Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 1-3 2. General partners have limited personal liability for business debts in a limited partnership. FALSE AACSB: Communication Abilities Bloom’s: Knowledge Difficulty: Medium Learning Objective: 1-3 3. The separation of ownership and management is one distinctive feature of corporations. TRUE AACSB: Reflective Thinking Skills Bloom’s: Understanding Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 1-3 4. A major disadvantage of partnerships
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relevant to users of financial statements. 2.A pragmatic theory of accounting involves observing the practices and techniques of working accountants and teaching these to successive accountants. (a)Argue the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach. (b)Do you believe this method of teaching accounting is ‘correct’? (a)A pragmatic theory is where we observe the behaviour of practising accountants and thencopy their accounting procedures and principles.Advantages: • the solutions of practising accountants
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Assignment for Course: | BUS508-Contemporary Business | Submitted to: | | Submitted by: | | | | | | | | Date of Submission: June 16th‚ 2012 Title of Assignment 5: Financial Management: Google and Microsoft. CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which
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Financial Engineering Xingguo Luo http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/xingguo College of Economics and Academy of Financial Research Zhejiang University (ZJU) Chapter 1: Introduction Lecture 1: Feb 28‚ 2013 Xingguo Luo (ZJU) Financial Engineering (2013) Lecture 1: Feb 28‚ 2013 1 / 45 Outline Outline Course Introduction ◮ ◮ ◮ ◮ Course description Learning outcomes Candidate topics Assessment A unique instrument A money market problem A taxation example Trading volatility Introduction
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LB5212:03 FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR MANAGERS Singapore Campuses Study Period 3‚ 2012 LB5212:03 Financial Foundations for Managers SUBJECT GUIDE 2012 Study Period 3‚ Singapore Campuses Contents Contents 1 1. School Overview 0 2. Subject at a Glance 0 3. Subject Details 0 4. Subject Readings and Resources 0 5. Assessment Details 0 6. Grading Criteria 0 7. Student Assistance 0 8. Important Policies & Guidelines 0 9. Postgraduate Skills & Qualities 0 10. Lecture
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Administrative costs the same as they were in 2008. 2. How would this change if the unit sales pattern was 10‚000 units‚ 5‚000 units‚ 20‚000 units‚ and 5‚000 units in the four quarters? Why? 3. Assume 10‚000 units are sold each quarter in 2008. If the company adopted FIFO on January 1‚ 2008‚ how would this affect the financial statements? 4. In the “as if” income statements prepared by James Colburn‚ the costs of mower units and transportation were rising for 2007 and 2008. How would the company’s deliberations
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(b) [i] Naive The coming January = December = 23 [ii] 3-month moving (20 + 21 + 23)/3 = 21.33 [iii] 6-month weighted [(0.1 17) + (.1 18) + (0.1 20) + (0.2 20) + (0.2 21) + (0.3 23)]/1.0 = 20.6 [iv] Exponential smoothing with alpha = 0.3 [v] Trend Forecast = 15.73 + .38(13) = 20.67‚ where next January is the 13th month. (c) Only trend provides an equation that can extend beyond one month 4.23 Students must determine the naive forecast for the four months
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10 Principles of Financial Management The 10 simple principles that do not require knowledge of finance to understand. However‚ while it is not necessary to understand finance in order to understand these principles‚ it is necessary to understand these principles in order to understand finance. Keep in mind that although these principles may at first appear simple or even trivial‚ they will provide the driving force behind all that follows. These principles will weave together concepts and techniques
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Q3) What changes is Mr. Whitacre making to the culture of GM? Before Mr. Whitacre became CEO of GM‚ the culture of managing at GM is basically bureaucratic. This means every decision that has to be made must pass through the different departments to committee that causes a big mess and also delays for decision making. Mr. Whitacre mentioned in an interview the problems of managing in GM before he took over is that the company is too bureaucratic‚ not focused‚ matrix managed which means an employee
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Chapter 5 Answers to End-of-Chapter Questions 1. The bond with a C rating should have a higher risk premium because it has a higher default risk‚ which reduces its demand and raises its interest rate relative to that on the Baa bond. 2. U.S. Treasury bills have lower default risk and more liquidity than negotiable CDs. Consequently‚ the demand for Treasury bills is higher‚ and they have a lower interest rate. 3. During business cycle booms‚ fewer corporations go bankrupt and there is less
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