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Tata Steel Corporation Case
HISTORY Tata Steel Corporation is India's top steel producing company. It has done so by being the cost leader in the industry thus allowing it to offer prices lower than that of its competitors. The company has also successfully secured the trust of the country's consumer population by expanding and maintaining its renowned reputation for benevolence in its relationship with the community. With these achievements, Tata Steel Corporation was able to forge a harmonious relationship
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Miniscribe Corporation Case
MINISCRIBE LTD CONTENTS Executive Summary…………………………………………………………..2 Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 Management Style…………………………………………………………....3 Governance……………………………………………………………………5 Ethics………………………………………………………………………......6 Financial Reporting/ Accounting …………………………………………....7 Financial Statements and Adjustments.....................…………………….8 Auditing……………………………………………………………………..…10 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………....11 Recommendations…………………………………………………………...12 References……………………………………………………………………17 Executive Summary Miniscribe Corporation is headquartered in Colorado and designs, manufactures and markets a line of data storage solutions for the computing industry. Products are sold through a network sales system using employed personnel and independent distributors. Sales were volatile in the 1980’s yet despite this, revenues soared 100% in 1987. Substantial price
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The Development of Corporate Governance in China
The history and legal framework of corporate governance for listed companies in China Prior to 1978, most Chinese companies were state owned enterprises with strong government influence. The government set targets and an agenda and the individual business and managers were measured against those targets. In 1978, the government decided to reform the state owned enterprises and focus on the process to improve corporate governance measures and allow for a market based system. The first
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A Cross-Country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance
A Cross-country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance Introduction During the last twenty years corporate governance has been widely researched, which has led to important findings with regard to ownership structure and its determinants. La Porta and Colleagues (1998) find that shareholder protection is positive correlated with widely held firms and larger financial markets. La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer (1999) subsequently find that countries with common law have larger financial markets and provide better
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Finance Case
In a socialist market economy, the separation of ownership and control is one of the premises of the establishment of modern enterprise system, the resulting conflicts of interest between managers and outside investors also become the core of the modern corporate governance research. In their seminal study, based on the dispersed ownership structure, Berle and Means (1932) analyzed the first class of agency problem according to “strong managers, weak shareholders”. Since then, a great deal
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Employee Engagement Case Study of Putteridge Solution Plc
Introduction In this report a literature review of employee engagement in Putteridge Solution Plc was discussed. However, this report reviewed different definition of engagement given by different authors on engagement. The importance of engagement in an organization was also discussed and how engagement can be measured and improved. In the second part, the current situation of motivating employee through extrinsic reward by Putteridge Solution Plc was highlighted with less attention paid to employee relation. After
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United Technologies Corporation Case
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified company which provides a broad range of high quality technology products and services to customers. UTC has six subsidiary companies: Pratt and Whitney, Carrier, Hamilton Sundstrand, Otis, Sikorsky and UTC Fuel Cells. Every year, UTC spent a large amount of money on research and development in order to offer innovation and high-quality technologies, which brought big profit back to UTC as well. UTC Fuel Cells (UTCFC), now is
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Corporate Strategy
Introduction Tesco came into the Taiwanese retail market in 2000 carrying the title of the top retailer in the UK and one of the top 10 global retailers. Tesco has had a great and successful experience in building retail branding, so its market entry was believed to be a huge threat to existing rivals, e.g. Carrefour, RT-Mart and Costco. However, after five years, Tesco Taiwan failed its original intended aim to open 22 stores and
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What Are the Social Responsibilities of a Corporation?
What are the Social Responsibilities of a Corporation? The beginning of the 21st century has seen a heightened awareness of ethical issues mainly pointing towards corporate social responsibilities (CSR) of a corporation. Mallen Baker (2004) defines Corporate Social Responsibility as “how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society”. CSR does not mean mere charity through writing a cheque or providing monetary help to less privileged school or hospitals. It
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Microsoft and Apple Corporation - Fiscal Year 2010 Report
Microsoft and Apple Corporations Annual Report Comparison The purpose of a corporate annual report is to communicate to stockholders and other interested parties its financial statements. The annual report is a summary of the corporation's operations over the previous twelve months time period and states the corporation's plans for the future. Many annual reports are created to resemble a corporate brochure, using lots of pictures, color, charts and graphs. Despite the fancy look, however, the
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Financial Analysis of Dollar General Corporation
Abstract This paper focuses on financial analysis of Dollar General Corporation as one of the best company that one can invest in, and how the company performs financially with its annual operations. I will also discuss the company’s overview, evaluate the company’s vulnerability to current threats and stock price analysis. Managers and investors can also benefit from the understanding of the financial statements, when making importance decision about the operations of a company. Financial management
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Relation Between 'the Maverick' and 'the Corporation'
Organizational behaviour is the study of what people think feel, and do in and around an organization. This could be at an individual level, team/group level, or organization wide. The book and movie combination chosen are: Maverick, by Brazilian author Richardo Semler, and the movie The Corporation by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bankan, to look at two different perspectives of organizational behaviour in businesses. The word maverick means a lone nonconformist, as an
