...Dakotah McQuay Corporate Memos Eng/221 4/1/13 Christine Brazanskas Date: 4/1/13 To: Christine Brazanskas From: Dakotah McQuay Subject: Web Conferencing Software This memo is used to determine the best type of Web Conferencing software to be used. I did some research on various types of software, (InfiniteConferencing, Intercall, ClickMeeting) and have found that the best for our company is InfiniteConferencing. The pros on this software far outweigh the cons. The InfiniteConferencing software is a fair price of $35 a month, and with a company growing as quickly as we are, I believe that this is the best web conferencing program for us. This software allows up to 1000 participants, instant pulling, one click publishing with Microsoft Office, Full Desktop or Specific applications sharing, easy control passing, allows you to invite members on the fly, full Microsoft Outlook integration, and fully customizable session settings ("Http://www.onlinemeetingsource.com/web-Conferencing-Reviews/infinite-Conferencing-Review/", 2013). InterCall and ClickMeeting had many good credentials as well, but weren’t best suited for our company. InterCall could not be hosted on a Mac, which is used by many of our employees. The price per month was $42 dollars and didn’t allow as many participants. ClickMeeting only ran about $10, but was not as user friendly and required knowledge of the software. The functionality and security did not score as high as the other two types...
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...Memorandum Date: January 26, 2015 To: Management From: Michael S De La Fuente Subject: Web Conferencing Programs The purpose behind this memorandum is to instruct management concerning the different web conferencing available to our organization. Web conferencing is a social tool we can use to have long time social affairs with our counterparts. The organization will have the ability to bring our offsite get-togethers thru web conferencing. The program that we chose will save extra time and money while bringing offsite and the organzation together as one. There are five web conferencing programs that were researched, Cisco Webex, Fuze Meeting, Gotomeeting, Infinite Conferencing, and Intercall. As shown underneath in (Table 1) most essential characteristics are discussed. During the research it was found that, FuzeMeeting and CiscoWebEx would not be able to support our needs. FuzeMeeting doesn’t have the capabilities to support VOIP, video or webcam capabilities. CiscoWebEx was not capable of recording the meetings. While Gotomeeting and Infinite Conferencing have max number of individuals that can be on during web conferencing. The one program that meets all of the organizations needs is Intercall. Intercall has the availability to support 124 participants, VOIP, video or webcam capabilities, and recorded meetings. We can also develop with this venture and secure a splendid web conferencing mechanical assembly for future usage. Table 1: Features Researched for Web...
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...Corporate Memo Student ENG/221 February 30, 2014 Instructor Corporate Memo Memorandum To: CIO Jeff Bridges CC: CIO Support Team From: Student Date: 6/30/2014 ------------------------------------------------- Re: Choices for Web Conferencing Software Choosing the Best Available Software There are many web conference choices available for almost any purpose. Our team would benefit greatly from most of them, but their value varies greatly by cost, usability, and resource usage. I have selected three different programs for your review. Software Selection Firstly, all of our onsite users are currently using the Microsoft Windows operating system. Some users located offsite use Macintosh OS X. This would have presented a problem in the past, but luckily almost every choice today allows for use in both cases. Software Number 1: Cisco WebEx This software is excellent. It allows for almost any application that could be desired in a business setting. The price is $19.99 a month for the annual plan, it allows for HD video conferencing, desktop sharing, mobile phone access, remote control, VOIP, and can be initiated by a single host computer. Software Number 2: Adobe Connect This software also allows for basically anything we could expand to use. It’s price is $45.00 a month per host. The service offers HD and SD video conferencing, desktop sharing, mobile phone access, remote control, VOIP, great document sharing support, and like all others listed here, a virtual shareable whiteboard...
