Assurance of Learning Exercise 4A Adidas’ Income Statement for 2009 Currency in Millions of Euros | : | | Dec 31 2009 EUR | | | | Revenues | | 10‚381.0 | | | | TOTAL REVENUES | | 10‚381.0 | | | | Cost of Goods Sold | | 5‚669.0 | | | | GROSS PROFIT | | 4‚712.0 | | | | Selling General & Admin Expenses‚ Total | | 1‚376.0 | | | | Other Operating Expenses | | 2‚796.0 | | | | OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES‚ TOTAL | | 4‚172.0 | | | | OPERATING INCOME |
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What is devaluation of a currency? It refers to decline in value of a currency with respect to other currencies‚ which is most of the times brought by central bank. It should not be confused with term depreciation of currency which is a decline in currency value due to market forces without interference of government. When does this happen and how? This happens mostly in developing countries which don’t allow currency prices to be determined by market forces. What happens is that they want to
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Money doesn’t buy happiness but it helps. Money has become one of the main things in our modern life. Some people live their lives to earn money. They work hard‚ trying to earn as much money as they can. Some of them become crazy about it and lose their dignity hunting money. They don’t appreciate such important things as family‚ friendship‚ love and other feelings. Such people become greedy‚ they spend their lives in loneliness. I don’t deny that money influences our life a lot. As W.S. Maugham
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The Civil War was a time of great social and political upheaval. It was also a time of great technological change. Inventors and military men devised new types of weapons‚ such as the repeating rifle and the submarine‚ that forever changed the way that wars were fought. Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war‚ like the railroad and the telegraph. Innovations like these did not just change the way people fought wars--they also changed the way people
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conducting trade with China ever since it has had a port. One of the first ships to sail under the American flag was the Empress of China‚ which left the New York harbor on February 22‚ 1784‚ to become the first U.S. ship in Chinese waters when it landed in Guangzhou‚ China. That first voyage opened a door to both the United States and China‚ a door that would lead to centuries of trade‚ and would make both nations the largest economies in the modern world. Later‚ the U.S. saw China for what it was: a huge
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Since the issue of Chinese currency exchange rate against U.S dollar has been capturing widespread attention‚ the purpose of the study proposed herein is to profit from empirically analyzing the income elasticity and elasticity of exchange rate of gross Sino-US trade and commodities from ten main categories1 by employing quarterly data from 1996 to 2009‚ aiming to judge whether Chinese currency needs an appreciation or not. Ever since the 1980s‚ due to its upgrade in industrial structure‚ the United
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posed by worldwide currency fluctuations. One hedges the currency risk by contracting to sell foreign currency in the future‚ at the current exchange rate (Fries). If fund managers think the dollar is going to be stronger when they are ready to change the foreign currency back into American dollars‚ then they take out a foreign futures contract (a hedge). Thus‚ they lock in the exchange rate beforehand‚ so that they will not lose profits gained from holding devalued foreign currency (Hedging‚ 1999)
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Biological Currency The objective of this lab is to figure out whether or not this money is counterfeit. We will attempt to find the information needed to prove that the money is counterfeit or not by looking at it under a microscope and by using iodine drops to compare the money’s result with the results of different items. Counterfeiting money is not a new to any country. It started when paper money was first made. Some countries attempt to counterfeit rivals money to drive their economy downward
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launched through the buying of 737 jets from Boeing. They were the first one’s to do so and because of this they are now the leading airline out of Germany (Wikipedia‚ 1). "Lufthansa operates more than 300 aircraft and employs nearly 100‚000 people world-wide. In 2005‚ 51.3 million passengers flew with Lufthansa (Wikipedia‚ 1)." When the jets were bought in 1985 for $500‚000‚000 it was considered a huge mistake. Since Lufthansa was just breaking into the business buying the planes from the U.S when
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sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged‚ the undersigned parties agree and state that they wish to enter into this agreement for the exchange of United Sates Dollars (USD) against Euros (EUR) under the terms and conditions described below. This currency exchange transaction will be a bank-to-bank transaction‚ to be executed via swift-transmittal transfer upon usual bank to bank procedure. . 1. Description of the transaction . Type of the transaction PRIVATE FOREIGN EXCHANGE
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