BFA726‚ Corporate Law and Regulation 25 Tutorial 9 – Week Commencing 23/09/2013 (Covers material from Chapters 19 & 20) Question 1 Should a company be allowed to pay a dividend to its shareholders even if the company’s net assets fluctuate over time? Question 2 Spec Pty Ltd (Spec) is a property development company. It owns parcels of rural and semi-rural land in Victoria. Bill owns 80% of the shares in Spec and controls the composition of its board. Last year the company made a small trading
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3.1 Introduction There are various ways for the employees to voice out their dissatisfaction. One of the ways is by using picketing. Under section 40 of Industrial Relation Act allow workers to attend at or near their workplace when they have a trade dispute. The purpose of picketing are communicate issues to the public and embrass the employers. Picketing also held at lunch time‚ and before or after working hours. Picketing is enforceable by law as long as it must not intimidate anyone‚must not
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Peter Gi English 93 Heroes Inflation What are heroes? more specifically what is an hero to you? In the article Hero Inflation written by Nicholas Thompson‚ he describes and tells those in America that the word hero today isn’t what it used to be. Traditionally‚ in the past hero was looked up as doing a heroic act‚ not required of them to do so. That the word itself‚ and what people describe it to be today is lowered‚ that we “cheapen the word in some ways‚ the exploits of people who have
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grade inflation is spreading rampant like an unforgiving plague‚ effecting students of community institutions as well as the big dogs of elite‚ IVY league schools. Writer Brent Staples‚ a member of the New York Times editorial board‚ explains in his essay‚ Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s‚ why so many colleges are “simply issuing more and more A’s‚ stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees.” With every example of disastrous situations Staples gives as to why grade inflation is rapidly
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March 2010 Accepted April 2010 An exploration of dynamic relationship between tourist arrivals‚ inflation‚ unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia Chor Foon Tang Department of Economics‚ Faculty of Economics and Administration‚ University of Malaya‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Abstract Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to examine the dynamic relationship between tourist arrivals‚ inflation‚ unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia. This study covered the annual data from 1970 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach
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Money and Inflation The nation’s economic stability has many factors which amount to inflation. Inflation may be caused by a number of problems‚ but there are some specific examples which have direct control over which way the prices and spending sway. Inflation simply means that the American dollar‚ in this case‚ is less valuable on the foreign exchange market and the gold standard is moved to higher prices; which simply means that more currency is needed to exchange for gold. Any slight
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Unexpected Inflation and Redistribution of Wealth in Canada Césaire A. Meh‚ Canadian Economic Analysis‚ and Yaz Terajima‚ Financial Stability One of the most important arguments in favour of price stability is that unexpected inflation generates changes in the distribution of income and wealth among different economic agents. These redistributions occur because many loans in the economy are specified in fixed-dollar terms. Unexpected inflation redistributes wealth from creditors to debtors by reducing
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cost less than $15‚000. That’s inflation. Inflation is when a certain form of currency starts to have less value over time. Mainly two things cause it: people’s perception of value‚ and the economic principle of supply and demand. We have already examined some of the ways that people’s perceptions of a currency’s value can affect its value. This effect causes inflation by directly affecting the value of the money. When currency was still on a gold standard‚ inflation often happened when people started
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February 14‚ 2012 The Inflation of Unwarranted Heroes and heroines Heroes are a different breed in todays society‚ which sometimes include animals. Traditionally‚ heroes were looked upon as being someone and entities performing a heroic act‚ not required of them. Yet today‚ many heroes are the results of certain public servants duties being inflated‚ because they are for the most‚ part of their job duties. This is the case developed by the writer Nicholas Thompson in “Hero Inflation”. It appeasers he
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Recently a short blog was writen about language inflation that ultimately creates devaluation in meaning. Today‚ popular expressions like epic and brilliant are used to express a more modest meaning than their traditional uses. Brilliant actually means clever‚ and epic actually means surprising. The author explains‚ “Such is our need to imbue our words with force and significance‚ that we use hyperbole to entice people to pay attention – and the hyperbolic terms gradually normalise.” The same
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