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In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
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The Sale of Goods Act, 1930
The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 Preamble 3 of 1930 (15th March, 1930) An Act to define and amend the law relating to the sale of goods. WHEREAS it is expedient to define and amend the law relating to the sale of goods, it is hereby enacted as follows: - Chapter 1 - Preliminary 1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Sale of Goods Act, 1930. 2) It extends
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The Same Hummer for Less
The Same Hummer for Less GM used many variables while segmenting the SUV market. The major focus for segmenting the SUV market was through demographic variables, specifically; age, income, occupation, and generation. GM also used a few variables in the psychographic and behavioral segments; lifestyle and occasions respectively. The use of each of these variables can be seen when comparing the target markets chosen by GM, for the H2, and AM General, for the original
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The Sarbane-Oxley Act
This paper has been written as a guide to The Sarbane-Oxley Act (SOA). The use of the enclosed material may be used to introduce students to the legislation. Corporate governance is very important especially after the scandals U.S. businesses recently endured. Armed with the knowledge of SOA, the reader will be assisted with understanding the sections, compliance and some implications of the act. The student will then be able to conduct further study with this
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Overview: The development of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was a result of public company scandals. The Enron and Worldcom scandals, for example, helped investor confidence in entities traded on the public markets weaken during 2001 and 2002. Congress was quick to respond to the political crisis and “enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which was signed into law by President Bush on July 30” (Edward Jones, 1), to restore investor confidence. In
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Business Ethics
In 2002, the US passed the Sarbanes ЎV Oxley Law. This law was enacted to strengthen Corporate governance and to restore lost faith by the investors, and to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. U.S. Senator, Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley were the sponsors of said law. It was signed into law on July 30, 2002 by George W. Bush after both houses of Congress voted on it without changes
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Wednesday, July 31, 2002 H.R.3763 - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 A lot has been made, perhaps without justification, of the July 30, 2002 passage of H.R. 3763, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("Sarbanes-Oxley" or The Act). Having read the Act, I suspect that the great praise is unfounded. I intend to address three issues presented within the act. First, I will address stock options as considered (or neglected, as the case may be) by
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Corporate America's Big Brother
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Corporate America’s Big Brother In late 2001, Enron, one of America’s largest energy producers filed bankruptcy. Enron created off-the-books partnerships and used aggressive accounting methods to hide massive debt and inflate the firm's bottom line which caused them to restate its earnings and debt to reflect a $618 million third quarter loss and a reduction in shareholder equity of $1.2 million (Brickley, 357), and when the news broke, Enron’s auditor, Arthur
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The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America asserts, “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” At the time when this amendment was passed, the country was still primarily an agrarian and hunting society, guns were a household item, and necessary for daily life. The armed farmer was the principal soldier in
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The Secrets They Keep !!
We cannot be as presentable as the other groups, trying to look as formal and corporate, as if they are running a Major Corporate Office. However they present it...password retrieval, online investigation.. Access recovery...blah blah blah.. The most simplest way to put it is..: Email Password Cracking:!! And since everyone else is busy faking it, or trying to be more presentable, we utilize our skills to get you what you want.. i.e. THE EMAIL PASSWORD.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission
Morgan Bennett Mr. Harris History Honors- Per 5 April 2001 The Securities and Exchange Commission In 1934 the Securities Exchange Act created the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) in response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was created to protect U.S. investors against malpractice in securities and financial markets. The purpose of the SEC was and still is to carry out the mandates of the Securities
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The Securities and Exchange Commission
Morgan Bennett Mr. Harris History Honors- Per 5 April 2001 The Securities and Exchange Commission In 1934 the Securities Exchange Act created the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) in response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was created to protect U.S. investors against malpractice in securities and financial markets. The purpose of the SEC was and still is to carry out the mandates of the Securities
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The Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Plans and Its Effect on Retirement Age
The Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Plans and its Effect on Retirement Age FIN 4300 Dominic Pagliara For the past 30 years there has been a large shift in pension plans, from defined benefit to defined contribution plans. This shift has led to a later expected retirement age in addition to a lower incentive to retire early. This paper will discuss how and why this happened and what its real effect has been
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The Shoe Doctor Marketing Plan
MARKETING PLAN I. Introduction: I have created a marketing plan for “The Shoe Doctor”. The Shoe Doctor will be a local business in the Brownsville area that will offer shoe repair services. There are only a small number of businesses in the valley that offer shoe repair, thus the need for a shoe repair service in the area is vast. II. Target Market: The proposed target market for “The Shoe Doctor” will be the lower
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The Short, Medium and Long Term Impacts of Terrorism on the Economy
With the aid of a source from the internet I will tell the economic effects caused by terrorism in view of the 9/11 attacks. I will talk about the impacts over periods of time. Firstly the immediate impacts (short term impacts) Direct. Nearly 200,000 jobs were ruined or forced to move out of New York. Private businesses physical assets amounted to a loss of $14 billion. Amongst other related costs such as rescue, state and
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The Significance of Learning Organizational Behavior
Having become one of the most prevalent debates in recent years, organizational related studies have became a major topic of study nowadays. Organizations as defined as “ a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.” So we can see that individuals, walking under the flag of organization are valuable resources to the firm. It is totally
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The Singapore Fast Food Industry Pestel Analysis
1.0 Introduction The Singapore fast food industry has been subjected to many threats and opportunities. Despite being better performing than the conventional restaurants, achieving a 2.6% increase in the sales volume from the previous year as compared to the 0.9% of the restaurants (Baker, 2016), in September 2016, the fast food industry’s growth has slowed down to a mere 1% growth in 2016 as compared to a 10% growth in 2011(Baker, 2016). There is hence
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The Situational Leadership Model and the Jeanne Simmons Case
