individuals determined prior to service delivery to be unable to pay. A hospital may write-off all or part of the cost of providing service to such a patient. A write-off results from removing items from the accounting books. The number of Charity care cases has dropped in recent years. Potential reasons for the decline include changes in physician practice patterns and increasing financial pressures. Many hospitals do not inform their patients that charity care is available to them. “Investigators
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Islamic Equity Mutual Fund Performance in Malaysia: Risk and Return Analysis Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad Universiti Teknologi MARA‚ Kelantan nmaheran@kltn.uitm.edu.my Masliza Mokhtar Universiti Teknologi MARA‚ Kelantan masliza@yahoo.com Abstract Mutual funds in Malaysia have experienced a considerable growth over the last decade in terms of the number of funds offered and the volume of capital managed by unit trust management companies. A higher growth can be expected due to a strong participation
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Nothing feels more discouraging and even frightening to get a call from a debt collector. This holds especially true if you own a business that’s about to go into collections. However‚ you don’t have to be at the mercy of the debt collection companies. Here are four steps you can take to help you stay out of debt and out of collections. 1. Have an Emergency Fund Dave Ramsey‚ one of America’s most respected financial advisors‚ tells the readers of his book “Total Money Makeover” that they need to
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assets that must be carefully developed and managed. It is a key element in the company’s relationships with customers. Brands represent customer’s perceptions and feelings about a product and its performance. Hence a brand should have positive brand equity so that customers react more favorably to it. Besides that‚ marketers need to position their brands clearly in target customer’s minds. In positioning a brand‚ marketer should establish a mission for the brand and a vision of what the brand must be
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Sources of brand equity The sources of brand equity come from TV commercials‚ sponsorship‚ events‚ promotion‚ logo‚ package and the slogan. Details of each are as follow: TV Commercials: The Main characters in the commercials are always male. This emphasizes the masculine nature of the beer and infers that the beer is for man. Another special point is that quite a number of them are about relationship encounters (e.g. in bars‚ supermarkets etc)‚ this communicates the joy of life. Furthermore
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We know nothing of his early life. Themistocles (thuh MISS tuh kleez) was born between 510 and 520 BC and stepped onto the world stage in 490 BC. At that time‚ the lives of the Greeks were entwined with the imperial ambitions of the Persians‚ the greatest military power in the world‚ who had just retreated to Persia from their loss by outnumbered Athenians at the Battle of Marathon. All serious statesmen and military leaders fully expected the Persians to return. In 482‚ Themistocles challenged Aristides
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Evaluation of Brand Equity Measures: Further Empirical Results Conceptual Background: There is no consensus about what brand equity means and how a firm can measure the value of a brand‚ hence not possible to evaluate marketing interventions in terms of their ability to enhance brand value. Agarwal and Rao (1996)- The ability of ten consumer based measures of brand equity to estimate individual choice and market share‚ and the relationship between these measures. The underlying assumption in
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Brand equity DirecTV Company has a great promotion which includes its offers for a limited time. The company strategy is to promote their limited time deals to gain and attract more clients by focusing on high quality and value offers to its customers. Furthermore‚ one of the main important elements to introduce the DirecTV’s brand‚ is their ability to satisfy all the clients by offering a reasonable price which is 29.99$ with premium services. In this case‚ DirecTV is offering more than 150 channels
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Introduction When it comes to credit card debt‚ one of the last things you want is a settlement or charge-off on your record‚ as it will show as a negative item on your credit report. Either one means that you’ve been seriously delinquent in paying your debts. While you can take some steps to minimize the damage‚ both settlements and charge-off accounts will affect your credit score. What Is a Settlement or Charge-Off? When you settle a debt‚ it means you don’t pay back the full amount you owe.
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The Structure of the Equity Research Report Advanced Company Valuation Uppsala U i U l University it Department of Business Studies © Copyright 2005‚ Joachim Landström. All rights reserved L0- 2 The equity research report template Highlights Investment summary y Valuation Business description Other headings Industry description and competitive position Historical financial analysis Estimates Investment risks Disclosures © Copyright 2005‚ Joachim Landström. All rights reserved 1
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