(measure in book and market values) appeared as follows: Thousands of dollars Book Values Market values Short- term debt $1‚312‚000 $1‚312‚000 Long-term debt 11‚880‚000 11‚880‚000 Common equity 9‚142‚000 26‚115‚000 Total capital 22‚334‚000 39‚307‚000 What weights should Emerson use when computing the firm’s weighted average cost of capital? 3. Compute the cost of capital for the firm for the following: a. A bond that has a $1‚000 par value and a contract or coupon interest
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Individualism and Family Values This essay will examine the historical evolution of notions of ‘family values’ and ‘individualism’‚ using historical criticism and semiotic analysis; it will demonstrate how these terms have historically been very fluid and tied to the socio-cultural concerns of their day. Focus will be on establishing a historiography of the key terms‚ from the late Elizabethan to the modern era. Particular attention will be paid to the Victorian era‚ wherein‚ this essay will
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series T H E G L O B A L A P PA R E L VA L U E C H A I N : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION economy environment employment sectoral studies series THE GLOBAL APPAREL VALUE CHAIN: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries Gary Gereffi Department of Sociology‚ Duke University Durham‚ USA and Olga Memedovic UNIDO‚ Strategic Research and Economics Branch UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
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And IKEA is obtainable from 275 stores throughout 44 countries throughout the world. Employing nearly 70‚000 employees who are engaged by IKEA globally with 59‚000 employees working alone in Europe (Tengblad‚ 2006). This essay is going to analysis value chain of IKEA in two areas which are primary activities and support activities. 2. Internal and External Realities of IKEA IKEA is one of the leading manufacturing and retail furniture companies in the world with its operation in over 44 countries
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firms can gain a competitive advantage‚ it is useful to model the firm as a chain of value creating activities. For this purpose‚ Porter identified a range of interrelated generic activities common to a wide range of firms. The resulting model is known as the value chain. According to Porter (1985)‚ " Competitive Advantage arises out of the way firms organise and arrange discrete activities". Through using the Value Chain‚ the activities performed by a firm competing in a particular industry can be
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FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT 1. The meaning of fair value Fair value is the price that would be received from the sell of an asset or will be paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between the market participants and the measurement date [IFRS‚ 13 – A501]. However in accounting and economics‚ fair value is the rational and unbiased estimate of a possible market price of a good‚ service or an asset. Fair value takes into account many objectives and subjective factors such as: Objective
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Value Chain Analysis Many organizations do not achieve the profits they anticipate by using incorrect methods or models to determine the true costs of products and services. This failure to correctly assess the costs associated with business not only affects the profit margin‚ but the organizations competitive advantage as well. In order to asses whether the organization is failing to realize optimum resource allocation‚ the organization should look at the methodology first popularized by Michael
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Value Chain Analysis By Ovidijus Jurevicius | 25.04.2013 Definition “Value chain analysis (VCA) is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add value to its final product and then analyze these activities to reduce costs or increase differentiation.” “Value chain represents the internal activities a firm engages in when transforming inputs into outputs.” Understanding the tool VCA is a strategy tool used to analyze internal firm activities. Its goal is to recognize
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VALUE CHAIN SYSTEM The value chain concept was created by Michael Porter and explained in his book “Competitive Advantage”‚ published in 1980. The value chain is a series of activities that create and build value- culminating in the contribution of total value to the organization. Porter used the concept of value chain as a systematic approach to examining the development of an organization’s competitive advantage in the marketplace. In using the value chain concept‚ the total activities undertaken
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Introduction Value Chain Analysis describes the activities that take place in a business and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the business. Influential work by Michael Porter suggested that the activities of a business could be grouped under two headings: (1) Primary Activities - those that are directly concerned with creating and delivering a product (e.g. component assembly); and (2) Support Activities‚ which whilst they are not directly involved in production
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