Corporate Finance Essays and Term Papers
650 Essays on Corporate Finance. Documents 451 - 475
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Ethics, Corporate Resonsibility and Aramark
This paper will explain the planning function of management in the culinary business, specifically Aramark a subcontractor for the Tucson Convention Center, which handles all the foodservice functions. Furthermore, this paper will describe the legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility impact management planning has in this organization. Managers have to be aware of corporate social responsibility, legal and ethical issues when planning functions. Aramark commits itself to its corporate social responsibilities locally and nationally.
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Corporate Compliance Report
Corporate Compliance Report Nancy Caldwell January 15, 2007 MBA 560 Enterprise Risk When a company is facing issues dealing with corporate compliance, implementing a system to deal with the compliance and corporate governance issues is the best opportunity for the company. The company should develop a process to analyze alternatives and integrate the appropriate opportunity into the company’s system. The company will begin by developing an internal control and corporate governance system. This process
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Parties - Astol Flooring Limited, Bridgman Limited Equity Finance Limited
Parties - Astol Flooring Limited, Bridgman Limited Equity Finance Limited Issues – flooring losing its chattel nature and becoming a fixture flooring becoming part of the realty and thus part of the bank’s security. Whether Astol Flooring Limited can enter the Bridgman House and remove the flooring, in particular whether the rights provided by section 7 of the contract between Astol Flooring and Bridgman Limited will prevail over the rights of Equity Finance Limited as
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Role of the External Auditor in Corporate Governance
The Role of the External Auditor in Corporate Governance The external auditor has long played an important role in the corporate governance function. However, before we begin our analysis on how the external auditor plays this role and its importance, we must first examine the responsibilities and duties of such an auditor. Similarly, we need to clearly define what corporate governance is before we discuss in detail the role that auditors play in it. 1.
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General Cable Corporation
General Cable Corporation is an international company that has become a leader in the fiber optic wire and cable products industry. The company, which is headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, serves the entire globe with its entire product line. Their products include copper, aluminum, and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy, industrial, specialty and communications markets. (General Cable Corporation, 2006) General Cable provides products for such diverse clients as electrical utility companies,
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Entry of McDonald's Corporation into Communist Controlled Soviet Union and China in 1990~the Cultural Aspect
Introduction The leitmotif of the modern theory of International Business is that globalization is not simply a trend or a fad but is, rather, an international system. It is the system that has now replaced the old Cold War system, and, like that Cold War system, globalization is directly or indirectly influencing and reshaping the culture of virtually every country in the world. McDonald’s is a powerful emblem of this emerging “global” culture, which is
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Corporate Social Responsibility
It is definitely a freedom to live in the United States. We have the luxuries of national companies being held by rule and regulations based on our guidelines all the way from our healthcare system, pollution control, to industrialization. We have laws and organizations such as the labor unions in this country that maintain the checks and balances. While our country does focus internally on a lot of issues, we have gone above other countries
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Project Finance of a Sugar Manufacturing Facility
INDEX Sr. No. Topic Name Page No. 1. About the Company 3 2. Industry overview 3 3. Project Details 7 4. Distribution Network 10 5. Cash Flow Statement 12 6. Project Profitability 14 7. Conclusion 15 1. About the company "The only way to manage change is to create it", At Simsurya sugar Ltd; this simple line is the driver of our business strategy. So over the last year when profits of sugar companies touched
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Managing Finance
BACKGROUND: This course has the objective of reviewing the financial, control, and investment opportunities faced by rapidly growing companies in entrepreneurial settings. The main objective of study is to consider and select financing vehicles which are appropriate to securing the organizations' money requirements and to understand and analyze the issues in the institutional framework in which those decisions take place. TEXTS: 1. Techniques of Financial Analysis, Helfert, 11th edition, Irwin, 2003. 2. APS Binder (Selected
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Apple Corporate Info and History
Apple Inc.(iPod) Apple Inc, formerly Apple Computer Inc. is an American multinational corporation which focusing in designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and also developing software products. Apple was founded in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne . Apple are developing, selling, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, mobile phones, computer software, computer hardware, and hardware accessories . iPod, The new way of listening
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Corporate Valuation: Determinants of Corporate Value
CORPORATE VALUATION: DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE VALUE The value of public companies is determined by the stock market. The value of companies not publicly quoted will be greatly influenced by the same market. Therefore, we will focus on the main stock-market-related ratios. They are: · Market Capitalization · Share values, nominal, book, market · Earnings Per Share (EPS) · Dividends Per Share (DPS) · Dividend Cover and Pay-Out Ratio · Earnings Yield · Dividend Yield ·
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Case Report: Challenges and Strategies of Alcas Corporation’s
Case Report: Challenges and Strategies of Alcas Corporation’s Vector Marketing Corporation Introduction In general observation, Alcas Corporation’s performance has been doing well in the past years. The company’s revenues had shown improvements, in which the revenues in 2001 increased by 37.5% from the year 2000, and by 2002, the increase was at around 20%. The recent figure at$253 million dollars has driven the leaders of Alcas Corporation to strategize based on the target that the
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Marriott Corporation: Cost of Capital
