Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Episode Three: Into the Tropics This episode was actually rather interesting. In general‚ it basically discussed how guns‚ germs‚ and steel have affected and influenced the shaping of African societies as it is today. Diamond’s main quest is to answer the question: why did the world become so unequal? In the mid-1600s the Europeans first arrive at the southernmost tip of South Africa. The southernmost tip of Africa and Europe are almost identical in latitude‚ with
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Arcelormittal Mittal Steel merged Arcelor * Theory A merger occurs when two companies combine to form a distinct company. A merger is very similar to an acquisition or takeover‚ except that in the case of a merger existing stockholders of both companies involved keep hold of a shared interest in the new company. When combining two or more companies in order to become one. Generally‚ by offering the stockholders of one company‚ securities in the acquiring company in exchange for the
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A REPORT ON WORKING OF FINANCE WITH REFERENCE TO CAPITAL BUDGETING [pic] BHILAI STEEL PLANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We express our sincere thanks & regards to Bhilai Steel Plant‚ for giving us the opportunity to study on the topic “Working of finance with reference to capital budgeting”. First and foremost we express our hearty thanks to our co-ordinator Mr. S.S.Kshatriya (Manager‚ Finance Expansion) for his guidance. We also express our sincere thanks to all the heads of concerned
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GROWTH OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY WHY THE INDUSTRY? The reason for focusing on this industry is that‚ Steel industry has become a major production and consumption market‚ with tremendous potential for growth after the reduction of the export tariffs from 15% to 5%. There has been a consistent rise in the prices and the demand expectations are growing rapidly for the coming years due to planned investment in infrastructure development‚ increased urbanization and growth in key steel sectors i.e.
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The document‚ Steel of Storm‚ by Ernst Junger‚ an English lieutenant in the Great War- or WWI- tells the story of a young soldier in charge of leading other Englishmen to their potential deaths‚ all united by the goal of defeating the German soldiers and restoring peace to their European home. This piece explains why Junger believed his experience of fighting as an English soldier to be a positive one‚ what the average experience of a soldier in the trenches was like‚ as well as how the Great War
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LUCKY BHAVINI B.COM(H)III-E ROLL NO.-247 GROUP NO.-E27 EIC ANALYSIS OF TATA STEEL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: * The Financial market in the last 12 months has been volatile triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the US. This has adversely affected the liquidity and the risk perception of the international capital markets. Inflation has increased around the World boosted by mainly increase in food and energy prices. The real effective exchange rate for the US
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Iron‚ Steel and Aluminium Main sources of iron: * second most abundant metal (5% by mass) in Earth’s crust (fourth most abundant element) * found in rock (a mixture of minerals) as one or more minerals (usually a compound) * if a mineral is of economic importance‚ it is referred to as an ore * iron containing minerals include hematite (Fe2O3)‚ magnetite (FeO·Fe2O3 or Fe3O4)‚ limonite (FeO(OH)·nH2O) and siderite (FeCO3) Alloys: * homogeneous mixtures of metals or metals and
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Executive Summary Lehigh Steel is a manufacturer of speciality steels for high strength‚ high use applications. Its financial performance has generally trended wit but outperformed the industry as a whole. Following the general recessionary trend of the market‚ Lehigh Steel reported record losses in 1991 after posting record profits in 1988. This had led to an increasing need to rationalizing Lehigh Steel’s product mix. Traditionally‚ Lehigh Steel has followed Standard Cost Method for cost accounting
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Case study of ERP Topic:Compare SAP at TATA Steel and SAP at CO-OPERATIVE BULK HANDLING LTD.(CBH) Date: April 6‚ 2013 Section: K1108 Roll no: B34‚ B36‚ B40 Index: 1. Introduction 2. SAP 3. TISCO 4. Implementation of ERP at TATA Steel 4.1 Problems occurred 4.2 Solution and implementation 4.3 Benefits 5. What change has occurred after the SAP implementation at Tata steel? 6. Sap at Co- Operative Bulk Handling ltd (CBH) 6.1 Problems occurred 6.2 Solution
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Overview of the case‚ Strategic Management at Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company Zhujiang iron and steel company (ZISCO) is an important strategic business unit within Guangzhou iron and steel enterprises holding limited (GISE)‚ established in 1997 as a state owned organization. Before 2003‚ ZISCo pursued a product differentiation strategy with a focus on domestic niche markets because ZISCo was new in steel market and had no distribution channel. With this strategy ZISCo couldn’t achieve economies
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