with one 15 seater turboprop plane from the south of east of Ireland to London-Gatwick which carried 5000 passengers on one route (Harrison, 2002). In 1986, inspired from the story of David and Goliath the company go after the big guys for a slice of the action and end up smashing the Aer Lingus or British Airways high fare cartel on the Dublin-London route. The staff increased from mere 57 to 120 staff
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Climate Change: Global Warming In April 9th of 2010, Marisa Marcavillaca—a farmer and indigenous women’s organizer from Peru— went to The Capitol Hill to tell her powerful story. Her words were quoted by Al Gore in one of his speeches. She said through a translator: “We are very concerned, in my community, [and] in my country, about global climate change. Nature is disrupted. We are seeing the impacts on a daily basis. We are losing our lands, water is disappearing, it rains when it shouldn’t
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1800 Flowers.com http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=234954&ticker=FLWS Mr. James F. McCann, also known as Jim, founded 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., in 1976 and has been its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1987. Mr. McCann focuses on customer relationships. He serves as an Advisor at Metamorphic Ventures. He has been the Chairman of Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company since July 8, 2013 and its Director since April 21, 2004. He has been a Director
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ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING: THE WORLDCOM INC. SCANDAL Conf.univ.dr. Lucian Cernuşca “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad, str. Piaţa Sporturilor, nr. 10, bl. 25, apt. 7, 310167 Arad, Phone: 0730468534, luciancernusca@gmail.com What is ethics? What does ethics have to do with accounting? How does a scandal affect the business environment and the society? This article will explain just those questions by analyzing a “famous” fraud scandal: WorldCom Inc. The article discusses the chronology of events
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Because the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said that the UK's four biggest supermarkets, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's, colluded with dairies to keep the price of milk and other dairy goods artificially high between 2002 and 2003. The watchdog says that consumers ended up paying £270m over the odds for milk, cheese and butter as a result of the price-fixing deal. It has added fresh impetus to the argument that the UK's supermarkets have become so big that they are able to dictate to suppliers
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