as high as it was before‚ but there was no negative growth value is recorded‚ which also means there wasn’t any recession that happened to be big enough to be recorded. Vietnam GDP had its lowest growth rate (of the 10 years) in 2009‚ dropped to about only 3%. After 2009‚
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Nucor in 2009 Case summary Nucor is one of the leading steel producers in the United States. The company was established as nuclear instrument and electronics manufacturer. Later it started steel production and gained new market share by expanding internationally. Despite worldwide economic crisis the company stayed profitable while its competitors went bankrupt. Strengths: • Highly motivated‚ innovative‚ productive and flexible employees. • Good financial results. • Strong relationships with
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Victorian Certificate of Education 2009 General Achievement Test Thursday 11 June 2009 Reading time: 10.00 am to 10.15 am (15 minutes) Writing time: 10.15 am to 1.15 pm (3 hours) QUESTION BOOK Structure of book Type of questions Number of questions to be answered Suggested times (minutes) Suggested time allocation Writing Task 1 Writing Task 2 Multiple-choice questions 1 1 70 30 30 120 10.15 – 10.45 10.45 – 11.15 11.15 – 1.15 • Students are permitted to bring into the examination
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Nucor Corporation What does a SWOT analysis reveal about Nucor’s situation? Does Nucor ?have any core or distinctive competencies In the case of Nucor Corporation there are several factors that need to be addressed while doing its SWOT analysis. Nucor steel is made up of approximately 21‚000 employees and their main goal is to take care of their customer which is stated in their mission statement. Nucor has remained to be an innovative company focusing on finding out and implementing new
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which Colfax products are excelled. The five major business units of Colfax were former leading independent and highly regarded pump companies from Germany‚ France‚ Sweden‚ Netherlands and the United States. 1. What problems Colfax faces in this case? In the year 2008‚ all the heavy industrial manufacturers faced an important business development issue across the world‚ one of them was Colfax. The reason behind the issue was the rapidly rising thirst for oil from markets like Asia‚ Middle East
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Today‚ the company is known for its innovation and research. However‚ the HTCbrand still has a weak image compared to its competitors like Apple‚ Blackberry‚ Nokia‚ Samsung and Sony. HTC is now focusing on developing its brand image to grow its market share. This report reviews the current marketing strategy for HTC Android phones. It analyses the marketing mix forth and reviews the areas of weaknesses and opportunities to build upon. Finally‚ the report provides some recommendations for the future
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Charles Scott should take a few actions to overcome current weaknesses of Whistler Corporation and to make Whistler more competitive in the long term. The company was successful in its business until 1985 because the radar detector market was not in so intensive price competition. However‚ after 1985 the price competition became severe and Whistler Corporation could not catch up with this change. As a result‚ it decreased its market share from 21% to 12%. Considering these situations‚ there are three
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| Target Corporation | Memo To: Dr. Brian Boscaljon From: Adam Leone and Jean Costa CC: Doug Scovanner‚ CFO Date: [ 2/14/2011 ] Re: November Meeting Capital Budgeting Decisions The Objective As the November Meeting approaches‚ CFO Doug Scovanner is faced with the problem of choosing which of the five controversial projects available to accept. Our task is to assume this role and evaluate each of the projects based upon two major criteria. The first is determining the firm’s financial motives
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Biopure Corporation Written Case Study I. Current Situation Audit A. Issue Oxyglobin and Hemopure are two blood substitutes that Biopure Corporation was developing. Oxyglobin was recently approved by the FDA for veterinary use while Hemapure is estimated to be approved in two years for human use. If Oxyglobin is launched it will be the first blood substitute for the veterinary market a small and price sensitive market. There is a perceived risk by Ted Jacobs‚ the VP of Human Clinical Trials
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Case 2.4 CapitalBanc Corporation 1. When auditing cash‚ which of the management assertions discussed in SAS No. 106‚ “Audit Evidence‚” are of primary concern to the auditor? Why? When auditing cash‚ there are a number of management assertions discussed in SAS No. 106 that are of primary concern to auditors. Existence: Auditors must make sure that the cash being audited exists. In the CNB case‚ the cash that was apparently locked away in the cabinet did not exist until money was borrowed
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