over 1.18 billion monthly active users as of August 2015.[7] Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies. Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250
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1. Agency problems – why they arise, ways to reduce them (board of directors for ex.) • Corporations are owned by shareholders that want managers to maximize their wealth. • Agency problems arise due to the separation of ownership and management * Managers may have conflicts of interest with shareholders (maybe they want to maximize their own wealth rather than the shareholders wealth) – This is called an Agency Problem because the managers are acting as agents for the shareholders.
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1. A best selling author decides to cash in on her latest novel by selling the rights to the book’s royalties for the next four years to an investor. Royalty payments arrive once per year, starting one year from now. In the first year, the author expects $400,000 in royalties, followed by $300,000, then $100,000 then $10,000 in the three subsequent years. If the investor purchasing the rights to royalties requires a return of 7 percent per year, what should the investor pay? What the investor
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http://www.investopedia.com/categories/banking.asp#axzz1mS9JXfsX 1. What is a Repo Rate? A: Repo rate is the rate at which our banks borrow rupees from RBI. Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will help banks to get money at a cheaper rate. When the repo rate increases, borrowing from RBI becomes more expensive. 2. What is Reverse Repo Rate? A: This is exact opposite of Repo rate. Reverse Repo rate is the rate at which Reserve
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Amtelecom Group Inc. Valuation (Amtelecom Communication) Presented by: Table of Contents Executive Summary3 What does it mean when a company "trades at a discount"? Is AMT really trading at a discount? 4 Do you agree with AGI's decision to break up the company? To sell the communication business rather than the courier business? 4-5 Size up the communication s industry and identify key success factors. Size up strengths and weaknesses of AMT?5-7 Assess the value of AMT using all
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Provide customers with a top notch personalized customer service in a hospitable environment. Advertise and promote the boutique in areas that our target customer base will learn about the store eg.the social media, in universities, colleges and in public spaces 2.0Description of business The fashion and retail industry tends to be overly youth focused. However, by closely following generational fashion trends as well as our own customers' purchasing preferences, we will tailor our inventory to meet
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1) The iridium project was designed to create a worldwide wireless handheld mobile phone system with the ability to communicate anywhere in the world at any time. Iridium’s innovation was to use a large constellation of low-orbiting satellites and this could make the phones much smaller and the voice delay imperceptible.Dr.Leopard made a design in which the entire system would be inverted and only one gateway earth station would be required to connect mobile to landline calls to existing land bases
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through donation of day old products indicates a decided lack of concern for the people of the community, and the reasoning for that decision shows a complete lack of trust in the staff of their stores. Company Q did offer a solution to public feedback by offering some health conscience foods but has done so in a very limited capacity as well as at a high markup. As a small chain competing in a large metropolitan market Company Q has placed themselves at a disadvantage by appearing to be unconcerned
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promise of a multiservice network – a single network capable of transporting data, voice, and video. Cisco’s service provider customers agreed that network convergence would ultimately improve cost effectiveness and allow them to expand their service offerings. However, most service providers were saddled with huge investments in their existing circuit-based voice networks. This situation implied a market need for optical (Sonet/SDH) routers that leveraged the existing infrastructure while enabling a transition
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* The status of the users * The usage rate * Loyalty * Buyer readiness stage * Attitude toward the products and services we offer We will be offering our products and services to both consumers and organizational buyers, but due to market timing and the originality of the products and services we will be offering, this section will focus only on the organizational buyers. Occasions That May Stimulate a Purchase There are certain situations that may help to stimulate our target
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