Student’s Name: Nevine El Toukhi Class : 45C Case 01 : Predicting Performance Alix’s Problem Alix Maher is the new admissions director at a small‚ highly selective New England College. She has a bachelor’s degree in education and a recent Master’s Degree in educational administration. But she has no prior experience in college admissions. In spite of Alix’s predecessor had given Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)‚ scores (40 %)‚ weights to student selection criteria; Alix has serious reservations
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Be Sure to submit these assignments by 09/27/2014 on BlackBoard‚ under “Assignment-Week 2. Answers must be labeled properly‚ with all pertinent information. No late submissions will be accepted. Assignment-1 The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) The financial statements of P&G are Posted in BlackBoard‚ under “Handouts” Instructions Refer to P&G’s financial statements and the accompanying notes to answer the following questions. (a) What type of income statement format does P&G use? Indicate why
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218). Many companies used to hold and continue to hold flaws in their governance structures that allow management to operate their businesses to further their own personal self-interests instead of increasing the shareholders’ values. The three cases that I believe illustrates the most ineffective corporate governance system include: Nortel‚ Adelphia‚ and Tyco. Nortel Networks’ ineffective corporate governance system stemmed off of the management’s use of earnings management in order to achieve
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1. Ryan’s ethical dilemma is to manipulate the cost budget to keep the price competitive so that the VP of Sales‚ Sid‚ can make his quota for the year. Ryan is being asked to remove the quality testing and maintenance from variable costs and make them fixed costs to allow the selling price to drop from $6.00 to $5.30. Sid‚ the VP of sales is using his status in the company to take advantage of Ryan. Ryan‚ a new hire‚ wants to be on good terms with everyone and this is just putting him in a compromising
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The scarlet letter was a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1850. The Scarlet Letter which was his greatest work ever is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting. Hester Prynne Although The Scarlet Letter is about Hester Prynne. We know very little about Hester prior to her affair with Dimmesdale and her public shaming. We read that she married Chillingworth although she did not love him‚ but we never fully understand why. The early
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character sketch of Macbeth Macbeth is a very complex character. He has so many character traits. The most noticeable characteristic is that Macbeth is a very ambitious person. He also is a coward person as he always depends on others to make decisions. And one thing very important is that Macbeth is a incompatible person. The good and evil both exist in his characteristic. He is a incompatible person. From the beginning we can see it. At the Act 1‚ scene3
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EHM3066 Engineer and Society Assignment 1 & 2 Trimester 3 – 2012/2013 A. Group Registration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. You must ONLY work in a group of 9 to 10 people. Your group has to choose ONE topic from the given Assignment 1 topics as in Appendix A1. Your group has to do Assignment 2 as detailed in Appendix A2. Register for the topic by filling up the hardcopy form provided in the lecturer class. For Assignment 1‚ each topic can only be registered by a maximum of 3 groups. The registration for topic is
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------------------------------------------------- Review Assessment: Chapter 1 Quiz (Due January 29‚ 2012) Status | Completed | Score | 75 out of 100 points | Instructions | | | Question 1 | 0 out of 2 points | | The following multiple-choice question requires critical thinking about In the News and World View articles that appeared in the text. One World View article is titled "Food Shortages Plague N. Korea." On a production-possibilities curve between private and public
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rules in Situation Ethics.” Assess this claim Some people have criticised Situation Ethics‚ saying that it has no rules as each situation must be considered when making an ethical decision. But how accurate is this criticism? William Barclay is very vocal on this. He accuses Fletcher of heading towards anarchy. In his view we need rules in society. He says that rules are the result of our past experiences as a society and that to discard them is dangerous. His system of ethics is a deontological
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Adam Smith I. Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy‚ Fife‚ Scotland. The date of his birth is unknown‚ but the recorded date of his baptism is June 5‚ 1723. Growing up‚ Smith was close to his mother‚ she’s the one that encouraged his scholarly desire. At the age of fourteen he went to the University of Glasgow‚ later he went to Balliol college in Oxford‚ England. Smith spent his years teaching‚ mentoring‚ and publishing some of his lectures in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This work
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