The Southern Company is a utility holding company whose principal subsidiaries provide power in Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ and Mississippi. With the gradual deregulation of the utilities industry in the 1990s‚ Southern Company expanded its holdings into New England‚ New York‚ the Midwest‚ and California‚ making it the largest power producer in the country. In addition‚ Southern now owns power generating operations in Europe‚ Hong Kong‚ the Philippines‚ and South America. The early 1980s saw a
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Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI) 2013 Annual Report/10k Filing Preface: SIRI began to be publically traded in August of 1994 at $4.125. The company flourished in the 90’s reaching an all-time high stock value of $61 in February of 2000. Since 2001‚ terrestrial radio revenues have been declining year over year (90% of SIRI revenue). Their stock value crashed to $2.49 in September of 2001. The 2009 recession demolished SIRI’s trade value even further to a penny stock. In the last decade the company only saw
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Background of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Lehman Brothers Inc. is a comprehensive and diversified investment bank‚ which services the financial needs for global companies‚ institutions‚ governments and investors (RYBACK.W). Since Lehman Brothers was established in Montgomery in Alabama in 1850‚ it has experienced the American Civil War‚ two world wars‚ the Great Depression‚‘9‧11 ’attack Strike and an acquisition. However‚ it still survive‚ and it was called as ‘19 Mania cat’ by Roy Smith who
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ADVERTISING AGENCY The advertising agency is a highly specialized business machine for digesting an advertiser’s selling problems and producing ideas for increasing his sales‚ his reputation and his profits. Its started as a space peddler‚ buying space in media wholesale and selling it retail. The Marketing Department for any advertising agency is vital and important‚ and being an advertising agency the marketing department should be strong enough
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business organizations‚ how to comprehensively make the most effective investment‚ financing and operating decisions becomes more crucial. Among these decisions‚ the optimization of capital structure has a great influence on the performance of the companies‚ for a reasonable capital structure can decrease the financing cost‚ take advantage of the financial leverage and play an important role in corporation governance. Given the importance of capital structure‚ this essay will firstly discuss the ways
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Word count: 2251 Background: Agency theory (Jensen & Meckling 1976) has provided useful insight into the financial dealings between an enterprise (principal) and its stakeholders (agents). It is unlikely that the economic interests of these parties will be exactly the same because it is human nature to maximise one’s own benefit even at the expense of others. (Peacock‚ p278) Question: Explain how agency theory may be applied in explaining the relationship between small business and a financial
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Situation analysis: Koc Holding ("Koc ") is an industrial conglomerate in Turkey. Its largest subsidiary‚ Arc elik‚ is the main manufacturer and market leader of so-called white goods (major kitchen appliances) in Turkey. Koc will likely experience an increase in foreign competition‚ as Turkish tariffs on white goods (protecting the local market) will be phased out in 1996. In its turn‚ Koc is interested in expanding abroad‚ as the Turkish market for white goods is getting saturated. Problem
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Introduction This report analyses on Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad‚ Malaysia’s dominant cross-media company with important roles in Direct-To-Home (DTH) television services‚ commercial radio as well as television programming (Accountable‚ 2010). It was founded by Malaysia’s second richest man‚ Tan Sri Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan‚ on the 1st of June‚ 1996 (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union‚ 2011). Astro is the abbreviation for All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator and is based in Kuala
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sending an email explaining the importance of needing to speak with you. Shay has been recommended for retention which I disagree with the recommendation. Therefore‚ speaking with I believe we will be able to find the best solution for this matter. Holding Shay back is not helping him but apunishment. Shay is entitled to a free appropriate public education‚ therefore if Shay is that far behind I would believe his IEP is not working and it’s time to update and amend it. Shay had
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Two characters in The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Love is blindness. Therefore‚ no matter how smart‚ intelligent a woman is‚ she will lose her obvious judgment to a man she has a crush on. There is no exception to Mma Ramotswe‚ the main character in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. She is in the relationship with two men who are totally opposite in physical appearance‚ characteristics‚ attitude toward woman. We are going to analyze the differences between Note Mokoti and J.L.B Matekoni.
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