McDonald’s The McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries across 35‚000 outlets.[5][6] Headquartered in the United States‚ the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently
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useful life (calculated by management)‚ but during 201X‚ RockOut management has decided to modify the useful life of newly acquired customer lists at a useful life of 15 years. This decision has resulted in a total amortization expense for 12/31/2011 of $3 million. The substantive tests used by the audit team are designed to detect whether any material misstatements in accounting transactions have occurred in regard to completeness‚ validity‚ and accuracy of the financial statements that pertain to a
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interest on the Alzheimer’s disease after watching the movie ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ where the protagonist tries to fix the neurology nerve system to heal his father’s Alzheimer. #2 Ask Question What causes Alzheimer’s disease neurologically? #3 Create possible explanation I think the core reason of the Alzheimer’s disease lie on the nerve pathway signal transmission. I think the nerve pathway signal transmission system is same as all of the body functional system and as it grows older and
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M&S (A) Marks & Spencer (known as M&S) is a famous British retail chain selling clothes‚ food‚ household goods and furniture from over 450 shops in the UK and some 200 managed under franchise in 30 territories mostly in Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Asia and the Far East as well as wholly-owned stores in the Republic of Ireland and Hong Kong. In 2007 it had a turnover of over £7 billion and employed over 70‚000 people. M&S’s origins come from a chain of ‘penny bazaars’ (market stalls selling everything
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I. Presentation of the Company Short History Arctic S.A. is the largest Romanian household appliances producer and one of the largest refrigerators producer in Europe. It is the leader on the local home appliance market‚ with a market share of over 35%. At the same time‚ Arctic is also the largest manufacturer of household appliances with his Factory at Gaesti which has the capacity to produce anually over 25 million refrigerators. Arctic was founded in 1968 in Găeşti by the former Communist Regime
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Industries were still standing in America; they were actually richer and more powerful than before World War I. So what was so different in the 1930’s? The Great Depression replaced those carefree years into ones of turmoil and despair. The decade after the First World War saw tremendous change. Progressivism was a leading factor of World War I and in the 1920’s the evidence can be seen. Industries were making their products at an increasing rate. Products that were not populous before World War I were
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M&S did not overtly follow any particular change management model(s). Therefore‚ it is helpful to examine the change initiatives that the company put in place using Balogun and Hailey’s (2004) ‘change kaleidoscope’‚ which outlines three aspects through which the change process can be viewed and assessed (see Figure 1). This diagnostic framework includes the organisational strategic change context‚ change contextual features and design choices. Effectiveness of the Change Programme and Agent(s)
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some good‚ some bad‚ such as the Westward Expansion or Texas Independence took place. Through the early 1800’s‚ writers like Longsfellow‚ art like the Hudson River School‚ and lyricists like Samuel Smith presented not only their perspective on the issues going on at the time‚ but also demonstrate it through art that people could enjoy for years to come. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Paul Revere’s Ride‚ a poem describing that well-known midnight
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One day Edison’s boss called him to his office. He asked him how much it would cost to buy his improvements. He wanted $6‚000 but his boss offered $40‚000! Edison bought a factory and started inventing. In 1871‚ Edison married Mary Stiltwell and had three children. In 1876‚ Edison moved out of Newark and into Meleno Park. In 1876 Alexander Bell invented the telephone and Edison improved it by making it battery powered. He then invented a lampback out of graphite and it made the signal clearer
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