...Research Proposal for Ace Cable Company RES 351 Research Proposal for Ace Cable Company Research problem and purpose The main purpose of the revenue that Ace Cable Company has is to bring in new clients while maintaining existing ones. When looking into the problem of clients canceling their service with Ace Cable one of the first items to consider is the customer paying for something he or she prefers and is the customer paying for something he or she does not want? Other forms of the issue would be how to bring in new clients, what types of service can Ace Cable offer to new and existing clients, and to find the root cause to the clients who do drop their service. With pertaining questions to the existing customers as well as those that are new, those that have dropped service or those that the company has hopes to bring in as new clients. Some points that Ace Cable would need to approach would be situations as to what issues a current customer has had, what the customer wants to see, prices, and customer satisfaction. In finding the answers to these points, Ace Cable can find solutions to customers dropping their service with them. Significance, scope, magnitude, and feasibility of finding a solution to the issue, opportunity, or problem The significance of recruiting new customers is not just for revenue purposes but also for the reputation of Ace Cable Company. Most companies that have a good reputation with service, trust, and devotion receive positive...
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...CARD 205 Week 4 Career and Company Research Purchase here http://devrycourse.com/CARD%20205/card-205-week-4-career-and-company-research Product Description Career and Company Research (due this week) Now that you have identified some career-related goals, it's time to match those goals to potential employers. In this assignment, you will investigate companies based on those goals, and you will also spend some time thinking about how you will market yourself to those employers. The assignment template and grading rubric are available in Doc Sharing. Save the template file by adding your last name to the template filename (e.g. Week4_Career_Company_Research_Template_Smith.docx). Be sure to proofread and spell check your work before you submit it CARD 205 Week 4 Career and Company Research Purchase here http://devrycourse.com/CARD%20205/card-205-week-4-career-and-company-research Product Description Career and Company Research (due this week) Now that you have identified some career-related goals, it's time to match those goals to potential employers. In this assignment, you will investigate companies based on those goals, and you will also spend some time thinking about how you will market yourself to those employers. The assignment template and grading rubric are available in Doc Sharing. Save the template file by adding your last name to the template filename (e.g. Week4_Career_Company_Research_Template_Smith.docx). Be sure to proofread and...
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...Financial Research Report: The Coca - Cola Company FIN 534 – Assignment #1 07 December 2014 Coca Cola Introduction: Coca Cola Company is an American, multinational company that is infamous for its beverage products. The company is commonly referred to as coca cola. Invented and patented in 1886 and 1887, respectively, by an American pharmacist named John Pemberton. Pemberton sold the company in 1889 to Griggs Candler who incorporated it in 1892. For more than 70 years, coca cola had been the sole beverage of the company. Although international expansion was tested in 1928, expansion of the company in the United States did not start until late 1955 (World of Coca-Cola, 2014). This expansion into other beverage flavors as well as diet and caffeine free choices has allowed the company to become a market leader in the beverage industry. The Company has found success in appealing to the needs and desires of a broad consumer base. Their customers derive from various backgrounds, lifestyles, demographics and age ranges. Currently, the Coca Cola brand expands in the integrated form of more than 500 brands of beverages across more than 200 nations worldwide. As markets changed and competition grew, Coca Cola decided to introduce Diet Coke and later followed with several others to include, but not limited to, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Cherry, Sprite, and Schweppes. As of today, it is estimated that the Coca Cola Corporation has more than 3500 beverages spread across a...
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...Name: Richard Brown Week 4: Career and Company Research Template and Grading Rubric ------------------------------------------------- This document contains the template you will use to complete this assignment. Save the file by adding your last name to the filename (e.g. Week4_Career_Company_Research_Template_Smith.docx). Be sure to proofread and spell check your work before you submit it. ------------------------------------------------- A grading rubric is also available at the end of this document. There are TWO parts to the Career and Company Research assignment. Part 1: Complete the table below and link your one-, two-, and five-year goals (recall that you identified these in the Week 2 Self-assessment Assignment) to specific company research. You can also use employers you identified in the Week 2 assignment if you wish. (50 POINTS) GOALS | One-year Goal | Two-year Goal | Five-year Goal | | My one-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)Once I finish my Bachelor December 2014, I intend to attend Grad school, and on the same time open the business that I am longing to start and that by early next year. | My two-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)I intend to finish Grad school and be able to teach in special education. | My five-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)Retire on my second career. If I plan it right and continue placing big amount in my TSP I should be able to retire after 8 years in Federal which put me in total...
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...Carnegie Steel Company let into a big success with managed to help by his assistant, Henry Clay. As a philanthropist in his later years, Andrew Carnegie wasn't born in wealth because he came from Scotland. He had no access to formal education, in his early life, so he taught himself. He immigrated in the U.S. in 1848 and started a steel company. Steel was needed for railroads, built skyscraper, and cars. Andrew Carnegie was the first to mass produce steel. He practices the vertical integration, a company that involves acquiring companies that supply needed goods. Carnegie owned railroad companies and iron mines because he could produce cheaper steel. This cartoon symbolize Andrew Carnegie on a United States map with a bag of gold that...
