VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Teaching Note This case follows the performance-review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail-building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong operating performance of Home Depot with the strong stock-market performance of Lowe’s. Students examine a financial-ratio analysis for Home Depot that acts as a template to generate a comparable ratio analysis for Lowe’s. The students’ ratio
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Automated Greenhouse Monitoring System Our team selected this project for our Senior Design as we believe such a product will have great marketability in the near future. At this point in time‚ the world’s pollution problem has led to unpredictable weather conditions all over the world. With these ever changing weather conditions‚ it is expected that the number of greenhouses will significantly increase in the near future‚ thus leading to a great demand for automated greenhouse monitoring systems
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Cash flow statements Questions. 1. A company has a profit from operations of £20‚500 for the year ended 31 December 20X2.The depreciation charge for the year is £4000.Profit from operations also includes a loss on disposal of £500 on an item of plant. Extracts from the statement of financial position as shown below. 20X2 20X1 Inventory £17‚400 £16‚100 Receivables £21‚500 £20‚500 Trade Payables £18‚400 £17‚600 Ignore
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Queues defined 243 Economics of the Waiting Line Problem Cost-effectiveness balance The practical view of waiting lines 245 The Queuing System Customer arrivals Distribution of arrivals The queuing system: factors Exit Queuing system defined Arrival rate defined Exponential distribution defined Poisson distribution defined Service rate defined 252 261 263 263 Waiting Line Models Approximating Customer Waiting Time Computer Simulation of Waiting Lines Conclusion technical note TECHNICAL NOTE
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Alphabet of Lines in Technical Drawing Lines in technical drawings are part of a specialized graphic language that is standardized throughout industry. Each type of line has a very precise symbolic meaning. Correct usage of this "alphabet of lines" is essential whether you use traditional drafting methods or CAD. Line weight is the thickness of the line. Construction lines and guide lines are very light‚ easily erased lines used to block in the main layout. Visible lines are the edges
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CHAPTER 2 CASH FLOWS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AT SUNSET BOARDS Below are the financial statements that you are asked to prepare. 1. The income statement for each year will look like this: Income Statement 2008 2009 Sales $190‚119 $231‚840 Cost of goods sold 96‚952 122‚418 Selling & administrative 19‚067 24‚886 Depreciation 27‚370 30‚936 EBIT $46‚730 $53‚600 Interest 5‚950 6‚820 EBT $40‚780 $46‚780 Taxes (20%) 8‚156 9‚356 Net income $32‚624 $37‚424 Dividends
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network flow OR 215 Spring 1998 Network Flows M. Hartmann STABLE MATCHING PROBLEMS Stable Marriage Problem Propose and Reject Algorithm Bipartite Stable Matching Application: NRMP Linear Programming Formulation Non-Bipartite Stable Matching STABLE MARRIAGE PROBLEM A certain community consists of n men and n women. Each person has a strict preference over members of the opposite sex‚ for example: Bengt: Anita‚ Christine
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Going with The Flow Katha Pollitt is a well-known writer and is most known for being a liberal essayist for The Nation. In 1985‚ she wrote an article titled “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls”. Pollitt mentions that parents find it a lot easier to go along with those preconceived notions of boys and girls that society has set than it is to go against the norm. Society has set its own criteria for how we should raise children. Genders and gender-roles play a large part in molding a child to fit
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Communication Flow Both downward from management to employees and upward from employees to management‚ are also important in an organization. General Manager’s routine meeting with the supervisor‚ supervisors’ routine meeting with employees‚ is the flow of downward communication flow. Discussion meetings between employees and their supervisors‚ supervisors provide feedback and question to the managers‚ is the flow of upward communication flow. Communication in the Starbucks organization is
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they become satisfied and hence they tend to outperform unsatisfied employees in terms of labor retention‚ attendance and work quality. However‚ satisfied employees are not always more productive than unsatisfied employees. 2. In general terms‚ describe strategic HRM and its importance in the organization. Strategic HRM is defined as the development and implementation of human resource processes to facilitate the achievement of the organization’s strategic objectives. Strategic HRM allows an organization
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