...Journal ofCollese Teachins & Learnins - September 2010 Volume 7, Number 9 Using MSN Money To Perform Financial Ratio Analysis H. Christine Hsu, California State University, Chico, USA ABSTRACT In today's information technology world, real time financial data is readily available via many financial websites, such as MSN Money, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, etc. The incorporation of computer technology in finance classes has become more popular than ever in this information technology rich environment. Mediated classrooms have rapidly grown in numbers throughout the universities worldwide. Based on my experience as a finance professor, I have summarized this teaching note to demonstrate an alternative pedagogical tool in performing financial ratio analysis. The class assignment presented hereinafter is designed to help students learn how to assess the company's overall operations and current financial standing via an on-line database available in MSN Money website. It can be used in any corporate flnance class. I collected student feedback on the assignment, and the vast majority of the survey participants perceived the assignment as a very good learning experience. Keywords: financial ratio analysis. Du Pont analysis INTRODUCTION inancial ratio analysis is an important topic and is covered in all mainstream corporate finance textbooks. It is widely used to summarize the information in a company's financial statements so as to analyze its financial condition...
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...Eddie Stephenson Stratification Media Analysis 3/11/16 SOC/100 Jay Gregory A few common assumptions would offer some general stereotypes which most American are probably subjected to each time they tune into their favorite program. The problem with making assumptions based on stereotypes, racism, and bias maybe considered two-fold. Of primary concern should obviously be the narrow-minded and over generalized prejudice which exist in mainstream media culture. Then, of only slightly less distress, would be the willingness of society to accept such demeaning norms. However, within the “high definition” world of television, some prime-time shows are shattering overused typecasting. Although some are not also. For instance, one such common immoral stigma would be that only men of European heritage may hold position of authority at home and more importantly, in an office. Furthermore, African, Spanish speaking, and other ethnic American will be depicted as second-class citizen. Additionally, women of all races may not hold any position of a profession as do their made co-star. Luckily, most of these false accusation were proven wrong. For this analysis of television diversity, or lack of, a look at the portrayal of African American men as in their position within a working environment, the dynamic of their family structure, and the overall social implication of such position will be explored. Then, in reflection of the growing population of Spanish speaking people...
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...Market Research for Comparative Analysis of Airtel with other telecom operators Under the Guidance: Compiled by: Nidhi Malhotra Mr. Jagnoor Singh Roll No. 15103 Marketing Head, Airtel Chandigarh nidhi.malhotra@uiams-pu.com 9815049108 jagnoor.singh@in.airtel.com Company Profile: Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited was incorporated on July 7, 1995 forpromoting investments in telecommu nications services. Its subsidiaries operate telecom services across India. Bharti Airtel is India's leading private sector provider of telecommunications services based on a strong customer base consisting of 50million total customers, which constitute, 44.6 million mobile and 5.4 million fixed line customers, as of March 31, 2007 . Airtel comes to us from Bharti Airtel Limited - a part of the biggest private integrated telecom conglomerate, BhartiEnterprises. Bharti provides a range of telecom services, which include Cellular, Basic, Internet and recently introduced National Long Distance. Bharti also manufactures and exports telephone terminal and cordless phones. Apart from being the largest manufacturer of telephone instruments in India, it is also the first company to export its products to the USA. Bharti has also put its footsteps into Insurance and Retail segment in collaboration with Multi National giants. Bharti is the leading cellular service...
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...Case Analysis Intermediate Accounting A Series of Revenue Recognition Research Cases Using the Codification Case One: Consumer Cleaning Products Corporation (CCPC) Case Two: Landline Corporation Case Three: Assembly Lines Incorporated (ALI) Submitted By Chen Chongxiao Sweta Shah Xiaoyun zhang Case One Requirement 1: The accounting issue in this case is how to account for the coupons which was introduced on Sep. 1 2009 for the new detergent Fresh & Bright Marketing campaign by a detergent manufacturer called Consumer Cleaning Products Corporation (CCPC). The coupon drops served as a sales incentive, which can be further explained by FASB Codification Section 605-50, “Customer Payments and Incentives,” in this case. Requirement 2: According to FASB Codification 605-50-25-3, for a sales incentive offered voluntarily by a vendor and without charge to customers that can be used or that becomes exercisable by a customer as a result of a single exchange transaction, and that will not result in a loss on the sale of a product or service, a vendor shall recognize the cost of such a sales incentive at the later of the following: a. The date at which the related revenue is recognized by the vendor b. The date at which the sales incentive is offered (which would be the case when the sales incentive offer is made after the vendor has recognized revenue; for example, when a manufacturer issues coupons offering discounts on a product that it already has sold to retailers)...
