VARIABLE-RATE PREFERRED STOCK Preferred stock has frequently been issued in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Often the preferred stock is issued with a conversion feature‚ so in the long run there is a probability it will become common stock capital. Preferred stock allows the acquired firm’s owners a prior claim relative to common stock and reasonably definite dividends while simultaneously giving the acquiring firm a form of leverage without strapping it with the rigid obligations of
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Design-‐Build Project Delivery Method DEFINITION The term “Design-‐Build”‚ is used to refer to the procurement process in which an owner of a project establishes a contractual relationship with a single entity for both design and construction services. The entity‚ or “designer-‐builder”‚ is
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Publishing Ltd. 2005March 2005 14761ArticlesOrganizational Interventions 9 International Journal of Training and Development 9:1 ISSN 1360-3736 Organizational interventions influencing employee career development preferred by different career success orientations Namhee Kim This study explores what Korean employees prefer as organizational interventions that influence their career development‚ according to their personal interpretation of career success. A quantitative sample survey was designed from a
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Running Head: DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD Civil Engineering: Design-Build Project Delivery Method Design-Build Project Delivery Method Due to the economic specialization‚ a new method named The Design Build Project Delivery Method has been developed. This method is found as the best alternative for delivering the public projects (Design-Build E ffectiveness Study‚ 2006). As per the position of the design professional‚ the design build project delivery methods are suitable for the delivery
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OF PROJECT COMPLETION USING STOCHASTIC PROJECT SCHEDULING SIMULATION (SPSS) Dong-Eun Lee1 ABSTRACT This paper introduces a software‚ Stochastic Project Scheduling Simulation (SPSS)‚ developed to measure the probability to complete a project in a certain time specified by the user. To deliver a project by a completion date committed to in a contract‚ a number of activities need to be carried out. The time that an entire project takes to complete and the activities that determine total project duration
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Having examined the method and theory of scheduling single round-robin tournament‚ the example of ranking systems of it will be covered in the following sections. Most common way to rank players or teams in round-robin tournament Round-robin tournament is widely applied in competitions which are able to be held for a long period and need a comprehensive ranking of the players or teams. In order to acquire the ordering of teams and player‚ the most convenient and common way is to rank the participants
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political ideas through communication‚ transportation‚ and trade. The term is most closely associated with the term economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade‚ foreign direct investment‚ capital flows‚ migration‚ the spread of technology‚ and military presence.However‚ globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic‚ technological‚ sociocultural‚ political‚ and biological factors.The term can also refer to
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Stack Ranking: Is it good or bad? Stacking Ranking‚ some time referred as “ranking and yanking” system‚ has been widely adopted by many companies in some forms as companies need a way to fairly evaluate their employees and have a structured system for compensation difference. This is especially necessary to avoid lawsuit on discrimination and reduce corporation’s legal risks when it comes to firing employees. Its effectiveness seems to vary by industries or even by functional group within the
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Hospitality Financial Management Educators Volume 8 | Issue 1 Article 1 1-1-2000 A Survey of Capital Budgeting Methods Used by the Restaurant Industry Robert A. Ashley Stanley M. Atkinson Stephen M. LeBruto Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/jhfm Recommended Citation Ashley‚ Robert A.; Atkinson‚ Stanley M.; and LeBruto‚ Stephen M. (2000) "A Survey of Capital Budgeting Methods Used by the Restaurant Industry‚" Journal of Hospitality Financial Management: Vol. 8: Iss
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The Business School Advanced Project Management What is project management? Amy Callanan Total word count: 1055 What is project management? As the nature of project management continues to change over time‚ it has been difficult to define project management (Shepherd and Atkinson 2011). This paper aims to identify various definitions and factors which form project management in order to create a suitable definition of what project management is in today’s dynamic business environment
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