own company name. AccessLine also developed partnerships with equipment manufacturers such as Stratus Computer and Motorola‚ also providing them with a franchise in exchange for funding. However AccessLine’s growth prompted the need for larger investments. Thus‚ in 1994‚ AccessLine diversified their financing to professional equity investors. Providing funding worth $15.5 million‚ AccessLine’s CFO Bill Stuart‚ and Morgan Stanley’s Bill Brady executed the transaction‚ involving the private placement
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RISK & INSURANCE MANAGEMENT CASE – 1 a. With regard to the fuel oil prices risk: (1) Discuss how Juanita could use futures contracts to hedge the price risk. Futures contracts are one of the most common derivatives used to hedge the price risk. A futures contract is as an arrangement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a particular time in the future for a particular price. The main reason that companies or corporations use future contracts is to offset their risk exposures
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Project Free Cash Flows (dollars in thousands) Project number: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Initial investment (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) (2‚000) Year 1 $ 330 $ 1‚666 $ 160 $ 280 $ 2‚200 $ 1‚200 $ (350) 2 330 334 200 280 900 (60) 3 330 165 350 280 300 60 4
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TO: Deb Sammy FROM: Surya Narayanan Thangam‚ Investment Specialist DATE: September 14‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Investments in Italian Automobile Industry As per your request‚ I have focused my research on the Automobile industry in Italy for a long-term plan. For automobile‚ Europe and South America are on the same boat with 34% growth each (“Pirelli Sales By Region”‚ 2013). Even though the Italian economy is in bad shape right now‚ it will have a slow drag in 2013 and its expected to rise back in 2014
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110: 127-137. Asendorpf‚ J. B.‚ & Wilpers‚ S. 1998. Personality effects on social relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology‚ 74: 1531-1544. Åstebro‚ T.‚ & Thompson‚ P. 2011. Entrepreneurs‚ jacks of all trades or hobos? Research Policy‚ 40: 637-649. Austin‚ J. T.‚ & Vancouver‚ J. B. 1996. Goal constructs in psychology: Structure‚ process‚ and content. Baker‚ T.‚ Miner‚ A. S.‚ & Eesley‚ D. T. 2003. Improvising firms: Bricolage‚ account giving and improvisational competencies in the
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away from their desks to talk to individual employees. The practice was exemplified by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard‚ who used this management style at HP to learn more about the challenges and opportunities their employees were encountering. Many other organizations followed suit and found that this style of management had advantages over a typical desk-bound approach to management. A recent study of successful Swedish organizations revealed that MBWA was an approach common to several firms
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The advantages and disadvantages of investment in gold: Like investment in any other precious metal‚ investment in gold also has many advantages as compare with other kind of investing such as bond and stock. • It may not be the most obvious choice for a new investor‚ but it always is the safest choice. When choosing an investment‚ there are many factors to consider and every investor has to make sure that the investment he chooses is suitable for his budget and also for his financial goal
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1 Academy 1-112010-01 20‚ November 2010 KETAN R GANDHI RCG Group: Wind farming dreams Freedom from dark nights to every home through powering green energy gives us feeling of pride and sense of making a sustainable world – Rameshchandra Gandhi‚ Chairman of RCG group of companies. Wind Farming Dreams Ever since RCG group’s inception in 1972 at Rajkot‚ it has always looked at things differently. RCG group started out in Rajkot in Gujarat state with a modest beginning as small scale
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Case Analysis # 4 -- Elaine Decides to Try Her Hand at Investing Elaine Tolbert is a 28-year-old management trainee at a large chemical company. She is single and has no plans for marriage. Her annual salary is $34‚000 (placing her in the 15 percent tax bracket)‚ and her monthly expenditures come to approximately $1‚500. During the past year or so‚ Elaine has managed to save around $8‚000‚ and she expects to continue saving at least that amount each year for the foreseeable future. Her company pays
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While supporting Firstsource - Louisville Jeff developed a series of workshops‚ such as‚ the Deliver the Promise Workshop Series and Close and the Tier 1 Troubleshooting Rep Guidance refresher to assist the partner improve their results. Additionally‚ in order to assess and improve attendee retention of key information from those workshops and other designated trainings‚ Jeff implemented “Knowledge Checks”. As a result of those actions and other initiatives implemented by his team‚ Louisville was
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