payout policies are appropriate? Why or why not? According to the current situation‚ we think Blaine’s current capital structure and payout policies are not appropriate. capital structure： Blaine is currently over-liquid and under-levered. In this case‚ Blaine’s shareholders are suffering from the effects. Because Blaine is a public company with large portion of its shares held by conservative family members‚ Blaine has huge financial surplus and causes bad financial leverage. In other words‚ Blaine
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Ocean Carriers Project Analysis Introduction Ocean Carriers receives a lease for a ship over three years starting in 2003. However‚ the company currently does not hold qualified ships that can meet customers’ demand. Our report is not only to assist Ms. Linn to decide whether or not to purchase a new ship but also give a reasonable suggestion on how long to hold on the ship regarding the NPV and long term prospective of dry bulk industry. Upon business operating in U.S or H.K‚ we consider four scenarios
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Part of managing a Windows Server 2003 network environment requires an administrator to be familiar with both of the different security models that can be implemented along with the roles that a server can hold. The two different security models used in Windows network environments are the workgroup model and the domain model. Please discuss in 500-600 words both options and explain why you would choose one over the other for your implementation. When configuring windows networking‚ two major
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1. Consider a 1-Year $10‚000 CD A. The future value of a $10‚000 CD that has a maturity of 1 year at maturity with 10% interest is $11‚000. Financial Calculator Inputs: $ -10‚000=PV‚ 1=N‚ I=10‚ FV=? ($11‚000) B. The future value of a 1-year‚ $10‚000 CD after one year at an interest rate of 5.0% is $10‚500. Financial Calculator Inputs: $-10‚000=PV‚ 1=N‚ 5=I‚ FV=? ($10‚500) The future value of a 1-year‚ $10‚000 CD after one year at an interest rate of 15.0% is $11‚500. Financial
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products‚ some of which are made only to order‚ the company uses a job-order costing system. On July 1‚ the start of the company’s fiscal year‚ inventory account balances were as follows: Raw Materials | £10‚000 | Work in Process | £4‚000 | Finished Goods | £8‚000 | The company applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. Its predetermined overhead rate for the fiscal year starting July 1 was based on a cost formula that estimated £99‚000 of manufacturing overhead for an estimated
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Case Analysis #1: Will GM’s Strategic Plan Lead to Future Success? Ivy Tech Community College Business 105-00F In an ever changing world‚ where a business can appear one day and are gone the next‚ General Motors has adopted a strategy to avoid this catastrophe. Knowing if they wanted to stay in the game‚ they would have to make a few sacrifices and changes for the better future of the company. 1) Which of the four basic strategy types were used by GM? Explain your rational
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the angels should remind us of our own irreverent attitude when we rush thoughtlessly into His presence. The Lord our God despises irreverence. In 1 Samuel 6 we read how serious the holy God punishes this sinfulness. Here we read that the Philistines had captured the ark of God and sought to keep it as a trophy of their victory. It soon became evident the ark was the source of much suffering for them. They passed it around and finally decided to get rid of it by sending it back to Israel. They transported
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revenue growth as the previous fiscal year. It will take some time for the company to do better like before in the earlier years in sales growth. This increase however‚ does show improvement for the company as revenue growth hit a downward turn to 8% in the late 1990’s. For sales from 2002 to 2003‚ we are projecting another 13% increase because again we want to base the same revenue growth as the previous two fiscal years. Keeping the sales increase at a steady rate would still mean growth for
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Buy the Pentax K-1 Mark II DSLR or upgrade the K-1? Announced recently‚ the Pentax K-1 Mark II‚ the newest DSLR from the company owned by Ricoh‚ is a photographer’s tool which offers Full HD video along with 4K time-lapse. Developed as the successor to the Pentax K-1 full-frame DSLR camera launched in April 2016‚ the new K-1 Mark II has a competitor: Pentax offers to upgrade the original DSLR to a Mark II version. The compact‚ rugged and weather-resistant Pentax K-1 Mark II now becomes the flagship
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Culture ‚ according to the texrt book‚ is defined as the complex whole that includes knowledge‚ belief‚ art‚ law‚ morals‚ customs‚ and any other capabilities and habits acquired by humans as members of society. It sets the framework for individual behavior. It functions by setting loose boundries for individual behavior. These boundries are called norms. Simply put‚ they are rules that prohibit certain behaviors in specific situations. But what happens when someone breaks one of their cultural norms
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