ACCOUNTING-BASED EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND REAL ACTIVITIES MANIPULATION A Dissertation Presented to The Academic Faculty by Wei Yu In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Management Georgia Institute of Technology August 2008 Copyright 2008 by Wei Yu 3327682 Copyright 2008 by Yu‚ Wei All rights reserved 2008 3327682 ACCONTING-BASED EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND REAL ACTIVITIES MANIPULATION Approved by: Dr. Bryan
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“The Effect of Level of Activity on Clothespin Squeezing Amount Question: Does exercising/ resting affect the number of times you can squeeze a clothespin in a minute? Hypothesis: If the person DOES NOT exercise before the task then‚ they will be able to squeeze the clothespin more because not exercising/resting allows the body to relax and there are no buildups of waste products. Biological Explanation: Both the respiratory system and the circulatory system are involved within my experiment
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Sara Ziegler Basic Public Speaking November 28‚ 2006 Topic: Increasing the driving age to 18 Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that making the driving age 18 is a safer requirement for young teens. Thesis: Changing the driving age to 18 will reduce driving fatalities and accidents‚ make our system more efficient (similar to Germany’s laws in driving)‚ and reduce our gas and insurance prices. Introduction A week before my 16th birthday after hours of begging and pleading‚ my
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of large corporations. Specifically‚ the case centers on the capital expenditure meeting for the Target Corporation‚ which is one of the top ten retailers in the United States. All corporations have some version of this meeting. The goal of the meeting is to determine what capital expenditure projects the company will undertake in the future to promote growth. Below is our analysis of the Target Corporation’s top five capital budgeting requests (CPR) up for debate. We will first compare Target’s
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Overview of Target Corporation versus Wal-Mart Inc. Overview This paper will give a summary of Target corporation versus Wal-Mart stores‚ Incorporated. In the following weeks it will compare the financial performances of these two companies‚ by evaluating circumstances such as the times interest earned‚ return on equity‚ return on assets and other factors. This paper will present an overview of the exchanges on which both company’s stock is traded. It will also present characteristics of that
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Target Case EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Target Corporation‚ originally Dayton Dry Goods Company‚ was founded in 1902 and headquartered in Minnesota. The first Target store was opened in 1962 with the purpose of providing customers with discounted values. Currently there are 1888 stores in the US and Canada and in 2004 Target Corporation sold all of their subsidiaries in order to focus on the Target stores. Today they are the second largest discount retailer in the world but are in continuous competition
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CASE 3: FLIGHT OF FUNDS A. Problems Mr. Idris bin Junid appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Travel Investment Holdings Bhd. (TIH) on 1 April 2010. TIH suffered major losses due to the global economic downturn in 2009. As the CEO‚ Idris had to identify the cause of the major losses‚ he had to focus on the bottom line and cash flow of the organization. Idris has noticed that there had been an investment made by a subsidiary Malaysia Travels Sdn. Bhd. (MTSB) in 2006 which had shown no
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Establishing a Selling Price for the product Based on the market research of a new product and also the market condition‚ the selling price is established. The desired profit margin is subtracted from the target selling price to determine the target cost. If the target cost is below the company’s current cost‚ the company may decide to introduce the product and functional cost analysis may attempt to reduce cost to an acceptable level. If the target cost is above the current cost‚ functional cost analysis
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Introduction 3 1.0 Introduction Social Security Fund (SSF) was established on 23 March 1990 to provide basic social security for the Macau residents. According to the Act 84/89/M‚ Social Security fund would provide subsidies or assistance for unemployed‚ sick and retired people. This was the so-call “the first tier of social security”. At the same time‚ SSF was positioned as a financially independent fund under the local government. In Macau‚ Pension fund is included in the SSF‚ and there is no separation
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competitors. Walmart has affected targets performance in the past few years. The fact that they could keep low prices when that was at a high demand made target think that they had to lower their prices which would made their customers think that they didn’t have that high quality that they once had before. 2. What macro environmental factors have affected target’s performance over the past few years? The biggest affect was recession and inflation‚ this was not good for target because the lost a lot of
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