Harvard Business School 9-297-052 Rev. July 12‚ 1997 USG Corporation On May 2‚ 1988‚ USG Corporation‚ the world’s largest gypsum producer‚ announced that the board of directors had approved a recapitalization plan. According to the plan‚ USG would exchange each outstanding share of common stock for $37.00 in cash‚ $5.00 in stated face amount of 16% junior subordinated pay-in-kind debentures‚ and one share in the newly recapitalized company. Robert Day‚ USG’s Chairman and CEO‚ said the
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“Banking‚ Finance‚ and Money: a Socio-economics Approach” L. Randall Wray‚ Professor of Economics and Director of Research at Center for Full Employment and Price Stability‚ University of Missouri—Kansas City; and Senior Scholar‚ Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. This paper will briefly summarize the orthodox approach to banking‚ finance‚ and money and then will point the way toward an alternative based on socio-economics. It will be argued that the alternative approach not only fits
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17/07/2013 Finance Semester 2‚ 2013 Seminar 1 Introduction to finance & ethics in finance Ross et al. chapter 1. These powerpoint slides have been adapted from Frank Finn Professor of Finance Tom Smith’s (UQ) teaching material of “Three key finance ideas of valuation” and Dr. Scott McCarthy’s teaching material. 1 What is Finance? • Every business is a process of acquiring and disposing assets: real assets and financial assets. • Finance is a science of valuation and management
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Importance of FDI in Agriculture in the past 4 years 7 • Capital: 7 • Technology: 8 • Market Access: 8 4. Factors Impairing FDI’s in Tanzania 8 • Poor Infrastructure 8 • Capacity 8 • Bureaucracy 8 • Corruption 9 • Seasonality 9 • Access to finance 9 • Regulatory framework 9 5. Recommendation to attract more FDI’s 10 6. Conclusion 10 References. 12 1. Introduction: Tanzania’s Economy Tanzania is one of the world’s poorest economies in terms of per capita income
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Fiscal Policy in Kenya: Looking Toward the Medium-to Long-Term By Kamau Thugge‚ Peter S Heller‚ and Jane Kiringai[1] Executive Summary Kenya’s authorities‚ in articulating their vision for the next two decades of Kenya’s development‚ understood clearly that fiscal policy would need to play a critical role in influencing the pace at which the economy will grow and its capacity to deal with the key challenges that will arise over the next several decades. Domestic policy challenges include
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BUACC5901 - Accounting & Finance A Comparative Financial Analysis for the Financial Years 2011 and 2010 of DIALOG GROUP BERHAD TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................2 II. INTRODUCTION ................................................... .............................................3 III. RATIOS CALCULATION...................................... .............................................4 IV. ANALYSIS OF
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CHAPTER 1: MEANING‚ NATURE AND SCOPE OF PUBLIC FINANCE Def: Public Finance is the field of economics that studies government activities and the alternative means of financing government expenditures. Our focus in this course is on the microeconomic functions of government‚ the way government affects the allocation of resources and the distribution of income. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK The Appropriation Act gives the Government of Belize the authority to collect revenue and incur expenditure within
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are own account enterprises (OAEs). Over and above that‚ out of the 33.5 million workers‚ 76% are rural workers. The shares of the annual gross value addition (GVA) of the rural and urban sectors are 15% and 85% respectively. What does this picture add up to? If we analyze the above facts carefully‚ we will notice that despite being the employer of 76% of the total service sector workforce‚ the rural segment contributes only 15% of the total GVA of the services sector. The urban segment‚ though working
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INTRODUCTION Companies need to choose from among various sources of finance depending on the amount of capital required and the term for which it is needed. Finance sources can be divided into three categories‚ namely traditional sources‚ ownership capital and non-ownership capital. Traditional sources are the internally generated capital (retained earnings); ownership capital is the capital owned by shareholders of the company (ordinary shares) while non-ownership capital includes funds from lenders
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easily understood. Situations in which formal language is the most appropriate form of address may have diminished‚ however it retains an important role in society. From chatting on the phone to a friend to asking about a neighbour’s day‚ spoken informal language is the main form of language used in most people’s everyday lives‚ however it is now being used in more situations. For example‚ a shift in the way businesses run has been reflected in a less formal method of communicating. Whereas the old
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