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    History Before the days of trucking there was the railroad. The railroad was responsible for shipping goods across the country. Today we still have the railroad‚ but the trucking industry is what dominates shipping in our society. As of 2012 68.5 percent of our goods were shipped on tractor trailers‚ with only 14.8 percent of freight being shipped in rail cars (Costello‚ 2012). The railroads began to see a decline around the time of World War I. During this time the railroad had 254‚000 miles of line

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    businesses is into the primary‚ secondary‚ tertiary sectors. I have chosen 5 Businesses which are: 1. eBay 2. ASDA 3. Beekeeping 4. Oxfam 5. Potter Primary:- Extraction or collection of raw material natural Resources e.g. Coal mining‚ oil rigs‚ farming‚ fishery‚ forestry mining. Secondary:- Manufacturing and construction taking things this may be from raw materials of other manufactures Tertiary sectors:- Service industries – providing services for other people financial services

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    Indian Telecom Sector

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    Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. INDUSTRY 2 3. MAJOR MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT 4 4. MOTIVATION TO CHOOSE THIS SECTOR 5 5. ACCOUNTING POLICIES 5 5.1 Accounting Policies of Cipla 5 5.2 Comparison of accounting policies of Cipla with other players 8 6. ANALYSIS OF RATIOS 11 6.1 Liquidity Ratios 11 6.2 Solvency Ratios 13 6.3 Profitability Ratios 15 6.4 Efficiency or Turnover Ratios 19 7. DUPOINT ANALYSIS 22 8. VALUATION 23 9. CONCLUSION 24 10. REFERENCES

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    Airline Sales and Marketing Introduction This report will evaluate the current marketing environment of the airline industry in Europe. This will involve looking into different area of the airline industry such as deregulation and open skies‚ current economic conditions‚ distribution channels‚ pricing and revenue management. It has been proved that the airline industry is probably one of the most competitive and complex industry in the world. According to Mintel report (2009) in the past decade

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    Retail Industry Submitted By: Group 7 ROLL NUMBER | NAME | 65 | Vishal Nigam | 57 | Shveta Dang | 48 | Riju Mathew | 38 | Padmanava Gupta | 36 | Nidhi Babbar | 27 | Kavita Chatterjee | Date: 23rd April‚ 2013 Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3.1. Analytics and Retail Industry 3.2. Indian Retail Industry – An overview 3. Prerequisites of Analytical Retail 4. Current Status of Implementation of Analytics in the Retail Industry 5.

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    Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com

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    Strayer university | Stateline shipping and Transportation Company | [Type the document subtitle] | | | 9/3/2012 | | 1. Objective function: Min Z= 12Xkw + 15Xkl + 17Xkd + 14Xdw + 9Xdl + 10Xdd + 13Xmw + 20Xml + 11Xmd + 17Xsw + 16 Xsl + 19Xsd + 7Xcw + 14Xcl + 12Xcd + 22Xaw + 16Xal + 18Xad Supply from 6 plants: 35‚26‚42‚53‚29‚38 Demand from 3 waste sites: 65‚80‚105 2. Using POM QM to solve the problem‚ the cost for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3

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    performance (A case study of Pakistan telecom sector) Submitted by: MARYAM QADEER ANUM TAHIRA SUBMITTED TO: SAJJID BASHER Abstract Effective management skills are keys for the internal and external performance of organization. The focus of this study was to find out the relationship between communication‚ coordination and decision making with the organizational performance. Data

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    Education Sector In a globalized economy with a high degree of competition among countries‚ the success of a nation depends on the educational level of its workforce. Technology has rapidly transformed education by extending learning space beyond the four wall of a classroom. Even though school plays the main role of education‚ technology offers verities of opportunities to learn more. Such as‚ Distance learning‚ online learning communities and access to vast resources and databases‚ etc. with the

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    ON RESEARCH‚ EDUCATION‚ TRAINING‚ CAPACITY BUILDING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS SECTOR FOR THE ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2007-2012) [pic] Government of India Planning Commission New Delhi REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON RESEARCH‚ EDUCATION‚ TRAINING‚ CAPACITY BUILDING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS SECTOR FOR THE ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2007-2012) [pic] Government of India

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