Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy 1. What are the factors that likely explain the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity and its reported book value of equity? One of the factors that explain the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity and its reported book value of equity is the lack of effectiveness to record certain intangible assets such as stock of knowledge (i.e.‚ human capital) customer loyalty‚ and brand value. These former intangible assets mentioned
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Technology is in every part of our lives and everyday items have a great number of variable social‚ economic‚ cultural and symbolic meanings to different individuals. In our discussion group we see how simple everyday items such as cups‚ purses‚ pop cans‚ keys‚ cell phones and other items evoke different associations and meanings for individuals. There are a wide variety of other items that were also discussed and students shared their perspective about the meanings of these items as well. A summary
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have asked me to recommend three quantitative objects that ought to be tracked about every client that calls and/or their conduct about snack foods and specify whether the variables are continuous or discrete. We will begin by discussing what quantitative data/research is‚ define discrete variables‚ define continuous variables‚ and I will provide my three recommendations. (CTU Online 2014) II. Quantitative Data/Research Quantitative research is conducted utilizing sampling approaches (such as customer
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pricing decisions. 12-3 Two examples of pricing decisions with a short-run focus: 1. Pricing for a one-time-only special order with no long-term implications. 2. Adjusting product mix and volume in a competitive market. 12-4 Activity-based costing helps managers in pricing decisions in two ways. 1. It gives managers more accurate product-cost information for making pricing decisions. 2. It helps managers to manage costs during value engineering by identifying the cost impact of eliminating
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Should Students be Allowed to have Cell Phones in School? It has been in dispute if cell phones should be permitted in schools. Some people believe cell phones should be allowed while others do not. Each side has genuinely cogent arguments‚ but cell phones should stay away from school grounds. Having cell phones at school can make it unchallenging to break the rules‚ students will get distracted‚ and classmates can communicate with other classmates during class. Cell phones should not be authorized
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input based cost driver basis. Robert Kaplan and Antony Atkinson have given an illustration as how the joint and by-products costing method can be used as a tool in the resource allocation process. The paper aims to generate further discussion‚ with illustration from more industries to help formulate proper guidelines on this complex issue of joint and by-product costing. 2.0: Acknowledgement Going through various sources of information we arrived at the generally accepted cost accounting
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IEEE TRANSACTIONSON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS‚VOL. 40‚ NO. 1‚ FEBRUARY 1993 Variable Structure Control: A Survey John Y. Hung‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Weibing Gao‚ SeniorMember‚ IEEE‚ and James C. Hung‚ Fellow‚ IEEE Abstract-A tutorial account of variable structure control with brief discussions about its historical development are pre- sliding mode is presented in
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of this report is to identify whether a relationship exists between macroeconomic variables and stock exchange returns in the Pakistani capital market. The techniques of multiple linear regression will be applied to understand if there is indeed a link between the two. The time series data being analyzed is on a monthly basis and spans from January 2003 to January 2009. The indicators taken as the independent variables are manufacturing production index‚ consumer price index‚ discount rate‚ broad money
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Executive MBA Financial Reporting Course Book 2012-13 ACC40380 Financial Reporting (Midweek Blackrock) ACC40390 Financial Reporting (Weekend Blackrock) ACC40400 Financial Reporting (City) Course Outline Aims of course In the current economic climate as the credibility and reliability of financial reporting comes under sustained scrutiny an appreciation and understanding of the financial reporting process has become increasingly
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The Case of the Variable Laminates The Case of the Variable Laminates Grantham University Experimental design is “a formal plan that details the specifics for conducting an experiment‚ such as which responses‚ factors‚ levels‚ blocks‚ treatments‚ and tools are to be used” (Sower 2010). An experiment where one variable is studied while the other variables are held constant can be inefficient and suffers from the inability to assess interactions among the variables as well as the interaction
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