1. Did Bank of America breach ethical standards by failing to disclose the extent of Merrill’s losses and its agreement to pay year-end bonuses to Merrill executives? Bank of America agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit with investors who owned or bought its shares when the bank purchased Merrill Lynch in 2008. Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch in late 2008 during the financial crisis. The $50 billion deal came as Merrill Lynch was within days of collapse‚ effectively
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No. 3. May 2013 Issue. Pp. 71 – 88 Performance Appraisal of Indian Public Sector Banks Parvesh Kumar Aspal * and Naresh Malhotra** The strength of economy of any country basically hinges on the strength and efficiency of financial system‚ which‚ in turn‚ depends upon a sound banking system. The regulators have recommended bank’s supervision through CAMEL rating model to assess the performance of banks‚ which is better than the earlier systems. The prime objective of CAMEL model of rating
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techniques discussed on the course and supporting and cited sources of evidence. Netflix was founded in Scott’s Valley‚ California in 1997. Netflix Inc. is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America‚ South America and parts of Europe‚ and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States‚ where mailed DVDs are sent via Permit Reply Mail. Netflix Inc. is considered to be in the video entertainment industry‚ which distributes to consumers through movie theatres
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Chapter 2 Forces To study the effect of forces acting on particles. 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle 2.2 Free Body Diagram 2.3 Force Vectors 2.4 Forces in a Plane 2.5 Forces in Space Expected Outcomes • Understand the condition for a particle to be in static equilibrium • Able to construct free body diagrams • Able to solve for the forces acting on a static particle 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle www.classical.com/features 2.1.1 Condition for the Equilibrium of a Particle
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sustain market share as a basis for maintaining long-term profitability. Porter’s (1980) five forces framework appears as a useful tool for analyzing industrial environments‚ assessing the position and competitiveness of an organization and developing successful business strategies. Porter’s Five Forces Model illustrates how the competitive landscape in an industry is strongly impacted by five prominent forces. Based on microeconomics‚ they determine the intensity of competition‚ the profitability
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1. Competitive rivalry – This is the rivalry with other airlines in your existing markets or future markets. Take for example of Malaysia Airlines‚ it will have to identify and segment its markets first. Probably it will come out with a cross matrix segments of: a. geographical markets b. demography c. Travel purposes. Let view one of the segment‚ geographical .. for Malaysia. Then we can see straight away the prominent competitor which is Air Asia. The competitor will be one of the considerations
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Business Structure Telstra is Australia ’s leading fully integrated telecommunications and information services company. Telstra ’s organizational structure consists of Telstra Retail‚ Telstra Mobile‚ Telstra Country Wide‚ Telstra Wholesale‚ Telstra International infrastructure Services and Network and Technology Group. They offer a range of services from landline telephony‚ to complex mobile services‚ to high speed broadband. As required by the legislation‚ the Federal government remains 50.1%
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(Porter‚ 1980). Michael Porter’s five forces model was also subject of other author’s criticism‚ such as Lynch. He explains that although the market is more laid out‚ there are no changes in the industrial environment. The analysis should be used continuously when using this tool. (Lynch‚ 2009‚ p. 101-102) Downes has developed three new forces‚ named Digitalization‚ Globalization‚ and Deregulation. Downes refers to Porter’s five forces model as ‘obsolete’. The three new forces mentioned in the previous
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Key Financial Relationships: Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank of America and Wells Fargo are separate banks‚ however; both of these institutions share many similarities when reporting their financial statements. The inter-relationships of the data provided in the statements seem to exemplify the correlation of accounting practices between these two banks. As large as these two banks have become‚ and as complex‚ one can see that the banks’ roots are still tied firmly to the basic accounting
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iPhone‚ iPod). The company operates in five sections: Americas‚ Europe‚ Japan‚ Asia-Pacific and Retail. Apple
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