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Accounting for Goodwill

of merger or acquisition. FASB 141 "supersedes APB Opinion No. 16, Business Combinations, and FASB Statement No. 38, Accounting f...

Concept of Integer Factorization

8 results from 2 times 4, which in turn is 2 times 2. Weber (1995) advises distinguishing between prime and composite numbers by ...

A Case Study on Accounting

applicable, as a loss of ?5 or even ?9 would be less than a loss of ?10. However for the purposes of this paper, and as it is know...

Purchase Orders and Internal Control

The purchasing department has only to formally place the order for the item and issue the paperwork that will authorize payment wh...

International Operations and TQM

company is no longer necessarily competing against neighbors or regional firms -- that company could be competing with a similar c...

Nike's Employee Recruitment or "Making the Fit"

proverbial "disgruntled" employee leaked an internal report, detailing abysmal working conditions in the factories. The student ...

Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust Processes of Appraisal

overall view of work content, loads and volume, to look back on what has been achieved during the reporting period and agree objec...

Planning and Financial Analysis

be explained through review of the "4 Ps" of marketing and an analysis of elasticity of demand. QuickStop operates in an industry...

3 Operations Solutions Case Studies

learned during the mid-1990s, when American Airlines, one of the Companys clients, complained about the service AlliedSignal was s...

Sonic Corporation Diversity

through relationships, 2002), and CEO J. Clifford Hudson credits the concept with having great influence in the turnaround at Soni...

Boeing Airlines, International Sales, and Ethics

global market Boeings response was to strengthen its forces. In August, 1997, Boeing completed a merger with another commercial j...

Criminal Justice and Intelligence

on, and intelligence gained is assumed to be from open source information unless otherwise specified. For the argument to be in ...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Literature Review of Consumer Research

indicator of quality, there remains a dearth of published research addressing the issue. There are some studies that address wait...

Federal Express and United Parcel Service's Value Chain

activity of marketing (Kotler, 2003). Both companies have string marketing as a support activity. The next stage of the value ch...

Operation of Wal Mart and Ethics

to show any kind of profit, Wal-Mart has excelled. Wal-Mart has not been reticent in its rate of investment in IT, which has allo...

Is the US Government's Executive Branch Democratic?

write a bill, but may only suggest bills to Congress with the hopes that they will then submit such a bill (The Executive Branch, ...

E-Systems and the Addition of a KMS or Knowledge Management System

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

Wine.Com and Timberweb.Com Ecompany Analyses

top sellers or top rated wines. Both pages offer numerous hyperlinks, including a top menu for going directly to specific places....

Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Lessons Learned From Them

a former assistant secretary of defense, in his report to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee a dozen years ago....

Operation Mexicano Project and the Case of Carl Conway

PERT, which is used to determine time estimates. A key concept in project management is creating network diagrams using PERT/CPM (...

Customer Service Orientation in the Healthcare Industry

and ties are the rule. The rules were relaxed for a short time in the nineties but management believes they were lowering their st...

Analysis of Domestic and Global Terrorism

In eight pages this paper analyzes global and domestic terrorism from the perspective of the United States in a consideration of p...

Operations Management Overview

the destination market is. The determination of choices need to be based on factual statistical evidence. This is at the highest...

IBM Microelectronics Division and Linear Programming

2001). If we wish to understand how this was achieved we can look more carefully at this case. The situation here was one of dif...

Presentation on Canada's Hamilton Health Services

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

Mexican Cement Company CEMEX

the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

Operations Management and the Saturn Corporation

established in 1991, is a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (Saturn Corporation, About, 2002). GM actually introduced the b...

The Impact of Airport Security Measures on Management Operations

very equipment upon which food and beverages are served, in-flight food service has been faced with an unexpected need to modify i...