Minicase 1. ERP helps productivity at Northern Digital Inc. 1. For a small company like NDI‚ why is an ERP better than SCM applications? ERP’s major objective is to integrate all departments and functional information flows across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all of the enterprise’s needs while SCM software focuses on planning‚ optimization and decision-making processes in segments of the supply chain. ERP is also a cost saving application as it can be leased (in our
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1. [Financial Risk and Return Considerations] Explain how you would choose between the following situations. Develop your answers from the perspective of the principles of entrepreneurial finance presented earlier in the chapter. You may arrive at your answers with or without making actual calculations. A. You have $1‚000 to invest for one year (this would be a luxury for most entrepreneurs). You can earn a 4% interest rate for one year at the Third First bank or a 5% interest rate
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It is immoral because it promotes impetuous behavior‚ justifies the killing of human life and goes against the human rights declaration. In addition to that‚ there is the possibility that the person convicted is actually innocent. There are cases that have shown this happening due to the fact that humans are prone to err. After the death penalty has been carried out‚ there is no reversal. Lastly‚ the death penalty has been statistically
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although evidence backs up either way‚ and this debate has been occurring quite frequently. In Jacob Schuman’s argument he can be seen to inform the reader or the audience‚ knowledge of how if society has to continue to deal with the guns and the possibility of someone getting hurt we then have to realize that it’s not equal to both sides to limit gun control we either let everyone have firearms or no one at all‚ and in low income areas it’s a higher risk to allow firearms being used since crime rates
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value generation. Mergers also present the possibility of tax gains‚ capital cost reduction‚ and an increase in revenues. Even though there are many benefits to a merger‚ there are also issues that would be considered negative. To evaluate the option of a merger as a means to expand operations‚ it is necessary to research the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats with a SWOT analysis. Merger Strengths Strengths of a merger include the possibility of cost savings‚ through the reduction of
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Synthetic drugs are artificially made in a laboratory. Chemotherapy began in the 1940s and is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Different antibiotics and synthetic drugs all have different modes of actions and can have several different possibilities of side effects. Antibiotics work by finding something in the pathogen that is different in the host cell and attacks it to stop the pathogen from reproducing and causing more harm. The side effects can range from loss of hearing all the way to
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. Introduction LandLease (Asia) Property Limited (LL) wants to infiltrate the Hong Kong real estate sector. Louisa Martin and her senior advisor Marco Li have two main possibilities to achieve this goal‚ direct and/or indirect investment. By investigating the different investment possibilities they want to understand the merits and demerits‚ including risk and return of the possible investments. Bearing these outcomes in mind‚ they can form a new strategy for the company. We will discuss 4 different
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educational opportunities for students. As a result‚ it lead to multiculturalism and advances in education‚ so students can learn a different cultures. The globalization of education allow students to choose educational facilities all over the world. The possibility of living in other countries leading to them having a new experiences encourages them to accept a variety of knowledge (edlt.flinders.edu.au 2009:1). As Tang (2012:1&2) indicates the ability of students to graduate from foreign university may make
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to kill him for this act. George finds it out and is automatically involved with this situation although he hasn’t done a thing. And now he has to make a decision for someone who is not able to understand that he can’t make any. The first possibility for George would have been‚ as it also happened in the book‚ to kill Lennie before he is being killed by Curly‚ the husband of Curley’s wife. But there the question of moral comes up where you ask yourself it that really makes sense to kill somebody
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among the populace 2. The quality must be passed on by hereditary means from parent to posterity and 3. There must be a "differential conceptive achievement" in view of people; while those with the attribute ought to replicate and have a superior possibility of making due than those without it. Every one of the three of these stipulations must be met with the goal of advancement to happen. A balancing out heading is the point of which it supports a decline in the attributes that are outrageous and not
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