Shane Kearns Bellevue University Business Communication 5/29/13 This paper will dicuss the rising prices on fuel over the past few years. It will involve the trucking industry and explain how the rising of gas prices has effected trucking company. Crude Oil prices have passing over one hundred dollars a barrel. This has effected many independent owners-operators. This article will dicuss why some independent owners have decided that it is no longer profitable to drive a truck. Some owners
Premium Petroleum Peak oil Truck
The Development of Oil Sands in Alberta Instructor: Dan Murray Yifan Wang University of Waterloo 15‚ February‚ 2013 Summary A controversy around the development of oil sands in Alberta is developed in this report. Potential factors of its development‚ including economic‚ social‚ and environmental factors‚ are taken into consideration. All the information contained in this report is retrieved from other materials‚ such as peer review‚ journals‚ government reports‚ and online news. All the
Premium Oil sands Petroleum
DISCUSSION Regarding the leadership training‚ the responses of the managers can be categorized into two parts. By the help of these responses‚ a lot can be said about their leadership styles and the situation of the firm. First of all‚ the Google manager says that he does not have any kind of leadership trainings and does not think it is necessary for him. He stresses that the most vital thing for him to do is to manage and assist his staffs in almost every activities and thus‚ it can be said that
Premium Leadership Management
Relevance and Reliability Relevance and reliability are two of the four key qualitative characteristics of financial accounting information. The others being understandability and comparability. Relevance requires that the financial accounting information should be such that the users need it and it is expected to affect their decisions. Reliability requires that the information should be accurate and true and fair. Relevance and reliability are both critical for the quality of the financial
Premium Balance sheet Financial statements Income statement
2) ExxonMobil: Exxon Mobil is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving‚ Texas‚ United States. The world’s largest company by revenue‚ ExxonMobil is also the second largest publicly traded company by market capitalization. Its ranking was #2 on the list of fortune 500 companies-2014. ExxonMobil’s entrance in the market of Qatar is basically a diversification strategy. Tapping into new markets and new products is indicative of this. They are setting up 4 Liquefied
Premium Ford Motor Company Wal-Mart
main reasons why one company may have been more profitable than the other company. Exxon Exxon Mobil Corp.‚ Net Profit Margin Dec 31‚ 2013 Dec 31‚ 2012 Dec 31‚ 2011 Selected Financial Data (USD $ in millions) Net income attributable to ExxonMobil 32‚580 44‚880 41‚060 Sales and other operating revenue 420‚836 453‚123 467‚029 Ratio Net profit margin 7.74% 9.90% 8.79% Benchmarks Net Profit Margin‚ Competitors BP PLC 6.19% 3.08% 6.84% Chevron Corp. 9.73% 11.35% 11.01% ConocoPhillips
Premium Revenue Standard Oil Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Environmental Turmoil David Lepianka Saint Leo University Abstract The environment is fragile and forever-changing due to man’s interactions. Society has devised laws to help protect‚ restore‚ and ensure that the environment’s resources continue to exist for future generations. Corporations sometimes lose sight of these concepts and it is left to governmental agencies to enforce laws designed to protect the environment without bias or monetary incentives. Keywords: environment‚ ethical
Premium Exxon Valdez oil spill
Climate Change‚ Capitalism‚ and Social Justice California used to be a paradise‚ lush green lawns freshly cut‚ creeks gurgling with water‚ and mountains covered in golden fields. What happened? The lawns are all shriveled up‚ dry rocks are left where there used to be water‚ and black blotches on hills are left behind from wildfires. Scientists state that this is a result of climate change‚ also known as global warming. When warm temperatures affect the weather patterns of the Earth‚ the effects are
Premium Global warming Carbon dioxide Methane
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE Telus Corp. Nowadays many successful companies are making corporate social responsibility a key to business. Telus was selected to one of the Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporation in Canada that Maclean’s published in 2011. In response to the 2011 Alberta fires‚ the company provided free wireless calling‚ a stoppage on billing‚ long-distance calling cards‚ replacement cellphones and over 1‚600 comfort kits for relief workers and residents of Slave Lake (Jantzi-Sustainalytics
Premium Exxon Valdez oil spill
Expense Tracking and Controls XOM Rating: 7 Reasoning: After looking at Exxon ’s financials and their expense controls they are looking pretty good. When it comes to the expenses they have had a steady decrease in the past three years‚ which has had a positive outlook on their operating margin. Their current operating margin is 11%‚ which as a whole two points higher than the industry average‚ which is 9% (XOM Competitors). This shows that as a company as a whole they are proving to be more
Premium Revenue Economics Finance