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Most of the 21st century immigrants relocate to the United States to provide their families with increased employment opportunities. Crevecoeur portrayed America during his time as an asylum, melting pot, and wonderful place full of opportunity. Today, America is known as a country people go to in order to seek a new life and find a job. It is a land of opportunities full of immigrants from all over the world who wish to start a new, successful life in America and set a good foundation for their…

In 2003, the average compensation of CEOs of largest U.S. companies is $8 million which is 301 times as much as factory workers. (Moriarty 257) This is one of the universal issues that whether high CEO compensations are giving rising economic inequalities draws growing concern. My argument is that high CEO compensations given rising economic inequalities are unjustified because high CEO pays are unfair per se and the non-comparative inequality that workers get should be solved (they worth more…

The two methods of marketing research in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of PBS FRONTLINE’s The Persuaders were a focus group (Chapter 4) and the use of Acxiom (Chapter 5). In the video, Dr. Clotaire Rapaille hosted a focus group to “decode” the word Luxury for the Luxury Marketing Counsel America, which includes corporations such as Boeing and Acura. The purpose of marketing research is finding an effective marketing campaign that would attract target consumers and have a competitive advantage;…

According to Marisa Warford, “switching from a traditional leave program (sick time and vacation) to a paid-time-off system can have multiply advantageous for employees” (2014, para. 1). For instance, employees can use their PTO for taking a vacation, going to doctor appointments, for a sick leave, or for personal days off from work. Another reason why having a PTO system in effect, is that it can make a significant difference in the amount of unscheduled absence (Warford, 2014). In other words,…

definition can leave many taxpayers with questions and confusion regarding the grey or unaddressed areas of The Code. Specific items that are defined under Section 1221 as not qualifying for a capital asset treatment include: real and depreciable property, stock or another type of property used in the taxpayer trade or business (as inventory in nature), and property created or produced by the taxpayer. Topic #2: Specifics for Capital…

Yankee Fork and Hoe Company have an informal method of forecasting. First, marketing determines the forecast for the next upcoming month by meeting with managers from the sales regions. In these meeting they go over the previous demand, economic changes, and shortages they experienced. Through these meetings the marketing manager develops a forecast for the upcoming year, and then passes it onto production. It appears there is a lack of quantitative information being used in the decision…

1.) Yield to Maturity =├ ( (Face Value)/(Current Price of Bond)┤)^(1/(Years to Maturity))-1 a) r =├ ( $1000/$800┤)^(1/1)-1= 0.25 = 25% b) r =├ ( $100/$950┤)^(1/1)-1= 0.053 = 5.3% c) r =├ ( $1000/$1000┤)^(1/1)-1=0 = 0% The yield to maturity may change over the years depending on the changes in the overall demand for bonds in the market. If the investors become more willing to hold bonds due to economic uncertainty, then the bond prices will rise which will reduce the yield (Ross, 2016). In this…

The financial performance of MBS is not in a good shape at the time of 2011. The sales revenue peaked in 2007 and has been sliding since then. In 2011, the adjusted gross profit from MBS sales only takes up 1/8 of donations amount. Berger and Symons have been constantly optimizing their product structure and distribution channels, the problems like low-quality and high costs are still bothering MBS. Berger proved his ability when putting all his efforts into MBS, their revenue skyrocketed over…

1. From a corporate perspective, GTX building a new headquarters during a recession, when it's already downsizing, is an ethical dilemma. The benefit of this situation, is that a new headquarters means a bigger and better place for the corporation to operate. This could mean for a more efficient and productive workforce. This, along with downsizing, has the financial benefit of increasing the value of the company's shares. On the other hand, building a new headquarters is expensive; GTX is…

I chose to write this week's Ethical Memo Assignment on the Case Study called “Supervising with Sharks: A Project Manager Deals with an Exploitative Boss written by Pamela Taquinion Brannon. Julia Masterson has just been hired as the Director of the Senior Volunteer Project. Six months into her job, Masterson begins to experience many issues within the company, the first being how the SVP FY is not in sync with its parent organization, Community Organization. The issue was brought up to…