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Ratio Analysis of Microsoft

firm may be assessed. One of the first ratios is that of the gross profit margin. The gross margin is expressed as a percentage....

PROFIT MAXIMIZATION AND ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS

In late 2001, when the former "new economy" giant Enron was imploding, it was found that its internal financial staff relied on sp...

Small Business Accounting: The Value of Business Acumen and Networking

by any professional who runs his or her own practice - should one expand ones practice to attain a higher level of service and com...

A Historical and Theological View of Urban Renewal in Lupton's "Renewing the City"

tells Nehemiahs story in dramatic terms. The story goes thus: After invasions by Nebuchednezzar, the city of Jerusalem lay in comp...

Building Green

Organizations reasons for constructing environmentally friendly buildings are as varied as the designs that have emerged through t...

Why Do Companies Failed to Make Accurate Capital Investment Decisions?

the back of envelope it would be unsurprising that the results will be lacking. However, it is not a problem that is associated on...

Accounting Questions; Deciding between Two Investment Projects

the revenues and an equally throughout the year then the payback period here is 1 year 6 months. The problem with using the payba...

Technology/Hospitality Industry

aided both brands in achieving the goal of operating more efficiently, as hotel management can now run the properties more effecti...

Financial Management of Domestic and Multinational Business

the management of costs. The movement of jobs to developing countries is one way that costs have been decreased, this was until re...

Financial Management of Domestic and Multinational Business

unless a domestic company set up a new facility or undertook to subcontract the work, however with the development of the practice...

Julius Caesar: "The Civil War"

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

Case Study: Decision Time at Lotus Corporation

1994). Not coincidentally, it also made Lotus the leader in the application software sector (Case study, 1994). Lotus believed th...

Race Relations in Detroit

The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly...

Apollo Group Inc.; Statistical Analysis of the Share Price Performance 2005 - 2007

be proven until some point in the further when the performance of the shares over the forthcoming period is known. The scientific ...

Hardin's Theory of the Commons and the Failure of the Kyoto Accords

and no one can use it. Hardin goes beyond this simple example to consider other serious problems in light of this theory; he incl...

Costco and Best Buy

all direct and indirect costs have been deducted. As well as the direct materials, there are also the indirect costs such as wages...

Assessing 2 Projects Using Net Present Value

level of the discounting, making the discount level 15%. This means the same process is used but the factors are gained by divided...

Canadian Professions and Patriarchy

Canada. Canadas blue collar workplaces and her professional workplaces alike are characterized by gender stratification. ...

Financially Assessing the Merger Between AOL and Time Warner

Time Inc., in filmed entertainment there is Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, for Music there is the Warner Music Group, and for Ca...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Gross Domestic Product Economic Indicator Importance

make business decisions and prepare for future trends. In looking at the GDP it is important to realize that a true historical ...

Accounting Practice and the Use of Mathematics

can do on silicon. But that is not math. That is accounting. Real math is not crunching numbers but contemplating them and the mys...

Cycles in Accounting

The second step is to post the transactions to the General Ledger (Mount San Jacinto College, 2003). The General Ledger is a compa...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

2004 and 2005 Tesco and Sainsbury's Financial Performance

are in millions and the currency is Stirling. 2. Financial Performance. 2.1 Gross Profit Margin The gross profit is the profit ...

Employee Stock Option Schemes in Accounting

of other standards I the past (Anonymous, 2005). In order to assess the impact of this and why the new standard is seen in such a ...

Benefits of Microsoft Excel

that number-crunchers have come to rely on" (p.29). The one main advantage of Excel, according to many experts (not to men...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

Silent and Shadow Accounts and Tesco

still an internal publication and may suffer from the same bias. It shadow accounts have the potential of addressing the asymmetry...

Measuring Body Temperature

thermometer in the same areas. Thus the problem lies in determining which of the types of available thermometers is more ac...