so cheap and money supply could not keep up with productivity. This drove interest rates up‚ limiting the amount of credit available. It allowed for big businesses to become even bigger‚ driving up the corporations that manufactured capital goods. 2. Why did railroads lead the way in the creation of big businesses? Who were some of the most important railroad entrepreneurs? What effect did the expansion of railroads after the Civil War have on the United States? Railroads that now spanned the entire
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1. Hole Foods Donuts‚ Ltd. has generated profits of $2 per share for many years and has consistently paid 100% of those profits to shareholders via a dividend. Investors do not expect Hole Foods Donuts to grow in the future. The company has 200‚000 shares of stock outstanding worth $20 per share. Suppose the firm decides to eliminate its dividend and instead use the money to repurchase shares. A. Assuming that there are no taxes and that the repurchase announcement conveys no new information to
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Chris Wideman Tuesday 7:00 pm 3/28/2013 AIDS‚ Condoms‚ and Carnival Aids‚ Condoms‚ and Carnival informs the reader about issues concerning the AIDS Virus throughout the world and goes into specifics about the marketing efforts being used to spread awareness and protection in Brazil and India. About Half a million Brazilians are infected with AIDS and about 63 million are at medium to high risk. The major reason for these high numbers are Brazilians tend to not wear condoms and the men in the
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FI 512 Week 2 Answer Key Chapter 3 1. [Business Organization and Intellectual Property] Phil Young‚ founder of the Pedal Pushers Company‚ has developed several prototypes of a pedal replacement for children’s bicycles. The Pedal Pusher will replace existing bicycle pedals with an easy release stirrup to help smaller children hold their feet on the pedals. The Pedal Pusher will glow in the dark and will provide a musical sound as the bicycle is pedaled. Phil plans to purchase materials
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1. (TCO D) The most valuable single technique in personal risk management to assist an individual in determining how much life insurance is needed is: (Points : 4) Computing the Human Life Value. Using the probability of death each year‚ prevailing interest rates and assumed inflation rates to find the discounted present value of a future income stream. x Assessing the family’s total economic needs and subtracting financial resources available to meet those needs.
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Assignment 2 Question 1 1. The maintenance of capital doctrine is developed to prohibit a company from reducing its share capital because a reduction in capital would reduce the pool of funds available to the company to pay its creditors. Section 254T provides that dividends are only payable out of profits. This provision ensures that capital is not return to shareholders in the form of dividend. The term “profit” is not defined in the Corporation Act. In Re Spanish Prospecting Co Ltd (1911)‚ it
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[pic] BTEC National Level 3 Diploma in Business Unit 4: Business Communication Name: _____________________________ Business Communication ‚ [pic] Issue date: ___________________________________ Due date: ____________________________________ Learning Objectives: On completion of this unit you will: • understand different types of business information • be able to present business information effectively • understand the issues and constraints
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VICTORIA UNIVERSITY College of Business Year Semester Unit Code Pre-Requisites Credit Points Mode of Delivery Unit Coordinator 1. Email 2. Office No. 3. Phone Ext Other Teaching Staff 1 Lecturer 1 Email 2 Office Number 3 Phone Ext 4 Lecturer 5 Email 6 Office Number 7 Phone Ext 8 Lecturer 9 Office Number 10 Phone Ext 11 Email 2014 One BEO3446 BEO1105: Economic Principles 12 On Campus Dr Sydney Lambrick (Footscray Park) sydney.lambrick@vu.edu.au
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Human Failure "4 1/2 minutes" is a story full of the darkest human emotions and human interaction at its worst. The main character‚ Miles‚ will take the reader through a journey and one will wonder why it ends so abruptly. Miles has already begun his torrential downfall eventually leading to his absence of mind and life. Kate Sheofsky wrote this story to show the realness of humans and not to put a sugar coating on it. The author told a weaving‚ intricate‚ and beguiling story of human failure in
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NT2580 Unit 4 10/9/2013 Assignment 2 After research and careful consideration of some of the other policies listed by other companies such as AT&T‚ Sprint‚ T-Mobile‚ and Verizon Wireless‚ Richman Investments has come up with the an acceptable use policy (AUP). The following are not allowed at any time: Making of unauthorized promises in e-mail. All emails should have a footer which states that the messages are from the sender only and do not represent the decisions or policies of Richman Investments
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