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Chevron Corporation Case
Environmental risk is the possibility of degradation of the environment owing to human activities , resulting in direct or indirect harm to people. A good example is the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, which exposed the tremendous risks associated with poor safety and environmental management practices. Thousands of people lost their lives after methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. Thousands more were injured and left homeless. Memories of Bhopal are
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Financing Starts and Growth - Heather Evans
Financing Starts and Growth – Heather Evans Ideas To initially design high price and high quality dresses to fit the light-style and demand of formal professional women, and if successful, introduce other lines under the HE name to benefit from its reputation and customer franchise. Clear segmentation with high MKT potential needs - large base, high spending and steady growth, and open channels that welcome new products. High financial potential for licensing and expansion
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Case Study: Black & Corporation (a): Power Tools Division
Case Study:Black and Decker Corporation (A): Power Tools Division 1)Introduction: Black & Decker (B&D) corporation is a one of the most successful company that manufactures power tools, accessories, electric lawn, garden tools and residential security hardware. B&D’s sales reached a $4.8 billion in 1990, with nearly 50% of its product revenues generating from outside of the United States and 29% of its sales being from power tools and accessories. B &D is one of the
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Corporate Leadership
Introduction I got goose bumps interacting with the distinguished speaker’s, as I had some remarkable insights during the Corporate Leadership module. Since I am deeply influenced by Charisma as a leadership theme, in the reflection essay below I have tried to weave a brief chronicle contemplating some of my learning’s during and after the module, experiences and thoughts about leadership and in specific changes to beliefs about Charismatic leadership. 1. Charisma: The absolute must Charisma
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Hansson Private Lab Solutions
Hansson Private Label (HPL) is a manufacturer of personal care products. The company was purchased by Mr Hanson in 1992. The investment represented significant risk for Hanson because a significant portion of his wealth was tied up is a single investment. Over the past sixteen years, Hanson has grown the company at a conservative but persistent fashion. He is now faced with an investment opportunity that promises swift growth, but also accompanies significant amount of
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Ncr Corporation V. Korala Associates Ltd
NCR Corporation. v. Korala Associates Ltd., 512 F.3d 807 (6th Cir. 2008) NCR: Plaintiff and Appellant v. KAL Assoc., Defendant, LTD - Appellee Background. NCR is a leading ATM and related equipment, hardware, and software producer. NCR developed software applications for Windows operated ATMs (i.e., APTRA XFS) and OS2 operated ATMs (S4i). In 1998, the U.S. based NCR and the Scottish KAL entered into a contractual agreement, which asked KAL to develop and license software
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Green Transport: What Is the Most Viable Current Solution?
Naseer uddin Khalid Razia Waseem Writing and Communication SS-100 section 9 14th November 2011. Green Transport: What is the most viable current solution? If oil discovery and consumption follow current trends, the world oil resource will be used up by about 2038 (Ehsani et al, 1). The developed world is faced with two very serious problems. They are global warming and depleting oil reserves, both stemming from one cause; rising fuel consumption. Al gore said:
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Toyota Motor Corporation: Launching Prius
This was a classic game theory within the car industry. As it had a long development time of the technology, the first mover had a huge advantage in being the first on the market. It would set up the first company on the market with an imagine of being an environmentally friendly car company, which could have explicit benefits to the company into the future. There was a lot of imperfect information within the case
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Finance Case
Every time a company, government or an individual bought a commodity or product from another country, they are making a foreign exchange transaction. Before the internet revolution, the only way for trading currencies is by bank trading system. In this system, opportunities are limited since the minimum amount to open an account is one million. Nowadays the market has changed because of the technology. You can with a few hundreds of dollars trade currencies via
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Asset Revaluation and Current Cost Accounting: Uk Corporate Disclosure
Accountants have long disputed whether financial statements should report current values and the effects of price changes. Indeed, the two kinds of adjustment are often confused. This study examines the asset revaluation and Current Cost Accounting (CCA) disclosure decisions of UK firms in 1983, using a costly contracting framework. We find the two decisions appear to have been taken for very different reasons and to be largely unrelated, even though the resultant measures overlapped to
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Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
What is Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility? When it comes to ethics and corporate social responsibility, unfortunately there are only basic laws and regulations to help guide companies actions. Therefore, it is up to a company to decide what levels of ethical and corporate social responsibility it wants to abide by. As more and more companies are starting to emerge, and customers are becoming the driving force of businesses, ethics and corporate social responsibility have
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Marriott Corporation
We are conducting an analysis of Marriott Corporation for calculating the hurdle rates at each of the firm’s three divisions--lodging division, restaurant division and contract service division. Marriott uses Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) as the hurdle rate, and use it to discount the appropriate cash flows when evaluate an investment project. Our goal is to determine the WACC at every division base on the information that the case has provided. First of all,
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International Trade and Finance Speech
International Trade and Finance Speech The current state of the U.S. macro economy is made up of a plethora of highly involved processes. I am going to attempt to explain some simple terms and concepts focused on international trade and foreign exchange rates. Foreign Exchange Rates One needs to have a base level understanding of what defines an exchange rate. According to Investopedia, a foreign exchange rate is “The price of one country's currency expressed
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