Repatriation

For centuries museums have been seen as powerful cultural, educational, and financial institutions that uphold the morals and ethically obligations bestowed upon by their community and peers. For the most part they are, especially when things are going well and the museum’s budget is in the green, but issues with ethics tend to arise when museums fall in the red. When some museums find themselves in financial strains the try to fudge the lines within the rules they promised to follow or they…

Typically, he will sell his shrimp to a packing plant which will clean and froze the shrimp and either export the frozen shrimp directly or sell them to an exporter. The foreign processors will then prepare the final products to be sold to the distributors and retailers. Upon learning about the chain his shrimp goes through, Xavier is now considering if he should try to expand into the value-added parts of the shrimp business. This paper presents a strategic external analysis on the shrimp…

Sex trafficking is the illegal trade of people with the purpose of exploiting them for income. It is the fastest growing international crime. There are many forms of human trafficking in which traffickers can exploit their victims, 18% of victims are introduced to labour where they are forced to commit acts of slavery or practices similar to slavery and servitude. 3% of victims are in the ‘other’ category which can involve the removal of organs and the remaining 79% of victims are used for…

Any rise in the prices of such inputs through devaluation, would raise industrial costs and reduce the intensity of capacity utilisation. Therefore, it should be avoided as a resort to deficit financing. Devaluation with its implications will cause a contraction in economic activity and consequently slide in income tax receipts will raise the burden of Bangladesh's foreign debt overnight. It cannot stop smuggling as long as black-market transactions in foreign exchange continue. Devaluing…

Since then twenty new accounting standards were issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation aiming to align accounting practices with IFRS. Despite these efforts essential differences between national accounting standards and IFRS remain. Since 2004 all commercial banks have been obliged to prepare financial statements in accordance with both national accounting standards and IFRS. Full transition to IFRS is delayed and is expected to take place from 2011. Singapore: In…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…

However, the large drop in PalmKid’s contribution margin per unit combined with a decrease in the actual number of PalmPro units sold as well as a drop in the actual contribution margin per unit below budget, led to the total contribution margin being much lower than budgeted. Other factors could be discussed here––for example, it seems that the PalmKid did not achieve much success with a three digit price point––selling price was budgeted at $149 but dropped to $102. At the same time,…