Leading indicators

The shareholders were eagerly awaiting the arrival of ships loaded with gold, silver, and other valuable products from the Spanish colonies, which would multiply the return on their investment in the South Sea Company. The problem was that the boats and wealth had only been in the minds of the promoters who, counting on the monopoly to negotiate with the Spanish colonies, were dedicated to spreading rumors about the immense wealth that were waiting for their shareholders in the new world. To…

Part A: Introduction Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a quantitative performance evaluation method of measuring Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of business units and departments of an organization. It is a set of objectives that do determinate success and accomplishments of stockholders, respective employees and decision makers in an organization. These objectives shall be fulfilled in regular and period timeframe, for instance, on the quarterly basis, upon achieving targets on a specific date or…

After viewing the State of Consciousness section on "Dreams," the experiences I have had with dreams are more understandable now. For example, since I play fantasy football, I have had dreams in which I stressed over losing on fantasy football due to severe injuries for the players on my team or simply just mismanagement. Most importantly, these dreams typically occurred in Sunday night and several days afterwards, when football was still fresh in my mind. These dreams do make sense now as they…

can and cannot do, leading them to a brighter future. Many schools are arguing with families over the search and seizure of students’ bags, person, and lockers. the parents are arguing that it’s a violation of the fourth amendment, not only invading their pupils’ privacy, but also their property ;however, on the other side, the schools argue that searching the desks and lockers are the school's’ property and that they’re only doing it to discipline and protect them.…

Leading to the choice of subjects from the viewpoint bias, and to ensure impartiality and to work on the set subjects that are relevant to the subject area, and have a lot of information that can contribute to the determination of features, disadvantages…

Development concept has been emerged since the enlightenment age as a number of social scientists did some research and came up with interesting concepts. However, the idea of development was not still known widely. As result of the devastating effect of World Word II, powerful countries consulted together to find the solution to recover the impact of this war. After the successful reconstruction, those countries drew attention to poor countries to assist them to develop. Therefore,…

This is used by directional gyros and gyro horizons. HEADING INDICATOR – a gyroscopic instrument that gives the pilot an indication of the aircraft’s heading. TURN & SLIP INDICATOR – a rate gyroscopic flight instrument that gives the pilot and indication of the rate of rotation of the aircraft about its vertical axis. DEVIATION – an error in a magnetic compass caused by localized magnetic fields in the aircraft. ATTITUDE INDICATOR – A gyroscopic flight instrument that gives the pilot…

The second leading cause of death for women is Breast Cancer. Knowing what causes this cancer can further understand how to diagnosis and for treatment. There are five stages on the chances to survive and how far along the cancer is. There are different symptoms that may be an indicator to watch closely. The prognosis’s on the outcomes depends how early the cancer is caught. That one in eight women is diagnosed with breast cancer. As of today over 2.9 million are survivors of breast cancer in…

Physical activity has been named as a leading health indicator by the Center of Decease Control in Health People 2010. With that in mind, it is very important that lower- limb amputees are given a chance to stay physically active, and as researches what influence we have to make activities more available…

Perspective: How do we look to shareholders? Are we making money? The focus of financial perspective is financial performance measured by financial accounts. Key performance indicators are return on capital employed, cash flow, project profitability, profit forecast reliability, and sales backing. Revenue and productivity are valuable indicators of undertaken projects, as well as their economic results. The financial goal should be aligned with the company’s strategies. The execution and…