There are approximately 150‚000 migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Singapore and many of them suffer forms of abuse – physical and sexual violence‚ food deprivation‚ confinement in workplace and late or non-payment of salary. In 2011‚ an estimated 4000 MDWs ran away from their employers’ home‚ many of them frustrated‚ overworked and underpaid. (TWC2‚ 2011) The Singapore law doesn’t stipulate a minimum wage or mandatory rest days in contracts for these domestic workers. Instead‚ many initiatives
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Reducing Health-Care Costs‚ Case 12-1 1. How should Polson communicate its new health-benefits plan to employees? Communication of the new plan is critical if employees are to accept and commit to a managed health-care plan. Employees must understand the strong financial incentives that are present for staying in the network rather than using the traditional indemnity side of the plan. At the same time‚ details of the new plan must be communicated in such a way that it is clear to employees
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Hafsa Hassan; 20120037‚ Asset Pricing Assignment No. 2 Due Date: 14th Dec 2012 This paper examines the monthly data on the value-weighted total returns (with dividends) on 25 Fama-French portfolios‚ from July 1926 to Sep 2012 to sorted by size and BE/ME value‚ from the K French Data Library‚ and performs the Fama-Macbeth (1973) CAPM test on size and value effects. The average return and standard deviations are shown in Table I: Table I: Average returns and standard deviations of the 25 portfolios
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IMPACT OF TAX CONSIDERATION AND TRANSITORY EARNINGS ON DIVIDEND INSIDE A FIRM. By ADARAMOLA A. O. (Ph.D.) ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Dividend Relevance Theory and to determine whether a relationship exists between dividend payment and transitory earnings; given the impact of tax and other economic conditions with the objective of maximizing the present discounted value of after tax dividend. To achieve this‚ the Lintner’s models were specified to which the
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442–454‚ 2012 DIVIDEND POLICY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF LISTED FIRMS IN NIGERIA Uwalomwa UWUIGBE1 Covenant University‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria Jimoh JAFARU Auchi Polytechnic‚ Edo State‚ Nigeria Anijesushola AJAYI Covenant University‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT This study basically investigates the relationship between the financial performance and dividend payout among listed firms’ in Nigeria. It also looks at the relationship between ownership structure‚ size of firms and the dividend payouts.
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Chapter-1. 1. Introduction: Dividend policy refers to the policy chalked out by companies regarding the amount it would pay to their shareholders as dividend. These policies shape the attitude of the investors and the financial market in general towards the concerned company. Bata is a global company with activities on five continents controlled by four Meaningful Business Units (MBU). Each of these units specializes in region-specific tasks‚ such as product development‚ purchasing‚ or marketing
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In the book Of Mice and Men‚ most of the characters were named in correspondence with their physical appearance. Curley‚ a key secondary character‚ is no exception seeing as he is described as being a "thin young man with a brown face‚ with brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair." On the surface Curley is a very confrontational‚ mean-spirited‚ intimidating and an aggressive young man who is very cruel to all those around him for no apparent reason. However‚ after thorough analysis we see that
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INTRODUCTION Dividend policy is the decision for the firm to pay out earnings verses retaining and reinvesting them. Dividend decision has remained one of the tough challenges for financial economists. We are yet to understand completely the factors that influence dividend decision and the manner in which these factors interact. From the practitioner’s viewpoint dividend policy of a firm has an implication for investors‚ managers‚ lenders and other stakeholders. For investors‚ dividends whether
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Experiment 2: Food Tests Objective * To study the presence of reducing sugars. * To study the presence of protein. Introduction In this experiment‚ glucose‚ maltose‚ lactose and sucrose are used for testing reducing and non-reducing sugars. Glucose is monosaccharide while maltose‚ lactose and sucrose are disaccharides of carbohydrates. Monosaccharaides are the monomers which make up all other carbohydrates and cannot be broken into smaller molecules by hydrolysis. Disaccharides are
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the recommended controls in reducing the incidents or harm or injury. When I visited Mulgrave house I noticed a number of hazards which could have affected several people including residents at the home‚ members of staff and visitors to the home. In the risk assessment I also recommended some controls in an a attempt to reduce the risk of harm of injury for these people‚ but how effective were they really? Wires trailing around the lounge area – At Mulgrave
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