The Situational Leadership Model and the Jeanne Simmons Case Introduction: The Situational Leadership Model The situational leadership model is based on certain assumptions. One of these assumptions is that there are different levels (or situations) in which a leadership style is played out. In the same way that there are four different levels of readiness on the part of staff or “followers”, there are also four leadership styles. On the whole it is the
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The Six Benchmarking Steps You Need
The Six Benchmarking Steps You Need Everyone talks about benchmarking, but few know what to do. Learn the six steps in most any benchmarking initiative, from building support, to designing and improving a plan. Benchmarking, step-by-step: • Introduction • Step One: Select the process and build support • Step Two: Determine current performance • Step Three: Determine where performance should be • Step Four: Determine the performance gap • Step Five: Design an action plan
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The Sk-Ii’s Problem
The background of SK-II's "heavy metal" cosmetics problem The furor started in 14th September 2006 when China's quality watchdog discovered trace amounts of chromium and neodymium that can cause skin allergies and other health problems, in several SK-II products such as whitening agents and facial creams. All the problem products were made by P&G in Japan. On that day, the owner of SK-II denied it had added the substances to its products. A television news
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The Social Security Problem in the United States of America
THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ABSTRACT This research presents the Social Security problem in the United States of America. It includes what the Social Security problem is in the United States of America, what kind of dangers it brings, what should be done about it. Reader can find information about the reasons of the Social Security problem and the solutions which might be done for this problem. In addition,
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The Social Trend “cocooning”
I. Introduction Back in the 90's, marketing consultant Faith Popcorn was the first one to use the word cocooning which describes "the movement of people socializing less and instead spending more leisure time at home in preference of mixing with the outside world". From this time on the term cocooning reappeared several times and continues to evolve. The trend came back after the tragedy of 9/11 and was even reinforced because many people wanted to
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The Soft-Drink Industry
The Soft-drink Industry: Both concentrate producers (CP) and bottlers are profitable. These two parts of the industry are extremely interdependent, sharing costs in production, marketing and distribution—many of their functions overlap. The industry is already vertically integrated to some extent. This industry has been around for ages, and although consumer taste has changed over the years, the demand for carbonated soft-drinks has declined insignificantly. This industry as a whole generates positive economic profits. Rivalry: Revenues
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The Software Industry
1. Introduction 1.1 The Software Industry The software industry was launched in the 1950’s where computers began to be used for business applications and it then it rapidly started creating a huge demand for people with experience in programming (Anon 2007). Over the years the industry went through a number of changes and innovations, with software products coming into the market for the first time in the 1960’s, to commercial laptops being developed in the
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The Souk Al-Manakh Stock Market Crash
Introduction In August of 1982, an informal Kuwait stock market known as Souk al-Manakh collapsed (Rasmaroni, 2006). This happened when a female speculator presented a post-dated check for payment and it bounced (“Kuwait's Souk”, n.d.). This relatively small destabilising factor caused enormous losses, and the financial system was nearly crippled with some $92 billion (Rasmaroni, 2006) from about 6,000 investors (“Kuwait's Souk”, n.d.). Is this event the only factor that caused the crash? And what
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The Stewart Box Company
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Stewart Box Company is a profitable company with a functional structure in place as well as identified responsibility centers. The company has well established strategic planning, cost estimates and costing procedures. In an industry where competition is tight due to capacity requirements in manufacturing plants, the company was able to tap the market for custom- made carton boxes. However, its market is still limited to within the 500mile radius of its manufacturing
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The Stock Market
The Stock Market Past few years have been outstanding in many ways for the emerging Pakistan’s stock markets. Karachi stock exchange (KSE) index witnessed the all time high by crossing the 2661 market, yet deeply plunging back recently, representing erosion of some 40 percent capital worth of the market. There were major inflows of foreign institutional capital. Public listing of a score of new brokerage house with foreign links-up, the privatization of the telecom, laying
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929
It was a time of great economic boom in the U.S. after World War I. The economy benefited greatly, fueled by industrialization and rapidly developing new technologies like the automobile and air travel. This boom took stock market to great heights. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than quadrupled1 in value. Because of such high soaring stocks, they were considered as extremely safe investments. The common man believed stocks to be a “sure thing” thus
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The Story of Fema
1 Table of Contents 1. How It All Began ................................................................................................................ 2 2. A Quest on FEMA’s Organizational Problems .................................................................. 3 2.1. FEMA Leadership During Katrina and Now..................................................................... 3 2.1.1. Fast Decision Making ......................................................................................................... 4 2.1.2. Ability to Influence Internal and External Stakeholders..................................................... 5 2.1.3. Ability to Get Political Patronage ....................................................................................... 5 2.1.4. Individualized Consideration .............................................................................................. 5 2.2. Lack of Workforce Planning............................................................................................... 6 2.3. Departure of Senior Employees .......................................................................................... 8 3. When the Winds of Hurricane
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The Strategic Implications of Wal-Mart’s Rfid Mandate
Over the last few years the cost declines of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, combined with improvements in sensitivity, range and durability, have enabled widespread RFID use in the logistical planning and operation of supply chain processes in the manufacturing, distribution and retail industries, and helped move its adoption into services such as security and access control, tracking, and monitoring/management.An RFID tag consists of a microchip and an antenna, often in the form of
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The Strategic Marketing Plan
Ambi-Pur was launched in 2002. The brand comes from the International stable of Sara lee and is the largest brand in the Household and Beauty care division of the company. Ambi Pur is the No.1 brand in Europe. In India, Ambipur was launched as a air freshener for cars. It was a pleasant surprise for car owners to see a new product ( at that time) with somewhat a funny name. The brand gained popularity
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