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...Management 303 SWOT Analysis DreamWorks DreamWorks animation is one of best companies in their field. Leading the way in family animation films, DreamWorks has many positive qualities that cause their rivals to worry. Since their creation in 1994 this company has produced 23 amazing films. Some films reaching record breaking numbers in sales. “In 2010 DreamWorks Animation became the first company to produce three animated films in a single year. Those three films were “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Shrek Forever After” and “Megamind”, which were all in 3D. In 2009, they announced that every two years a total of five animated feature films would be released”. DreamWorks mission statement “DreamWorks Animation SKG is devoted to producing high-quality family entertainment through the use of computer-generated (CG) animation. With world-class creative talent and technological capabilities, our goal is to release two CG animated feature films a year that deliver great stories, breathtaking visual imagery and a sensibility that appeals to both children and adults.” One of the many strengths that this company has is the fact that their films raise excellent numbers in sales. DreamWorks has produced the number one animation film (Shrek 2) in the past ten years. Along with the excellent numbers in sales and quality films, the employees are very happy to work. The amount of turnover is very slim. In fact DreamWorks was named number ten on the list of...
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...Merck (in 2009): Open for Innovation? The pharmaceutical company undergoes new drug advances, conflicting regulatory laws, and tough economic situations. With all these pressures evolving, Merck & Company felt the need to pursue open innovation strategy because the biotech company is too complicated to navigate on its own. There is so much useful information within and outside of company that would be great advantage to the company. Creating new partnerships, discovering new technological trends and classifying new business opportunities are the leading strategic reasons to take part in open innovation. An open innovation strategy allows companies to contribute ideas from external sources quicker than ideas created contained by its own company. Merck’s sole purpose behind using open innovation is keep his pharmaceutical company is to stay competitive. An open innovation strategy would allow the company to source new ideas externally and at a faster rate. While Merck had been moving toward an open innovation strategy, he has to convince his company and their leaders to embrace research and development from other research organization and universities. It is obvious that Merck should pursue an open innovation strategy for the company to overcome challenges. Open innovation lets many people from dissimilar disciplines to challenge the same problem at the same time and not consecutively. In collaborative technology, it can save lots of time. It takes a lot of time to come up...
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...Problem Domain The increasing use of social media in Sri Lanka has increased the amount of data available to track and predict trends in public opinion. As described the use of Social Media data to forecast elections has become increase since the start of the current decade. By understanding the public opinion about ongoing election will be used for the election candidates as well as for the voters. Because of these reason analyzing public opinions before the election, can forecast the results. The forecasted results can be used for the candidates for their own goods. As an example if the public giving their opinion in negative way for the particular candidate, candidates can identify the current opinion by analyzing the public options and do the campaign in better way. Same as the voters get to know the overall public opinion of the candidates and can do their voting for candidates who is having positive opinion from public. OVERVIEW OF the Solution Social media platforms have become an important site for political conversations throughout the world. By using automated real-time sentiment analysis of this public opinion data can provide fast indications of changes in opinion, showing for example how an audience reacts to particular candidate’s statements during an election period. Sentiment analysis is a new area in text analytics where it focuses on the analysis and understanding of the emotions from the text patterns. This new form of analysis has been widely online marketing...
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...“Eco- activists” were born out of the necessity to protect the environment against the landowners and real estate developers who were profiting from the landscape around Los Angeles. These eco- activist developed laws to help fight development. This is how the “enviro-crats” came to be. They were the administrators of the new laws created by the “eco- activists” that were there to protect the environment. These people had to navigate in such political atmosphere which was heavily influenced by the landowners and the developers. Although it would prove to be tough, it was not impossible. There were “enviro-crats” in state and local government and in the federal land agencies in the U.S. department of the interior. They were all playing a game of chess in the urban development of Southern California. A perfect example of this was seen when Bob Hope decided he wanted to sell Jordan Ranch to developers. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors was developer- friendly and permitted subdivisions to be built all over the mountain because developers were willing to pay top dollar for land, it was a lucrative business. But Park services could not match developers dollar –for- dollar even when funds were available to purchase land. So, if the envirocrats hoped to save any piece of land they would have to find another way to get the results they were seeking. This is how they developed their deal making approach. They made deals with developers to donate or sell property at a discount. One...
