Introduction This paper aims to analyze the common-sized balance sheets and ratios of 12 companies in order to identify their respective industries (Please refer to the Appendix for an overview of the financial data). The balance sheets of the 12 companies are analyzed in four steps‚ as shown in the following table. Step Industry Common Characteristics Companies 1 Service Almost no inventories Inventory turnover negligible Major passenger airline Regional bank Temporary office
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Roles of stakeholders Every organisation has stakeholders. Examples of stakeholder groups (beyond stockholders) are employees‚ suppliers‚ customers‚ creditors‚ competitors‚ governments‚ and communities. They often affect the corporation‚ law and markets but actually it consists of senior management‚ managers and employees. In this assignment‚ we will discuss role of stakeholders in terms of identification of learning and development within organisation‚ what is the nature and application of the
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the affection of stakeholders to an organisation‚ we should firstly take into consideration about the category of stakeholders and consecutively find out what do these individuals and groups enforce to influence organisations’ activities. Subsequently‚ we will also acknowledge what could organisations do to understand and control stakeholders. Classification of stakeholders We assume that the organisation we are talking about is a firm. So that we can separate the parties involved with a firm into
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Waste Management Scandal Dean Buntrock established Waste Management‚ Inc. in 1968. Its main purpose is to pick recycling and garbage up from residential housing and businesses. WM also disposes of the garbage in landfills. It has grown to be the largest garbage disposal company in the U.S. today. This company has managed to survive “one of the most egregious accounting frauds we have seen” said Thomas C. Newkirk of the SEC. This accounting scandal lasted from 1992 to 1997 and was the result
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The main event of the 1970s was the New Federalism‚ which is the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states. This helped restore the states with some autonomy and power that they had previously lost to the Federal government as a consequence to President Roosevelt’s New Deal. It also involved the Federal government providing block grants to the states to help resolve social issues. The power was then divided at the national and state levels. The states
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My Identity Physically‚ I am an Asian boy with somewhat a smooth hairstyle. I’m relatively chubby with about 168-centimeter height and 80-kilogram weight. Working out every single day and trying to build a ripped body aren’t my things. However‚ I do love sports‚ a whole lot. Basketball‚ table tennis and swimming are hobbies that I enjoy doing real much whenever I have some free time or I simply need a stress reliever. The way I look and the way I speak may make people think that I’m an Asian
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Enron and WorldCom Scandals Matthew Morrison ACC/260 8/18/12 Enron and WorldCom Scandals Question number one of the Enron case focuses on the corporations that got Enron into its difficulties these were the special purpose entities for joint partnerships including Chewco‚ LJM1‚ LMJ2 and the Raptors. Number three of the Enron case shows us that the board was divided into five divisions‚ all of which were full of well-educated financial employees who
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knowledge about the mechanism that takes place in the field of Corporate Communication especially the to identify the stakeholders and the stakeholder management both in the public and private sectors‚ to understand the difference between the Identity and Image in a Corporate. Organization chosen: Vodafone’s Stakeholder management: Internal Stakeholder and External stakeholder Stakeholder Group Interaction with examples Investors Vodafone conducts regular meetings with investors through events
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The WorldCom Accounting Scandal WorldCom was started in Mississippi as a long distance telephone service provider in 1983 (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). Over the next decade and a half‚ the company expanded to offer a whole range of telecommunication services through a series of mergers and acquisitions (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). At its height‚ WorldCom was the largest long distance phone company in the United States and was one of the leading companies in the telecommunication market in the world‚ providing
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Reggie Bush: Is He to Blame for USC’s Sanctions? “What happened to the days young children could look up to their sports heroes with pride and think that they someday would want to be just like them?”‚ (Finnegan 4). This question is now being asked more often than ever. The sports stars we look up to and admire are surrounded by talks of cheating. One prime example of this happening is the case of Reggie Bush. Reggie Bush was a running back at the University of Southern California. At USC‚
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