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...Visit Websites | What I like about the Websites | What I dislike about the Websites | Rating | Monthly cost | MaximumView | Adobe Connect http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html | With adobe connect enable the enterprise to standardize on a standardize web conferencing solution for online meeting, eLearning, and webinars. It ranks number three in the market | The only thing is wrong with this web conferencing is that there is no post call reporting, and participant Annotation. | 8.13 | $55 | 50 People | Infinite Conferencing http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/pro_services_rally.php | Infinite conferencing ranks number one in the market. According to Infinite Conferencing “Infinite combines the intimacy and impact of face-to-face meeting with the cost savings, flexibility and convenience of online collaboration.” | The only thing wrong about this program is, it does not have any tutorials | 9.83 | $35 | 1000 people | Global Meet https://www.globalmeet.com | In Global Meet it has everything needed for a web conference, it ranks number four in the market. | The only problem with, Global Meet it does not have a remote IT Support plus everyone have to pay extra fees for an Operator assisted Meeting. | 8.90 | $45 | 125 people | GoToMeetinghttp://www.gotomeeting.co.uk/fec/online_meeting | After watching the videos GoToMeeting has a little more than all of the other web conference. According to GoToMeeting (2013), built-In Security...
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...This version: 7/16/2015 College of Business Administration Loyola Marymount University MBAF 614: Financial Analysis & Strategy Fall 2015 Instructor: Dr. David Offenberg Office: Hilton 313 Phone: (310) 338-2903 E-mail: doffenberg@lmu.edu Office Hours: Tuesday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (or by appointment) Class time: Tuesday, 7:15 - 10:00 p.m. (HIL 023) Course Overview: The purpose of this course is to study the impact of corporate financial strategy on shareholder wealth. In essence, this course covers the fundamentals of MBAA 608 with a lot more depth. Throughout the semester, we will examine real situations that were faced by real chief financial officers. In the end, you should have a much better appreciation for the role of the CFO in keeping the corporation afloat. Method: This course is taught via case studies supported by lectures. Class sessions begin with a studentled analysis of the assigned case. The remainder of the class period will be dedicated to further analysis of the case. Students have substantial responsibility (and incentives) for coming to class prepared to engage in active discussion. Each student is expected to work in a team to analyze the cases. Readings: The textbook for the course is: Case Problems in Finance, by Kester, Ruback and Tufano, Twelfth Edition, Publisher: McGraw Hill- Irwin. The bookstore will not carry the book so you must order it online. The MBAA 608 textbook is also a useful reference, but not required (Brigham...
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...Memo Dated: June 6, 2014 Sub: Accountability – Whistle Blower; Ethical Dilemma Introduction: This report is made to find out the circumstances in which a person reports his/her company’s unethical behaviour. In ethics and governance “Accountability means answerability. In leadership roles it is an acknowledgement and assumption of responsibility of actions. Most of us believe that we are unbiased and ethical in making corporate decisions but in truth this is not the case. More than two decades of research confirms that most of us fall woefully short of our inflated self-perception. As mentioned in report “How (Un)ethical Are You” by Mahzarin R Banaji that there is a need to regularly audit our decisions so that we can don’t make unethical decisions. Unethical decisions stems from unconscious biases. Mangers often falls in trap of implicit prejudice. They make decisions on the basis of individual habit, race etc. As a result most highly qualified candidate for the assignment gets overlooked. Second type of unethical behavior arises from in-group favoritism. When a manger likes to grant favor to his own background, a candidate who does not possess any potential and would not succeed without favoritism get his feet in the company will cause problem in the long run. Third type of unethical issues comes from over claiming credit. When we start considering that we are above average as compared to our peers and that...
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...Key Issues for Directors in 2014 — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Gover... Page 1 of 2 Key Issues for Directors in 2014 Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Monday December 16, 2013 at 9:20 am Editor’s Note: Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy. This post is based on a Wachtell Lipton memorandum by Mr. Lipton. For a number of years, as the new year approaches I have prepared for boards of directors a one-page list of the key issues that are newly emerging or will be especially important in the coming year. Each year, the legal rules and aspirational best practices for corporate governance, as well as the demands of activist shareholders seeking to influence boards of directors, have increased. So too have the demands of the public with respect to health, safety, environmental and other socio-political issues. In reviewing my 2013 issues memo, I concluded that the 2013 issues continued as the key issues for 2014 with a few changes in detail or emphasis. My key issues for 2014 are: • 1. Maintaining a close relationship with the CEO and working with management to encourage entrepreneurship, appropriate risk taking, and investment to promote the long-term success of the company, despite the constant pressures for short-term performance, and to navigate the dramatic changes in domestic and world-wide economic...