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...Financial Analysis Rayshon Harris Institution of Learning Financial Analysis Company Overview Business (enterprise) possesses all the signs of the goods and can be an object of purchase and sale. However, it is a specific type of goods, the features of which cause principles, approaches, and methods of its estimation. Business as the goods has a number of features. Firstly, these are the investment goods, which are performing for the purpose of a return in the future. The costs and reception of the incomes are united in time. The size of the expected profit is unknown; it has a likelihood character, and, therefore, the investor should consider the risks of a possible failure. Secondly, business is a system, but it can be on sale as both a whole system, its separate subsystems, and even its elements. Actually, not business, but its separate components become goods, and the estimation determines a market value for separate assets. Thirdly, the requirement for business as the goods depends on the processes occurring in business and its external environment. In fact, on the one hand, instability in economy leads to the instability in business; on the other hand, its instability leads to the further increase of instability in the whole economy. One more feature of business as the goods is the requirement for an adjustment of business, estimation process, and the necessity to consider the quality of a business management at business valuation. ...
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...Chapter 1 feedforward; Information that is sent before a regular message telling the listener something about what to follow. Messages that are prefatory to more central messages. Feedback; Information that is given back to the source; may come from the sources own message (when you hear what you are saying) or from the reciever (applause, yawning, puzzled look, letters to the editor) Interpersonal Communication; Communication between two persons or among a small group of persons and distinguished from public or mass communications: Communication of a personal nature & distinguished from interpersonal communication between or among connected persons or those involved in a close relationship Interpersonal Competence; The knowledge of the ability to communicate effectively in interpersonal interactions Six Principles of interpersonal communication; 1) Interpersonal communication is a package of signals; > Packaging; Make your verbal & nonverbal messages consistent; Inconsistencies often create uncertainty and misunderstanding 2) Interpersonal communication involves content and relationship messages; > Content & relationship dimensions; two aspects to which messages may refer; the world external to both the speaker and listener (content) and the connections existing between individuals who are interacting (relationship) > relationship message; Messages that comment on the relationship between the...
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...Reading Analysis 1 By: Valerie Hazelwood CHAPTER 1 1. Evaluate this chapter’s definition of communication. What are its strengths? What are its weaknesses? If you were asked to improve it in one way, by adding, subtracting, or modifying something, what would you change? Present your answer and explain the reasoning that justifies it in a 100–200-word response. Chapter one has a good definition for the word communication. It's strengths are the fact that it says it is personal, it requires a sender and a recipient, and that it involves encoding, transmitting and decoding. Its weakness is that it produces a state of unity and that it is only for humans. These two things are something I would change. I don't think that communication always creates a state of unity. There are cases where people can't understand each other on things. Therefore this should be amended in the definition. I also firmly believe that animals communicate just as well as humans do. They interact with each other and communicate all the time. This should be included in the definition as well. 2. Recall an incident in which you or an acquaintance experienced a communication breakdown because of a verbal linguistic barrier. Chronicle this incident in a 100–200-word response. A few years ago, I was working at a restaurant as a waitress. Two gentlemen came in to order some food. I began to say hello what would you like and the gentlemen started speaking Spanish. I do not speak or understand Spanish. I could...
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...סוציולוגיה ארגונית ויחסי עבודה- 094607 דצמבר 2011 פרוייקט 1- ניתוח חברת ארגו מגישים: 200112761 309192276 320781164 311685226 1. ארגו היא קבוצת יעוץ רב-תחומית, שנוסדה בשנת 1986 ומשרדיה ממוקמים בהוד השרון. הקבוצה מעסיקה כ-45 יועצים בארבעה תחומים משלימים: * היבטים קשיחים- הנדסת תעשיה וניהול: ארגון ושיטות, בחינת תהליכים עסקיים ותהליכי שירות, תקינה וכדו'. * ייעוץ רך- פסיכולוגיה וסוציולוגיה תעשייתית, פיתוח ארגוני, התמודדות עם שינויים בארגון, הדרכה וכדו'. * הנדסת אנוש (ארגונומיה) * ניהול ידע- אפיון וניתוח מערכות, יישום הדרכה והטמעה של מערכות ארגוניות לניהול ידע. מוצרים מרכזיים הייחודיים לארגון: * Balanced Scorecard (שיטה להגדרת עץ יעדים ארגוני המורכב ממדים גדולים ותתי מדדים) * מתודולוגית אבחון ארגוני המאפשרת ניתוח מבנה הארגון, בעלי התפקידים והתהליכים בארגון. טכנולוגיות אותן הארגון מיישם ומטמיע: * מחודש דצמבר 2011 חברת ארגו היא הנציגה הבלעדית של חברת Runsys המציעה מוצר של סקרי שביעות רצון בפלטפורמות אינטרנט, טלפון וסלולר. * יישום והטמעה של פורטלים ארגוניים בפלטפורמתMicrosoft SharePoint 2. הרכב כח האדם מורכב באופן הבא: 70% עובדים במשרה מלאה, 20% השמה בארגונים, 10% עובדים שעתיים (הכוללים סטודנטים) מאפייני דמוגרפיים: בחברה 4 בעלי תואר דוקטור, כ-15 בעלי תואר שני ושאר העובדים הינם בעלי תואר ראשון (במקצועות הנדסת תעשיה וניהול, מנהל עסקים וכדו') מבחינת גיל העובדים קיימת שונות- 5 עובדים הם מעל גיל 50, שאר העובדים בטווח גילאים ממוצע של 25-35. מבחינת מין ישנה הומוגניות- בערך מחצית המעובדים הם גברים והמחצית השנייה הן נשים כאשר...
