would decrease the attractiveness of the hotel to tourists travelling with children who‚ Wanida thinks‚ account for 25 % of total patronage. The objectives of this evaluation therefore are: 1. To determine for each of the projects the initial outlay‚ relevant incremental cash flows and the appropriate discount rate to use for discounting the incremental cash flows; 2. To rank
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ENDANGERED BIRD SPECIES IN INDIA Since 1500‚ over 190 species of birds have become extinct‚ and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawaii‚ where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. Other areas‚ such as Guam‚ have also been hit hard; Guam has lost over 60% of its native bird taxa in the last 30 years‚ many of them due to the introduced Brown Tree Snake. There are today about 10‚000 species of birds‚ with roughly 1‚200 considered
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viability of each project we must first determine the initial outlays and the relevant cash flows‚ assigning an appropriate discount rate based on the weighted average cost of capital. Taking the weight of equity (75%)‚ the cost of equity (12%)‚ the cost of debt (10%) and the corporate tax rate (30%)‚ we have calculated and recommend a discount rate of 10.75%‚ which is much higher than the initial 5% estimated by Mr. Manming. From the initial outlays of both projects‚ we see a benefit of choosing the
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Capital Budgeting Rules: NPV‚ IRR‚ Payback‚ Discounted Payback‚ AAR Categories of Plans 1. Replacement Projects: decisions to replace old equipment – those are among the easier of capital budgeting techniques. It is important to decide whether to replace the equipment when it wears out or to invest in repairing the machine. 2. Expansion Projects: These are decisions whether to increase the size of business or not – they are more uncertain than replacement projects. 3. New products and services: These
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Robert Montoya‚ Inc. (A) Case 3 Robert Montoya‚ Inc.‚ is a leading producer of wine in the United States. The firm was founded in 1950 by Robert Montoya‚ an Air Force veteran who had spent several years in France both before and after World War II. This experience convinced him that California could produce wines that were as good as or better than the best France had to offer. Originally‚ Robert Montoya sold his wine to wholesalers for distribution under their own brand names. Then in the early
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As an operator who works in oil and gas industry‚ I will present a life incident in one of the oil and gas location called Piper Alpha disaster UK. Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The disaster began with a routine maintenance procedure. On the morning of the 6th of July‚ a certain backup propane condensate pump in the processing area needed to have its pressure safety valve checked. The work could not be completed by 18.00 and
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6 billion @ 0% $13.0 billion @ 8% 2 Initial investment R&D 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 ($1100) (2200) (2200) (2200) (1320) (880) (660) (440) Tax shield $418 846 846 846 502 334 251 167 CAPX Tax shield $0 10 23 36 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 29 15 2 Working Capital Total ($628) (1755) (1991) (1978) (1030) (558) (371) (235) 38 38 38 29 15 2 ($250) (350) (350) (50) ($150) (300) (300) (200) (50) Discount outlays @11% and tax shield inflows @6%. Tax rate =
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The three and one-half day failure of CareGroup’s core network on November 13 unveiled a number of process and design inadequacies. While reflecting on the network crash‚ John Halamka outlined 10 lessons the organization learned from the breakdown as well as several long and short term recommended improvements. In addition to expounding upon John’s ideas‚ the purpose of this memo is to bring to light new perspectives regarding the improvement of CareGroup’s core network. Key Issues John Halamka
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Introduction to Standard Costing Standard costing is an important subtopic of cost accounting. Standard costs are usually associated with a manufacturing company’s costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead. Rather than assigning the actual costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead to a product‚ many manufacturers assign the expected or standard cost. This means that a manufacturer’s inventories and cost of goods sold will begin with amounts reflecting
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MEMORANDUM FOR DEPUTY COMMANDER FOR CADETS 1st LT TROY BRACKETT‚ CAP FROM: C/PAO C/CMSgt ALEX L. ROSE‚ CAP SUBJECT: Seacoast Recruitment and Public Affairs PROBLEM 1. Recruitment activities have ceased at the squadron level and new cadet memberships are not being signed on fast enough to replace attrition of older cadets. FACTORS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM 2. FACTS: -Total cadet membership (inactive and active) has dropped to 32 from around 50 in recent times. -Active membership has also
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