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the company4. The failure had great negative effects to the government and reputation of Japanese companies in addition to Toshiba itself. The fact that the presence of these types of failures makes the credit rating of Japan to downgrade in a market where they try to set up a trustable environment as mentioned by Japanese finance minister, made the high level executives resign in a more quicker process2. In the report of the independent investigation committee, it is stated that the…

with 10 retail and brand partners nationwide and ProSiebenSat.1 as a strategic partner. Also in October 2014, Shopkick was acquired for over $200M in cash by SK planet, part of SK Group and SK Telecom, a Fortune 100 company and the mobile commerce market leader in South Korea, in the largest mobile commerce transaction to date 1.2 Impact American Eagle's EVP Fred Grover said "Our shopkick customers buy twice as often as a non-shopkick user and have helped increase in-store traffic.". In 2014,…

organizations which have less marketing power & are still building upon their brand name. The main purpose of the classification in this case study is basically 2 fold: a) Identifying & analyzing the competitors also evaluating & determining their market value. b) Identifying the interests of the customers and also analyzing the…

Corporate Governance Corporate governance is a system which consists of a bundle of rules with practices through which a company is controlled and directed. It primarily comprises of a balance in the interests of stakeholders such as management, shareholders, government and even the community. Board of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies (The Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance 1992). -The shareholders hold the right to appoint directors and auditors and to…

1. Explain why total financial assets in the economy must equal total financial liabilities Financial asset is intangible property from a contractual claim such as stocks, bank deposits, and bonds. All of them should be worth to receive monetary value. Financial liability is a company's obligation or debt which a company has to pay back the amount of borrowing money. Total financial assets and total financial should be equal it's because the balance sheet is based on accounting equation. Since…

1. What are municipal bonds? Describe two different types of municipal bonds. The two most common types of municipal bonds are the following: General obligation bonds are issued by states, cities or counties and not secured by any assets. Instead, general obligation are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the issuer, which has the power to tax residents to pay bondholders. 2. What is asset allocation? Why is this used? This is a technique used to spread your investment dollars across…

to Brinkerhoff et al. (2014), capitalism is a market-based economic system based on competition that consists of buyers and sellers. In a capitalist economic system, most wealth is considered private property and use…

In January 2001, a major merger was announced between AOL and Time Warner. The merger was aimed to create the world’s first fully integrated media and communication company for the internet century in an all stock combination valued at $350 billion dollars. It was considered “The Deal of the Century” because they believed that each company being the best in its field, complemented their strengths which suggested the possibility of a mutually beneficial relationship. The merger deal was trouble…

A weakness of Quintiles is the company’s high level of indebtedness. As of December 31, 2014, the company has about $2 billion indebtedness, which means that the company will need to use a portion of the money to pay back the debt before all the interest rates accumulate and increase the amount of debt, thereby affecting the financial flexibility of Quintiles. Quintiles can continue to thrive in research and develop their Web to attract customers through easy access to the website. The company…

The Nagle Vehicle Purchase Recently, we decided to purchase another vehicle. We had to decide whether or not we could actually afford another vehicle. There were several options to discuss. There were many factors and avenues that we had to explore before making the actual purchase. We had originally used a concept map in the actual event decision, but now we decided that we needed to outline all possible points in determining what we would buy in the end. We initially wanted to buy a…