Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Executive Summary “Nobody knows anything”. This famous line coined by William Goldman‚ a well known Hollywood screenwriter‚ simply but honestly sums up the movie industry. Numerous academic studies have tried to gauge the determinants of movie success but have yet failed to deliver a satisfying answer. Ravid A. (1999) for example finds that neither stars nor big budgets contribute to profitability of a movie. This case study investigates the case of buying
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[Type the company name] | Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project | Advanced Corporate Finance Case Analysis I | ZUBOV‚Vasily 1072582 LI‚Xinyuan 05403613 WU‚Yun 08426959 LU‚Yuan 08426975 9/21/2009 | Executive summary In 1992‚ an unusual business idea came into the eye of David A. Davis‚ a movie industry analyst in Los Angeles. The idea
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Proponents of this venture believe that Arundel should be able to make money by buying options to movie sequel rights as a portfolio of rights rather than on a film-by-film basis because they are diversifying their risk by spreading their options across multiple projects rather than a single movie. Arundel avoids trying to forecast how well the movie will do by purchasing the options to a group of movies ahead of time‚ thus they minimize the risk of moviegoers preferences changing. Past performances
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The school improvement partner role The purpose of the SIP is to contribute to whole-school improvement in a number of schools in one or more local authorities‚ provide challenge and support for the senior management team in a number of schools‚ give information to a governing body on their school’s performance and development and work with a range of partners in order to deliver challenge and support for schools. The main accountabilities of a SIP are to: Discuss and assess a school’s self evaluation
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Audit Partner Rotation - Issue Brief In response to the wave of corporate crises‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act includes a provision regarding mandatory audit partner rotation for firms auditing public companies. This should not be confused with audit firm rotation and it is important to make the distinction. The Act requires the lead audit partner and audit review partner (or concurring reviewer) to be rotated every five years on all public company audits. The Act requires a concurring review of all
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Title: Explain why companies use competitive bidding and explain the advantage of using it. Introduction In the modern businesses‚ selecting the qualified suppliers becomes more and more important activities for the companies. Lots of companies use the method of competitive bidding‚ which is commonly used for selecting suppliers. Transparent procurement method in which bids from competing contractors‚ suppliers‚ or vendors are invited by openly advertising the scope‚ specifications‚ and terms
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Spouse-Partner Recruitment The literature review highlights the importance of involving spouses in the recruitment process. Spousal and family contentment was cited several times as one of the main determinants for physician recruitment and retention. These spouses often have their own career path outside of healthcare‚ which they might find difficult to continue in a rural community. Therefore‚ rural hospital managers should inquire about the preferences of these individuals and try to find solutions
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BACKGROUND & PROPOSAL In April of 1992‚ a movie industry analyst name Mr. David Davis of Paul Kegan Associates‚ Inc. was approached with an interesting and fresh business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did
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An ideal husband would be a person who is an ideal companion.Does it appear that I am running around in circles?I hope it does not.Through the traditional role of a husband is different from that of a wife‚the qualities of a person are not sex-oriented‚they are person-oriented.What do I want in the person I marry?My list may be a long one but it is sound in its priorities.I want the man I choose as a husband to be generous‚to have a sense of humor and to be trusting and trustworthly.I would like
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How does Angela Carter subvert the traditional form of a fairy-tale in her short story ‘The Snow Child’? Why does she do this? Carter as a feminist was interested in fairy-tales because of hoe gender roles are presented in them. For example‚ women. Women are normally the lead characters of a fairy-tale. However‚ there are several different types of women that exist in fairy-tales and the reader is often able to figure out a characters role in a fairy-tale based on their physical appearance. If
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