1. Which of the following would increase the likelihood that a company would increase its debt ratio in its capital structure? a. An increase in costs incurred when filing for bankruptcy. b. An increase in the corporate tax rate. c. An increase in the personal tax rate. d. None of the statements above is correct. ANSWER: B An increase in the corporate tax rate would mean that firms would get larger tax breaks for interest payments. Therefore‚ firms have an incentive to increase interest payments
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Case Study 1 A Unique Training Program at UPS 1. Do you think individuals can learn empathy from something like a 1-month CIP experience? Explain why or why not. Answers: • Yes‚ It’s not about feeling sorry for the victims involved. Teaches managers to step outside of the traditional box and learn ways to relate to people who are dealing with other situations • Mark Colvard felt in his traditional managerial training‚ he would have denied the employee the time off because he was
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The Dumbest Generation “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - Maimonides. Over the past years‚ our world has been creating and inventing new ways to obtain information. The under thirty year generation has the most exposure to these new technological advances‚ but how come studies show that I.Q scores keep going down year by year? The under thirty generation is the dumbest generation because materials we are given are misused as a
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explain why individualism is best. Primarily‚ he targets human fear. Emerson explains‚ “we but half express ourselves‚ and are ashamed… but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” (Emerson‚ 86) Emerson is saying that if we fail to express what is in our hearts because of fear‚ we are cowards before everyone. No one
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In what way might the legacy of the 1834‚ poor Law be seen in contemporary welfare policy? This essay will endeavour to highlight the advantages/disadvantages‚ and how the welfare state treats individual members of the community differently .The historically changing conceptualization of the welfare state and its provision of social services the individuals democratic right to access the state provided benefits‚ are looked at in their historically and geographically changing existing structure
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To What Extent Would the Wide Use of Referendums Improve Democracy in the UK? The wide use of referendums would make an improvement to democracy in the UK. A reason why it would be so beneficial is that referendums highly encourage political participation. Over recent years‚ political participation has not been at it’s highest‚ with people expecting a mere 55% turnout at the next vote‚ referendums could be just what are required to engage the public in politics. The Good Friday referendum is
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management method through Corporate culture Introduction As it is realized by more and more people‚ especially executive managers and researchers‚ corporate culture plays a crucial role in the success of an organization. For many companies that have gained exclusively high fame‚ exposure and wealth‚ organizational culture is moreover an invisible property owned by the company. From 1970s‚ people began to understand the high competition from Japanese industry with unique corporate cultural background
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Change in Time A culture’s sense of time is based on how that culture views the past‚ present or future. Americans have a very different sense of time compared to China and France‚ our view of time is time is important and shouldn’t be wasted on trivial things. Americans believe deadlines are more important than building relationships or getting comfortable with big decisions. China has a very different point of view on time‚ it’s to be cherished and used to build relationships and to make better
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What makes Julie Taymor’s theatrical theory unique? It is the idea that you can take the simple act of storytelling and heighten its basic concept‚ that will in turn‚ leave the audience in awe. Understandably‚ we associate the idea of ‘storytelling’ with things like‚ folktales‚ campfires‚ and children’s bedtime story books. But when we really evaluate the content of theatrical performances‚ can it not be interpreted to be the telling of a story with dramatic quality? Julie Taymor molds our traditional
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Capital Structure: The most important function of Financial Management is to make decisions about the capital structure of firm. Capital structure refers to the make up a firm’s capitalization. It represents the mix of different sources of long term funds in the total capitalization of the company like equity shares‚ preference shares‚ retained earnings‚ long-term loans etc. In other words it can be precisely told as financing plan of the company. Capital is required to finance investments in plant
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