Learn to Play the Earnings Game (and Wall Street Will Love You) The pressure to report smooth‚ ever higher earnings has never been fiercer. You don’t want to miss the consensus estimate by a penny--and you don’t have to. By Justin Fox In January‚ for the 41st time in the 42 quarters since it went public‚ Microsoft reported earnings that met or beat Wall Street estimates The 36 brokerage analysts who make the estimates were‚ as a group‚ quite happy about this - the 57 cents per share announced
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Eleanor Wiske Dillon University of Michigan Dissertation Abstract Three Essays on Career and Education Choices Chapter 1: “Risk and Return Tradeoffs in Lifetime Earnings” (JMP) There is a tradeoff between risk and expected earnings across occupations. Virtually all occupations require workers to invest in specific skills that tie them to that occupation‚ but workers face uncertainty about how much they can earn over a lifetime of that type of work. Rational‚ risk-averse workers will require
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implications for related research in areas of accounting and finance‚ Time series behaviour of earnings is crucial for empirical studies (Beaver 1970). Issues regarding Income smoothing‚ the relative forecast ability of alternative income measurements‚ and interim reporting‚ were discussed by Beaver (1970: pp. 62). These studies share mutual reliance upon a knowledge of the process creating accounting earnings‚ despite representing a comprehensive spectrum of predictive contexts (Beaver 1970). When
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Direct Taxes: A Direct tax is a kind of charge‚ which is imposed directly on the taxpayer and paid directly to the government by the persons (juristic or natural) on whom it is imposed. A direct tax is one that cannot be shifted by the taxpayer to someone else. The some important direct taxes imposed in India are as under: Income Tax: Income Tax Act‚ 1961 imposes tax on the income of the individuals or Hindu undivided families or firms or co-operative societies (other tan companies) and trusts
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Should There Be Taxes on Sodas or Other Junk Foods? Position: No Background: The question whether or not to put a tax on sugary beverages and junk food has made its way to our legislatures desks because of the overwhelming population of obese people throughout the world. The alarming consequences of obesity have given the government reasoning to take charge and try to rectify the problem. They believe that by taxing certain food items that are high in sugar and salt content‚ trans fat‚ and saturated
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The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Taxation in Bangladesh Abul Barkat Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Ashraf Uddin Chowdhury Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Nigar Nargis Mashfiqur Rahman Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Md. Shahnewaz Khan Ananda Kumar Pk. Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka Sharmina Bashir Frank J. Chaloupka Human Development Research Centre‚ Dhaka University
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MKG-300 Module 3 Nikon: Earning Loyalty the Hard Way Ken Wright Colorado State University Global Campus In 1985 the F2 camera was Nikon Corporation’s flagship model. Quite basic in design and function‚ yet perfectly designed and somehow exuded a sense of professional legitimacy when it hang from my neck. Though my feeling of legitimacy was premature‚ my desire to live up to a professional standard as profoundly important to Nikon‚ as it was to me. In the fall of 1985 I was issued an F2 and three
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resort to this tactic to raise revenues‚ but rather could simply raise taxes. While I agree that on the surface it may actually appear that way‚ that a government can simply levy taxes upon a population and there is nothing that the said population can or will do about it. That is nice to think in an ideal sense‚ but in reality it is not so easy for a government to raise taxes. Politicians and leaders who attempt to raise taxes sometimes find out the hard way that the people do not like being excessively
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| Taxes‚ Budget and Today’s Economy | How the nation’s budget impacts our economic growth | | ECO-2023 | Taxes‚ Budget and Todays Economy The United States National budget is a big topic of conversation right now on the political front. It is an election year and many people are looking for ways to boost our economy or at least make promises of doing so. But creating and maintaining a balance budget that will reduce our debt and in turn make the United States a stronger presence
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esteemed colleague. Today my partner and I are here to debate on the topic ‘Be it resolved that countries who supply foreign aid should reallocate their resources to development at “home”. In this case‚ we define “home” as the countries that supply foreign aid to others‚ countries that instead could be investing their money into themselves and improving upon their own country. The term foreign aid refers to financial assistance that is provided on intergovernmental or international level. It involves the
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