The use of Return on Investment (ROI) causes managers to consider income and investment when making decisions. A company’s return on investment is the measure of income or profit divided by the investment required to obtain that income or profit (Horngren‚ Sundem‚ Stratton‚ Burgstahler‚ and Schatzberg‚ 2008). ROI can be used as a test of profitability. The formula for ROI is ROI = Net Income ÷ Total Assets. Guillermo‚ like most investors wants the maximum income‚ considering he is given the same
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Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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What is Investment Banking “A specific division of banking related to the creation of capital for other companies. Investment banks underwrite new debt and equity securities for all types of corporations. Investment banks also provide guidance to issuers regarding the issue and placement of stock.” An investment bank is a financial institution that helps companies take new bond or stock issues to market‚ usually acting as the intermediary between the issuer and investors. In addition to the services
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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Investment Policy‚ Ethics‚ and Portfolio Management March 10‚ 2010 Mid-Term Problems Chapter 13 Question 1) Briefly describe the results of studies that examined the performance of alternative industries during specific time periods and discuss their implications for industry analysis. Industry analysis is performed and relevant because different industries have different performance over time periods and during different stages of the business cycle. Yearly performance studies
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BusinessmenFord’s self-imposed injunction to play disruptor to its own sector is gaining momentum‚ and a new major investment suggests that big auto finance actors are not afraid of making the switch from hunted to hunter. In another disruptor-disrupted role-inversion‚ Ford announced a investment $182.2 in Pivotal today‚ a San Francisco-headquartered and cloud-based software platform firm‚ in a bid to enhance its software development capabilities to quicken the return on innovative projects. This
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capitalaim.com There is a blurring of lines between the urban and rural consumers in the country after economic reforms and it is necessary for companies to engage consumers online‚ according to Jotsna Mukherjee‚ a professor in Texas A & M Intl. University in the US and an expert on consumer behaviour. She was delivering a lecture on the subject here at the Integral Institute of Advanced Management on Wednesday at a programme jointly organised by Business Line and the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH)
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INTRODUCTION Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country‚ or compared to worldwide averages. In the Caribbean‚ education is the most dominant way of getting out of poverty. It seems to be the main thing
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