equipment manufacturers primarily in the telecommunications‚ networking‚ computing‚ industrial‚ and consumer markets. Products are sold globally through a direct sales management organization and through franchised domestic and foreign distributors. (Source: Company 2007 Form 10-K) Learning Objectives • Discuss the economic and corporate issues surrounding stock-based compensation. • Understand how to account for stock-based compensation and how the activity is presented in the financial statements
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Shangri‑La‚ Inc. The company is a real estate developer‚ specializing in luxury vacation areas. The company’s operations have been profitable‚ although not spectacular. Most of the development property is pledged as collateral for bank loans; there is a reasonable stockholders’ equity of about $10‚000‚000. Shangri‑La has a substantial investment in a large parcel of land in Key Biscayne‚ Florida. The company originally paid $25‚000‚000 for the property two years ago and has since capitalized an
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CHAPTER 1 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTING STANDARDS Multiple Choice—Conceptual Answer No. Description d 1. Users of financial reports. d 2. Identify the major financial statements. a 3. Financial reporting entity. d 4. Efficient use of resources. d 5. Capital allocation process. c 6. Financial statement information. c 7. Objectives of financial reporting. b 8. Common set of standards and procedures. c 9. Role of SEC. c 10. Powers of the SEC. d 11. SEC enforcement
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Local Motor Input from potential customers and car enthusiasts Community-help-> select the model to produce Create ideation contest Existing customer to bring new customer Involve customers to cars production->Customer assembles parts-> 60 hours of assembling- microfactory(local) Good ? Yes. Big players are bankrupt American market is moving to full-design and attentative No mass production->$50k (experimental) Are the designer customers? Are car enthusiasts customers? Do-it –yourself
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take your company to court? Today‚ working mothers have become more likely to sue their employers for discrimination. According to data collected by the Center for WorkLife Law‚ in the United States‚ roughly two-thirds of plaintiffs who sue in federal court on the basis of family responsibilities discrimination prevail at trial. The type of discrimination for particularly working mothers has a name: “maternal wall bias”. It takes the form of comments like “Don’t you feel bad leaving your kids at
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DIVERSIFICATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION Anil M. Pandya and Narendar V. Rao Abstract Diversification is a strategic option that many managers use to improve their firms’ performance. This interdisciplinary research attempts to verify whether firm level diversification has any impact on performance. The study finds that on average‚ diversified firms show better performance compared to undiversified firms on both risk and return dimensions. It also tests the robustness of these
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Goals and Purpose of a Firm Abstract This paper will give some insight of what the primary purpose or goal of a firm related to Milton Friedman. Profits‚ the surplus after the total costs are subtracted from revenues and of course after taxes are taking out will be the meaning. However‚ a firm and making a profit is not so cut and dry as you will see while ready my paper; society and the government has a hand in the firms staying in business so that the services
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of needs that are achieved in as specific order: physiological‚ safety‚ social‚ esteem and self-actualization needs. This means that once the most fundamental of all needs is satisfied. Despite such general evidence‚ Maslow’s theory has not received a great deal of support with respect to the specific things it proposes‚ namely‚ the exact needs that exist and the order in which they are activated. (Baron and Greenberg‚ 1995) The theory is related to the study explain
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large firms have over smaller firms and vice-versa‚ in the pursuit of entrepreneurial activity. As an enterprise can be defined as private business‚ it can thus be separated into two main categories which are small firms and large firms. Within many countries and many industries there are normally a large number of small firms and a smaller number of large firms as can be seen in the United Kingdom where there are only a few thousand large firms and over 4 500 000 small to medium sized firms according
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Enhance the Vitality of Your Company Vitality of all people within a company is quite an important aspect. Nowadays‚ it is crucial for all kinds of working places that their employees can work in a healthy environment‚ which includes healthy eating as well. If you ask people whether they think eating healthy is important‚ they will all agree. But in practice they do not always choose the healthiest option. Especially during snack time‚ the temptation is to choose a product rich in sugar and fat
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