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started a small electronic business in New York City in the year 1969. Antar dominated the NYC electronic markets around 1987 with 43 retail outlets, sales exceeding $350 million, and stock with a collective market value of $600 million. Antar personally realized more than $70 million from the sale of Crazy Eddie stock during his labor as the company’s CEO. Crazy Eddie collapsed in the 1980s after several allegations of financial wrongdoing from behalf of Antar and his associates. Around…

Duck hunters are still finding it slow in November, but there has been slight improvement in the Public Shooting areas. In the Sacramento Refuge last Saturday, the average of birds per hunter was up to 1.16. This was the highest average in the area. Not very good, but the coming cold weather systems should get more birds moving. In the Los Banos area, the high of 2.3 was at Salt Slough, followed by Gadwall at 1.8, and Merced at 1.6. Those fortunate to be in private duck clubs usually have…

Philly Landscaping offers many services towards different seasons that has been in business for 25 years by Steve himself, and he is now 50 and wants to look at different options he has, such as retiring, accept the offer made to buy out the company by the competitor, or keep the company and continue running it. After talking thoroughly and examining full briefing of Philly Landscaping business model, pricing schedules, and assumptions I was able to create detailed different scenarios on which…

Understanding Your Insurance Deductible Understanding the role deductibles play when insuring a car or a home is an important part of getting the most out of your insurance policy. A deductible is basically the amount “deducted” from an insured loss. Deductibles have been an essential part of the insurance contract for many years and represent a sharing of the risk between the insurance company and the policyholder. When repairing your home or replacing personal possessions, the amount of the…

Act-based liability. According to this rule criminal is responsible for the expected harm regardless it actually occurs or not. Thus, if a party commits an act that will cause harm of $1,000 with probability 10 percent, he will be liable for $100 for having committed the act. 18 Discussed liability rules suggest that it is important to know the amount of harm that is imposed by wrongful act and sanctions need sometimes to be made severe or sometimes less severe in order to reach the situation…

In the course of recent years, numerous little organizations have started to guarantee their own dangers through an item called "Hostage Insurance." Small prisoners (otherwise called single-guardian prisoners) are insurance agencies built up by the proprietors of firmly held organizations hoping to safeguard chances that are either too immoderate or excessively troublesome, making it impossible to protect through the conventional protection commercial center. Brad Barros, a specialist in the…

On August 4, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined General Electric Company (GE), $50M for reporting false and misleading financial statements. The transactions occur were not in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Furthermore, the four accounting violations occur in 2002 and continued through 2003. The SEC identified risks that uncovered four separate accounting violations, and GE corrected the last of the violations in 2008. The violations are as…

Netflix is a worldwide provider of streaming movies and TV. Most people do not know Netflix has been around since 1998, but the company only sent DVD’s by mail during that period. Netflix did not begin its streaming services until 2007. Short afterwards Netflix expanded its services to Canada, and then expanded to 190 countries (Minaya, Ezequiel). As cable companies become more and more expansive, people start to switch to streaming their shows and movies instead of having a cable subscription.…

citizens and tourists would both benefit and suffer from this increased membership fee. The heightened exclusivity can enhance the overall experience of visiting the park due to the minimized human congestion and lowered overexploitation of this common property resource, whilst also discouraging regular visitors who’ve grown accustomed to the $25 entry fee and the consequential congestion. In essence, these people would rather pay a modest fee to gain an amateur experience than pay more, for an…

created financial regulatory processes to limit risk by enforcing transparency and accountability. President Barack Obama signed the act in 2010 to further enhance the transparency of executive compensation practices. Companies are required to trade stock on public exchanges to comply with four major provisions. • Provision One: Say on Pay, which allows companies’ shareholders the right to vote yay or nay on executive compensation proposals that are contained in proxy statements. • Provision…