Corporate Finance Essays and Term Papers
650 Essays on Corporate Finance. Documents 126 - 150
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The Michelin Corporation - Marketing Plan
Marketing Plan The Michelin Corporation today is the world’s number one tire manufacturer with 19.4%* market share. Michelin is at the forefront of all tire markets and travel-related services thanks to the quality of product it offers. Michelin is an undisputed leader in the most demanding technical segments and designs forward-looking solutions to help the road transportation industry in its bid to improve competitive edge and to meet modern societies’ ever more pressing needs
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Intel: A Case Study in Corporate Branding
Perhaps the most successful technology company to balance the dual requirements of innovation and reliability in its branding is Intel. Because of the fears consumers have, when things go wrong with technology products they react disproportionately. Take the well documented example of Intel, when initial faults discovered by customers after the launch of the Pentium chip by Intel were potentially devastating,and the company was receiving up to 10,000 calls a day from dissatisfied or unhappy
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Managing Corporate Risk
Managing Corporate Risk 1 Managing Corporate Risk: Value at Risk Managing Corporate Risk 2 Managing Corporate Risk: Value at Risk Corporate risk, or impaired enterprise value, represents a legitimate concern for many corporations. Unfortunately, it is a measure that is largely ignored by most private corporations. Properly managing risk is a multiple step process that requires: (a) Examination of enterprise value (b) Value at risk exploration (c) Corporate governance This review of corporate risk focuses
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Financing China's Health System
FINANCING CHINA'S HEALTH SYSTEM: Systems of finance: China's health care finance system consists of three formal systems and an informal component. Gongfei yiliao or Government Employee Health Insurance, provides coverage for government workers at all political divisional levels (central, provincial, county, township, and village), including officials of labor unions, youth's and women's leagues, the staff of cultural, educational, health and research institutes and students at approved colleges and universities. The government is solely responsible for
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Now and Then
With the recent corporate scandals involving such companies as Enron and Martha Stewart, the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has once again made its way to the forefront of contemporary management ideologies. However, CSR itself is not a new concept. In fact, societies as far back as the Ancient Mesopotamians (circa 1700 BC) incorporated CSR in their businesses. “King Hammurabi introduced a code in which builders, innkeepers or farmers were put to death if
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Finance
Mikyle anonymous March 29, 2006 English 1102-02 Mrs. anonymous Finance Wikipedia’s accurate definition of finance is “The activity of finance is the application of a set of techniques that individuals and organizations (entities) use to manage their financial affairs, particularly the differences between income and expenditure and the risks of their investments” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance. I discuss the importance of keeping track and updating financial reports as well as simple bank statements. These are just some
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Introduction:- Definitions of CSR:- There is no universally accepted definition of CSR. Selected definitions by CSR organizations and actors include: •"Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large" World Business Council for Sustainable Development. •"A concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns
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Campaign Finance Reform Systems
5 March 2001 Campaign Finance Reform Systems Lyndon Johnson called it “more loophole than law” (Clean Money Reform). Campaign finance has given birth to an untold number of court cases, regulations and limits involving those seeking office. As naturally follows, there has been a rise in reform proposals, loopholes and PACs to counter the current practices of campaign financing. These two facts alone are enough to declare it is an issue which warrants an appropriate
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General Foods Corporation
In 1967 General Foods Corporation was a large, quickly growing corporation and they were actively looking for new projects in which they could invest their capital in. They were looking to increase their share of the dessert market. Currently the company is studying a proposal of whether or not to accept a new project for producing instant dessert (Super project), among many other projects. Some other major products from General Foods included Post, Kool-Aid, Maxwell
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Corporate Success and Leadership
The link between corporate success and leadership CAs promote strategic planning, internal controls, accountability and the like, but let's face it, leadership is the primary success factor in any journey ?in business or elsewhere. The reason is simple: a leader has the ability to bring together the right people, to clearly define their roles and to convince them to take on the required tasks no matter how thankless and unglamorous some of them might be.
