TJX Companies Jim Blackwood IT/205 January-9th‚ 2013 Gelonda Martin TJX Companies The TJC Corporation failed to protect its customers by allowing one of the largest security breaches in history. In 2007 they announced that an unauthorized user had accessed their system and compromised over 40 million customers’ data such as credit cards‚ debit cards and personal pin numbers. TJX was using an older security protocol called WEP which had proven to be easy to access by hackers and had
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Derivatives Analysis Case 2: Williams Company 1. In July 2002‚ Williams faces a tough time. Williams engaged in many different types of energy activities‚ including the purchase‚ sale‚ transportation‚ transmission of energy-traded commodities (natural gas and liquids‚ crude oil‚ refined products‚ and electricity)‚ and exploration and refining. It also involved in the telecommunications service by running optical fiber throug old natural gas pipelines. The company grew impressively from its beginnings
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of television and radio appearances and his name and pictures was used by the company. Subsequently‚ John heard nothing from the Superfast Ltd. Last week‚ he decided to travel to a football game in Liverpool and he contacted Superfast Ltd to arrange his free travel. The company informed him that the ‘free travel for life’was simply a prize that had been made available to him and as he had provided nothing to the company in return so there would be no free travel made available to him. The case
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cancelled only by special resolution of the company and: (c) by special resolution passed at a meeting: (i) for a company with a share capital of the class of members holding shares in the class… (d) with the written consent of members with at least 75% of the votes in the class.” (Tony & Christopher 2009) It would seem that the Company has the special resolution about the preference shares’ rights. By reliance on the assumption in s246B (2)‚ the Company will cannot increase the dividend rate for
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We want to compare the performance of McDonald and Burger King; start by looking at their income statements‚ which we can find out whether the companies make money or not. The following information was obtained from http://www.marketwatch.com. The revenues for McDonald from 2008-2012 were 23.52B‚ 22.74B‚ 24.07B‚ 27.01B‚ 27.57B respectively. The company had expense of 14.88B‚ 13.95B‚ 14.44B‚ 16.32B‚ 16.75B‚ 1.97B for the last five years. And it has gross profit of 8.64B‚ 8.79B‚ 9.64B‚ 10.69B‚ 10.82B
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Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman‚ and officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978. The company takes its name from Nike‚ the Greek goddess of victory‚ and adopted the well-known logo‚ called the “Swoosh”‚ first used by Nike in 1971. Nike produces a wide range of sports equipments. Their first products were track running shoes‚ for a wide range of sports including track & field‚ tennis‚ baseball‚ Association
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CS Professional Programme Tax Notes Prepared by: CA R Giridharan FCA Collected by: Santhosh Thomas Thaikkadan Tax Management Tax Management is essential‚ Tax planning is desirable and Tax evasion is objectionable. Elaborate. Tax Planning Tax Management Tax Evasion Tax planning is to avail Tax management refers to Tax evasion refers to ways maximum benefit deductions‚ rebates of the steps taken to ensure and means adopted by a exemptions‚ compliance
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The Walt Disney Company -Company Profile- The Walt Disney Company is a worldwide entertainment company‚ whose hero (the well-known Mickey Mouse who enchanted every child’s life) is even more famous than the company itself. Public Profile First of all‚ we have to locate the company: its headquarter is in California‚ more exactly at 500 South Buena Vista Street‚ Burbank‚ CA 91521. It was created in December 1919 by Walt Disney and Ubbe Iwwerks under the name
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Even though we learned from the case that Carlton Polish had a “modest share of the national market” the company had an excellent reputation with very strong distributors in different regions. Carlton Polish Company’s Strategy Over the years of doing business Carlton has grown to build a strong foundation for the company. Carlton has a few different strategies that can help the company become more competitive and increase their market share. One of the strategies is to expand geographically
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– TJX Companies IT/205 Joshua Bailey The credit card data theft that TJX Companies experienced happened because they were using WEP wireless security‚ which is the weakest form of wireless encryption today‚ and hackers could access the credit card data easily. If TJX had taken the time to implement a stronger encryption method‚ thousands of dollars would have been saved by the company. Proper site surveying could also have prevented the attackers from making a breach. TJX Companies had other
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