...Publication: Journal Article Write a 100- to 150- word response to each of the following questions: • Is the source reliable? How do you know? Yes this source is reliable. I know this source is reliable because this source includes the author, date, title, and publication. This source is peer reviewed and was found on the University’s library. The source itself is also nationally accredited. I found this source threw the University of Phoenix Library, the university library is the most reliable safe source we can get. The university makes sure that all the sources are reliable which is great because they list all sources available from that source so you know that the source is reliable. The university library gives you detailed descriptions on every source. • Is the information relevant to the topic? Yes the information is relevant to the topic because the topic is about training shelter dogs to become service dogs. In the abstract it states that service dogs are an essential aid to persons with disabilities, providing independence, mobility, and improved self-esteem. The test items were administered to 75 dogs from the Kansas Humane So-ciety. Once tested, the dogs received obedience and retrieval training. The experiment assessed each dog on behavior over 5 weeks of training versus performance on each selection test item. This is all relevant to the topic, this reading describes that regression analysis is one of the test the dogs need to pass to become...
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...Cookson Group Financial Analysis Group Members: Word count: 4978 4/30/2010 Cookson CONTENTS 2 1. Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 2. Company Profile ………………………………………………………………………………………..……….5 3. SWOT Analysis ………………………………………………………………………………..…………………6 4. Operations Analysis ……………………………………………………………………………..…………….7 4.1 Group Overview…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 4.2 Ceramics Division…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 4.3 Electronics Division…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 4.4 Precious Metals Division…………………………………………………………………………………………………………13 5. Sector Analysis …………………………………………………………………………………………………15 5.1 General Industrial Sector ………………………………………………………………………………………………………15 5.2 Industry Conglomerates Subsector……………………………………………………………………………………….16 5.2.1 Industry Conglomerates VS Industrial Machinery and Equipment……………… ………….16 5.2.2 Firms within Industry Conglomerates …………………………………………………………………………17 5.3 Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………18 6. Strategy ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….…19 6.1 Central Strategies ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..19 6.2 Corporate Expansion - Acquisition…………………………………………………………………………………………22 6.3 Response to Financial Crisis…………………………………………………………………………………………………….23 6.4 Future Prospects……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………23 6.5 Comparison with Major Competitors……………………………………………………………………………………….24 7. Financial Analysis ……………………………………………………………………………………………25...
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...their marketing contract with De Beers. Argyle has been characterised by low value coloured diamonds, however their highly sought after pink diamonds has successfully differentiated their products from other diamonds the in the market (Vinciullo, Annear and Disbury, Not dated). 1.1 AIM OF THE ASSIGNMENT The aim of the assignment is to research and analyse the diamond industry and to evaluate Argyle Diamonds’ strategic position in the diamond industry. 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE ASIGNMENT • To research and evaluate competition in the precious stone (diamond) industry by doing a six force analysis. • To identify the forces operating in the precious stone (diamond) industry’s macro-environment that have the power to alter the nature and structure of competition in the precious stone (diamond) business. • To identify the key success factors for firms in the precious stone (diamond) business. • To analyse what a SWOT analysis...
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...To: CFO, New Earth From: Group 4 Consulting team: Ka Yan Michelle Au (20344951), Catherine Cho (20337067), Yutong Liu (20344878), An Li Xu (20341923), Jeffrey Wang (20342506) Subject: New Earth’s South Africa Iron Ore Investment Analysis ______________________________________________________________________________ New Earth Mining Inc. (“New Earth”) has substantial investments in the precious metals industry, specifically gold, but is facing volatile gold prices that may not be sustainable in the future. In response to this threat, New Earth should consider opportunities to diversify its business through exploration activities for other minerals. Attractive Investment for New Earth New Earth should take the opportunity to invest in the iron ore deposits in South Africa due to the following reasons: 1) It is a stable investment with long-term prospects of 15 years and a floor price of $80 per metric ton, and 2) The NPV of the project is $181.75 million, thus providing enough cash flows to cover debt and provide dividends to shareholders. Stable Iron Ore Investment The iron ore investment satisfies New Earth’s desire to diversify its business from precious metals with this potential investment life of 15 years. Prices are expected to stay over $80 per ton, with ore prices having reached a high of over $100 per metric ton in 2012. Production costs are expected to be low due to the easy access to ports from the mine location, reducing the need for infrastructure investment...