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Enron Corporation and Andersen
Case 4.1: Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP Team A: University of Phoenix ACC 492 Charlo Reynolds March 24, 2008 Case 4.1 Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP 1. What were the business risks Enron faced, and how did those risks increase the likelihood of material misstatement in Enron's financial statements? Enron's business risks involved risks such as fraud; however, their ultimate failure was when they entered into aggressive transactions involving special purpose entities (SPE's). The problem
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Report on Long-Term Financing Policy
Work Teams: Dispute Resolution Dianna O’Garro Human Relations and Organizational Behavior 502 Dr. Michael Lindsey August 10, 2005 Abstract Can conflict among work teams or individual employees be avoided? This and other conflict resolution issues will be addressed in this paper along with a couple of hypothetical workplace disputes and the viable solutions that can be applied to resolve the conflict(s). Work Teams and Conflicts “The use of work teams has become a popular strategy
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Finance
Paige Brown Unit 2 Individual Project 1)The year- to year percentage annual growth in net sales for Micro Chip Computer Corporation was done in the following manner: The sales numbers are in millions. 2004- 2003 = 8,334-6,141 = 2,193 = .35710796 = 35.7% 2003 6,141 6,141 2003- 2002 = 6,141-9,181 = 3040 = - .331186145 = - 33.1% 2002 9,181 9,181 2002- 2001 = 9,181- 11,933 = 22 = -.2206209671 = - 22.06% 2001 11,933
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The Role and Development of a Corporate Brand Personality for Modern Businesses
In this essay I intend to assess the growing roll that corporate branding is playing in today’s business environment. This assessment will be based on three peer reviewed academic journal articles, core texts and notes from the class. Academic Journal Articles Reviewed: Keller, K.L. (2006), �The Importance of Corporate Brand Personality Traits to a Successful 21st Century Business.’ Journal of Brand Management. Vol. 14. Nos. 1/2, 74-81. Reckom, J. V. (2006), �Capturing the Essense of
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Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking
Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking The team researched six companies with similar issues facing Lester Electronics to determine some benchmarking references for Bernard Lester. The six companies researched were: Apollo Health Street/Zavata-Appendix A, AT&T/BellSouth-Appendix B, Safeway-Vons Merger-Appendix C, Oracle-PeopleSoft-Appendix D, Boeing / Mc Donnell Douglas-Appendix E, May Company / Federated-Appendix F. This paper will provide some key concepts that will be compared and contrasted to help Mr. Lester make a determination on how to handle
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Corporate Governance in East Asia
Corporate Governance in East Asia The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98 was seen as a consequence of poor corporate governance throughout East Asia. Lax corporate governance could be seen in weak internal controls, poor financial reporting and auditing, lack of discretion by boards of directors, mistreatment of minority shareholders and poor enforcement of penalties for law breakers. Throughout East Asia the interest in corporate governance has always been sporadic, however after the Financial Crisis governments
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Downfall of Major Corporations
Memorandum To: Professor CC: [Click here and type name] From: Date: 31/03/2006 Re: What led to the downfall of some of the hugest corporations in America and how is it coped with? CONFIDETIAL In this report I will be talking about how businesses choose the road to greed instead of choosing the ethical road. Some of the largest companies in the world fell to this type of thinking, naming some such as Worldcom and Enron.
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Shariah and Swaps (islamic Finance)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and Mercy-Giving The Total Returns Swap and the "Shariah Conversion Technology" Stratagem By Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo Summary This study will look at Islamic values in financial decision-making by considering whether or not Shariah Supervisory Boards will approve any financial product that is delivered by ostensibly halal means, even if what is delivered by those means, the end product, is derived from non-compliant investments. This may be characterized as
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Xerox Corporation (corporate Social Responsibility)
XEROX CORPORATION (Corporate Social Responsibility) 1. Introduction – Xerox company profile Xerox Corporation is the world’s leading document management company. The company is manufacturing and selling printers, digital printing presses and systems, photo copiers and related supplies. Xerox started to expand rapidly between 1960 and 1970. In the mid 1980’s Apple decided to buy Xerox but the deal finally did not happen. Xerox sued Apple for stealing and using its graphical user interface on the
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Introduction: The belief of Sir Mark Moody up until the 1960’s was “that if a company ran an efficient operation with sound staff development, employment, did not bribe anyone, and paid taxes in the country were the money was earned” then they were operating responsibly and doing what was expected of them in society. His view has since changed much like the majority of the world, and now incorporates the need for good Corporate Social
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Fmc Corporation: Organizational Behavior Analysis
FMC Corporation is a Chicago-based conglomerate that consists of over five major businesses. Aberdeen and Green River are both plants that work under FMC Corporation. These two businesses work in two separate industries – defense and chemicals, respectively. Unfortunately, the industries are not the only differences to consider. Both locations have operated with different management styles, leading to differences in organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and organizational ethics, as outlined below. The management of ability can
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Corporate Strategy
Chapter 4: Anthropology: According to the world book dictionary anthropology refers to the science of man, which deals with his physical characteristics, with the origin and development of races, and the cultures customs and beliefs of mankind. Anthropology has tended to concentrate on the over-all problems of mankind, particularly through the concept of culture. Cultural factors appear to be the most influential factors affecting a consumer’s buying behaviour. The cultural factors are inclusive of
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Corporate Governance: Us Model? Japan Model?
Corporate governance is defined as the distribution of power in the company. In the 1990s, the great success of US economy let to the efforts to understand and copy American management methods. The Anglo-American view of corporate governance derives from generating long term economic gain to enhance shareholder value. An outside board of directors is hired. The boards of US companies are made up of friends and acquaintances of the CEO. The use of ‘stock
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Sorzal Corporation
February 4, 2006 Sorzal Distributors Case Introduction Management of Sorzal Distributors is faced with the difficult decision of signing a purchase contract with a mass-merchandise department store chain at 10 percent below existing Sorzal’s existing prices. Sorzal Distributors has established itself as one of the more reputable dealers in authentic southwestern jewelry and pottery. The company is positioned as a distributor of high-quality and authentic South American and African artifacts and replicas at reasonable
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Wal-Mart Corporation
“Basic History Overview” Wal-Mart's history is one of innovation, leadership and success. It started with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and has grown to what is now the world's largest - and arguably, the most emulated - retailer. Some researchers refer to Wal-Mart as the industry trendsetter. Today, this retailing pioneer has annual revenues of over $100 billion, 3,000 stores and more than 0,000 employees worldwide. Wal-Mart operates each store, from the
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