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    Equity Theory

    distribution of resources is fair to both relational partners. Equity is measured by comparing the ratios of contributions and benefits of each person within the relationship. Partners do not have to receive equal benefits (such as receiving the same amount of love, care, and financial security) or make equal contributions (such as investing the same amount of effort, time, and financial resources), as long as the ratio between these benefits and contributions is similar. Much like other prevalent theories

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    Week 4 Disc+Stewart+BHealthcare Finance. 17.6 What is the difference between trend analysis and comparative analysis Trend Analysis is a ratio analysis technique that examines the value of a ratio over time to see if it is improving or deteriorating. Example: "The analysis of financial information, trend analysis is the presentation of amounts as a percentage of a base year. Example: The trend of a company’s revenues, net income, and number of clients during the years 2001 through 2007

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    Diapers

    not yes or no answers. a. Why are ratios useful? What three groups use ratio analysis and for what reasons? Ratios are useful because they help answer questions about a firm that would not be possible using only financial statements. Also, ratios are valuable especially when comparing two different companies, or benchmarking. Ratios standardize the comparison allowing for a more accurate assessment across companies. The three groups that mainly use ratio analysis are managers, creditors, and

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    Strategy - Boston Beer

    10/1/2012 Strategy – Ratio Analysis (Boston Beer) Analysis Observation #1) From our table, it is clear that Pete’s and Boston Beer have a higher Return on Equity than that of Coors, Anheuser Bush, and Red Hook. The reason for this difference is because Pete’s and Boston Beer have much lower shareholder equity than the other breweries. Pete’s and Boston Beer utilize contract brewing instead of investing in their own breweries like the other corporations and because of that, they have fewer assets

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    Nursing Home Crisis

    unfortunately they are cutting all in the wrong places. Many times office jobs in the nursing home are the last to be cut and the nurse aides are the first to be cut, and the reason being is because many states do not have laws stating the aide to resident ratio. Today, a local nursing home has just got a new hope in recovering the problem of the loss of success that their nursing home has encountered. They have begun to cut nurse aides and have begun to run the halls short-handed, unfortunately their complaints

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    Caterpillar Financial Analysis

    of stock reporting analysis, ratio analysis, duo point analysis, weekly return analysis and the analysis of cost of equity. The stock reporting analysis part of the project analyzed the stock selected with respect to the market Index. For the purpose of analysis the prices of both stock and index were downloaded for the period beginning 15-Jan-2009 till 15-Nov-2011. Ratio analysis had been used as the primary tool for evaluating the performance of the company. The ratio analysis helps in analyzing

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    Behavior Heuristics

    different government programs for different states, the call center expanded. They decided they needed to hire more customer service representatives bilingual in Spanish. Several were hired in the next month. It did not take long before we noticed the ratio of bilingual representatives to callers. Most, spent the day speaking English with very little translation needed. The director of human resources had me investigate the situation. I was to determine why we had a need for bilingual representatives

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    Women in the Civil War

    women would do it to stay close to their husbands. Despite all their hard work they went through and their participation, they are still not very recognized by specialist in the civil war to this very day. I believe the reason for this is because the ratio of enlisted women to men is very low on the women’s behalf. If historians praised the few women who made this valiant attempt, other historians (mostly prejudice men) would attach the ones on the women’s side and argue that the civil war women made

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    Notifiable Transaction

    NT • See R14.06 • Share transaction • Discloseable transaction • Major transaction • Very substantial disposal (VSD) • Very substantial acquisition (VSA) • Reverse takeover (RTO) 5 size tests – percentage ratios |Size test

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    Data Envelopment Analysis

    DEA | | | Evaluating the effectiveness of any process is one of the most challenging tasks faced by managers today, especially when there are multiple inputs and outputs of the process. The difficulty is further compounded when the relationships between the inputs and the outputs are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. The challenge is in terms of comparing the performance of a process at different locations of the organization, or evaluating how the process has been performing at a

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