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...International Business Environment in India | Brief Analysis | * Sankeerth Reddy * Suveer Neelam * S Kishore | Introduction India is the largest democracy in the world and geographically 7th largest in the world. It is also one of the best countries for international trade. India is developing at a great pace and also has a proud and rich culture. The Census Bureau of USA projected that by 2025 India will be the largest populated country surpassing China. With majority of the population being in the age group of 20-30 years, India has good educated and highly productive work force which enables a significant edge over the rest of the developing countries India relatively has lower percentage of senior citizens than its competitors like U.S and China further reducing the social expenditure for the elderly. India has a lot of natural resources. Iron ore, manganese, titanium ore, mica, petroleum, natural gas, diamond and limestone are some of the abundant natural resources. The coal reserves in India are the fourth largest in the world. 48% of India’s land is arable. Hindi is the most spoken and English is the official language facilitating transactions with other countries. Culture of India India considers religion as important part of its culture. It is to be respected and given importance to succeed in conducting businesses in India. The Indians talk about punctuality but not everyone practices. It is better if appointments are made in advance...
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...Ethics and Morality Doreen B. Jackson Everest University 1. How would Robert Coles respond to this quote? Robert Coles might answer this quote by making us consider going from thinking to action, and using moral analysis to the fulfilling moral commitments. Moral conduct is not commensurate with moral reasoning although there is a correlation between a plan of action and moral reasoning. Students might learn of the moral code of ethics, but they are the ones required to make the commitment by studying and following them, therefore becoming a more ethical person. My answer to the quote is, we as people make our own choices concerning our own actions. We are confronted with moral dilemmas that allow us to make those choices. When studying our daily living we show our morality by our chosen actions and our spoken words. We decide whether our decisions are good or will have ramifications. If our actions are not continually studied a code of ethics may never be maintained causing adversity in our personal and social lives. 2. How do you explain the fact that morally evil people can be highly educated in terms of ethics and religion? In other words, how do you account for the gap that sometimes occurs between knowledge of ethics and being ethical person? To them morality is simply rules that are memorized. Morality can be stated or referenced but not adopted. Moral choices require deep thought and consideration. The so called evil persons do not have empathy...
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...Nadolniy Taras Marketing Approach of the National Bank of Belarus In my exercise I would like to consider the experience of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus as the country's central bank to implement the government project of the creation of the domestic market of precious metals of the Republic of Belarus. First of all I want to note that the number of central banks are involved in this sphere of relations insignificant in the world. As a general rule, commercial banks are engaged in this activity. Precisely because of these circumstances, the success of the National Bank depended on many factors, including well chosen marketing strategy for beginning and implementing the project. Just wanted to mention that there is no specialized unit responsible for implementing a marketing strategy in the staffing structure of the National Bank because of the nature of the central bank. The main tasks of the central bank are conducting monetary policy and its individual components - foreign exchange, interest rate and monetary policies. Nevertheless, I would like to give a characterization of the bank in the development of the domestic market of precious metals through the prism of marketing management. In addition, relying on Article Leslie M. Fine "The bottom line: marketing and firm performance" and Roland T. Rust, Christine Moorman, Gaurav Bhalla "Rethinking marketing", I would like to highlight some points that, in my opinion, are essential for this project. The...
