Yield Management Before the introduction of modern pricing mechanisms‚ hotels were not maximizing their revenue potential. Managers were focusing more on achieving the highest occupancy rate instead of focusing on raising their revenue per available room. (RevPar). Future forecasts were being based on the last year’s performance without consideration of the current needs of their clientele. With the increasing uptake of technical analysts importance in dealing with revenue management
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment . The United States Constitution‚ adopted the legal doctrine in 1868‚ which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all citizens. ( “Separate but Equal - Separate Is Not Equal.” ) However‚ the law seemed it could serve “equal protection” adopting laws of separatism. Statements made by people of the Jim Crow era have said‚ “public schools
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1."Why is expected return considered forward-looking? What are the challenges for practitioners to utilize expected return?" (Cornett‚ Adair‚ and Nofsinger‚ 2012‚ p. 246). Expected return is “forward-looking” in the sense that it represents the return investors expect to receive in the future as compensation for the market risk taken. The challenge is that practitioners cannot precisely know what the future holds and thus what the expected return should be. Thus‚ we create methods to estimate the
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Firms’ Performance?1 Laura Poddi2 Sergio Vergalli3 July 28‚ 2008 Abstract In the last two decades in the OECD countries there have been a raising development of firms certified as Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firms environmentally and sociologically correct. Some papers (among others Preston
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Wealth Transfers among and between Bond Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Bond Tender Offers Matthew T. Billett* and Ke Yang ** March 2011 Abstract: We explore the wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions to bondholders at the bond issue level using a sample of mergers and acquisitions that involve a tender offer for one or more of the target or acquiring firms’ bond issues. Over the period 2000-2008 such tender offers occur in 32% of the mergers and acquisitions involving targets
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CORPORATE FINANCE – CONCEPT QUESTIONS Class Notes - Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Finance point of view: Corporation: a money processing machine? * Product markets: everything what corporates make (lead with customers‚ suppliers‚ labor) * Capital markets: generic term for the entities which supply cash to this money processing machine‚ and the processing machine uses the money to do things and then periodic sends money back to the capital market there are inflows from the
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INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN Many companies wants to have a return on their investment in a few years and begin to evaluate their projects optimistically calculating an internal rate of real return not yielding results in the end. This does not end up being expected by the companies; According to the article the authors John C. Kelleher and Justin J. MacCormack . They suggest that there is a tendency to a risky behavior‚ Companies started to run the risk of creating unrealistic numbers for themselves
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Matlab to get an intuitive understanding of bonds valuation. 1. Basic knowledge: 1.1 The price equation and its six contributing factors As we know‚ there are six factors that determine the expected price of bonds: the par value(F)‚ the maturity(n) the yield to maturity(y)‚ the coupon interest(CF)‚ the interest payment frequency(m)‚ and the interest rates for each period(ri). We assume that the coupon interest is fixed‚ then the price of bonds(P)is the discounted cash flows of each period:
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) represents nothing less than a debate about the future of our society. Amidst issues of ethics‚ corporate governance‚ and other efforts to balance conflicting demands‚ society seeks to create the ideal mix of business success and societal acceptability. Businesses are largely responsible for creating the wealth and well-being of society. However‚ they do not act alone. Governments are also crucial because they set the rules and parameters within which society
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From the start of his story to the end‚ Holden Caulfield frequently acknowledged his lack of mental maturity. However‚ because of this immaturity‚ events he experienced developed him greatly. The most pivotal moment took place when Holden was talking to his little sister about what he’d like to be: “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids‚ and nobody’s around--nobody big‚ I mean--except me. And I’m standing on the edge
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