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...mentioned in the termination request. Customer signatures duly verified by account opening officer. In case of corporate account, certified board resolution with signatures of official signatories. In case of joint/partnership A/C, signatures of all partners. Company/Firm/Proprietorship stamp should be affixed. “Bank use only” section properly filled with date & time of received request. Branch manager approval for closure of account. SSC attached duly marked closed. Clearance must be obtained from head of departments. Debit card, Cheque leaves status and serial of leaves required with signatures of two officers with stamp “Cheque book destroyed in presence of officers”. Closure of Accounts on Zero Balance Accounts: Inter office memo required for closure of zero balance accounts, approved by branch manager. Copy of notice letter required. Closure of Wrongly Opened Accounts: Inter office memo required along with reason for wrongly opened accounts, correctly approved by branch manager. Statement required zero balance. DARS scanning stamp on request. Closure of Discrepant Accounts: Inter office memo required duly approved by branch manager. Copy of notice letter required (14 days’ notice). Statement required reflecting zero balance. Clearance must be obtained from all departments. DARS scanning stamp on request. Closure of Deceased Accounts: Inter office memo required duly approved by branch manager for account closure. Copy of death certificate with original seen stamp...
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...University of South Carolina Moore School of Business FINA 761 (800): Advanced Corporate Finance Fall 2013 Instructor: Eric Powers |Class time: |T/TH 2:50 – 5:35 | |Location: |364 | |Office Hours: |TBD | |Office Hour Location: |BA 462 | |E-mail: |epowers@moore.sc.edu | |Course website: |blackboard.sc.edu | The objective of this course is deepen your understanding of the many issues faced by firms as they identify valuable investment opportunities, raise funds for those investment opportunities, distribute profits to share-holders and debt-holders and deal with the consequences of both good and bad investment financing decisions. We will expand on the concepts that you have learned in FINA 760 or in DMSB 715. Class time will be divided between lectures and case studies. My lectures will briefly review concepts from prior courses. The bulk of my lectures will present advanced material that will be new to you. It is assumed that you understand the concepts from your earlier finance and accounting courses. If not, it is your responsibility to review. In order to reduce your note-taking, my lecture notes will be available...
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...This memo is primarily for corporate tax specialists. The case - see page 11-indicates that you may be asked to explain the tax treatment of distributions of cash or property from TuffPeach to its stockholders (or in the case of an LLC, its members). We know that one of the disadvantages of a regular corporation is that the earnings are subject to taxation when the corporation earns the profit, and there is another level of taxation when the stockholders receive dividends from the Corporation. This is called double taxation. The attached document has some key code sections summarized. Those code sections are pretty technical but we will explain them. Is important to note that you do not have double taxation of corporate earnings, if the corporation does not earn a profit. Therefore, a stockholder does not report dividend income - when receiving money or other property from a corporation that has a deficit in its retained earnings. A shareholder does report income when receiving cash or other property from a corporation that has “earnings and profits” – which is the tax term for retained earnings. Section 301 (a) indicates that a distribution of property to a shareholder’s is taxed according to procedure in subsection (c). Subsection (c) indicates that the amount of a distribution that is a “dividend” is included in income. Section 316 indicates that a dividend means a distribution to shareholders from earnings and profits. Therefore, the shareholder will report dividend...
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...Finance MBA − Cases in Corporate Finance The Super Project (HBS) Instructor: Pål E. Korsvold BI Norwegian School of Management McGraw-Hill/Irwin abc McGraw−Hill Primis ISBN: 0−390−68861−4 Text: Harvard Business School Negotiation Cases This book was printed on recycled paper. Finance http://www.mhhe.com/primis/online/ Copyright ©2006 by The McGraw−Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. This McGraw−Hill Primis text may include materials submitted to McGraw−Hill for publication by the instructor of this course. The instructor is solely responsible for the editorial content of such materials. 111 FINAGEN ISBN: 0−390−68861−4 Finance Contents Harvard Business School Negotiation Cases Super Project 1 1 Case iii Harvard Business School Negotiation Cases The Super Project Case © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2005 1 9-112-034 REV: MAY 27, 2004 The Super Project In March 1967, Crosby Sanberg, manager-financial analysis at General Foods Corporation, told a casewriter, “What I learned about incremental analysis at the Business School doesn’t always work.” He was convinced that under some circumstances sunk costs were relevant to capital...