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...and Cost and/or Time Estimates: Once you have completed your scope statement including the identification of your deliverables and the project priorities, you will create either a work breakdown structure (WBS) or Process Breakdown Structure (PBS) to delineate the tasks. Refer to pages 108-113 and the WBS/PBS template to prepare a WBS or PBS for your project. Estimate the project costs and/or time and explain how you went about achieving your estimates. Section 2: Project Communication (1-2 pages) Create a Responsibility Matrix: In order to ensure good communication among the project team, create a responsibility matrix (see Figure 4.7 on page 118 for an example). Create a Power/Interest Map: This is part of the stakeholder analysis....
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...and Cost and/or Time Estimates: Once you have completed your scope statement including the identification of your deliverables and the project priorities, you will create either a work breakdown structure (WBS) or Process Breakdown Structure (PBS) to delineate the tasks. Refer to pages 108-113 and the WBS/PBS template to prepare a WBS or PBS for your project. Estimate the project costs and/or time and explain how you went about achieving your estimates. Section 2: Project Communication (1-2 pages) Create a Responsibility Matrix: In order to ensure good communication among the project team, create a responsibility matrix (see Figure 4.7 on page 118 for an example). Create a Power/Interest Map: This is part of the stakeholder analysis....
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...plan should cover the following considerations: * Nature of business venture * Analysis of the internal/external environment * SWOT analysis in relative comparison to current competitors * Your intended business strategy * Justification to support your intended strategy Sound and Solid Investment MOHAMMAD HATTA & PARTNERS INVESTMENT SERVICES (SAMPLE) ------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE Disclaimer: This is a sample business plan which is prepared as part of the assignment for Strategic Management Class. The reference is made to Public Gold. Some data are fictitious in order to capture the main purpose of this class that is to apply Strategic Management in business - Art & science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating, cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives. CONTENTS 1. BACKGROUND OF BUSINESS VENTURE 2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3. GENERAL COMPANY DESCRIPTION 4.1. COMPANY OVERVIEW 4.2. MISSION AND VISION 4.3. STRENGTHS AND CORE COMPETENCIES 4.4. CHALLENGES 4. INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Question 1: What Are the Industry’s Dominant Economic Features? Question 2: How Strong...
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...A06-97-0002 Crosswell International It is August 4, 1995, and the Mathieux brothers, Doug and Geoff, were concluding a summer-long effort of developing the Brazilian market for Crosswell International (U.S.). Crosswell’s president and CEO, Hector Lans, is convinced that Precious Ultra Thin Baby Diapers will be a big seller in Brazil. In their role as brokers for Crosswell, the Mathieuxs have been exploring a number of different distribution channels in the Brazilian market. To date, the distributor response to Precious diapers has been enthusiastic, particularly in light of Precious diapers’ superior quality compared to locally manufactured alternatives. The problem, however, is the price. Brazilians base many purchasing decisions — at least in regard to disposable diapers — on cost, not on quality. The Mathieuxs find that distributors do not believe they can compete in the market with the relatively high prices offered by Crosswell, even with higher quality diapers. After much debate over how to improve the price competitiveness of Precious diapers, the Mathieuxs believe they may have found a solution. Their proposal is to combine extended credit terms to local distributors with Brazil’s high domestic interest rates to effectively lower the diapers’ price to Brazilian consumers. The Brazilian Diaper Market Until the latter part of the 1980s, most Brazilians had never heard of a disposable diaper, and not surprisingly, the disposable hygiene market in Brazil...
