Case Study of Just For Feet Inc. Xuan Zhang Q1. Prepare common-sized balance sheets and income statements and compute key ratios for 1997-1998. What were the high-risk financial statement items for the 1998 audit? * Common-sized financial statements: * Key ratio analysis: Liquidity and solvency: | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | Current ratio | 3.387 | 1.998 | 2.142 | Debt to equity | 1.117 | 0.672 | 0.720 | Times interest earned | 6.376 | 24.665 | 28.286 | Activity | | |
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Commentary on "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" 10/17/06 Joyce Carol Oates has achieved many things through her writing‚ and is recognized worldly for her short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" This story is centered on a young teenage girl as many of her stories are. Oates as a writer is fascinated with adolescence of young females. She chooses to write about the trials and tribulations of growing up in modern society. She pries on the dark aspects of youth often
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future. In some people views in innocence is freedom from sin‚ moral wrong‚ or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. At some point in everyone’s life they will eventually lose there innocence‚ it just depends on the choices they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie is dealing with the loss of her innocence Oates characterization of Arnold Friend shows how Connie’s perspective of Arnold and his looks
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Low‚ Sell High: It’s Important‚ But It’s Sometimes Tough To Do Buying a stock when its price is low and selling it when the price is high is the strategy that people who invest in the stock market like to perfect‚ but they do not always succeed. Sometimes people purchase at the high and are reluctant to sell as the stock price goes lower. This leads investors to lose a lot of money. Conversely‚ people may purchase their stocks when they are low as the price is rising‚ but not know when to sell. At
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MINOR PROJECT REPORT ON INDIAN RETAIL INDUSTRY AND RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN Submitted by: Supervisor: RAHUL RAJA DR. RAJESHWARI MALIK Enrol No. 03914901711 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BBA (G) 3rd Semester
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Tattoos are permanent symbols that last forever‚ while relationships can’t be guaranteed permanent now a days. Kim Addonizio chooses tattoos as a symbol in this poem “First poem for you.” Water and lightning is what makes the poem most symbolistic. “Lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple can find as if by instinct the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists facing a dragon.” Though symbols can have more than one meaning to them the poem helps to point of the specific
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the main character‚ Connie‚ is on the brink of adulthood and is experimenting with the sexual freedom that comes with it. On the weekends‚ Connie and her friend go to the mall or the diner and pursue older boys with which they will slip into dark alleys or cars. One night‚ when leaving the diner to go hang out with a boy‚ a man in a gold convertible catches Connie’s eye and says to her‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Later in the story‚ Connie is tanning outside
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In Joyce Carol Oates’s short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” (1966)‚ Connie is an adolescent that faces literal and psychological challenges. Within the conflicts of the story‚ there are two compelling questions that allow you to take a special interest of a deeper meaning. Taken from the title‚ where has Connie been? Where is Connie going? In a surprising twist‚ the story is not only about a naïve girl that gets lured out of her home by an older gentleman‚ but can also be taken
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In her short story‚ “Where are you going where have you been?” Joyce Carol Oates describes the emotional ride of a fifteen year old girl‚ on the verge of becoming an adult and losing her innocence of mind and body along the way. She has a difficult time growing up and developing her own personality as they would have her react to her circumstances.“Everything about her bad two side to it‚ one for Home and one for anywhere that was not Home.” Connie feels that the best attribute that a girl can have
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Merriwell Bag Company Merriwell Bag Company Case Study 1. What forecasting method would be best suited for Merriwell Bag Company to determine the 2008 forecast? Justify you answer. In my opinion‚ Merriwell Bag Company should use one type of quantitative forecasting methods called time-series forecasting‚ because this method is “used to make detailed analyses of past demand patterns over time and to project these patterns forward in the future” (Schroeder‚ 2008). The main reason Merriwell
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