Week 4 Tutorial 1. What is Hypothetical Future Value (HFV)? How did this contribute to Enron’s downfall? A: Hypothetical Future Value can be defined as the value has not been earned but it is believed to be received in the future. The Enron used fair value accounting to make the balance sheet and, the money which has not been earned was written down as profit. For example, if a house worth $10,000 today, and the price increases to $20,000 tomorrow, however, if do not sell this house, there is no
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The Impact of Glass Technology Nowadays technology was developed extremely fast. From dekstop, now we have laptop, from smartphone now we have Glass technology. What is Glass technology? Basicly it’s like smartphone but you use a glasses to control almost everything you need in smartphone and it doesn’t required other device but can connected with your other devices. Firstly, Glass technology innovated by Google Inc. Which called Google glass. They’re realized that people needs technology
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marketing/relationship era. As the relationship era starts we see that firms now seek ways to actively nurture customer’s loyalty by carefully managing every interaction and create long lasting bonds. Loyalty in nowaday businesses has become a key factor when determining competiveness and success within big markets. For instance big tech giants Mac & Windows, Car manufacturers BMW & Mercedez and soda drink Coca-Cola & Pepsi. Again and again we see that even though marketing, quality of
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choices • shortage: a situation in which consumers want more of a good or service than producers are willing to make available at particular prices • entrepreneur: a person who decides how to combine resources to create goods and services • factors of production: the resources that are used to make goods and services Chapter 1, Section 1 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 3 Key Terms, cont. • land: all natural resources used to produce goods and services • labor: the
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Assignment 1 Yang Liu May 5, 2015 Assignment 1, Part 1 (1) Table 0.1: Estimate a logit using solver Product of probability Log likelihood Intercept Eduation coefficient Age coefficient 2.06641E-11 -24.60262143 -11.15550863 0.531907452 0.113507304 (2) M EE d = M E Ag e = βE d e X β (1 + e X β )2 β Ag e e X β (1 + e X β )2 = 1 N βE d (i ) e X βi Σ N 1 (1 + e X βi )2 = 1 N β Ag e(i ) e X βi Σ N 1 (1 + e X βi )2 1 Result: Table
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARS MODEL (MOTIVATION, ABILITY, ROLE PERCEPTIONS, SITUATIONAL FACTORS) AND EMPLOYEES' PERFORMANCE AT THE WORKPLACE LIEW MAY THIN This project is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Science with Honours Human Resource Development Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Most of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Mr. Abang Ekhsan
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& Uppsala University May 11, 2015 Karl G J¨reskog ( ) o 50 Years of SEM in 50 Minutes?? May 11, 2015 1 / 42 Factor Analysis before 1964 Although its roots can be traced back to the work of Francis Galton, it is generally considered that factor analysis began with the celebrated article by Spearman (1904). In the first half of the 20th century factor analysis was mainly developed by psychologists for the purpose of identifying mental abilities by means of psychological testing
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The Long Road to Direct Factor Xa Inhibitors: A History of Anticoagulation Marjorie Burnsworth Tacoma Community College July 24, 2014 Abstract This paper explores the history of the chemical research and development of anticoagulant medications over the years and how this has lead to the development of direct factor Xa inhibitors (fXa inhibitors). Since ancient doctors first used leeches to treat their patients, people have been aware of the properties of anticoagulants
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Journal of Accounting and Economics 55 (2013) 206–224 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Cost of capital and earnings transparency$ Mary E. Barth a,n, Yaniv Konchitchki b, Wayne R. Landsman c a Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA c Kenan-Flagler Business School, University
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strategies will keep Wello provisions as necessary. The external factors will incorporate legal regulating elements, economic elements, global, technological and innovation. Legal and Regulatory Factors The legal factor must be comprehensive and exact by the business, because there are federal standards and rules that have to be followed. The federal standards and rules are usually stringent and inadaptable. The legal and regulatory factors have complete capabilities to help with a company’s strategic
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