Case Study 1 – Ocean Carriers 1. The Capital Budgeting Decision Should Ms. Linn purchase the Capesize vessel? Assume that Ocean Carriers is a U.S. firm and is subject to 35% taxation. (Please see excel sheets) From our analysis it appears that Ms. Linn should not buy the Capesize vessel. The Net Present Value on the Ocean Carrier is not a positive number‚ a clear indicator that buying the vessels is not a good idea. The tax rate of 35% makes a lot of difference in determining this NPV
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Health and Safety Executive Working platforms (nonintegrated) on forklift trucks Guidance Note PM28 (Fourth edition) This guidance is for users‚ suppliers and hirers of non-integrated working platforms. There are restrictions on the circumstances in which non-integrated working platforms can be used. Also‚ non-integrated working platforms do not come under the Machinery Directive and should not be CE marked. There is a variety of equipment available for work at height‚ including scaffolding
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FROM “ONION” TO “OCEAN” 71 71 Tony Fang is assistant professor of international business at Stockholm University‚ SE-106 91 Stockholm‚ Sweden (tel.: +46 8 163063; fax: +46 8 674 74 40; e-mail: tony.fang@fek.su.se). The author thanks Urapa Joy Watanachote (Thailand)‚ Joost Stel (Netherlands)‚ George Kakhadze (Georgia)‚ Satu Penttinen (Finland)‚ and Gabriel de Mello Pratellesi (Brazil) for personal communications about their respective countries discussed in this paper. The author also thanks
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Chapter 15 E-Commerce Strategy and Global EC Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter‚ you will be able to: 1. Describe the strategic planning process. 2. Understand how e-commerce impacts the strategic planning process. 3. Understand how EC applications are formulated‚ justified‚ and prioritized. 4. Describe strategy implementation and assessment‚ including the use of metrics. 5. Understand the causes of EC failures and lessons for success. 6. Evaluate the issues
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Guide for Case Analyses “Ocean Carriers” Objectives of case: The key objective is to develop an understanding of how discounted cash flow analysis can be used to make investment and corporate policy decisions. 1. Determine the value and net present value of a real assets; 2. Distinguishing between book value and market value; 3. Identifying and forecasting incremental expected cash flows‚ including initial and ongoing capital expenditures‚ investment in net working capital‚
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Foundations‚ ~8000 BCE - 600 CE 1. Themes in AP* World History . Why you should know this: Knowledge of these themes assists you especially when developing a thesis for an essay. Moreover‚ because these themes are overarching‚ they will most likely be the basis of the essay questions. You should always keep these themes in mind when analyzing civilizations and societies‚ both when you are comparing two different societies and when you are tracing change over time within
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Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/ W. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne Chapter One: The blue ocean strategy is best illustrated by the performance of Cirque du Soleil. Created in 1984 by a group of street performers‚ Cirque productions have been seen by almost 40 million people in 90 cities around the world. In less than 20 years‚ Cirque du Soleil has achieved revenue levels that took Ringling and Barnham
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Running Head: BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN Business continuity plan [Name of the writer] [Name of the institute] Business continuity plan Introduction The bigger task than starting any business is the strategies and steps taken to maintain the business and keep it surviving and growing in this dynamic environment. Business continuity plan aims to manage the risk which could happen due to catastrophic events and thus strives to minimize the risk from potential disaster that may happen due
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Ocean Carrier Case Study Summary In order to accept the recently submitted leasing contract proposal‚ Ocean Carriers would have to purchase a new ship. The purchasing of a new ship is a considerable investment. We have analyzed whether or not Ocean Carriers should make this investment using Free Cash Flow and Net Present Value (NPV) analysis. Given the details of the contract‚ the forecasted daily time charter rates‚ and the costs data; we have concluded that Ocean Carriers should not accept
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surface. It includes all five oceans the Arctic‚ Indian‚ Southern‚ Atlantic‚ and Pacific. In it There are many many types of fish and also some mammals. The oceans span wide and deep. There are also plants in the ocean. The ocean is a vast and mysterious place where we are still discovering many things about it everyday. The physical attributes of the ocean depend on which ocean you explore‚for example the Arctic ocean is very cold but the Pacific ocean is warm. In the ocean there is a deep portion and
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