THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG School of Economics and Finance FINA1001: Financial Statement Analysis Second Semester 2009-2010 Dr. Kam-Ming Wan Midterm Examination (90 minutes) April 1‚ 2010 10:40a.m.(12:10p.m. Candidates may use any self-contained‚ silent‚ battery-operated and pocket-sized calculator. The calculator should have numeral-display facilities only and should be used only for the purposes of calculation. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure
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Hong Kong Comics: Mass Culture? Introduction When I was first given the project topics to study‚ I decided to write a research paper on local comics without a second thought. As a Hong Kong people‚ local comics have took an irreplaceable position in my memory. Reading Old Master Q (老夫子) and Ngau Zai (牛仔) in the public libraries was one of the best memories in my childhood. Hence I want to carry out a study on local comics as a remarkable genre of the local popular culture. However‚ as Ng Wing
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The following case report details both internal and external factors which attribute to the case. On the internal side‚ factors include unfavourable organizational leadership‚ aggressive organization culture and uncompromised organization goals. Organizational leadership fails to demonstrate trust to employees. The firm eliminated 22000 jobs from 2006 to 2008. It shows that the company routinely fire people who cannot comply with the managers’ command. Therefore‚ the employees have been fear of
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Learning English through Popular Culture The human desire to look attractive is universal and because of this‚ cosmetic surgery is now a multi-million dollar industry. Write a letter to the editor of the Hong Kong Express about the obsession with physical beauty. Dear Editor‚ I am writing to express my grave concern towards the obsession with physical beauty in the territory. Seeing that a deluge of advertisements and billboards concerning beauty parlors and slimming centres show up on magazines
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Why all Hong Kong people hates CY Leung Actually‚ not all Hong Kong people hate CY Leung‚ just 95% of them hate him. The remaining 5% include the underground communist party members in Hong Kong‚ the new immigrants which is from Mainland China‚ the people which the Communist party of China paid for and CY Leung himself.(sadly‚ the communist party of China is too rich to send so many immigrants to Hong Kong‚ which is increasing that 5%). Who is CY Leung? Well‚ if you live in Hong Kong‚ you must
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Introduction: Fast food restaurant is one of most common industry in Hong Kong. Some well-known company such as McDonald even is an international company. So what is the mode of operation under the global competition? According to the Marxism‚ the capitalist may perspective their staff in order to increase the profit. After the implementation of minimum wage‚ does the situation has improve? I’ll consider this critical problem in this essay and state about what kind of perspective they use before
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Cultural Difference between Hong Kong and the U.S. Hong Kong has been one of the most prosperous cities in the world for many years. The idea of Hong Kong being returned to China was frightening many Hong Kong people in the early 80s‚ but the handover turned out to be a memorable moment for most of the citizens. Today‚ Hong Kong is no longer a colony of Britain and Chinese are holding most of the top positions in the government. Not only the political and economic issues have been changed a lot
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Hong Kong Business Law Assignment 1 1. Zoe wants to sue the retailer to claim back property damage of $22‚000. The consumer claim to sue the retailer of HK$22‚000 is a minor monetary claim. The Smalls Claims Tribunal was set up to deal with monetary claims involving amounts not exceeding HK$50‚000. It is an inferior court which provides a quick ‚ inexpensive and informal method of adjudicating disputes relating to minor monetary claim. Legal representation is not allowed. It is most feasible
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Exchange Rate System in Hong Kong On Nov 16‚ 2011‚ The IMF Staff Mission visited Hong Kong and showed endorsement on keeping the linked exchange rate in place (HKISD‚ 2011)‚ in spite of the voices of the abolition of the system‚ which causes adverse effects to the Hong Kong economy with monetary policies by the FED (Stephen‚ 2010). This system has been in function from the year 1983. It grants the HKD stability predictability and attracts foreign investments‚ turning Hong Kong into the world financial
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Students are unhappy Who think that being a student is happy nowadays? A recent survey showed that Hong Kong students are not happy with their lives. Some even have a very negative attitude towards life. The primary cause of their unhappiness is their failure to get good results‚ to achieve their ambitions and maintain the good relationship with their parents and friends. We should have a better insight on how these affect students. When students are unable to get good results‚ they feel
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