OPERATING CYCLE The way working capital moves around the business is modeled by the working capital cycle.This shows the cash coming into the business‚what happens to it while the business has it and then where it goes.the term operating cycle otherwise known as “cash cycle”.In order to earn sufficient profits‚a firm has to depend on its sales activities apart from others.The continuing flow from cash to suppliers‚to investors‚to debtors and back in cash.The time gap is technically termed as
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Q4) what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm of operating on a large scale? Economies of scale fall under microeconomics and are the cost advantages a business obtains due to expansion. As scale is increased they cause a producers average cost per unit to fall. Microeconomics (from Greek prefix micro- meaning "small" and "economics") is a branch of economics in which you study the behaviour of how the individual firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Normally‚ it applies
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Operating Cycle: Over the last five years data has shown the rate of inventory turnover has been increasing. That is‚ it has gradually taken longer and longer for purchased inventory to be sold. An analysis of the financial data shows that current inventory turnover is at 150 days (2012: 153 days)‚ which is significantly higher than 107 days in 2007. The formula used was taken from financial data retrieved from the financial statements and was calculated as: 365/ (Cost of Goods Sold/Average
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Committee‚ 1992). The mishaps caused by the weak corporate governance structure have caused chaos in the corporate world around the globe. Corporate governance is represented by general set of customs‚ regulations‚ habits‚ and laws that determine how a firm should be run as to maximize the wealth of its stockholders. So‚ in broader sense‚ corporate governance is maximizing the shareholder’s value by ensuring practices which are fair with regard to all stakeholders‚ customers‚ employees‚ investors‚ vendors
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Over a century the long-term care system has gone through five cycles of changes that are woven together. Professors David Smith and Zhanlian Feng describe the changes that have occurred and the challenges long-term care faces in hopes to educate policymakers to learn from the past and not remake the negative effects. Extended over approximately 20 years a piece‚ these five cycles start in 1910 to present day (Smith & Feng‚ 2010‚ p. 28). Access to quality of long-term care has become strained
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Sika Nsiah-Poku INTB 1203 Case 5: Family Business Succession in Asia (Richard Ivey School of Business) Characteristics of a typical Asian Family firm. The Wang Group exhibits many characteristics of a typical Asian family firm. Their kinship relationship‚ succession plan‚ business continuity and family members hire are all similar. The Wang Group is first and foremost a family-owned business group‚ which has been active for four generations who carried the business tradition to the next generation
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CSR PRACTICES OF INDIAN FIRMS In order to have some insight into the various practices and initiatives taken by the corporates some leading Indian firms were selected which are Hindustan Unilever Ltd‚ ACC Ltd‚ Ashok Leyland Ltd.‚ Apollo hospitals Enterprise Ltd.‚ DLF ltd.‚ Ultratech Cement‚ Pepsi Co. India. HINDUSTAN UNILIVER LTD. Hindustan Uniliver Ltd. 4 is the India’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company with a heritage of over 75 years in India. With over 35 brands spanning 20 distinct
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code). This translation process is called compilation. We compile the source program to create the compiled program. The compiled program can then be run (or executed) to do what was specified in the original source program. The source language is always a higher-level language in comparison to machine code‚ written using some mixture of English words and mathematical notation‚ assembly language being the lowest compilable language (an assembler being a special case of a compiler that translates assembly
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In long-term relationship‚ the major characteristics for success of the relationship are mainly focused at negotiations. Some of the major practices employed for a management success of outsourcing relationship is discussed below. Keeping relationship between key management personnel: If the working relationship is strong and good understanding between the key management of both teams‚ then such relationships often always produce a long lasting result. Most of the successful research for outsourcing
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Some Beneficial Features of the UNIX Operating System CIS 155 Some Beneficial Features of the UNIX Operating System Safety issues have always been one of the major aspects of effective operation of human beings and systems invented and implemented by individuals all over the world in different periods of human history. The rise of the personal computer in the market is another potential threat; nowadays this threat comes from the internet through computers and other devices
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