Who is the Corporate Fool? Not much unlike the courtroom jesters‚ the Corporate Fool is one who operates within the corporate system‚ yet is not afraid to highlight the hubris‚ follies and myopia of the leaders of the organization. The Corporate Fool is the reality check to every over-confident leader‚ a solution to gun-point problems and a divergent lens for visionary leaders. However‚ just as the power that a single monarch once held‚ is sometimes dispersed amongst the top management of present-day
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NOBLE CRUS A Case on Wine Valuation Group Members: ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. Background Reasons for investing in fine wine: * As an investment in future drinking – buying young wines which will improve over time. * As a financial investment – buying wines with the sole intention of reselling them later for a profit. The global demand for fine wine has increased enormously over the last few decades. Wine as a financial asset outperformed benchmarks such as Dow Jones‚ FTSE 100
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MGMT640 – Textbook Notes PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1 – The Financial Manager and The Firm 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager * financial manager should make decisions that maximize value of owners stock/wealth – wealth is the economic value of the assets someone possesses * stakeholders – anyone other than an owner (stockholder) with a claim on the cash flows of a firm‚ including employees‚ suppliers‚ creditors‚ and the government * productive
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University of Connecticut DigitalCommons@UConn Honors Scholar Theses Honors Scholar Program 5-10-2009 Analysis of the LIFO inventory valuation method during the onset of IFRS Joseph Louis Romeo University of Connecticut - Storrs‚ joseph.romeo@uconn.edu Recommended Citation Romeo‚ Joseph Louis‚ "Analysis of the LIFO inventory valuation method during the onset of IFRS" (2009). Honors Scholar Theses. Paper 79. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/79 This Article is brought
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Literature Review Corporate Identity What is corporate identity? The task of defining corporate identity is challenging. Different views and definitions were introduced to the concept. The first time the “corporate identity” term was used was in 1957 by Lippincott and Margulies (Cornelissen & Elving‚ 2003). It was constrained by the visual representation of the organization by which means it identify itself. The understanding of the concept has expanded later to include all the characteristics
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1) What is corporate governance? Contemporary corporate governance started in 1992 with the Cadbury report in the UK Cadbury was the result of several high profile company collapses is concerned primarily with protecting weak and widely dispersed shareholders. Corporate Governance is a mechanism through which boards and directors are able to direct‚ monitor and supervise the conduct and operation of the corporation and its management in a manner that ensures appropriate levels
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What is Corporate Communication? * A department with many functions * A set of communication products * A process to communicate key messages Corporate communications are a powerful management tool if approached with strategic integrity‚ alignment and focus. An organisation performing with coherence and its energy focused on a specified goal is far more effective than one that allows confused and inconsistent messages to disseminate from management. Communications is the only vehicle
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate governance refers to the system by which corporations are directed and controlled. The governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation (such as the board of directors‚ managers‚ shareholders‚ creditors‚ auditors‚ regulators‚ and other stakeholders) and specifies the rules and procedures for making decisions in corporate affairs. Governance provides the structure through which corporations
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate governance involves a set of relationships amongst the company’s management‚ its board of directors‚ its shareholders‚ its auditors and other stakeholders. These relationships‚ which involve various rules and incentives‚ provide the structure through which the objectives of the company are set‚ and the means of attaining these objectives as well as monitoring performance are determined. Thus‚ the key aspects of good corporate governance include transparency of corporate
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CORPORATE FINANCE The word Corporate Finance can be defined in terms that may vary considerably across the world. Corporate Finance is one of the three areas of the discipline of finance and can be defined broadly as a field of finance dealing with acquisition and allocation of a corporation ’s funds or resources‚ with the goal of maximizing shareholder wealth i.e. stock value. This division of a company is basically concerned with the financial operation of the company from company’s point of view
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