FIN 3332-XTID-T4-2013 Research Project 1. When I reviewed the capital structure charts for the four companies‚ Cheesecake Factory‚ Chipotle‚ Ruby Tuesday‚ and O’Charley’s‚ I noticed that Ruby Tuesday and O’Charley’s had more total debt than the other two and were consistent with each other in relationship to equity and liabilities. Both of these organizations capital structures also seem to fluctuate with increases and decreases in the same years. Chipotle and Cheesecake Factory both have
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have chosen is Goldthorn Dental Practice. This business is set out as a flat structure organisational structure. This means that the business only has two levels to it. At the bottom of the structure there are all the Dental assistants‚ receptionists and cleaners. The high level of the structure is the dentists‚ because they are the most important. | The second business I have chosen is Tesco. Tesco has a hierarchical structure because it has a lot of layers and also a lot of people reporting into more
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each different structure has generated a new set of barriers and problems that constrained the innovation‚ performance and growth of the company. Based on the changes Appex Corporation did and the result of the changes‚ two major lessons I can get are that: 1. All the structural changes are rapid without detail implementing plans and these changes cannot bring sustainable growth. In the past three years from 1988 to 1990‚ Shikhar Ghosh established around four difference structures. All of these
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individuals Tended to regard workers as uninformed and ignored their ideas and suggestions a) Describe functional and divisional structures. text book pg 280 A functional structure is the strong vertical design. Information flows up and down the vertical hierarchy‚ and the chain of command converges at the top of the organization. In a functional structure‚ people within a department to coordinate work and accomplish tasks or implement decisions that are passed down the hierarchy. Managers
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P4 interpret underpinning concepts relating to structures under load • Dead loads - Dead loads are loads that stay static or stationary‚ they will also not change during any normal operation of the buildings use. The dead weight from the structure will be a dead load‚ so for example the self-weight of a beam. • Imposed/live loads – imposed loads can also be known by dynamic loads. Imposed loads are live loadings which can be added to and also removed during the life of the building. Humans can be
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Thomas Tallis School BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Business Unit 1 – The Business Environment Assignment Title: Sun Hill Business Services Date set: 5th September 2013 Date due: 4th April 2014 Assessor: Mr Rodwell Learner: Scenario You are working for Sun Hill Business Services‚ as an assistant consultant to the senior consultant‚ Sam Nixon. Sam has asked you to prepare some information on two different business organisations. Sam is going to use the information you provide as
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Critically discuss the underlying motivations and associated competitive advantages that explain why MNEs enter into cooperative structures and strategies‚ using examples. In recent years there has been an upsurge in the number of MNEs entering cooperative structures and strategies. According to Jones cooperative structure is a means of a substitute or complementary to multinational strategies. It is a strategy in which firms work together to achieve shared objectives. They form partnerships
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For Week 3 I have had the opportunity to learn in detail how company’s functions determine the structure of its different departments due to the need of specialized tasks forces to achieve goals within the finance‚ marketing‚ sales human resources and other departments that need a specific structure to help achieve the company’s overall goal. I have learned that organizations benefit from these structures because they manage to bring together great people that share similar
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Question 11.1 It is important because strategies often change over time while structures are usually much more static. Strategies are almost always constructed within a boardroom. On the other hand‚ a structural change can be directed by the board‚ but is always implemented throughout the organization. This becomes more difficult when a company has strategic or structural changes imposed upon it. When a company’s structure is not aligned with its strategy your organization is effected as if your
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stability and maneuverability. Types of structures 1: Subsonic 4: High-maneuverability supersonic 2: High-speed / supersonic 5: Flying boat 3: High-capacity subsonic 6: Hypersonic Truss structure This type of structure is still in use in many lightweight aircraft using welded steel tube trusses. A box truss fuselage structure can also be built out of wood—often covered with plywood—as can be seen on this Ibis canard fuselage. Simple box structures may be rounded by the addition of supported
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