1. The top management of Teletech Corporation was applying 9.30% as a hurdle rate to all capital projects and as a performance evaluation‚ regardless of the business units. 2. Corporate Telecommunications Services Products and Systems MV asset weights 100% 75% 25% Bond rating A- / BBB+ A BB Pretax cost of debt 5.88% 5.74% 7.47% Tax rate 40% 40% 40% After-tax cost of debt 3.53% 3.44% 4.48% Equity beta 1.15 1.04 1.39 Rf 4.62% 4.62% 4.62% Rm
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1. What are your thoughts on Fridman’s overall argument? Do you agree or disagree with him? Why? I feel that Fridman makes a respectable argument and uses rhetorical strategies and comparisons much to his advantage. Yet‚ his argument‚ though well stated has become less relevant‚ as 2012 comes to an end. Fridman wrote this article in 1990‚ a completely different era—an era of post-modernism. Post-modernist thought is deeply rooted in stark binary comparisons like Fridman makes (jock/nerd‚ cool/uncool)
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Case Analysis General Motors - 2005 Course Instructor: Prof Dr Ali Askari Date: October 29th‚ 2010 Group # 5 Niveen Qadri (29) Muzna Ahmed (28) Maryam Khan (21) Sidra-Tun-Nisa (37) General Motors I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Mission: General Motors is committed to be a leader in providing transportation products and services of such quality that its customers will receive superior value‚ its employees and business partners will share their success and their shareholders
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f “…democracy requires an informed citizenry and transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed” – Source: RTI Act’ 2005 *connectedthinking pwc Contents Executive summary 3 Introduction 12 Progress made so far 26 Key issues and constraints in implementing the RTI Act 36 Learning from international experience 56 Recommendations
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N.A. Rs. 12000 Mr. Naresh Gujral Non-Executive Director (Independent) N.A. N.A. Rs. 6000 The number of Board Meetings and the attendance of Directors as well as their attendance at the last AGM during the financial year 2004-2005 were as below :— Board Meeting Dates & Attendance AGM Date & Attendance
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2005 New York City transit strike The 2005 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU). Negotiations for a new contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) broke down over retirement‚ pension‚ and wage increases. The strike began at 3:00 a.m. EST on December 20‚ 2005. Most New York City Transit Authority personnel observed the strike‚ effectively halting all service on the subway and buses. Millions of commuters
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Regarded by many as one of the finest novelists of his time‚ Belfast-born Brian Moore left Ireland a young man‚ and spent more than fifty years in Canada and the US. However‚ as Martin McGinley found out (belatedly)‚ he had strong links with Donegal. The great Brian Moore and the Donegal connection So I mention to Muriel that I’m doing an article about Brian Moore‚ the writer‚ and she says‚ “His mother was from Donegal‚ wasn’t she?” It seems that the world has been aware for some time that
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In this mock press release from The Onion‚ the author satirizes the way products are marketed to consumers. He seems to think that the methods used by advertisers are exaggerated and manipulative. The author shows his contempt for marketing techniques by using irony‚ diction‚ and hyperboles. The use of irony is evident in this mock press release. The author uses this irony to point out logical flaws sometimes seen in advertisements. For instance‚ a woman claims that “after wearing MagnaSoles for
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Case Study 3: Estimating the Cost of Capital 1. Currently Teletech Corporation (TC) uses a single hurdle rate for both their Telecommunications Services (TS) and Products and Services (P&S) divisions. This hurdle rate obtained by an estimate of TC Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)‚ which is calculated at 9.3%. When analyzing critically at this point‚ TS is underperforming with a return on capital (ROC) of 9.1%‚ whereas‚ P&S segment is well over the required rate of return as it is gaining
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New Kingdom Hyksos: Origins: Historians disagree over origins Agree Hyksos from North of Egypt Reasons for coming to Egypt: Egypt in chaos – in Second Intermediate Period Hyksos attracted to natural resources‚ fertile land‚ and possible climatic change? Wavering Control of Hyksos: piece of fragmentary palette from Apophis says Hyksos control of area was lessening Adopted customs - name ‘re’‚ gods (seth)‚ + scarab beetle Contributions: Egyptians learnt a lot about warfare: 1. Learnt to build
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