I. Introduction Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received greatly attention in the media in recent times partly due to the poor financial performance in the past years. The purpose of this paper is to analysis the corporate governance model of the company SAS‚ and identify the key corporate issues that may be behind the bad performance that the company is undergoing. The airline industry is especially sensible to business cycles and the financial crisis bit it hard. That is why in order to develop
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SA SA COSMETICS – Analyzing Competition Sa Sa Cosmetics is a very successful Hong Kong based discount cosmetics retailers. The case describes how Sa Sa became successful‚ culminating in its IPO in 1997. Since then‚ however‚ its fortunes have declined somewhat. The case discusses recent initiatives that were undertaken to sustain growth momentum. Sa Sa also undertook some marketing research studies. The research findings appear to confirm that Sa Sa may have some major problems. As 2001 comes to
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Advanced SAS® Macros Steven First‚ Katie Ronk‚ Systems Seminar Consultants‚ Madison‚ WI Abstract This hands-on workshop presents some intermediate-to-advanced macro topics such as macro referencing environments‚ macro interfaces (SYMGET‚ SYMPUT‚ EXECUTE‚ RESOLVE‚ PROC SQL)‚ macro quoting‚ and macro functions. Good practices and alternatives to macros are also discussed. After a short lecture‚ attendees will perform hands-on exercises until the end of the session. Introduction The SAS® programming
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Article IV Sec. 32 Continuing Professional Education (CPE Program) All certified public accountants shall abide by the requirements‚ rules‚ and regulations on continuing professional education to be promulgated by the Board‚ subject to the approval of the Commission‚ in coordination with the accredited national professional organization of certified public accountants or any duly accredited educational institutions. For this purpose‚ a CPE Council is hereby created to implement the CPE program.
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Using IF THEN ELSE statements‚ LENGTH is to be use so that the new coloum create (Patient) will have defined length that is $12. data newclass; set sashelp.class; length Patient $12.; If weight <=84 then Patient= ’UnderWeight ’; else If weight >84 and weight <=100 then Patient= ’ProperWeight ’; else If weight >100 then Patient= ’OverWeight ’; else Patient= ’OutLier ’; run; ====================================================================== SELECT WHEN END statement
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farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1992 number of farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1987 number of farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1982 S = south‚ W = west‚ NC = north central‚ NE = northeast [8marks] Create the SAS data‚ work.A1Q1 with the features described below from the SAS dataset agpop. a. Create the SAS data‚ work.A1Q1. b. Display only the variables region‚ county‚ state‚ acres92‚ and farms92. c. The data includes two subsets (i) the number of acres devoted to farms in 1992 (acres92) was between 32‚000
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February 2009 Christopher F Baum (Boston College) IVs and Panel Data Feb 2009 1 / 43 Instrumental variables estimators Regression with Instrumental Variables What are instrumental variables (IV) methods? Most widely known as a solution to endogenous regressors: explanatory variables correlated with the regression error term‚ IV methods provide a way to nonetheless obtain consistent parameter estimates. Although IV estimators address issues of endogeneity‚ the violation of
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You have been hired by the San Antonio Fitness company (better known as SA Fitness) located in San Antonio‚ Texas‚ to develop a working database system to better track their clients‚ trainers‚ workouts‚ and personal training. SA Fitness offers several types of membership plans to accommodate anyone’s needs. A membership plan has the beginning date‚ an initiation fee‚ a monthly fee‚ a duration (number of months in the plan contract)‚ and a personal training fee. Once a person signs up for a membership
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What is SAS SAS is an abbreviation for Statement of Auditing Standards‚ which provides guidelines on generally accepted auditing standards. Accounting Standard Board (ASB) issues them on matters that deal with the preparation and issuing of audit reports for non-users. Statement of Auditing Standards has different sections - each dealing with professional standard with an assigned standard number. SAS 115 It establishes the procedures and process of communicating internal control related matters
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SAS History SAS was founded in 1976 to help a wide range of customers‚ from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities. SAS originally emerged as a program called the Statistical Analysis System. The program was developed in 1966 at North Carolina State University under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through the United States Department of Agriculture. The early leaders of the project were NCSU
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