Use these links to rapidly review the document TABLE OF CONTENTS Index to Consolidated financial statements Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 20-F (Mark One) o REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 OR ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended 30 June 2013 OR o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT
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treatment by the IASB and FASB, as outlined in 2 their discussion paper, Leases – Preliminary Views, will have a varying degree of impact on U.S firms. After a review of the evolution of lease accounting and a discussion of financial ratio analysis, this paper examines the impact of the proposed accounting change on common financial ratios of 142 large public companies. The proposal requiring the capitalization of all lease arrangements is generally detrimental to such financial measurements, with
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Management control requires emphasis both on the search for planning as well as control. Both should go hand in hand to achieve the best results. ➢ Function of every manager: Manager at every level as to focus towards future operational and accounting data, taking into consideration past performance, present trends and anticipated economic and technological changes. The nature,
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Designed to Lead 2009 Annual Report Contents A.G. Lafley Letter to Shareholders Bob McDonald Letter to Shareholders Touching Lives P&G Brands — Designed to Be Leaders Billion- and Half-Billion Dollar Brands Improving Life P&G Leaders — Built from Within Corporate Officers Board of Directors P&G at a Glance Financial Contents Shareholder Information 11-Year Financial Summary 1 5 8 10 12 16 18 24 25 26 27 72 73 Financial Highlights FINANCIAL SUMMARY (UNAUDITED) Amounts in millions, except
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available from the author. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard1 Robert S. Kaplan Harvard Business School, Harvard University 1 Paper originally prepared for C. Chapman, A. Hopwood, and M. Shields (eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research: Volume 3 (Elsevier, 2009). 1 Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard Abstract David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article (Kaplan & Norton, 1992). The article was based
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At the roots of globalization there are a lot of mechanisms conected with economies of scale. The higher border of demand and bigger problems with knowledge and capital using in high developed countries went far towards some solutions for easier entries to different markets. That is why countries deleted administrative and economic borders limiting competition. Free flow of information, ideas through the world, caused that some values, lifestyles, consumption models are common for some nations
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available from the author. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard1 Robert S. Kaplan Harvard Business School, Harvard University 1 Paper originally prepared for C. Chapman, A. Hopwood, and M. Shields (eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research: Volume 3 (Elsevier, 2009). 1 Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard Abstract David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article (Kaplan & Norton, 1992). The article was based
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T he Mark eting Plan Chapter 5 Copyright ©2000 Sutia Kim Alter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Chapter 5 “Emerson said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, and that may have been true then … but it’s not true now. No one will come. You have to package and promote that mousetrap. Then they will come.” — King C. Gillette Gillette Razors O
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g. the allocation and maintenance of machinery and resources. Strategic role of operations The strategic role of operations management involves long term management issues (3-5 years). Cost leadership Involves producing goods or services at the lowest possible cost. If a business can keep its costs low then it will maximise its profits giving the business a competitive advantage over its competitors. Good/service differentiation By differentiating its good/services a business will make
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(i) the “Chinese monopoly” on the low cost manufacturing and (ii) the increased automation with manufacturing industries likely to limit the scope available to developing and transition economies for reducing poverty through employment generation in the manufacturing sector? Automation usually implies an entrepreneur’s effort to cut down cost in the long run by leaning more towards the fixed costs of owning machineries rather than generating more variable costs in human resource employment. Having
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