Contents Introduction 1 1. Key challenges that have become very significant to IKEA managers with regard to operations management 1.1 Changing Technologies 1.2 Continued Globalization of Markets 1.3 Changing Customer Expectations 1.4 Changing Job Designs 1.5 Quality Management 1.6 Global Manufacturing 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 2. Areas of operations management likely to to have the most impact on the success of IKEA
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MGMT640 – Textbook Notes PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1 – The Financial Manager and The Firm 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager * financial manager should make decisions that maximize value of owners stock/wealth – wealth is the economic value of the assets someone possesses * stakeholders – anyone other than an owner (stockholder) with a claim on the cash flows of a firm‚ including employees‚ suppliers‚ creditors‚ and the government * productive
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Corporate Finance Exam with Answers Posted on May 10‚ 2012 by Sam Corporate Finance‚ Chapters 8‚ 9 & 10. Exam Questions: 1. A project’s opportunity cost of capital is: A. The forgone return from investing in the project. 2. Which of the following statements is correct for a project with a positive NPV? A. The IRR must be greater than 1. 3. What is the NPV of a project that costs $100‚000 and returns $50‚000 annually for 3 years if the opportunity cost of capital is 14%? C. $16‚085
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Liquidity. The length of time between the date the instrument was issued and is scheduled to make final payment is called term to maturity. • The price discovery process is an economic function‚ which refers to: Financial markets that signal how funds in the economy should be allocated among financial assets. Common stock issued by Digital Equipment Corporation is not traded in Money market‚ Debt market‚ Derivatives market or Capital market. When an issuer sells a new financial asset to the
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1.Drugstore.com is ‚ one of the 50 largest online retailers in the U.S offers a variety of products and information on heath‚ beauty‚ wellness‚ personal care and pharmacy products. The mjor different between drugstore.com and the brick and mortar retail drug business is that drugstore.com do not have any ties to a physical location. 2.Walgreens‚ CVS‚ and Rite Aid had similar long histories of internal store growth and store acquisitions. Walgreens Web site was primarily informational. It included
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Unit 1: Introduction – Consumer Needs‚ Motives and Values Operation Management (OM) is the science and art of ensuring that goods and services are created and delivered successfully to customers. Applying the principles of OM entails a solid understanding of people‚ processes‚ and technology and how they are integrated within business systems to create value. Nature of Operations Management The traditional management paradigm revolves around four basic functions – Planning‚ Organizing‚ Directing
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presented number of papers at National level seminars. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2131598 JIBC April 2012‚ Vol. 17‚ No. 1 -2- Abstract Advancement in technology has played an important role in the distribution strategy of commercial banks. Banks distribute their products
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Module: Operations management Title: -Operations management and Ethics! - Student: Katerina Zafirovska Lecture: Prof. D-r Aleksandra Shumar Contents: Introduction……………………………………………………………………..….3 1. Operations management…………………………………………..5 2. History of operations management……………………………….6 3. Ethics ……………………………………………………………15 4. Operations management
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needed to fund this takeover. What is the YTM of the bonds issued by the company? (a) 5.79% (b) 7.13% (c) 6.27% (d) 5.34% If the company’s credit rating changes due to recent earnings announcements and the YTM of the bonds should now be 4.4% how many bonds must the company issue to raise 2 million Euros? (a) 2351 (b) 2276 (c) 2248 (d) 2302 Suppose that the company may default on these bonds with a 25% probability. In case of default‚ bondholders will receive 60% of the face value of bonds. If the price
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most credible exchange rate system. 8. How can a central bank peg the value of its currency relative to another currency? Answer: To peg the value of its currency to another currency‚ the government must make a market in the two currencies. If there is excess supply of the foreign currency (which is equivalent to excess demand for the domestic currency) that would drive down the domestic currency price of the foreign currency‚ the government must buy the private excess supply of foreign currency
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