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ARTHUR ANDERSEN, CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT AND STRATEGIC CHANGE

quality audits and staff - the company valued the quality audits more than short-term profits (Brickley et al, 2006). During the e...

Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Bond Risk Article Review

of the failure of the organization, bondholders will be acknowledged soon after commercial lenders. Wang (2009) writes, "In...

Dow Chemical; Ratio Analysis 2005 - 2006

from the perspective of the investor, potential creditor and finally management. 2. Investor Ratios The investor will be interest...

Triple Bottom Line and Systems Theory; Similarities and Differences in the Accounting Approaches

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts to approaches to accounting; triple bottom line and the use of systems theory. The approa...

Financial Assessment of Continental Airlines in Late 2007

there was some exceptional contracts which did not sit easily into the analysis of offer and acceptance as in multipartite contrac...

Financial Analysis of FedEx 2003 - 2007

the direct costs is reducing, if the gross profit margin is decreasing then the cost of goods is increasing. In 2006 gross profit ...

Mattel; Financial Assessment

fall. In many companies this would have resulted in share prices plummeting and investor confidence declining sharply. However, in...

The Stages of Opening up a New Business; The Economic Perspective

located close together (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This may appear to increase immediate competition, but it also has the impact of a...

History and Positions of Wal-Mart and Target

Gibson - a barber from over at Berryville - started his stores with a simple philosophy: "Buy it low, stack it high, sell it cheap...

Evaluating Caltron's Accounting Practices

secondary public stock offering in early February following the current reporting period. Managements concerns should lie with de...

The Merger between XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio

will have in excess of 14 million subscribers (Ellis and La Monica, 2007). However, these numbers have not been sufficient to incr...

Wal-Mart 2004 - 2007

This 14 page paper examines Wal-Mart. The paper starts by looking at the history and development of the company before undertaking...

America Movil

cash flow (Wayman, 2002). It is especially misleading to consider EBITDA when making investment decisions (Wayman, 2002). We will ...

Financial Projections

to itself. However, there are costs when using funding from reserves, there are opportunity costs. If the money is taken out of th...

The Causes of Differences in International Financial Reporting

invest in companies to make money, if a company is seen to be wasting money then they are unlikely to wish to invest in it (Howell...

Capital Raising Options

modern portfolio theory is in the way it allows for specific and systematic risks in the returns expected by an investor (lton, et...

Managing Working Capital

of the cycle is arbitrary and is defined according to the assessment needs of the organization. It can be assessed in terms of a ...

Evaluating Stock Information

link provides a list of daily, weekly or monthly closing prices of the stock for as long as the company has been public....

Financial Crimes against the Elderly

abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...

International Accounting Convergence; IFRS and US GAAP

rely on information flow and also trust. Annual accounts are a major tool used by potential investors to assess an investment. Alt...

Funding Requests

for Educators, n.d.). An example can be studying the effect of greater parental involvement on the educational outcomes of specia...

B2B and B2C Marketing: Similarities and Differences

supposed to be given good information, but when it comes to B to B, there are things that the business owners are expected to know...

Making a Promotion Decision

al, 1999). In this case the problem is the departure of a regional manager, this leaves a space that is to be filled. The job und...

Blockbuster Inc.

850 franchise stores. In addition to the Blockbuster brand the company also has 400 of the newer concept store in store operations...

The Acquisition of Exabyte by Tandberg Data

changes in the operation. It was in 1979 that the company was divided into a number of separate entities in order to assure that s...

Lester Electronics Case Study; Financing Issues

takeover bid which is being made by Avral Electronics for Lester, this would appear to be a move to increase market share by Avral...

Does a Risk Manager Need to Understand a Firms Finances?

they all will impact and be impacted by risks. The tasks of the risk manager start with the way that risks are...

FedEx 2006 - 2007

When looking at cash flows the income generation profit levels are only part of those cash flows. Cash comes into and out of the c...

Assessing the 7E7 Project

looking at the required reward the level of risk will be reflected in the risk premium. In the case we are presented with an inter...