1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Case Study 2: The Wal-Mart Way 1) Should Wal-Mart be expected to protect small businesses in the communities within which it operates? There is no rule that has been set that or law that has been written saying that any business whether large or small has to protect other businesses in the community in which it is located in. While because Wal-Mart has grown so big and its effecting small businesses all over the United States it almost feels like it should have to it still does not. 2)
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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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Case: Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Case Number: 9-105-014 Topic: Financial Reporting and Control Description: A U.K. real estate firm‚ required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005‚ must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would have a number of effects on European investment property firms‚ including
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Allison Whitted Kaplan University Case study paper Wal-Mart in China GB520: Human Resources Management Introduction In this case study I will be discussing the company Wal-Mart Stores: Every Day low Prices in China. By the time 2005 rolled in China has become the most prominent country to set up a branch for stores. China had a huge open market and it was time for the company to take advantage of the opportunity that was happening in China. Wal-Mart has become the world’s largest retail chain
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1. Why do customers patronize Wal-Mart China stores? A. Wal-Mart realized through third party studies and internal research that the Chinese customer were significantly more cost-sensitive than those in other countries and that there existed a strong‚ established culture of frequently shopping around to find the absolute lowest prices. Through these studies‚ Wal-Mart also realized that customer satisfaction level greatly influenced customer loyalty in China. The greatest determinant of this satisfaction
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Wal-Mart’s Midlife Crisis Case Study Denika Smith MGT 704 – Marketing Management May 1‚ 2014 Wal-Mart’s philosophy‚ put in place by founder Sam Walton‚ was to offer the lowest prices to its customers and help them save money and live better. Their approach for keeping their costs down‚ however‚ is not very employee friendly. They limit spending by managers and keep low wages for its associates. Many businesses‚ like Wal-Mart‚ sometimes forget that one of their most valuable sources of
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consumers to pick out themselves. Wal-Mart adapted to China’s social order‚ that led to more opportunities for them. 5. Companies like Wal-Mart can change the culture of the nation of where they are doing business very lightly. From reading this case Wal-Mart had to change its practices in every country that they opened a store in. Wal-Mart had to change its culture in order to succeed in each culture. I think the culture changed Wal-Mart and not the business change the
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with 3‚ 800 store units in the United States with record revenues today. But nevertheless‚ since Wal-Mart launched its online branch‚ it had to suffer from substantial setbacks from competitors such as Amazon.com or Ebay. The intention of this case study is to evaluate Wal-Marts.com’s profitability of success regarding its situation in 1999. II. Discussion Questions II.1 What is the impact of Wal-Mart.com on customer-borne transaction costs? Wal-Mart’s business philosophy is based on the
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Case Study Wk3 Wal Mart 1. Due to the rapid growth within the U.S. Wal-Mart became the dominant firm in retail industry. Because of that‚ the company reached a point where continued growth in the United States was limited and they knew they weren’t done growing yet. The company had reached its limit within the U.S. and needed to look internationally in order to expand their corporation. The company wanted to be the top retailer in the world and maintain their position on the Fortune 500 list
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