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    Meregrs and Acquisitions

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    **************************2006************************** MCS 2006 (SUM NO 7) Q) Soniya Company has two Divisions: A & B. Return on Investment for both divisions is 20%. Details are given below:- Particulars | Div A | Div B | Divisional sales | 4000000 | 9600000 | Divisional Investment | 2000000 | 3200000 | Profit | 400000 | 640000 | Analyse and comment on divisional performance of each. ANSWER As Profit Margin = Profit *100

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    Mergers & Acquisitions

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    As explained on the "cash to boot" page of this website‚ mergers between corporations sometimes are paid for with a combination of stock and cash‚ which provides a unique accounting challenge. The general tax rule is that you must pay capital gains tax on such a transaction‚ but only to the extent of "cash to boot" which is the amount of cash you actually received. (It’s technically called a Section 368 reorg.) In some cases‚ such as Fording Canadian and the Wyeth merger with Pfizer‚ the

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    Gender Social Conditioning

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    or religious traditions might be the bigger factor or influence for gender socialization in communitarian or other types of societies. I would like to start with an observation I made about this particular issue while looking through an English language textbook for beginners. In a chapter about occupations‚ I noted that most jobs associated with the

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    A six-month trial study utilizing female civilian participants for physical strength conditioning progressed from 24 percent to 78 percent of the study group physically qualifying for ‘very heavy’ army jobs that females were currently excluded from. (Sherrow p52). If in just six months‚ such progress could be made with determined civilians‚ one could at least expect the same amount of dedication from individuals whose sworn duty it is to defend their nation. Even if the initial implementation of

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    Most of the time‚ people are afraid of spiders because they’ve been trained to fear them by their parents and friends. Psychologists Bandera and Rosenthal felt fear reactions are acquired by modeling (Comer‚ p. 112). Classical conditioning and genetics also come into play (Comer‚ p. 111-113). I think it is wise to fear spiders; some spiders can inflict a nasty bite as with the brown recluse spider. I know there are ways to overcome your fears such as reconditioning and exposure therapy‚ but I have

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    workplace‚ like the boss punish the worker. It is specific for families‚ such as parents punish their own children. Introduced by B.F.Skinner‚ punishment has a more restrictive and technical definition. It is referred to as response-stimulus conditioning. In psychology‚ punishment is the reduction of a behavior via application of an adverse stimulus ("positive punishment") or removal of a pleasant stimulus ("negative punishment"). In our short sketch‚ we have tow parts to introduce each positive

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    The article “By Bilingual Acquisition”‚ Genesee (2006) explains how children learn and acquire languages. There are a lot of children who live in different environments from their mother languages such as Arabic. They are exposed to another language‚ and it may affect them. There are also careful parents and educated people who think negatively about childhood bilingualism. This phenomenon is common in some communities where some children grow up with their mother tongue‚ and the parents try to speak

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    2. A child is repeatedly exhibiting inappropriate and unwanted behaviour (e.g. hitting sibling)‚ which conditioning procedures could be used to most effectively stop this? Behaviours that produce favourable consequences are repeated and become habits‚ but those that produce unfavourable consequences tend not to recur (Ouellette and Wood‚ 1998 as cited in Martin et.al‚ 2006). Experience changes the probability of repeating certain behaviours indicating that learning involves adaptation. As time

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    Total Cost of Acquisition

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    CASE STUDY NOTES/ ANALYSIS THE TRUE COST OF ACQUISITION. INTRODUCTION -The department of defense has highlighted its vision and mission but has not broken these down into objectives for each function - Without a breakdown of this mission into workable action plans/ objectives it is therefore very hard to create performance measure and standards of practice - This is evident by the recent happening of Darlene Druyun’s actions while acting in the position of head of procurement - There

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    REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING 1. DEFINATION OF REFRIGERATION Refrigeration is defined as “ the branch of science that deal with the process of reducing and maintaining the temperature of confined space or material below the temperature of surrounding” the system maintain at lower temperature is known as refrigerated system and equipment used to obtain this is known as refrigerator. The cooling effect produced by this equipment is the refrigerating effect. 2. PRINCIPLE OF REFRIGERATION

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