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...by aggregated revenue in 2012. The firm has employed 167,000 people and has more than 700 offices across more than 140 countries, providing assurance (including financial audit), tax, consulting and advisory services. In FY 2012, EY earned a record of $24.4 billion USD in revenue, ranking the third among the Big Four, after PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, ahead of KPMG. Ernst & Young offers its services to companies in a vast range of industries, including asset management, life sciences, mining, media and entertainment, retail, technology, and hotel and leisure. The company's financial reporting segment offers an IFRS/GAAP comparison so companies can compare and contrast the international and US accounting standards. The group's members firms are organized in four geographic areas: Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa; the Americas (including Ernst & Young LLP); Japan; and the Asia/Pacific region. Ernst & Young is increasingly focused on the emerging markets, which have seen more rapid economic recovery than the developed nations. The company sees the trend of growth in the emerging markets as one that will continue for decades to come, and is investing in those markets as such. INTROCDUCTION Name and Branding The firm's name arises from the global merger between Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young in 1989. The motto of the firm is "Building a better working world". The new brand name of EY made headlines when it was realized that EY was also the...
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...O. Box 2681, Grand Cayman KY1-1111, Cayman Islands | 總辦事處及主要營業地點 | 香港中環皇后大道中 99 號中環中心 56 樓 5611-12 室 | 股份過戶登記總處 | Royal Bank of Canada Trust Company (Cayman) Limited | 香港股份過戶登記分處 | 卓佳登捷時有限公司 香港灣仔皇后大道東 28 號金鐘滙中心 26 樓 | 法律顧問 | 有關香港法律：羅拔臣律師事務所 (Robertsons)有關開曼群島法律(Cayman)：Conyers Dill & Pearman, Cayman | 核數師 | 德豪會計師事務所有限公司(BDO Limited) | 主要往來銀行 | 中國銀行 (香港) 有限公司 & 東亞銀行有限公司 | Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary(China Energy Development Holdings Limited) | Apr 2011 – Present (4 yrs 5 months)Hong KongHandle all enquiries and correspondence with HKEX and SFC.Handle Group oil and gas assets of around HK$3 billion and operations in the PRC. Negotiate and discuss with vendors for potential investment projects in overseas and in the PRC.Acting as a bridge for communication between Hong Kong professional parties and owners in the PRC. | Senior Manager(BDO Limited) | Aug 2005 – Mar 2011 (5 yrs 8 months)Hong KongIn charge of audit and other assurance engagements with listed companies and IPO clients.Supervise and monitor audit team on professional work.Speaker in Trade Development Council for Hong Kong IPO listing.Speaker & facilitator for internal professional development for staff. | Audit Senior(Grant Thornton) | Jul 2004 – Feb 2005 (8 months)Hong KongMainly handled audit engagements for listed companies in manufacturing and retail sectors. | Audit Associate(KPMG) | Dec 2003 – Apr 2004 (5 months)Hong KongHandled audit engagements for bank and securities...
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...The Company I am going to be working for is Morales & Associates Incorporated. 1. The position I am interested in would be a sales rep. 2. The job consists but not limited to: fillinng customers' mail and telephone orders from stored merchandise in accordance with specifications on sales slips or order forms. Other duties include computing prices of items, completing order receipts, keeping records of out-going orders, and requisitioning additional materials, supplies, and equipment. 3. Some requirements include knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. 4. What are the company’s requirements as far as experience, certifications, and continuing education? The position only required some sells experience. Other than that they are going to give OJT in order to lean the specific job requirements. 5. I have had sells experience in the past I. I was a sales rep for a tech company as well for a property management company. The most specific courses that I have taken that have helped me prepare for this job would have to be all managerial, marketing, and finance courses. These courses prove that I am able to understand the inner workings of how to run a business, from managing the overall work force goals, to understanding financial statements and understanding how to make the company more marketable...
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...web based search engine that delivers users the relevant result entering the key words. First they gave a name website as BackRub then they changed it into Google. Now, Google is a worldwide company with more than 30,000 employees that takes place in the technology sector and Internet industry with lots of products working on search, operating systems and advertisement areas primarily. There is a long list of Google’s products but the most well known products of are; search engine itself, Google Chrome, Google+, YouTube, Orkut, Android, AdWords and Google Maps. For example, Google Chrome is a powerful and fast web browser with more than 300 million users. Moreover, by using AdWords companies can easily create text or web based advertisements that will appear at both sides of the browser when someone searches some key words related to that company. Google is a multinational corporation and a member of index NASDAQ. Also regarding to the Google’s official website there are more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries and as a result of that scope of the Google is extensive. Aim of the company is to help people all around the world to get what information they want exactly in the easiest way. Google makes money mostly by the advertising. According to the data of 2012, revenue of the company is $49,96 billion (“Annual Financials for Google Inc.,” n.d.). In the first quarter of 2013, they made $14 billion, which shows an increase of 31% when it is compared to the first quarter of...
