ABSTRACT One of the most difficult marketing decisions facing companies is how much to spend on promotional schemes. John Wanamaker for a departmental store magazine‚ said‚ "I know that half of my advertising is wasted but I don’t know which half." Thus it is not surprising that industries and companies vary considerably in how much they spend on promotion. Promotional expenditures might amount to 30-50% of sales in case in cosmetics industry and only 10-20% in the industrial equipment industry
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Chapter 11 Liquidity and Reserves Management: Strategies and Policies 1. A(n) liquid asset is an asset which can be converted into cash easily‚ which has a relatively stable price and is reversible so that the seller can recover their original investment with little risk of loss. 2. When a financial institution sells assets to manage liquidity it faces opportunity costs. They lose the future earnings on those assets‚ they face transaction costs on those sales and the assets most easily
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Brick & Mortar vs. Online Stores Saving money takes time and sensible planning. As for an online business owner saving money leads to further funds for the business. Brick and mortar shopping and online shopping have their own positives and negatives. With careful research‚ a shopper can find many deals when combing both brick and mortar and online shopping. When choosing to shop online or at a brick and mortar store‚ a customer must start by weighing the pros and cons of each
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and SCM. Groupon was founded in 2008 in Chicago and offers services or goods from local and non-local businesses to customers at reduced prices. Groupon‚ an e-business service to businesses handles the ads‚ marketing‚ promotion‚ and SCM of the coupons/vouchers being sold. Groupon presents a unique opportunity for businesses interested in selling their services or goods online through a extremely popular site. Groupon allows non-tech savvy businesses to turn to e-business processes to make money
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UVA-F-1339 Version 2.6 CORNING‚ INC.: ZERO COUPON CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES DUE NOVEMBER 8‚ 2015 (A) On November 8‚ 2000‚ Corning announced that it would issue $2.7 billion in zero-coupon convertible debentures priced at $741.923 per $1‚000 principal amount. The initial public offering (IPO) price yielded 2% per annum to maturity‚ compounded semiannually. A summary of terms is given in Exhibit 1. Concurrent with the offering‚ Corning also conducted a separate public offering of 30 million shares of
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1. a. Interest rates have risen over the last 25 years‚ and that explains the coupon rates vary so widely. b. Maturity years | 5 | 15 | 25 | FV | $ 1‚000 | $ 1‚000 | $ 1‚000 | Payment/year | 1 | 1 | 1 | Payment | $ 45 | $ 82.50 | $ 126.25 | Int/year | 10% | 10% | 10% | n | 5 | 15 | 25 | PV | $ 791.5 | $ 866.9 | $ 1‚238.7 | c. Maturity years | 5 | 15 | 25 | FV | $ 1‚000 | $ 1
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Electric utility bills. When an electric utility customer uses electricity‚ the electric company has earned revenues. It is obviously impossible‚ however‚ for the company to read all of its customers’ meters on the evening of December 31. How does the electric company know its revenue for a given year? Explain. According to historical data‚ the electricity usage usually tended to be fairly constant from month to month. The company can estimate the revenues for each month‚ by using historical data
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annul or semiannual‚ investor will receive a coupon as an interest and at the maturity a principal plus coupon. (b) Coupon and principal of the Regular Treasury bonds are fixed‚ therefore if the inflation rate increases in the forecasting future‚ investor will receive the same amount of coupon and principal with less real value and purchasing power. (c)TIPS are simultaneously related to change of inflation rate which means the principal and coupon will adjust instantly to change of inflation
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involved in the cereal industry as well. The cereal industry targets all different age groups from young kids to adults. They also target people who try to eat healthy. Their main pricing strategy is price discrimination. They use this by handing out coupons‚ so that people can get their cereal at a discounted price. Price competition is rarely used in the cereal industry‚ and when it has been used it has been unsuccessful. Finally‚ there is a lack on competitors in the industry do to two large barriers
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