in excess cash and under-leveraged structures are necessary for Blaine to make. To deal with the capital structure issues‚ this report proposes a restructuring plan focusing on a share repurchase financed by cash and new debt issuance. After the analysis of a simple proposal‚ it is obvious that the financial ratios and cost of capital are strengthened after the bond issuing and share buyback. We then evaluate the amount of debt issuing that is most favorable to the company by analyzing the trade-off
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Case 1-2 Ackoff’s Management Misinformation Systems This case is adapted from a classic article entitled “Management Misinformation Systems.” It was written by Russell L. Ackoff and appeared in Management Sciences. In the article‚ Ackoff identified five common assumptions about information systems and then explained why he disagreed with them. REQUIRED: Read the five assumptions‚ contentions‚ and Ackoff’s explanation. For each of the five‚ decide if you agree or disagree with Ackoff’s
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My largest Type 1 and Type 2 experiences involved the entirety of my homestay in Spain. The family’s norms‚ rules‚ and style of living annoyed me and made me feel out of place. Additionally‚ my customs‚ habits‚ and lifestyle annoyed the family at multiple points during my short five month stay with the family. Quite frankly‚ I had no idea that cultural differences could lead to so much frustration and my Type 1 and Type 2 experiences were emblematic of that belief. I had my first Type 1 experience
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great drive for a person to seek pleasure‚ he referred this as the ‘libido’(Module 2 ; Roth‚ 2001). In Freud’s theory he divided the mind‚ known as the PSYCHE‚ Freud divided this in to three parts. The first part would be referred as the unconscious; second part known as the preconscious and lastly the conscious. However these can be referred by another terminology which is; the ID‚ EGO and the SUPEREGO (Module‚ 2). The ID can be characterised as the part where the mental processing strives the initiation
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All businesses want to hire bright people who can make the best decisions for the business as a whole‚ not the best marketing‚ finance‚ or operations decisions. They want employees who can see the big picture of how these functional areas interact. 2- What is the difference between the terms “production management” and “operations management”? Operations management is a broader term than production management‚ encompassing service organizations as well as manufacturing. Operations management is
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Setting: Time and place The novel ‘the lovely bones’ is set during 1973 to 1981. It is situated throughout a little town in Pennsylvania‚ which is near Philadelphia. The significance of the setting towards the story relates to the town being small and unknown‚ in retrospect it should have been a safe place for a young adult to grow up in. Your neighbours were treated like family and you would never have expected a tragedy such as this to occur in a little unknown town. The setting of the novel shows
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TUTORIAL 2 1. Stevie G was shopping in a departmental store when he saw a bottle of cologne he liked. He put it in his shopping basket. He then went up to the 3rd floor of the store to carry on with his shopping. He changed his mind about the cologne and put it back on the shelf. Michael O‚ who works for the store‚ sees this happening and insists that Stevie pay for the cologne. Is Michael O right? Give your reasons. 2. Rahman is at an auction when he sees a Manchester United shirt. The starting
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bookstores around the nation. And last but not least they license the brand name for other food products such as ice cream. Those successful movements helped company with their brand awareness expansion. 2. Describe Starbucks’ retail mix: location‚ merchandise assortment‚ pricing‚ advertising and promotion‚ store design and visual merchandising‚ customer service‚ and personal selling. How does its retail mix support its strategy? Location is a real estate/marketing strategy where every retail
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alter the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies? Document 1 NORTH AMERICA BEFORE 1754 Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1740-1766 in constructing your response. Document 2 Source: Canassatego‚ Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ speech to representatives of Pennsylvania‚ Maryland and Virginia‚ 1742. We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value:
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Microsoft Environment Analysis 1/5/2014 5 vulnerabilities for this workgroup LAN based on the Microsoft Security Advisories numbers. 2755801‚ 2719662‚ 2854544‚ 2846338‚ 2847140. 2846338 involve privilege elevation‚ Vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution‚ and is a high priority. Three vulnerabilities and Solutions related to client configurations. Advisory Number: 2719662 Microsoft is announcing the availability
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