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Pricing Decisions

sales they can increase the profit with less made on each individual sale, but making up for the lower profit per unit with a larg...

Social Considerations for the Alcohol Industry in Poland

significant reduction in mean alcohol consumption among the major targets of its Strategy Health for All in 2000" (Moskalewiczi, 2...

Managing Operations

be physical or intangible, such as the transformation of information, for example, accountants will transform financial data into ...

Public Sector; Management and the Measurement of Efficiency

resources that can be utilised to satisfy the needs. There is little doubt that the pubic sector cannot satisfy all needs. However...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Investment Portfolio Determination

for the majority of the portfolio will be ten years or more. To undertake this assessment we will first look at some basic requi...

Investment Portfolio Risk Measurement

can be used to assess the risk. This is only of value if there is the ability to place this in a quantifiable framework. There ar...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Teens and Premarital Sex

1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...

Risk and a Work Project's Breakdown Schedule

4 weeks * Team prepares RFP for technology and installation * Team determines a select list of vendors to query. This requires res...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

End User Computing Risks and Benefits

track a users every move. Some do not like to use such tactics as it seems to be underhanded and trust can then become an issue. A...

3 Sources of Innovation at Sony

Sonys introduction of the first consumer camcorder in 1983 also could be assured of being popular. These and other innovations ce...

Swiss Franc, Australian Dollar, and Exchange Rates Risks

rated, the currency values will adjust to create parity. This had not occurred in early 1984, and the investors may be seen as ove...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

IS and Risk Assessment

hackers can readily infiltrate any given companys entire computer system with the intent to destroy data is more than enough reaso...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

At Risk Students and Curricular Reform and Innovations

conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming dist...

Entrepreneur Personality Characteristics

The origins of the word come fro the French "entreprendre" meaning to undertake (Drucker, 1993). By applying this to a commercial ...

Sweetwater Chocolate Bars and Cookies Marketing Plan

is a quite conservative goal and may be one that we surpass merely by default after launching the most basic of marketing initiati...

Bipolar Disorder Discussion

In 1875, Falrets findings were called Manic-Depressive Psychosis and considered a psychiatric disorder (Caregiver.com, 2003). ...

Capital Costs for Expanding International Companies

these factors. There are many debates over which combination will result in the lowest or highest cost of capital, with gearing in...

Investment Portfolio Development

the market operates. The market place works on a system of expectation and well as logical influences. If it is believed by a brok...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

Twenty Three Questions on International Finance Answered

The equation is Ks = Krf + B ( Km - Krf). Here Ks is the rate of return required, Krf is the risk free rate, usually measured...

Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

Postmenopausal Women, Breast Cancer Risk, and Raloxifene

of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...

Liability in Nursing

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

Arguing Against Breast Augmentation

problems associated with breast implants include capsular contraction, a hardening of the breast (Nissen, Newman, and McRee). Pat...

Argentina Location for Briggs and Stratton

It alternately makes headway toward that end then loses ground, and it lost much of its trade potential as a result of its economi...