Equity

have adopted laws—with varying protections—providing employees with statutory means to challenge wage disparities based on sex, the wage gap persists. The rationale behind the nation’s newest pay equity laws in California, Massachusetts, and New York is certainly grounded in social justice and equity concerns that women, in many cases, earn less than men for performing the same work. However, these three laws were driven in large part by the economic burden lower wages are placing on women,…

(2015), NCI only contributes to 0.7% of total comprehensive income by making $4M income. In addition, there is no NCI contribution during year 2014 as well. Equity in balance sheet and divide performance related to NCI Qantas has decided to increase the portion of interest held in subsidiaries or they bought new subsidiaries. Under the equity statement, dividend paid to NCI is $4M an acquisition of NCI is $1M. It shows the same situation of consolidation cash flow statement. Qantas did not pay…

As observed by Fill (2013), successful brands deliver consistently on their promises, by meeting or exceeding expectations, and in doing so reinforce the positioning and performance. Moreover, much attention has been devoted to the concept of brand equity (Aaker and Biel, 1992; Leuthesser 1988; Maltz 1991). In a general sense, it is defined in terms of marketing effects uniquely attributable to the brand – for example, when certain outcomes result from the marketing of a product or service…

created to address the barriers and to begin establishing equity for all students. The state standards are the basis for the annual state assessments, which all schools in Colorado are now being held accountable to meet. The Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) are the expectations of what every student needs to know and be able to do at the end of each grade without exception. “They also stand…

Brand equity is an important part of the brand’s thinking because it is how consumers view and think of the brand. Brand equity influences how the brand is positioned and what types of marketing strategies that can be effective in promoting the brand. A brand’s equity is also very hard for a company to change because it is how a consumer perceives and feels towards a certain brand and…

Equity focuses on the distribution of resources in an “equal” and fair way amongst the members of a society. Efficiency, is defined as the optimal production and allocation of resources. While at first glance, these terms may be hard to grasp, if you take a look at the Canadian dairy farm industry, you will see a great example of how these terms unfold in reality. It illustrates the outcomes of the market when each is in play. To glean a closer look at the effects of efficiency and equity on…

In another perspective one of the teacher I believed she just thought she was doing her job and doing what she was taught to do. Ms. Phung thought Jeff Bliss was disrupting the class and continually asked him to leave the classroom. Overall the problem that Ms. Phung had in my perspective is that he could have voiced his opinion in a better way than what was shown in the video. The disruption was caused when everyone started focusing on him instead of the work that was put in front of them.…

Ferguson’s class are social justice and equity. Although we only had one day of actually taking notes about those two aspects in IDS 2013, we frequently revisited the topic. The essay “Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice” (1994) in The New Teacher Book (Burant et al., 2010) contains bullet points which clearly define what “…curriculum and classroom practice must…

1. Henry Kravis is a successful businessman and an American billionaire. He is a cofounder of firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private equity firm with about $94.3 billion in asset in 2013. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1944 and his father was a successful petroleum engineer. He studied economics, moved to New York, and worked in finance field. He went back to school in 1967 and enrolled in Columbia’s MBA program. He began to join partners at Bear Steams with his cousin George Roberts in the…

Q3 - OE_Strengths What do you see as Tullow’s particular strengths as an investment? "They have genuinely world-class, attractive assets which are – would be realizable, i.e. they could sell them if they needed to. Secondly, they have a very good track record of exploration and therefore there is the prospect that they will have success in the future again. They have a good support from the banking syndicates, which means that they have not been through quite as much pain as some of their peers…