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...Contents 02 08 10 12 16 20 24 30 54 02 10 Milestones Group Financial Highlights At a Glance Chairman’s Message Board of Directors Senior Management Organisational Structure Group Structure Corporate Information Corporate Directory Corporate Governance Key Dynamics & Risk Management Corporate Social Responsibility Highlights 25 1.0% Grassroots 26 27 30 47 54 64 0.3% Education 56.1% Corporate Giving in FY2012 86 76 Social Services Operating & Financial Review Fare Revenue ($m) 68 72 CEO's Message Company Overview & Background Group Performance Value Added & Economic Value Added Analysis SMRT and Our Shareholders SMRT Trains & SMRT Light Rail SMRT Buses SMRT Automotive Services SMRT Taxis SMRT Investments (Properties & Media) SMRT International & SMRT Engineering 749.6 9.4 213.1 800.5 10.1 76 220.4 82 84 527.1 569.9 86 92 96 FY2011 Train Bus FY2012 LRT 98 100 102 Financial Report 105 190 191 193 203 Financial Contents Group Properties & Interested Person Transactions Shareholding Statistics Notice of Annual General Meeting Proxy Form SMRT Corporation Ltd Annual Report 2012 1 Milestones 1987 Singapore’s first Mass Rapid Transit system (MRT) opens for service Train service from Yio Chu Kang to Toa Payoh commences Train service from Novena to Outram Park commences 1988 Train service from Tiong Bahru to Clementi commences Train service from Jurong East to Lakeside commences Train service from...
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...The difference in the cost of RAM and ROM in today’s market as well as where is where it came from and where it is going is pretty amazing. It’s easy to find information on this subject as the demand for faster computers with huge memory seems to grow and profit from this demand. Ten years ago you would have spent over $2,000 to get just 1GB of RAM. As computer manufacturers recoup cost of R&D, the prices start to drop. Today it would cost around $20 to purchase the same 1GB of DDR3 providing considerable savings over a decade ago. The best deal for the money is 2GB of RAM which costs around $40 and is enough memory to run most applications. There are other types of memory available to all of us if you’re willing to pay the price of admission. For example, some of the more exotic types of RAM can still run hundreds, even thousands of dollars. For instance, I found Super Talent 1TB STT RAID DRIVE GS RAID0 for $4,815.00 on Memory Suppliers.com. They also offer iRam 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 SDRAM PC2-5300 667MHz for $119.00. I find this is a very nice web site that is easy to navigate through and find and compare the memory you’re looking for. The following table is from Archive Builders web site. It shows the growth to cost difference for 32 years. This was determined by the increase of the density of disks by 60% a year with an average decrease in price of 37.5%. The 60% increase is based on the growth predictions for MR head technology by IBM, which had increased...
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...Critical Thinking Analysis DeVry University How deviance occurred Deviance occurred in multiple stages throughout Matthews story. First, Matthew admits he is gay to strangers in a town he knowingly understands is not a gay friendly community from previous experience. Second, Aaron and Russell befriended him in order to get Matthew in their vehicle for transport. Third, deviance occurs when the torture and beating took place and leaving Matthew tied up in a rural secluded area to die. Fourth, Aaron and Russell maintain control over some of Matthews possessions and the bloody hand gun. Lastly, Aaron and Russell attempted to manipulate the judge and jury into believing they were suffering from temporary insanity. Types of Deviance In Matthew Shepherd’s case, we see sexual deviance from Matthew, who is homosexual. While our nation is viewing homosexuality from being deviant behavior is declining, each city and/or small town still remains to its own norms and refuses to allow conventional thinking into their communities. Matthew being openly gay is consider deviant behavior to the environment and the times he lived in. Aaron...
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