Firms Balk at Gay Weddings Photographers‚ Bakers Face Legal Challenges After Rejecting Jobs on Religious Grounds BY NATHAN KOPPEL AND AsHBY JONES As more states permit gay couples to marry or form civil unions‚ wedding professionals in at least six states have run headlong into state antidiscrimination laws after refusing for religious reasons to bake cakes‚ arrange flowers or perform other services for same-sex couples. The issue gained attention in August‚ when the New Mexico
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Easy Money? Even Non-financial Experts Effectively Manage a Firm’s Finances – If They Know What to Watch By Jay Strother Is there a moment each month when‚ reviewing the latest financial statements from your accounting department‚ the numbers‚ the terms‚ and the dollar signs converge and you think‚ “What does all this mean?” Or‚ if you understand what you see‚ can you explain it to your non-accounting staff members (or to partners and associates whose talents are not necessarily in finance
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Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………..2 1.0 Situation Analysis 4 1.1 Market Summary 4 1.2 Market Demographics 5 1.3 Market Needs 5 1.4 Market Trends 7 Market Forecast 7 1.5 Market Growth 7 1.6 SWOT Analysis 7 Internal Environment 7 External Environment 8 1.7 Competition 8 1.8 Product & Service offerings 11 1.9 Keys to Success 11 1.10 Critical Issues 11 2.0 Marketing Strategy 12 2.1 Mission 12 2.2 Marketing Objectives 12 2.3 Financial
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A SURVEY OF DIVIDEND PRACTICES IN KENYA: A CASE STUDY OF QUOTED FIRMS IN THE NAIROBI STOCK EXCHANGE JUNE 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are grateful to our supervisor‚ Mr. Luther Otieno for tirelessly guiding us throughout the writing of the project. Indeed‚ his encouragement and wise counsel greatly inspired us throughout the period we were writing this project. In addition‚ we thank all the lecturers at the University of Nairobi who taught us during our undergraduate studies. We are also grateful
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Do Mergers and Acquisitions Create Shareholder Wealth In The Pharmaceutical Industry? Mahmud Hassan‚ Dilip K. Patro‚ Howard Tuckman and Xiaoli Wang* Purpose: This paper analyzes mergers and acquisitions (M&A) focusing on the U.S. pharmaceutical industry in the period 1981-2004. This industry is chosen because it is global‚ engages intensively in M&A which it uses to both complement and substitute for early stage research‚ and because the potential abnormal returns to blockbuster drugs are
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competitive advantage ( see for instance Barney‚ 1991 and Peteraf and Barney‚ 2003). First‚ this model assumes that firms within an industry (or within a strategic group) may be heterogeneous with respect to the bundle of resources that they control. Second‚ it assumes that resource heterogeneity may persist over time because the resources used to implement firms’ strategies are not perfectly mobile across firms (i.e.‚ some of the resources cannot be traded in factor markets and are difficult to accumulate
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Corruption exists in almost all firms‚ public or private‚ even though there are many risks involved since it is a “necessity” for being competitive according to business statistics. Numerous companies join the bandwagon to engage in corruption because it seems as if that’s the only way ‘things get done’ and firms will remain in business. The firms which do not engage in fraud will be at a disadvantage compared to the other companies which are corrupted. Last but not the least‚ the company officials
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References: Ball‚ R and P Brown (1968)‚ “An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Numbers”‚ Journal of Accounting Research‚ v 6‚ pp 159-177. Barth‚ M‚ W H Beaver and W R Landsman (2002)‚ “The relevance of the value relevance literature for financial accounting standard setting: another view”‚ in Kothari et al‚ pp I 77-104. Beaver‚ W H (1968)‚ “The Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements”‚ Journal of Accounting Research‚ Supplement‚ v 6‚ pp 67-92
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Business Strategy Analysis of Geely Firm Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 2 2.0 Introduction 2 3.0 Internal environmental analysis 4 4.0 External Environment Analysis 5 4.1 Political factors 5 4.2 Economic factors 6 4.3 Social factors 6 4.4 Technological factors 6 4.5 Environmental factors 7 4.6 Legal factors 7 5.0 Competitive environment analysis 7 5.1 The threat of the entry of new competitors 8 5.2 The threat of substitute products or services 8 5.3 The bargaining power
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who will win the battle. To achieve maximum benefit from a supply chain‚ a supply chain must be performing at its best or anything it has gained will be short-lived. Yet‚ many companies are not aware of how their supply chains are performing or even what supply chain they are in. The foodservice supply chain is complex and fragmented‚ making it difficult to communicate and collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and external trading partners. Improved supply chain quality demands a more
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