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...A06-97-0002 Crosswell International It is August 4, 1995, and the Mathieux brothers, Doug and Geoff, were concluding a summer-long effort of developing the Brazilian market for Crosswell International (U.S.). Crosswell’s president and CEO, Hector Lans, is convinced that Precious Ultra Thin Baby Diapers will be a big seller in Brazil. In their role as brokers for Crosswell, the Mathieuxs have been exploring a number of different distribution channels in the Brazilian market. To date, the distributor response to Precious diapers has been enthusiastic, particularly in light of Precious diapers’ superior quality compared to locally manufactured alternatives. The problem, however, is the price. Brazilians base many purchasing decisions — at least in regard to disposable diapers — on cost, not on quality. The Mathieuxs find that distributors do not believe they can compete in the market with the relatively high prices offered by Crosswell, even with higher quality diapers. After much debate over how to improve the price competitiveness of Precious diapers, the Mathieuxs believe they may have found a solution. Their proposal is to combine extended credit terms to local distributors with Brazil’s high domestic interest rates to effectively lower the diapers’ price to Brazilian consumers. The Brazilian Diaper Market Until the latter part of the 1980s, most Brazilians had never heard of a disposable diaper, and not surprisingly, the disposable hygiene market in Brazil was virtually non-existent...
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...Forecasting Gold Price, using linear regression model and ARIMA DIANE MAHAMEDOU Department of Economics, Business and Finance, Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210, USA Instructor:Prof. Yusheng Peng Abstract: Forecasting is a function in management to assist decision making. Forecasting arises when you need to estimate future unknown situations, such price of commodities, GDP, unemployment rate etc, for the coming period. We can’t accurately predict without referring time series estimation. Gold is a precious yellow commodity once used as money. Illegal couple years ago, now once again is accepted as a potential currency, because of the falling of dollar against the Euro and also the rising of uncertainty in our geopolitical environment. Objective of this study is to develop a forecasting model for predicting gold prices based on two currency price movements and the oil price movements. Following the melt-down of US dollars, investors are putting their money into gold because gold plays an important role as a stabilizing influence for investment portfolios. With the increasing demand of the Gold around the world, we have fund necessary to develop a linear regression model that reflects the structure and pattern of gold market and forecast movement of gold price. The most appropriate approach to the understanding of gold prices is the multiple linear regression (MLR) models. MLR is a study on the relationship between a single dependent variable and one...
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...stored in a transaction file till the performance of master file update. The storing of transaction file may occur through online or offline entry of data. The time lag is one characteristic used to distinguish between batch and real-time systems. Explain. Give an example of when each is a real choice. Lag time is the major characteristic that can distinguish batch processing from real time processing because batch processing is used only when there are a large number of files or where a quick response is not needed. It is a non-continuous/ Non real time processing of data, materials or instructions. The files that are needed to be transmitted are gathered over a period of time and then send together as a batch and are processed with minimal human interaction. While real time processing is that type of data processing which appears to take place or actually taking place , instantaneously upon receipt of a command or data entry, It must be executed within a strict time limit or strict response time. Batch processing will be a realistic choice in the following situation. The credit card companies use Batch Processing for the bill processing of their credit cards, The credit card owner does not receive a separate bill for each separate purchase through...
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...MM52 ACC MARKETING MANAGEMENT Marketing Plan: Meliza Jewelry 4.0-5.0 Precious Stone New jewelry Line Ibis Lemus ibislemus@yahoo.com (2.0)Situation Analysis Meliza jewelry is a small company that has sold custom gold jewelry and repair services, for more than 10 years to a lower class or working class. The majority of people in this community, work in lower tier job, they are compensated for their job with a minimum hourly wages, and are Hispanic. This culture tend to Base on their income, this community tends to consume products that are affordable, necessary, or a fundamental feature of this cultural. The Hispanic culture is also very religious culture and very often uses a religious jewelry made of gold, or give religious jewelry made out of gold as important gifts. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class) The majority of their products offered by Melisa jewelry are made using precious stone and 14 K gold metal, and gold it be come to expensive. Today their idea is to introduce a new jewelry line that could be more affordable, but maintains the quality and satisfaction of their customer’s expertise. Meliza will implement new technologies that guarantee the precision of the jewelry confections. Meliza jewelry also will introduce the combination of special metals like silver, and Alloys with precious and semi-precious stones. Local and national market research indicates that it’s a great need, and demand for this type of product (Shim, 2010) Different research...
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