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...class. Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 are available in an Excel spreadsheet on the website (if you downloaded the spreadsheet before 8:00pm Friday, I added Exhibit 7 then). This case concerns financing large investments in capital assets in a short period of time for strategic reasons. According to Modigliani and Miller, with efficient markets and no corporate taxation, firms should be able to raise all funds necessary to finance positive net present value projects and, further, the firm’s capital structure (or off-balance financing structures) should not affect the firm’s weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) or the availability of credit. This case is particularly interesting because the synthetic leases that are the focus of the case, resulting in special-purpose entities (SPEs) and off-balance sheet financing, are exactly those financing techniques which got Enron and other firms into so much trouble recently. After achieving a basic command of the facts of the case, I strongly recommend reading case Appendix 1 and studying case Appendix 2 covering the tax and accounting aspects of leasing. Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe, Corporate Finance, Chapter 21, provides an overview of leasing and could provide a reference for lease-related terms but I think the case appendices should be enough information for most students. The issue facing management concerns the advantages and disadvantages of financing $1 billion in electricity generating plants with traditional or limited...
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...Shonda Franklin P.O Box 625 Experiment GA. 30213 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I have reviewed your tax issues. I will address each one of your questions in this memo. I will start with John’s questions first. John you asked the following: 1 (a). How is the $300,000 that you received as fees from a settlement that your client won treated for the purpose of federal tax income? 1(b). How the $25,000 that you received for expenses of the case is be treated for the purpose of federal tax income? Both of these incomes we be treated as taxable income By your company being a Limited Liability Company you have a choice if your income will be tax as corporation or a partnership for tax purposes. Under the 26 C.F.R. § 301.7701-3 (2002) code also known as "check-the-box" regulations, generally freed LLC owners from worrying about whether their method of operation would require them to pay corporate taxes instead of partnership taxes (1). If you chose to have your company to be treated as a corporation, it will be tax according to the corporation double taxation rule. If you chose to have the law firm to be treated as a partnership for tax purposes, the company will not be tax itself. The income will pass through the law firm to the partners and the gain will be recorded on their individual tax return. Each partner will not claim the full amount of $325, 000, but each of you will divide the amount according to the percentage each of you own of the law firm. 1(c). What is my determination...
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...Examining a Business Failure - Tyco International Ltd Organizational behavior is defined as the study of the behavior of individuals, groups and structure and the impact to an organization. Organizational behavior uses the information gathered from this study to improve the organization’s effectiveness (Robbins, 2011). Organizational behavior focuses on a number of areas including the behavior of leaders, inter-personal communication, processes and structure within the organization, conflict and employee motivation. The behavioral disciplines of psychology, social psychology, sociology and anthropology form the basis for the study of organizational behavior. Psychology and social psychology studies the impact of conditions in the workplace and the impact to the employees’ performance. Within these sciences, learning theorists also studies the impact of change and how to reduce the challenges of change in the work environment [ (Robbins, 2011, p. 12) ]. According to the authors, sociology, and anthropology contributes to the study of organizational behavior by focusing on the relationship of employees as a group and the impact to the organizational structure. The culture and group dynamic of the employees will direct the level of motivation that in turn will negatively or positively impact the performance of the organization [ (Robbins, 2011, p. 12) ]. Psychology evaluates changes in individuals’ behavior and the impact to learning, Emotions, leadership, and decision-making...
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...This memo provides an insight on why a board’s composition plays a crucial role to perform and function effectively and why board diversity has become increasingly necessary in order to add more value to the firm. The board’s composition is likely to impact how the board functions, how it makes its investment and financial decisions and how authority and influence are allocated and manifested within the board.[1] Each organisation has its own regulations and guidelines for the formation, roles and compensation of the management board as there is “no one size fits all” rule, they are largely governed by governmental regulations and other international regulatory bodies such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Some positive relationships have been explored between the number of women, director ages, nationalities and other minorities on the board and the overall value of the firm. Being a household products and pharmaceutical company it is imperative for HouseDreams to incorporate measures to include more women on its board of directors thereby making it more diverse. This is because of the fact that women are the prime household decision makers and have a better understanding on the company’s target consumer. Boards with no or limited female membership may be weak in terms of understanding and connecting with the customer and workforce and offer limited encouragement to female employees. Based on...
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