MODULE M6 Financial Management of Corporate Projects and Programmes Case: TARGET CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Target corporation has a growth strategy of opening 100 new stores per year. Doug Scovanner‚ the CFO of Target Corporation is preparing for the November meeting of the Capital Expenditure Committee (CEC). He is one of the executive officers who are members of the CEC. With the fiscal year’s end approaching in January‚ there was a need
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article explains how Target is beginning to look very similar to competitor Wal-Mart‚ and is being affected by the industry. In the article‚ it opens with explaining how discussing Target‘s 2011 same-store sales‚ Chief Financial Officer Douglas Scovanner pointed out that Wal-Mart had been struggling with “weak retailing performance.” The article then explains that for years Target has been seen as the trendier‚ hipper version of Wal-Mart. But as of late that hasn’t been the case. Target has been
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someone to help you get through it. In the book‚ Doug finds Lil. Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt is about a boy named Doug who has and alcoholic father‚ a mother‚ and two brothers. He meets a girl named Lil and they quickly become friends. Lil helps Doug become a better person by helping him to overcome challenges like school‚ his drawing‚ and she helps him to like Marysville. In the book‚ Lil helps Doug a lot with school. In chapter three‚ while Doug and Lil were in math class‚ this happened‚ “You
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[Setting: Doug’s room in the hospital- a mirror] [Doug is standing away from the mirror‚ muttering somewhat nonsensically] Doug: Dunno why; I’m not a poof- why would I wanna talk about my feelings‚ and my repressed emotions? [Whilst saying the two reasons in a mocking manner‚ Doug makes air quotations to reinforce how against the idea he is] Doug: Bloody useless shrinks just wanna turn everyone into pussies- that’s the only reason ya stressing about a pissy little poem; don’t wanna be a wimp. Coz
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Midterm Criminal Law State v. Doug Homicide: The unlawful taking of the life of one human being by another. Actual Causation : The defendant’s act must have been the “cause in fact” of the victim’s death. Without the defendant’s actions‚ the victim would not have died. “But for” Doug shooting and killing Tom‚ he would not have died. Proximate Causation: A defendant’s actions are the proximate cause of the victim’s death if the result occurs as a consequence of the defendant’s
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one bullied the other. Doug (the victim) was bullied so immensely by Ralph that 36 years later it still drives him crazy and makes him want to kill Ralph. The literary device shown here is flashback because the main character has a flashback for most of the story and really has a deeper meaning. This story teaches individuals to be nice to others and what bullying can really do to a person. The moral of this story is to treat others how you would like to be treated. Doug was bullied for his entire
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Dan Scovanner‚ CFO of Target‚ and the four other executives in the CEC (Capital Expenditure Committee) meet it is of high importance. The approval or denial of CPR’s (Capital Project Requests) has the potential to set precedents that would affect possible decisions in the future. Every month the CEC meets to go over new CPR’s that could have a lasting impact on the short-term and long-term profitability of Target. For the month of November in 2006‚ there were five particular projects Scovanner knew
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Turning Point English Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology A slight breeze blew as Doug stood staring down at Joey. “Hello‚ Joey‚” said Doug. Silence surrounding the two of them. “Joey‚ I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I didn’t. And‚ Joey-Merry Christmas.” Doug placed a rose on Joey’s tombstone and walked away. “Can you ever forgive me‚” he asked‚ “for driving home drunk?” A year ago… Doug is a young and wealthy man‚ who supports many charities. He lives in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ United
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Farmer Doug was lying in the corner of his blazing barn‚ crouched down‚ quietly weeping while his severed leg was spurting blood. Through his cries of pain‚ he could hear the nightmarish moo of his beloved cow‚ Betsy. As her footsteps drew close‚ he could only ponder how this happened. How could he have been so stupid? What did this? Who did this? Finally it hit him‚ it started that week when he took the cows for their first bath in the newly cleaned river. It was a sunny‚ happy day; his cows
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1021 Composition 03/09/13 Mike Koran (left) and Doug King (right) “I’m Doug. And I’m a survivor.” “I love to have fun! It is in my blood.” Doug speaks this way as if to show signs of life enjoyment behind scarred mental anguish. This is a man who was diagnosed dead in the back of an ambulance and fell into a coma. Doug is not lying when he says he likes to have fun because he is a man suffering from a severe brain injury due to his
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