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to supply a monitoring device to reduce the information between the principals (i.e. the investors) and the agents (i.e. the manag...

Table 1 lists several ratios useful for comparing the three companies. Table 1. Selected Financial Ratios for Each Retailer Item...

less risky option may be to take the Japanese offer. If a different scenario is considered, and for an additional 20,000 that wi...

percentage. This is the level of revenue that remains when all of the direct costs for producing the goods or services are deducte...

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

a thing of the past, only to find that even those who conduct most of their banking online still want to be able to visit a branch...

from a range of sources, and can then be utilized for business decision-making purposes (DSS, 2003). For example, DSS systems hav...

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

individual or an organisation. Banks and building societies may act a intermediaries as may different types of Insurance brokers (...

industry. With this information any reader should then be able to assess the compnay for their own purposes with a good understand...

Triple-digit inflation and the fact that currency as a means of payment was stuffed in mattresses (instead of invested in financia...

creating software for the format, this is one innovation that was only introduced recently, and is likely to grow in popularity (M...

of 1997 was all the more surprising, especially given the fact that it impacted a group of countries that had, until that time, be...

Meanwhile printing and Imaging remains HPs most profitable unit, representing about 35 percent of sales (Lower, 2003). Yet Dell is...

danger zone. The debt-to-equity ratio is also decreasing nicely, meaning Sherwin-Williams is still in a good position to pay off d...

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

gaining a great advantage from their direct costs, but are then losing it with their other related costs, such as overheads. This ...

annual reports and company web sites. However secondary sources will also be used as reference points and to give insight to poten...

the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. The current gross profit margin is 39.4% (Morning Star, 2003), this compa...

This 12-page paper analyzes financial and accounting articles from the Wall Street Journal. There are 5 sources listed in the bibl...

fixed investment has been absent" (Puplava, 2003). Just as any bubble needs continued air to keep floating, the economy needs con...

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

company has been performing well, but has also seen a slow down in growth in recent years. Looking at the revenue over the past fi...

a companys position needs to be considered in a greater context, such as the way in which this is moving against the companys own ...

0.65, again just slightly under that of the sector (Yahoo Finance, 2003). In the short term, as the stock is easily saleable, this...

project will not break even. Pessimistic with a 42% contribution Year Sales (a) Contribution % (b) Contribution amount (a x b) 1 ...

through change. While the firm has also been through ups and downs, it has fared well. In evaluating this case in respect to the...

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

assortment of over-the-counter remedies, such as Sudafed and Benadryl (Koenig 2003). Other pet care products include Revolution, w...