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Age old question: Build v. Buy (software)

balance must be made between price and value. One of the most promising options is the purchase of a portability option off...

Transfer Pricing and Balanced Scorecard

gathering and processing information from the companys existing computer systems. Using the information gained it then decides if ...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...

Analysis of the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

included in this Act is criminal provisions that aimed at preserving evidence of fraud (Leahy, 2003). This means that CPAs and aud...

Falling Exchange Rates and What Influences Them

used. Firstly there can be seen as the overriding value. If a currency has a relatively low value, then exports are cheap and as s...

Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plans

tells employees that they are responsible for their retirement income -- and that other people will not necessarily take care of t...

Development of Digital Audio Recording

early years of the new century. It reached its peak after reaching a turning point in 1948, when a disc improvement was developed...

Types of Computer Programming Languages

of that market. The very first programming languages, back in the...

Hot Cocktails Business Report

differentiation. For customers that are used to a more conservative approach there arte the drinks, such as coffee tea and hot cho...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Global Trade and ICOTERMS

on board (fob) or cast, insurance and freight (Biederman, 2000). Other terms included are EXW (Ex works), CPT (Carriage Paid To) a...

Websites and Marketing

The competitive advantage of the site is not immediately apparent, as the site looks easy to use. In looking at some sections ther...

Using Real People as Analogies for Brand Names

which is being described. It has also been stated by William James, a US philosopher and psychologists, that if "people pe...

Are Successful Salesmen Equally Successful in Sales Management?

be seen (Richter, 1995). The question then arises, which is the best sales person to promote. The top sales person may be the pr...

Consumers and eCommerce

million PCs sold throughout the world, a slight decrease on 1999, down by 0.8% due to the increasing level of maturity in develope...

Water Properties and Their Significance

beyond what is generally accepted. For example, Dr. F. Batmanghelidj (1995) claims that water is the cure for all disease from as...

Employment Relationship and Partnership

it is a particular style of collectivism that is now dated and that the new way forward should be a new form of collectivism based...

Investment Appraisal Technique of Discounted Cash Flow

price to be paid whatever the individual decides to do with their money, if it is chosen to invest it the cost is not having it to...

Case Study on Genset

a share issue is the way in which the capital will not need to be repaid, there is not even any requirement to pay dividends. This...

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol and Children of East Saint Louis, Illinois

suburbs, at a wealthy high school like New Trier, for example, Id be getting close to $60,000... for new, incoming teachers, this ...

Persuasion and the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler

"What really needs explaining is not Hitler, but the historical context which brought him to prominence and power, and convinced h...

Analysis of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Company

had distributed their ice cream by hand locally, in 1986, the Company signed an agreement with Dreyers Grand Ice Cream in order to...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Family Counseling and Solution Based Therapy

to which the therapist then compares the person/family in therapy. In so doing, s/he focuses on how different the family is from t...

Warfare and Joint Operations' Purpose

to "expand joint interaction and provide some additional standardization among theaters" (Carpenter, 2003). Overall howeve...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Study of Groups, Psychodynamic and Experimental Methods

is also the case that such a social context can be implied, as well as explicit, in studies of individuals. It would be reasonable...

Analysis of International Accounting Standards

Despite the fact that much of Europe is united in terms of currency under the euro, many of the accounting rules (at least until J...

Karl Sabbagh Skyscraper

are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...

Common Stock and Bonds

bond auctions and the buyers will bid on the bonds so the price gained may not be the face value. The bids will be based on how th...