structure for their sustainable report closely resembles that of an annual report. It is divided into three parts: Sustainability overview‚ Material issues‚ and Facts and figures. They monitor their accomplishments by setting benchmarks for each year. An example of these benchmarks: in 2011 they have reduced greenhouse gas emission by 40% compared to 2008‚ and the number of eco friendly products has been increased to 97%. Compared to Apple Samsung absolutely dominates the sustainability side
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2005-projected financial summary net profit of 60.8 thousand dollars. Also they have a steady growth and increase from 2002 to 2004 in their revenue‚ profits and assets. In addition‚ Exhibit 2 demonstrates that all but one financial ratio supersede the benchmark for other horticultural producers. However‚ someone like Warren Buffet might look at their cash flow balance and determine that the financial performance of the company is poor. A company may seem profitable on paper but may not have liquidity due
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viewed as quantifiable and measurable characteristics or attributes. For example durability or reliability can be measured‚ and the engineer can design to that benchmark. Quality is determined objectively. Although this approach has many benefits‚ it has limitations as well. Where quality is based on individual taste or preference‚ the benchmark for measurement may be misleading. Then‚ the next principal is the user-based view. User based definitions are based on the idea that quality is an individual
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per share. It values the company’s stock by showing the investors how many times they are willing to pay for every dollar of the company’s net profit. P/E ratio= 20.65X We found out that the company’s P/E ratio is slightly lower than the benchmark average in the telecommunications industry. This implied that ADVANC is doing better in term of investors’
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just-released monthly average of the Platts Global Petrochemical Index (PGPI)‚ a benchmark basket of seven widely used petrochemicals. This follows a drop of 2% in November. But on a year-over-year basis‚ petrochemical prices were up 16% from the December 2011 average price of $1‚161/mt‚ according to data published by Platts‚ a leading global energy‚ petrochemicals and metals information provider and a top source of benchmark price references. Petrochemicals are used to make plastic‚ rubber‚ nylon
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earn “above-average” returns whereas breadth refers to the number of different securities for which the manager can generate excess returns. This means that the ability to completely eliminate all non-systematic risk relative to the portfolio’s benchmark. The measurement of depth and breadth could be obtained through the regression analysis as well as risk adjusted performance measures‚ which would be the Capital Market Line (CML)‚ Capital Allocation Line (CAL)‚ the Sharpe Ratio and the M2 index
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literature. Section 4 then describes the proposed DPSO approach‚ discussing how it can be applied to the STWTSDS problem and highlighting the new features introduced. Section 5 presents the experimental campaign performed‚ which is mainly based on the benchmark set generated by Cicirello in [5] and available on the web. Finally‚ Section 6 draws some conclusions. II. THE STWTSDS PROBLEM The STWTSDS problem corresponds to the scheduling of n independent jobs on a single machine. All the jobs are released
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The question to ask is: ‘Why not use Standard English all the time?’ Language is a powerful communication tool the user holds to express their individual identity and ingroup solidarity. The use of Standard English helps to direct this‚ as it acts as the structure of communication‚ ingroup and between speech communities to effectively present a standard for mutual understanding. Outside of Standard English comes the use of slang‚ netspeak and textspeak‚ which helps to develop and enrich the language
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Horticulture grows steady and strong. Revenue growth ratio rose from2.9% in 2002 to 15.5% in 2005‚ which was much higher than the benchmark. Gross profit in 2005 was $545‚400 which was much higher than $470‚500 in 2004. In 2005‚ the return on assets was 5.1%‚ which was nearly twice higher than benchmark. The return on capital was 5.4%‚ which was 1.4% higher compared with the benchmark. In the balance sheet‚ cash amount declined dramatically from $120‚100 in 2002 to $9‚400 in 2004. Nevertheless‚ the amount
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compensation. We also looked into what has been found in the past few years in correlation to HR metrics. We assessed what some of the implications for management are today‚ looking into how management chooses a method of job evaluating and how they set benchmarks. We interviewed Dan Witherow of WoodGroup Inc. who gave us insight on what it is like to manage and operate a facility in the growing gas industry and how Job Evaluations have benefitted his company. Lastly‚ we looked into issues or changes that
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