Mini-Case 3 There are various advantages and disadvantages mutual funds offer compared to company stock for you retirement investing. Advantages: First‚ there is a lower cost; mutual funds are usually lower in expenses than company stock. Second‚ diversification‚ where diversification is used to reduce the portfolio risk. When you invest in multiple stocks from different companies there are more benefits from lower risk. Third they are convenient. Mutual funds are relatively easy to buy. Minimum
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Ashford 5: - Week 4 - Assignment 3 S.W.O.T. (Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ Threats) For this assignment‚ using the situation given below‚ apply the S.W.O.T. Situational Planning Strategy which was described in Chapters 4 and 7 of your course text: Situation: You are the C.E.O. of Community South Medical Center‚ a large‚ urban for-profit healthcare facility. This institution has comprehensive health services including acute care‚ residential care‚ independent living‚ in-home nursing
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Appendix 3 – Budgets and templates Master budget with profit projections Big Red Bicycle Pty Ltd Master Budget FY 2011/2012 FY Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 REVENUE Commissions (2% sales) 60‚000 15‚000 15‚000 15‚000 15‚000 Direct wages fixed 200‚000 50‚000 50‚000 50‚000 50‚000 Sales 3‚000‚000 750‚000 750‚000 750‚000 750‚000 Cost of Goods Sold 400‚000 100‚000 100‚000 100‚000 100‚000 Gross Profit 2‚340‚000 585‚000 585‚000 585‚000 585‚000 EXPENSES General & Administrative Expenses Accounting
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was restoration. Today’s notion of restorative justice has several concepts that identify needs. Three of the concepts are as follow (1) the need to compensate victims‚ (2) the need to place appropriate responsibility on the criminal offender‚ and (3) the need to attempt reintegration of the offender with the community. (Criminal Law Today: Frank Schmalleger‚ Ph.D.). The U.S Department of Justice did a report on restorative justice explaining it by saying “Crime was once defined as a ‘violation
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adjustments to accommodate those with a disability‚ both children and the parents. This act doesn ’t just mean physical disability it also includes mental impairment which would have a long term effect on a person ’s ability to perform day-to-day activities. Equality Act 2006 The Equality Act enforces equality legalisation on age‚ disability‚ health‚ gender‚ race‚ religion‚ belief and sexual orientation. The equality and human rights will replace the following commissions: Disability rights commission
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Assignment 301 Task A 1. Indetify 4 different reasons why people communicate Communication is essential in our job‚ as it is the basic of all relationships. We have to be able to communicate with service users to gain information‚ which will help us provide best service possible. People choose to communicate for different reasons eg: - to express needs : service user asking for a cup of tea. - to share ideas and information : passing essential information to members of staff and
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Seminar 1: Company case: Jet Blue: Delighting customers through happy jetting (Core book page: 34) 1. Give examples of needs‚ wants‚ and demands that JetBlue customers demonstrate‚ differentiating these three concepts. What are the implications of each for JetBlue’s practices? The needs are situations of felt deprivation‚ in other words a state or time of difficulty such as the ones seen in Maslow’s pyramid: from bottom to top Physiological which consists of food‚ water‚ and sleep‚ safety
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Case Study ‘Blu-ray versus HD-DVD: A Standards Battle in High-Definition Video’ Discussion Questions 1. What factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Every party in this standards battle had its own reasons for chosing one standard over the other. For instance‚ the motives for movie producers to choose Blu-ray were completely different from the motives for consumers to choose Blu-ray. In our opinion‚ the
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Essay #3 The voyages of discovery and of the new world were promoted by many factors economically‚ technologically‚ politically‚ and religiously. In the years from about 1450 to 1525 there were many reasons as to why explorations were aided by the main four factors that were previously stated. Advancements in astronomy and navigation were big technological factors. Countries were gaining little income‚ causing them to go and search for ways to become prosperous was an economic factor. The marriage
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Question 3 You are a member of the taxi cab union during the general strike of 1958. Give an account of your experiences during the strikes. I remember it like it was yesterday the sun was shining and I was taking another group of tourist to the British colonial‚ my name is Jason Borrows and I’m the owner of taxi number 36. The Bahamas was just getting back on its economical feet until the General strike in 1958 is was as if battle lines were drawn between an unyielding authoritarian regime
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