No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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The British Royal Family The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people who are the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms‚ thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family. Members of the Royal Family belong to‚ either by birth or marriage‚ the House of Windsor‚ since 1917‚ when George V changed the name of
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Introduction: The Royal Dutch Shell is one of the biggest multinational petroleum companies‚ with its basis of origin in Dutch and Britain. It was considered as one of the world’s largest corporation by the Fortune in 2009. From its inception in 1907 till date‚ it has been able to emerge as a successful petroleum country reigning in the British markets. With its operations in 140 countries‚ the company has been able to successfully manage their business across borders‚ maintaining their core principles
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analysere og vurdere deres værdikæde. Yderligere vil jeg analysere deres markedsføring på henholdsvis konsument og producent markedet. Jeg vil tillige arbejde koncernens markedsføringsstrategi i denne forbindelse vil jeg vurdere præcis‚ hvilken strategi Royal Unibrew anvender. Metode Arbejdet har bestået i at indsamle materialer som danner grundlag for rapporten. Jeg har fået et indblik i mange artikler og offentliggjorte materialer‚ her under blandt andet årsrapporten fra 2009 samt miljø rapporten fra
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Battle Royal Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison follows the life of a young African-American who looks up to his grandfather although his grandfather describes himself as a "traitor to his people". The narrator contemplates this idea that his grandfather expresses‚ and when he is called to give a speech to a group of upper-class white folks‚ he is persuaded to fight a group of kids of the same age. He is defeated in the fight‚ yet he goes on to make his speech in front of the crowd. His persistence to
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Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 FROM PAST TO PRESENT 1 1.2 Vision‚ Mission & Objectives 2 1.2.1 Vision 2 1.2.2 Mission 2 1.2.3 Objectives 2 1.3 Board of Directors (Shell Malaysia‚ 2013) 3 1.3.1 Chairman’s Profile 4 1.3.2 Managing Directors’ Profile 5 2.0 Internal & External Environments 6 2.1 Internal Environment Factors 6 2.2 External Environment Factors 6 3.0 Ratio 8 3.1 Profitability Ratio 8 3.2 Liquidity Ratio 10 3.3 Efficiency Ratio 12 3.4 Investors Ratio 15 4.0 Long Term Sustainability 16 4
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Monarch. Although in use for the many official events and receptions held by The Queen‚ the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace are open to visitors every year. For visitor information‚ please visit the Royal Collection website. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms‚ 52 Royal and guest bedrooms‚ 188 staff bedrooms‚ 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. In measurements‚ the building is 108 metres long across the front‚ 120 metres deep (including the central quadrangle) and 24 metres
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ROYAL ENFIELD: In 1863‚ Enfield Company was registered as bicycle manufacturing company in England. In 1913‚ Royal is added to the company name and started manufacturing motor cycles with own designed engine with 8 BHP to war department. In 1921‚ Royal Enfield has introduced 973 cc engine twin and in 1924‚ 350 JAP has been introduced. During Second World War‚ The models produced for the army were the WD/C 350 cc side valve‚ WD/CO 350 cc OHV‚ WD/D 250 cc SV‚ WD/G 350 cc OHV and WD/L 570 cc SV
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An analysis of mise- en- scene‚ editing and sound of “The Royal Tenenbaums” According to Mike Crisp‚ editing “comes in a category some where between nrain surgery at one extreme and tiling the bathroom at the other”.(Orpen 2003‚ 16) French director claude Chabrol compared editing similarly‚ to doing the washing up: “Script writing is like cooking. Shooting‚ the part I enjoy the most‚ is like eating. Editing therefore is‚ well‚ the wasing up.” (Orpen 2003‚ 16) The following essay will analyze mise-
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Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison It goes a long way back‚ some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something‚ and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too‚ though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I‚ and only I‚ could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization
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