As the Torstar board meeting in April of 1998 was approaching‚ a memorandum on Torstar’s dividend policy‚ their repurchases and their strategy with regards to strategic acquisitions within their three business areas was composed. The memorandum included pros and cons as well as recommendations with regards to the issues to be discussed when the board gathered for their meeting. The dividend policy and the share repurchase strategy are the main issues since the institutional shareholders preferred
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CASE CONTEXT: Enager Industries‚ Inc. was a relatively young company‚ which had grown rapidly to its 1993 sales level of over $222 million. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for financial data for 1992 & 1993). The company has three divisions which were treated as independent companies because of their differing nature of activities. The corporate office of Enager consists only of few managers and staff. The function of the corporate unit is to coordinate the activities of the three divisions. One aspect
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Executive Summary Loblaw Companies Limited must develop a corporate strategy in response to Wal-Mart’s upcoming expansion in the Canadian market through new Sam’s Club locations and possible Supercenters. Loblaw’s current success as Canada’s leading grocery retailer can be attributed to the popularity of its private label brands‚ its streamlined operations‚ and large-scale purchasing efficiencies. Wal-Mart poses a significant threat to this model through its extreme price competitiveness achieved
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Apple Inc. is a global computer manufacturing company that is going through major changes in its organizational culture and it’s organizational structure due to several events of the past few years. This is a company that grew extremely fast in little time‚ that their management found themselves not being able to keep their operations and finances under control. Apple Inc. has been forced to reevaluate and redesign it’s organizational culture and organizational structure to avoid bankruptcy. The
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customer also commented that employees are lacking of knowledge regarding client’s unique information technology system infrastructure. There are more symptoms being detected in employee side which include increased in employee resignations above industry average and employee referrals become rare. Employees are complaining about monotonous work where the work is lacking in variety and interest. Employees also commented that they are disconnected from the consequences of their work‚ where the outcome
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The following is a case study analysis of Duckworth Industries‚ in particular the company?s incentive compensation programs: 1 & 2) What are the different incentive compensation plan options covered in the case and what problems does each plan solve? Mr. Duckworth believed in the power of incentive to guide management action. In order to better align the interest of the management with the shareholders‚ Mr. Duckworth implemented a variety of new incentive compensation programs: The first incentive
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------------------------------------------------- Strategic Analysis ------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Inc. Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Company Overview 4 Mandate 5 Stakeholders 6 External Analysis 6 Competitive Forces 6 Macro Environment 7 Internal Analysis 8 Appendix 10 Executive Summary Yahoo! Inc. is one of the oldest and most well-known Internet content providers. Yahoo! Inc. offers one of the most diverse Internet websites. It is believed that by expanding Yahoo
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1 The Gap‚ Inc. SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong Liquidity Position During the 2010 fiscal year‚ The Gap‚ Inc. saw an increase in cash inflow from operating activities of 36.4%‚ according to GlobalData. Increasing cash and cash equivalent represents the company’s ability to fund its business opportunities‚ working capital needs‚ meet shortterm obligations and other capital requirements in the future. GAP is superior competitors. According to DataMonitor‚ 2011‚ the company’s net profit margin (8
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Indian Aviation Industry Aviation is the design‚ development‚ production‚ operation‚ and use of aircraft‚ especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avi‚ the Latin word for bird. Aviation industry can be segmented into two i.e. Civil Aviation‚ Military Aviation Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying‚ representing all non-military aviation‚ both private and commercial. Civil aviation includes two major categories: Scheduled air transport‚ including
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Texas Minerals Inc. Audit Memo To: Daniel Alfredsson Date: Monday August31‚ 2013 Re: Audit Planning Memo for Texas Minerals This is not the first time audit of TX Minerals Inc. (TX). We have been auditing this firm for the past 20 years. This reduces the overall engagement risk. Our auditing firm should be pretty familiar with our client’s fertilizer business and the general control environment is well known to us as well. So‚ in theory‚ we should be able to rely on the internal control structure
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