company. It has employed over 96‚000 people. Strategic decisions are usually long term decisions which are often risky and speculative. A strategic decision made by British Petroleum was to make redundancies of up to 620 from their solar power business to make the cost of solar power cheaper. ‘…part of the strategy to “reduce the cost of solar power to that of conventional electricity’. ‘BP blamed the cutbacks on the credit crunch and lower-cost competition saying its global manufacturing capacity
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Gamma Systems Ltd. Financial Statements GAMMA SYSTEMS LTD. BALANCE SHEET For the five months ended August 31‚ 2014 UNAUDITED August 31‚ 2014 ASSETS Cash 1‚400 Accounts receivable & Sundry 3‚000 Gym equipment (net of depreciation) 1‚600 6‚000 LIABILITIES Loans payable 1‚000 Shareholder’s advances 2‚400 Income taxes payable
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– Task 309.1.3 Student #000197021 EGT1 Task 309.1.3 Government regulation in business today is vital because it attempts to create a level playing field for companies competing against one another and regulate honest business practices toward the consumers. It is important to for any business to understand how government regulation affects their industry and how they intend to run their company. Industrial regulation is the government regulation of an entire industry. The purpose of industry
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constantly evolving‚ increasingly complex‚ and often subtle in their implementation. Nowhere is the range of marketing phenomena more apparent than in the digital marketplace where children are exposed to marketing through a variety of media including interactive video games‚ social networking sites‚ mobile phones‚ and instant messaging.1 Research on children’s ability to understand and cope with marketplace advertising has a long history but that research has focused almost exclusively on children’s processing
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people in Canada alone‚ cigarettes. In today’s society cigarette usage has become very popular‚ because of reasons such as media influence‚ peer pressure‚ and/or stress. But people are getting influenced and pressured into the wrong thing and using the false cure for their health conditions‚ what they’re actually doing is digging their own grave‚ well at least that’s what 4.93 million Canadians are doing to their selves. Every year the Canadian Government is passing numerous laws to the public to protect
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Castro and the Dangers of Tyrannical Governments Over the course of history it has been the fate of many nations to fall under the rule of tyrannical governments. Tyrannical governments are one of the biggest threats to human rights. There are a few forms of governments which can be considered “tyrannical”‚ one of which would be communism. One country that is a prime example of a nation denying their people of their basic human rights due to their oppressive government if Cuba‚ whose leader is Fidel
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Value of e-business system e-business used to describe businesses run on the internet. increasingly‚ much direct selling is taking place on the internet of computer-related equipment and software. most of the company start to run their business on the internet because e-business is able to reach a much wider consumer base than the traditional one and also bring back much more benefit for the company. tangible benefits since they have online store and customers around the world start to
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Is the iPad a disruptive technology? The purpose of this report – “Is the iPad a disruptive technology?” – is to research and study about the technological developments in Information Systems‚ such as‚ the iPad and if it’s a disrupting technology that changes the world or not. Apple introduced the iPad in 2010‚ selling 300‚000 on the first day of release and approximately 3 million in 80 days. Given that the features of the iPad were similar to the iPhone’s‚ Apple envisioned for this device to
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Electoral Systems and Stability in Divided Societies Introduction Severely divided countries pose a particular problem when it comes to securing democratic stability. Such countries are characterised by deep cleavages representing ‘sociocultural and ascriptive traits‚ such as race‚ ethnicity‚ language‚ religion or region’ (Bogaards‚ 2003‚ p. 59). Other forms of social division‚ which focus on wider issues‚ do not diffuse the strength of these cleavages‚ making them particularly entrenched.
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education by making public education free for all races‚ and expanding Louisiana State University. He also gave people more voting and healthcare rights and lower taxes for the poor. In order to finance all of his projects‚ Huey taxed the wealthy‚ major business‚ and oil companies.
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