lifeblood of economic activities as they typically pump billions of dollars to a local economy. The Miami economy is highly dependent on the tourism, cargo and export/import industries as these are a tremendous source of employment and tax revenue for the city and arguably one of the main contributors to the tourism and export and import industries in any city is its main airport. Miami International Airport (MIA) is no exception to this cardinal rule as it contributes the following statistics to the city
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DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY OF INSURANCE FIRMS IN GHANA Eric Kofi Boadi Koforidua Polytechnic, Koforidua, Ghana Samuel Antwi Koforidua Polytechnic, Koforidua, Ghana School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, P.R. China Victor Curtis Lartey Koforidua Polytechnic, Koforidua, Ghana ABSTRACT The general objective of the study is to find out the determinants of the profitability of insurance firms in Ghana. Secondary data on financial reports were collected from sixteen insurance
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Sciences (in progress) 2009 The University of Lahore Pakistan MBA in Human Resource Management 2004 The University of Lahore Pakistan BS (Hons) in Computer Sciences OTHER QUALIFICATION • Intermediate Diploma in International Business Skills (IBS) WORKING EXPERIENCES Job Title: Academic Administrative Coordinator Name of Company: Al Dar University College, Dubai, UAE Period: March 2015 – Till Date Responsibilities Include: - Provide
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Licensed to: iChapters User Statistics for Management and Economics Abbreviated, Ninth Edition Gerald Keller VP/Editorial Director: Jack W. Calhoun Publisher: Joe Sabatino Senior Acquisitions Editor: Charles McCormick, Jr. Developmental Editor: Elizabeth Lowry Editorial Assistant: Nora Heink Senior Marketing Communications Manager: Libby Shipp Marketing Manager: Adam Marsh Content Project Manager: Jacquelyn K Featherly Media Editor: Chris Valentine Manufacturing Buyer: Miranda Klapper Production
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Reform: Eliminating Corporate and Franchise Taxes The relationship between tax policies and economic growth is a topic that has been frequently debated. For decades, economists have developed studies exploring this relationship and analyzing its effects. These studies concluded that a negative relationship exists between taxes and economic growth. Taxes have a negative impact on economic growth because of how they influence the activities individuals and firms choose to engage in. Businesses
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Key characteristics of the industry Companies in the F&B industry are defined by the Singapore Department of Statistics (2011) as “establishments engaged in the sale of prepared food and drinks for immediate consumption”, which consists of restaurants, fast food restaurants, food caterers and others (food courts, cafes, etc). This is consistent with The Chicken Rice Shop’s (TCRS) product offering consist of local food fare and has a “quick serve” restaurant concept (The Chicken Rice Shop 2010).
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The Bahamas, like most countries, is encumbered by a variety of issues, for example crime, illegal immigration, education reform, economic growth and unemployment. These issues are reported by numerous medias one of them being newspapers. Newspapers are a reliable and popular source of receiving information. Frequently “newspaper vendors stand at the roadside during the morning rush hour, selling copies of the daily papers” and “commuters stop their cars amid traffic to buy copies” (Benjamin & LeGrand
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BUSINESS INTERNATIONALISATION PROCESSES: DUNNING’S ECLECTIC THEORY Tutorial Activity 1.4 Part one consists of the factors that the firm Elecdyne should take into account when internationalising: 1. Labour costs – This specifically focuses on the hourly rate of the potential employees and company costs. Minimum wages in each of the countries (Germany, United Kingdom and China) may fluctuate causing Elecdyne to pay more or less from time to time. The company costs that have to be taken into
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Economic Forecast Paper The discussion in this paper is about Economic Forecast. The different places that are discussed will be The Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Economic Report of the President, The Federal Reserve System, and The United States Census Bureau. Over the course of this paper we will see how each department is important in our economy and what each department does in order to help or hinder the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was
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Reference Investopedia. (2015). Retrieved from Investopedia: www.investopedia.com/terms/z/z-test Lind, D. A., Marchal, W. G., & Wathen, S. A. (2011). Basic Statistics for Business & Economics, Seventh Edition. McGraw-Hill Company. McClave, J. T., Benson, P. G., & Sincich, T. (2011). Statistics for business and economics (11thed.). Boston, MA: Pearson-Prentice
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