Course Subject: Accounting for Decision-making Course Code : GSM5301 Group : 8 Case Study : Prestige Telephone Company Background of Case Study In April 1997‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company (PTC)‚ Daniel Rowe‚ was making arrangements to meet with its computer data service subsidiary Prestige Data Services’ (henceforth PDS) manager Susan Bradley. This subsidiary performs data processing for the telephone company and sells computer services to other companies. In 1994‚ Rowe suggested
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environment and people. Poaching is a crime that isn’t all black and white. There are many different methods and reasons as to why people do it that may seem right or justified to them. We have five reasons why poaching is beneficial to the environment and people. Our first reason why poaching is beneficial is that we think that people who poach make pretty good money. This may sound like a stupid reason but think about it‚ people who poach live in countries like India‚ South Africa‚ Madagascar‚ and
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Reasons Employees Leave Organizations Employees leave organizations for various reasons. They might leave to go back to school or take care of children. Most of the reasons why employees leave are under control of the employer. Employers need to maintain employee retention‚ so focusing on certain elements of workplace culture might help retain employees. Some questions to ask are if they are happy with their jobs or are they getting bored with work? Asking yourself how you could challenge your
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Rotor Corporation acquired 30 percent of Stator Company ’s stock for $150‚000. On the acquisition date‚ Stator reported net assets of $450‚000 valued at historical cost and $500‚000 stated at fair value. The difference was due to the increased value of buildings with a remaining life of 15 years. During 2007 and 2008 Stator reported net income of $25‚000 and $15‚000 and paid dividends of $10‚000 and $12‚000‚ respectively. Rotor uses the equity method. 1. Based on the preceding information
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Define who is an agent and give TWO (2) reasons why agents are appointed. GHL Fridman describes agency as ‘the relationship that exists between persons when one‚ called the agent‚ is considered in law to represent the other‚ called the principal‚ in such a way as to be able to affect the principal’s legal position in resects of strangers to the relationship by the making of contracts or the disposition of property’. The Australian High Court in International Harvester Co of Australia Pty
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very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why‚ By: Jay Asher‚ is about a young man‚ Clay Jensen‚ who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush‚ Hannah Baker‚ committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents‚ and teachers complain that a book containing sexually explicit
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The skin color a person is born with is something that they have to live with for their entire life. Whether the person is White‚ African American‚ Asian‚ or Native American‚ they can not change the race they were born into. As it says in the book‚ race is a group of people defined by physical characteristics‚ such as skin color‚ that differentiate members from other groups on that basis. All it is‚ is simply physical appearances‚ but it completely categorize people in good and bad ways. Some people
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thing about change-resistant employees. The Real Reason People Won’t Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 50 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 51 The Real Reason People Won’t Change 59 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0110E The Real Reason People Won’t
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Why Organizations Change Organizations change for a number of different reasons‚ so they can either react to these reasons or be ahead of them. These reasons include: 1. Crisis: Obviously September 11 is the most dramatic example of a crisis which caused countless organizations‚ and even industries such as airlines and travel‚ to change. The recent financial crisis obviously created many changes in the financial services industry as organizations attempted to survive. 2. Performance Gaps: The
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Speaking of a change‚ is doubt that most of the people in the world will be undelightful hearing of it. That is a normal nature of how people respond to change at first. But later‚ when they finally realized the benefits of change‚ they might be considering themselves getting involves to it. First‚ lets look to the following figure which I took it from the internet. The figure of 25 companies’ reports shows the distribution of scores on 1 to scale of participants which they were asked to rate
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