need three basic and important skills: technical‚ human and conceptual. What is more‚ these three skills are relatively essential to managers who are at different levels that include first-line‚ middle‚ top management positions. There will be a discussion about the importance of conceptual skills that are needed by all managers at all levels‚ especially by top level of managers. The purpose of this essay is to identify and discuss the importance of conceptual skills that top managers are required
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sales in the US were declining‚ making it imperative for the company to start looking for new markets to safeguard its long term interests leading to its acquisition of Skoda.” Examine the various reasons for companies to adopt cross-border merger and acquisition. Also‚ discuss the benefits derived by Volkswagen and Skoda with this acquisition. ( 22 marks) “Known over the world for its quality engineering‚ Volkswagen’s task was to transform the poor image and socialistic policies of Skoda into a
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Goodwill Impairment and Fair Value Measurement: Hewlett-Packard’s Acquisition of Autonomy Abstract In today’s business environment‚ mergers and acquisitions are becoming increasingly common. Mergers and acquisitions create many accounting challenges including issues of fair value measurement and the associated topic of goodwill impairment. The fair value measurement of an acquired company usually entails using a Level 2 fair value estimate‚ or using a market or income approach‚ both level three
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What Is Knowledge Management? Knowledge Management is one of the hottest topics today in both the industry world and information research world. In our daily life‚ we deal with huge amount of data and information. Data and information is not knowledge until we know how to dig the value out of of it. This is the reason we need knowledge management. Unfortunately‚ there’s no universal definition of knowledge management‚ just as there’s no agreement as to what constitutes knowledge in the first place
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Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) is an aspect of corporate strategy‚ corporate finance and management dealing with the buying‚ selling‚ dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin‚ or a new field or new location‚ without creating a subsidiary‚ other child entity or using a joint venture. The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become increasingly blurred in various
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Multi-purpose Expert System - MD-CoB-CoA Knowledge Representation Using PROLOG in J2SE Prof. Sreedhar Babu Department of Electrical Engineering Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri‚ Kerala ammassridhar@gmail.com Archana‚ Vineeth & Veena Department of Computer Science & Applications Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri‚ Kerala sudershanam24@gmail.com Abstract— Expert systems are AI‟s greatest commercial success. It is a research-oriented application area of AI. An expert system uses knowledge specific
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THESIS PROPOSAL ON IMPACT OF MERGER AND ACQUISITION IN NEPALESE FINANCIAL SECTOR FOR A BANK SURVIVAL BY SHUSIL RANA MBA ID: 5014/2010 KING’S COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LA‚ USA SUBMITTED TO: RESEACRH COMMITTEE KING’S COLLEGE‚ KATHMANDU NEPAL INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERCITY LA‚ USA May 9‚ 2012 Title of the study: "IMPACT OF MERGER AND ACQUISITION IN NEPALESE FINANCIAL SECTOR FOR A BANK SURVIVAL ". INTRODUCTION: Commercial banks have an essential role in the economy.
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7597 Management 311 - Knowledge Management Short Paper I Tacit Knowledge What is Knowledge? “Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody — either by becoming grounds for actions‚ or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.” — Peter F. Drucker in The New Realities. There are several types of knowledge‚ but this paper is going to specifically discuss Tacit Knowledge. Tacit knowledge is basically personal knowledge. It is defined as the
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Etymology: From the Greek word (Psycho=mind) + Latin word (Linguistics=tongue) Pronunciation: si-ko-lin-GWIS-tiks Also known as: Psychology of Language Psycholinguistcs The psychology of language‚ including language acquisition by children‚ the mental processes underlying adult comprehension and production of speech‚ language disorders‚ etc. Study of the mental processes involved in the comprehension‚ production‚ and acquisition of language. Noam Chomsky
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Recent Mergers or Acquisitions A "merger" or "merger of equals" is often financed by an all stock deal (a stock swap). An all stock deal occurs when all of the owners of the outstanding stock of either company get the same amount (in value) of stock in the new combined company. A merger adds value only if the two companies are worth more together than apart (Wikipedia‚ Free Encyclopedia‚ 2006). An acquisition (of un-equals‚ one large buying one small) can involve a cash and debt combination‚ or
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