inventory tied up in warehouses. Its supply chain comprises of vendor partnerships‚ cross docking and management of distribution‚ technology it uses and the integration (i.e. of suppliers‚ manufacturing‚ warehousing‚ and distribution to stores). The cycle begins from finding the suitable supplier at best price and who can meet the demand. Second step is the supplier shipping the goods to Wal Mart’s distribution centres where it is cross docked and sent to the stores. Wal Mart has state of the art
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Q4) what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm of operating on a large scale? Economies of scale fall under microeconomics and are the cost advantages a business obtains due to expansion. As scale is increased they cause a producers average cost per unit to fall. Microeconomics (from Greek prefix micro- meaning "small" and "economics") is a branch of economics in which you study the behaviour of how the individual firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Normally‚ it applies
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shareholders are the owners of the firm. The shareholders elect the directors of the corporation‚ who in turn appoint the firm’s management. This separation of ownership from control in the corporate form of organization is what causes agency problems to exist. Management may act in its own or someone else’s best interests‚ rather than those of the shareholders. If such events occur‚ they may contradict the goal of maximizing the share price of the equity of the firm. 【Liquidity】 What does liquidity
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Cash & Cash Equivalents Introduction: Cash & cash equivalents may constitute a significant proportion of the total assets of an entity. It is the most liquid asset found within the asset category of a company ’s balance sheet. It is an important criterion to evaluate the liquidity and the short term solvency of a business venture. Liquidity and short term solvency means the ability of the business to pay its short term liabilities. Inability to pay-off short term liabilities affects its credibility
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CASH HOLDINGS‚ WORKING CAPITAL AND FIRM VALUE: EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE Ruta AUTUKAITE* – Eric MOLAY** Abstract: Although companies deal with day-to-day short term financial decisions‚ in corporate finance the emphasis is being put on long term financial issues when talking about company’s value. In this paper a sample of French listed companies was chosen to assess the importance of short term financial decisions to company’s value by testing the following hypotheses: an extra euro invested in cash
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Cash or Not? Whether or not cash should be eliminated is a big debate in our world today. Cash should not be eliminated to provide for safer control of your money. Without cash‚ plenty of problems appear like acts of crime‚ not having banking connections‚ and having your personal information on record. To start off with‚ criminals and hacking progress as technology does. In the Upfront magazine article called "The End of Cash"‚ the author says‚ "Security experts worry‚ for example‚ that hackers could
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1888 The First National Manual Cash Register In 1883 on January the 30th James Ritty receives a Patent for inventing the cash register. Ritty owned a cafe in Dayton in the 1870s it was a popular cafe but somehow always lost money Ritty then blamed the bartenders and other workers for stealing. What Ritty dealt with was very common in the late 1800s. Ritty later went on a vacation on a ship whist on the ship he observed the workings of an automatic device that recorded the revolutions of the ship’s
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Cash and Cash Equivalents Cash This includes money and other negotiable instrument that is payable in money and acceptable by the bank for deposit and immediate credit. Examples are bills and coins‚ checks‚ bank drafts and money orders. To be included or considered as cash‚ it must be unrestricted as to use‚ meaning‚ it must be readily available for use or payment of current obligations‚ thus‚ not subject to contractual or legal restrictions. The following items are included in “cash”:
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School of Accounting & Finance The Hong Kong Polytechnic University AF2111 Accounting for Decision making Semester 1 of 2013/2014 Academic Year Meeting Time: Thursday‚ 19:30 - 21:20 Venue: DE401 (subject group S01) Instructor: Ms Sarah Cheng Mei Ling Office: M754‚ Li Ka Shing Building Tel. No.: (852) 2766-7027 E-mail:
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Communication is a process that involves exchange of information‚ thoughts‚ ideas and emotions. Communication is a process that involves a sender who encodes and sends the message‚ which is then carried via the communication channel to the receiver where the receiver decodes the message‚ processes the information and sends an appropriate reply via the same communication channel. There are many types of communication and interpersonal communication within health and social care setting. This is interaction
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