Q1. Why is Amazon’s cash cycle so much shorter than that of competitor Barnes & Noble? How does this comparison affect financial management decisions of other retailers? The market value of Amazon is much higher than Barnes & Noble. They are also in better marketing position then Barnes and Noble. Barnes & Noble has been on the rocks for a long time and failed to make headway in international markets with their Nook ereaders. The best answer I can give is because Amazon is a much larger company
Premium Net present value Weighted average cost of capital Investment
Executive Summary: Par‚ Inc has developed a new coating designed to resist cuts and provide a more durable ball. One concern for Par‚ Inc was the effect of the new coating on driving distances. Par would like the new cut-resistant ball to offer driving distances comparable to those of the current-model golf ball. To compare the driving distances for the two balls‚ 40 balls of both new and current models were subjected to distance test. The testing was performed with a mechanical hitting machine
Premium Sample size Standard deviation Arithmetic mean
randomized BSTs deletion in BSTs References: Algorithms in Java‚ Chapter 12 Intro to Programming‚ Section 4.4 http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introalgsds/43bst 1 Elementary implementations: summary implementation worst case search insert N N N N average case search N/2 lg N N/2 N/2 insert N/2 N/2 N N/2 ordered iteration? no yes no yes operations on keys equals() compareTo() equals() compareTo() unordered array ordered array unordered list ordered list N lg N N N Challenge:
Premium
What Is Poetry? by John Stuart Mill It has often been asked‚ What Is Poetry? And many and various are the answers which have been returned. The vulgarest of all--one with which no person possessed of the faculties to which poetry addresses itself can ever have been satisfied--is that which confounds poetry with metrical composition; yet to this wretched mockery of a definition many have been led back by the failure of all their attempts to find any other that would distinguish what they have been
Premium Poetry Public speaking Feeling
International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Production Research December 2012‚ Volume 23‚ Number 4 pp. 301-308 ISSN: 2008-4889 http://IJIEPR.iust.ac.ir/ An Iterated Greedy Algorithm for Solving the Blocking Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Total Flow Time Criteria D. Khorasanian & G. Moslehi* Danial Khorasanian is an M.S. Student of Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Isfahan University of Technology‚ Isfahan‚ Iran Ghasem Moslehi is a Professor of Department of Industrial Engineering
Premium Algorithm
Born in South Africa in 1966 and brought up in New Zealand‚ Dinnigan had experienced a range of cultures from early on in life. Dinnigan attended Wellington Polytechnic College until the age of 19 by which time she had graduated‚ majoring fashion design. Once graduated‚ Dinnigan moved to Sydney where she was given a job in the costume department of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). It did not take long for Dinnigan to be recognized as a valuable employee‚ with her infinite attention
Premium Fashion Fashion design Milan
specialised in production and exports - textiles and clothing‚ which are also of paramount importance in Eastern Europe ’s exports. A few data on production‚ employment‚ investment and foreign trade may suffice to show the enormous importance of these industries for Italy. In 1993 this country produced almost 40% of the entire EU production of textiles‚ including knitwear. The other major EU countries followed rather distanced: France (17% - including household textiles)‚ Germany (16%) and the UK (11%)
Premium European Union International trade Italy
FOUR SQUARE LUMBER MILL Question 1: Identify and discuss the major issue(s) in the case In the requisition of the carborundum blades‚ it specifically mentioned that no substitute for Swiss blade is permitted but Iqbal still trying to find alternative solution available in the local market. He found the alternative sources and persuades the sawing operation to perform the trial. The trial is failed and now Iqbal convinced that he being sabotage‚ he accused the sawing operation team was purposely
Premium Supply chain management Management New product development
Kohinoor Mills Limited Submitted By: Faisal Qaiser Shehzad Section: C Instructor: Sumaira Sajjad Lahore School of Economics Working capital is a financial measurement that shows the amount of operating liquidity available to a business. The working capital of KML was a positive 598649621 showing that the business had plenty of current assets available to it in order to meet its current obligations. It remained negative from FY09-FY11 after which things started to get better and the working capital
Premium Asset Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Investment
High Noon at Alpha Mills Case Study Zuochen Lu A00336706 This case “High noon at Alpha Mills” talks about an oil plantation which name is Alpha Plantation Sdn. Bhd. This plantation consists of an oil palm estate and one palm oil mill. Mr. Ang started to work at here when he was 15‚ then he acts as gatekeeper‚ anyone who wants to see mill manager should meet Mr. Ang first. The oil palm faced many challenges in 1999. World oil price were diminishing
Premium Management