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The Practice of Corporate Governance at British Petroleum (BP)

British Petroleum, which now incorporates Amaco, is highly active within the energy sector, specifically the oil industry. The wri...

SWEETWATER U

line in forcing the universitys administrators into arbitrarily rating at least half their secretaries as something less than exce...

Motivation And Reward Systems

on the job. Some even offer pet insurance as one of the newer incentives. Which combination of benefits a company offers is diff...

Production and Pricing at Under Armour, Inc.

The fabric on which the Under Armour company has been built has moisture-wicking properties "which are designed to keep perspirati...

Economic Forecasts

the prime market, but the majority of loans; 95%, do not suffer from default. Banks and lenders have targeted the market and leant...

Nursing While Impaired

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

The Concepts and Benefits of the Balanced Scorecard

an ability to adapt and change both the processes and general business practices in order to adapt to a changing environment. Th...

Attribution Theory And Achievement Goal Theory

3) the observer must determine if the person was forced or coerced into doing that behavior or not (Kearsley, 2008). If coercion w...

Effectiveness of Internal Audit in the Public Sector

same activities to monitor and assess performance, it is more likely that the task will be outsourced to an external auditor and t...

Black Students Educational Achievement

programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...

IBM Financial Analysis

addition to the $16,289 return on to current assets are also longer-term receivables in the capital assets which amount to $11,603...

Financial Analysis of Riordan Manufacturing and Kudler Fine Foods

there are few current assets, this may be seen as requiring a lower ratio. Figure 1 Current Ratio Current ratio 2005 2004 Current...

Sempra Energy

the closing prices. If we look at the share price there is a general decline, with a dip and then an increase over the release per...

United Group Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Babcock & Brown Limited

to United Group Ltd. As part of the growth there has been a strategy of acquisition, companies acquired which have added r...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

First Solar Inc.

commercial solar power projects and the company is undertaking international expansion as well as domestic expansion, two producti...

Giorgio Armani and Hugo Boss

2003 Income (a) 1,208,734 1,110,663 1,298.60 1,254.60 Cost of goods sold (b) 569,159 519,607 931.6 1,006.80 Gross profit (c) (a-b)...

Technology Effects on Education

curricula and, he asserts that computers are frequently a "waste money; theyre sitting in the back of the classroom" (Learner, 200...

Case Study of Steinway and Sons

the relevant segment of the industry. Differentiation is described by Porter as "when it [the company] provides something ...

Accounting Questions

1.88% 30.00% Net profit under the old scheme 6.00% 10.00% 13.00% -6.25% 25.00% If we look at the way this is calculated it will ...

Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company and Strategic Financing

In twelve pages Pfizer's risks and performance are examined and then compared with those of competitors Eli Lilly and Merck. Six ...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

Financial Performance of Federal Express During Fiscal Years 2001 – 2005

22.6 23.4 26.7 18.9 25.6 P/S Ratio 1.6 1.3 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.48 P/B Ratio 3.3 2.6 3.2 3.0 2.8 4.54 Current Ratio 1.06 1.25 1.18 1.05 1...

Work Analysis of Home Health Agency's Information Technology Upgrade

adequately met at all in HHHs current business process structure. Altering the architecture, performance and infrastructure persp...

Correlation Between High School Students with Poor Attendance and Academic Difficulties

Statistics showed that generally large school systems in low-income, inner-city urban school districts have a high incident of abs...

Strategic Decision Making at IBM Global Services

return due to the standard of the service. Weaknesses Attracting specialist staff in an industry that may have some staff ...

Resistance Training, Concentric and Eccentric Action of Muscles

discrete muscles which are separated from one another by thin layers of connective tissue (Hickman Hickman and Hickman, 1974). It...

Hughes Supplies Inc. Acquisition by Home Depot

may have started to look for an acquisition target in order to carry on growing. Home Depot were founded in 1979 by Bernie Marcus ...

SWOT analysis of Apple Inc.

and PC systems. Another important market is that of the educational channel 16% of all sales go through this channel. The level ...