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...1.1 Background of Nestle Company The purpose of this assignment is to discuss about Nestle Company. Moreover, we thinking some new product for Nestle Company to create excitement. Nestle Company had started off from Henri Nestle idea, and developed into a giant corporation (Nestle Company, 2016). In 1866 he developed a milk food formula for infants who were unable to tolerate their mother milk. His product became a success, and it created a demand throughout Europe. Finally, the last name change that the company would endure was in 1977, where it adopted the name Nestle SA. Nestle had become the world’s biggest food and beverage company (English Tea Store, 2016). 1.2 Current product offerings Nestle product line is subset of the product mix. It can have a number of different type of products, so it will have similar number of product lines. Nestle current product offerings are baby foods such as Nestum, Gerber and Cerelac (Nestle Brands, 2016). Moreover, they are also offerings bottled water for example nestle pure life, Perrier and Poland spring. Besides, cereals is one of the product that Nestle offerings which are Honey Star and Koko Krunch and others. The most favourable product of Nestle is chocolate, for instance, KitKat. They are also offerings Nescafe coffee and dairy products like milkmaid. Milo is a very popular drinks, it also produces from Nestle Company. 2.1 Macro Environmental Analysis Macroenvironment consists of nonspecific aspects in the...
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...Name:______Pia Bayetti______________________ Week 4: Career and Company Research Template and Grading Rubric Part 1: GOALS | One-year Goal | Two-year Goal | Five-year Goal | | My one-year career goal is . . . I will be graduated from College for only a few months so I would probably be finishing up an internship by this time | My two-year career goal is . . .to be in my career already and be in a position that I am learning a lot and moving up quickly | My five-year career goal is . . I hope to be with a large event planning company doing work with marketing and promoting all sorts of events across the country | EMPLOYERS | Employer of Choice for One-year Goal Lethal Talent | Employer of Choice for Two-year Goal Live Nation | Employer of Choice for Five-year Goal Insomniac Events | Name, location(s), contact information | Wil Dumaop, Las Vegas | James Barton, LA | Pasquel Rotella, LA | Products and/or services | Music Agency/ Management | Music Events | Music Events/ Festivals | Number of employees | 5 | 10000 | 50 | Annual sales/profits/growth for the past year | 200,000 | No info | No info | Potential for growth of the firm and the industry as a whole | Large | Small | Small | Major competitors | Circle, Warpath, Bad Chemistry, AM Only | Insomniac, Madison House, Zoo York | Live Nation, Madison House, ZooYork, Wakarusa | Mission and/or vision statement | N/A | N/A | N/A | Reputation | Small, still trying to get a good solid foundation | Great...
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...Chicken are genetically modified with hormones, carcinogens, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) among other things so they become larger at a faster rate. The Monsanto company was the first to develop genetically modified plant cells and seeds. This practice has been controversial for years and the FDA is finally coming clean with the truth about the harmful effects that were known and previously approved. The FDA has reported that the chicken that you see on the shelves at your local grocery store contains many harmful ingredients including arsenic! Arsenic is a poison and is known to cause cancer, but it does help chicken and other livestock grow to maturity quicker. So, as the chicken are being fed with bountiful doses of modified...
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...Research on Earnings Management in Listed Companies Name: Jing LI Table of Contents 1.Overview of earnings management theories 3 2.Motivations for earnings management in listed companies 7 3. Means to do earnings management 12 4.Conclusion 17 1.Overview of earnings management theories 1.1 Meaning of Earnings Management To research on earnings management, we must understand the meaning of earnings management. In financial accounting theory, different researchers have different understandings of the meaning of the earnings management. First, researchers mainly hold three opinions: First one is that earnings management is due to a keen interest of managers on the choice of accounting policies. Mangers will choose those accounting policies that maximize their own utility or market value of the company. Meanwhile, the accounting policy will not exceed the scope of the accounting standards. The second one is based on the information concept. In this view, earnings management is the concept of a "disclosure management", or to say that the management of the company (including the board of directors, managers, department heads) for certain private interests to control financial statements when disclosing. The third one is from the objectives of standard-setters. Earnings management is that the authorities use professional judgment to prepare financial statements and through the planning transaction to mislead the stakeholders’...
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...Financial Research Report: Lowe’s Companies, Inc Strayer University Abstract Review of Financial Research Report: This assignment is an analysis of a US publicly-traded company; its common stock could be a prospective investment. The report is due in Week 10, in needs to be at least 5 pages, and it needs to cover the following topics: Company Overview: Conduct research and describe the company, its operations, locations, markets, and lines of business. Collect financial statements for the past three years, fiscal or calendar. Ratio analysis: Perform trend and ratio analysis on current and fixed assets, current and long term liabilities, owner’s equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per share. Project these trends for three years. Stock price analysis: Research the company’s common stock price for the past five years. Research the Standard & Poor’s Stock Market Index (S&P 500) for the past five years. Chart the price movement in the company’s common stock against the S&P price movement. State and support your opinion on the company’s common stock as an investment opportunity. References: Use at least five references and follow APA format when preparing the report. Lowe's Companies, Inc., is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the United States (trailing Home Depot Inc.), holding about six percent of the $140 billion home improvement market. No longer a low-profile company, Lowe's evolved from a regional hardware...
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