MARRIOTT CORPORATION: COST OF CAPITAL 1. Los 4 componentes de la estrategia financiera de Marriott, son consistentes con el objetivo de crecimiento de la compañía? Solución: Marriott Corporation es un Compañía que tiene tres líneas de negocio: Alojamiento (Hoteles), Contratos de Servicios y Restaurantes. Debido a la diversidad de sus negocios, es necesario para esta organización tener un método que permita estimar de manera confiable que proyectos aumentan de valor. Debido a que Marriott Corporation
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Walt Disney Corporation
The Walt Disney Corporation is a huge enterprise, which has shaped the minds of young children all over the world. The company started in the early nineteenth century with an idea and a dream. Walt Disney states, “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse” (Walt Disney Quotes). Since 1937, with the release of Disney’s first full length feature film, Snow White and the Seven
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Corporate Governance: The United States of America Vs. The European Union
Introduction The following paper will compare and contrast corporate governance in the U.S. and European Union. Because corporate governance regulations are not yet uniform across all EU countries, we have chosen to examine Poland in particular. We will first present U.S. corporate governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and then examine how Poland’s corporate governance regulations compare. Finally, since we have already learned about Corporate Social Responsibility for U.S. companies, we have examined Corporate
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Downsizing & Corporate Dysmorphia
Downsizing & Corporate Dysmorphia My area of interest for this article was in downsizing. I wanted to take an organizational behavior course, to learn more about how organizational cultures develop, particularly in an era of globalization. I work for a “brick & mortar” company (UPS), with a very robust, historical and ingrained culture that greatly influences how all functional departments operate daily. However, I work within an IT subculture, with a somewhat more contemporary and
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Corporate Communication
1.) Corporate Communication is the process to share and receive information and knowledge with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with the corporation. It is concerned with corresponding to suppliers, investors, employees and consumers and implying an importance on encouraging a sense of corporate identity and presenting an unfailing and coherent corporate image. Organizational Communication is the study of sending and receiving messages that create and maintain a system
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Financing a Grocery Store
Financing a grocery store opening would probably be the most difficult task. Most grocery stores need $500,000 - $1,000,000 to start up. They need it for building renovation and equipment, employees and the food. Before you can start renovating a space you need to have a space. The location for the “Mark-et” would be on the Northeast corner of 17th and Wells. This space is 7,200 square feet. Marquette charges $11 per square foot for
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Visteon Corporation Financial Analysis
HISTORY, Development, and Growth: The company, formally Ford Automotive Products Operations, began using the Visteon name in 1997. In the same year, Visteon strengthened its presence in the Asia Pacific market by establishing new plants in Thailand and India. It also set up regional headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. Visteon joined forces with Microsoft and Intel to develop a computing platform for vehicles designed to keep drivers connected to information in 1998. In the same year,
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Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms-Countertrade
RUNNING HEAD: Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms Global Financing and Exchange Rate Mechanisms-Countertrade Alyson Anderson University of Phoenix Online MGT 448/Global Business Strategies Dr. Richard Dool October 15, 2006 In pre-monetary societies, the most logical way of managing the material needs of a community was to distribute goods by bartering among the members according to need and surplus production. For example, if one family or group grew corn but another raised sheep, items
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Pros and Cons of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
ederal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. The vast number of bank failures in the Great Depression spurred the United States Congress into creating an institution which would guarantee deposits held by commercial banks, inspired by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF). The FDIC provides deposit insurance which currently guarantees checking and savings deposits in member banks up to $100,000
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Sony Corporation - Company Information
Sony Corporation-Company Information Sony was founded in Tokyo in 1946 by engineer Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, a physicist. They started the company with 20 employees repairing electrical equipment and attempting to build their own products. The company’s success started in 1946 when Sony launched Japan’s first transistor and the first “all-transistor” radio in 1955. In the more than 50 years since the company first began trading, it has grown from 20 employees to over
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Corporate Governance and Accountability
Since a corporation is the collaboration of many groups, there are many ideologies on how to run the corporation. Corporate governance is the subject matter on who should control the corporation. Ethical programs are developed to ensure that the employees do their job right and not act in an unethical or illegal behavior. Corporate accountability, corporate ethics, and corporate governance are all ways to have a corporation work correctly. In a corporation, the shareholders have
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Corporate Accounting
CORPORATE ACCOUNTING Week 1 Tutorial Questions Question 2. Distinguish between a proprietary company and a public company. A public company is one in which there is usually a substantial public interest in that the ownership of the company's share capital is widely spread. Public companies are entitled to raise capital through a share issue by issuing a disclosure document which entitles them to have their shares or debentures etc. listed on a Stock Exchange to
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Vick's Pizza Corporation
Vick's Pizza Corporation 1. Flowchart Vicks service delivery system from receipt of the order to delivery of the pizza to the customer. Why are pizza sometimes delivered late? Vicks pizza service delivery system is mainly speed base delivery system, company main slogan it's quick at Vick's pizza; so Vicks Pizza Company's promise to home delivery a pizza within 30 minutes of a phone order or cut $3 off the price of pizza to fail to
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