company. It has employed over 96‚000 people. Strategic decisions are usually long term decisions which are often risky and speculative. A strategic decision made by British Petroleum was to make redundancies of up to 620 from their solar power business to make the cost of solar power cheaper. ‘…part of the strategy to “reduce the cost of solar power to that of conventional electricity’. ‘BP blamed the cutbacks on the credit crunch and lower-cost competition saying its global manufacturing capacity
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What is the rule that you live by? We all live in the world of rules. I would classify all the rules into two big groups macro and micro. Macro rules are the rules that were formed by government’s institutions‚ religion‚ culture and society. Micro rules are settled by each person for himself of herself depending on the way he/she was brought up and educated. I have a few personal rules I use in my live actively. They are very simple and based on a very elementary foundation. First of them is
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Increased screen time may have unintended consequences for children. The article‚ "Screen Time Limits Are Vital for Children‚" makes it clear that children are ever-increasing the time they spend in front of screens and suffering for it. The author states‚ despite recommendations from doctors about limiting a child’s exposure to only 1-2 hours a day‚ parents allow an average of 7.5 hours a day. As a result‚ doctors are seeing an increase in physical and mental problems such as disruptive sleep‚
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Financial Management for Small Business Financial Management for Small Business Student Number: Word Count: Q1. Formal venture capital funds are provided through a limited partnership were the managing partners invest on behalf of the limited partners (Carter. S.‚ Jones-Evans. D. 2006). A business angel usually fits the profile of a well-educated‚ wealthy individually who has skills and experience working with start-up business ventures‚ which lets them add a great deal of expertise to the
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“What Do Marketers Do?” “The Role of a Marketer is to understand consumer behaviour and recognise market opportunities so that the organisation can adapt and stay competitive” (Sharp 2013). Marketers make up part of the management team in an organisation and each individual marketing job is unique to each company and its structure. Marketing is a constantly changing environment and is “putting the right product in the right place‚ at the right price‚ at the right time” (Marketing Skills Training
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doing what’s right for your business. The question of this article is‚ can companies do well by doing good? The idea is that companies have a responsibility to do what’s right for the public. Most of the time doing what is right reflects profits for the company. The article talks about socially responsible business practices being irrelevant because it is all an illusion‚ and potentially a dangerous one. The whole reasoning behind socially responsible business practices being irrelevant is that in
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Accounting and Business Research‚ Vol. 40. No. 3 2010 International Accounting Policy Forum‚ pp. 259-273 259 The pros and cons of regulating corporate reporting: a critical review of the arguments Robert Bushman and Wayne R. Landsman* Abstract — In this paper‚ we distil essential insights about the regulation of financial reporting from the academic literature. The key objective is to synthesise extant theory to provide a basis for evaluating implications of pressures on the regulation of
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the term information system (IS) refers to a system of people‚ data records and activities that process the data and information in an organisation‚ and it includes the organisation’s manual and automated processes. In a narrow sense‚ the term information system (or computer-based information system) refers to the specific application software that is used to store data records in a computer system and automates some of the information-processing activities of the organisation. Information systems
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Information Systems in Business Functions | ….. | | | January 04 - 2011 | | Cebu Institute of Technology – University CCS 311 Management Information Systems G01 Reaction Paper #3 * RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC Accounting - The purpose of accounting is to track every financial transaction within a company‚ from dollar to multimillion dollar purchases‚ from salaries to benefits‚ to sales of every item. At the year’s end‚ the company cannot present a picture of its Financial
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Financial accounting information stakeholders duped It is a sine quo non for business leaders to use‚ rather than just produce financial information. I am in absolute agreement with this phenomenon in that the information generated by the international professional accounting community highly affects various stakeholders in the decision making process to govern businesses. Therefore any material elements within the financial information that boarder on misguidance will lead to corporate financial
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