The Effect of SOX Section 404: Costs‚ Earnings Quality‚ and Stock Prices Introduction The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Responsible for the application of the law THE SARBANES–OXLEY ACT (SOX) was passed in 2002 after a string of high profile corporate scandals. The law’s main goal was to improve the quality of financial reporting and to increase investor confidence‚ which requires companies to put in place and periodically test procedures that monitor the internal systems ensuring accurate
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"What They Didn’t Teach Us in Sales Class" In reducing high turnover among new sales personnel‚ the first thing that firms should do or the employers of that firm should do is to match the job with the best suited to perform it. High turnover organizations spend disproportionate amounts of resources on recruiting and replacing their workforce‚ while smart organizations invest in employee retention. Indeed that there’s going to be turnover no matter what you do‚ but blindly ignoring the reasons
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Share repurchases and the protection of shareholders* KATHLEEN VAN DER LINDE** 1 Introduction From a creditor’s perspective there is not much difference between the payment of a dividend in respect of a share and a payment for the acquisition or repurchase of that share. However‚ from the point of view of the shareholder a dividend is a return on capital while a repurchase is a return of capital to the vendor shareholder. Share repurchases change the structure of the company’s share capital
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drivers of current Philips business strategy is fixing sales fundamentals at main outlets of Philips customers (retailers). Sales fundamentals are basic indicators like shelf share‚ display share‚ leaflet share and merchandising vs. Philips market share per key categories. Basically‚ those indicators (sales fundamentals) should be at least or ideally higher than the market share. Let’s take one category as an example – Philips has 60% market share in male grooming category so Philips should have at
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What is the bystander effect? The bystander effect is when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. People get discouraged in helping others when no one is doing the same. The bystander effect is a Psychological phenomenon that deserves a thorough examination because there are many reactions and causes‚ also scenarios where people have been killed‚ and there have also been experiments on the phenomenon. As a matter of fact‚ there are many reactions
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me with sincere advice and information during the course of my training period. It was indeed a great pleasure for me to work in a very co-operative and enthusiastic atmosphere at ShareKhan Limited. I would like to to thank my college Shanti Business school - Faculty guide Prof. Sajikumar Tulsidharan‚ Company guide Mr. Darwin Variava ( Advisory Manager‚ Share Khan) Mr.Yogesh Panchal‚ (Relationship Manager‚ Share khan) for giving me an opportunity of being a part of a corporate firm. With sincere
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Share Trading Assignment Student no. 497432 Unit Code U21083 Due Date 19/02/2013 Introduction This project is about whether or not an investor with only publicly available information is able to “beat the market”. We have £100‚000 which we can invest in the stock market however this amount must be split into two portfolios. Each portfolio will be made up of investments chosen through theories and strategies which come from either the fundamental analysis or technical analysis approaches. Fundamental
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Price / Earnings Ratio Q1: (Introductory) What three alternative measures of the price-earnings ratio (P/E ratio) are described in this article? Answer: Following are three price-earnings ratio described in the article: 1. P/E ratio 2. “Forward” P/E ratio 3. “Trailing” P/E ration Q2: (Advanced) Which of the three measures matches the definition of the P/E ratio given in your textbook? Explain your answer. Answer: Books has only discuss the simple P/E ratio‚ PE ratio measures how much investor
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Rebecca Aspinwall Professor Patrick Shal 11/05/2012 What is The Bystander Effect? Dr ’s John M Darley and Bibb Latane are both professors of psychology. Even though they have not attended or worked at the same university‚ their credibility is equally the same. Their award-winning research was gathered to complete their essay "Why Don ’t People Help in a Crisis‚" they suggest the probability of a bystander helping is correlated to the number of bystanders present. Next Darley and Latane state
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