as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality‚ flowing hair‚ and other-worldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature‚ thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa
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OVERVIEW China and its economy Capital : Beijing Population : 1.3 billion Area : 9.6 million sq km Currency : Yuan Ren Min Bi GNP : $4 Trillion (2001) GDP : PPP $7.262 trillion (2004 est.) Per Capita : $5‚600 (2004 est.) Form : People ’s Republic Official Languages : Chinese (Mandarin) Growth Rate in Real GDP : 1999 7.1% 2000 8.0% 2001 7.3% 2002 8.0% 2003 8.4% 2004 9.1% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.1% (2004 est.) Located in South East Asia‚ China is home to
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Management & Information Systems‚ 2012 Cloud Computing and Modelling of Cash Flows for Full vs. Fractional Adoption of Cloud Easwar Krishna Iyer‚ Venkatesh Tilak‚ Varuna Narayanaswamy and Tapan Panda Great Lakes Institute of Management‚ Chennai E-mail: easwar@greatlakes.edu.in; venkatesh.tilak@greatlakes.edu.in; varuna.narayanaswamy@greatlakes.edu.in; tapan@greatlakes.edu.in ABSTRACT This paper does a revenue–neutral cash flow modelling for fractional cloud computing adoption. The aim is to find
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Executive Summary: This report aims to identify the most probable outcome of Accuflow Inc.’s management buyout deal with respect to three parties‚ Accuflow management‚ Venture capitalist (Greylock and NorWest)‚ and HPC. The report will seek to identify Accuflow enterprise value from the viewpoints of the different parties and with different valuation techniques in order to come to the conclusion. Initial Scenario: The report assumes that the initial scenario of the deal is made with the $25
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Authors: Armin Schwienbacher & Benjamin Larralde CROWDFUNDING OF SMALL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES Book chapter forthcoming in Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance (Oxford University Press) Date: September 28‚ 2010 (final version) Armin Schwienbacher‚ Professor of finance‚ Université Lille Nord de France‚ Faculté de Finance‚ Banque et Comptabilité‚ Rue de Mulhouse 2 - BP 381‚ F - 59020 Lille Cédex (France); +33 3 20 90 75 34 ; armin.schwienbacher@univ-lille2.fr. SKEMA Business School‚ Avenue Willy
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Nuts & Bolts of a Business Plan A sneak-peak into what goes in a B Plan Contents DEVELOPING A CONCEPT FOR THE RETAIL VENTURE.............................................................................3 THE “QUICK SCREEN” ..........................................................................................................................4 PREPARING A BUSINESS PLAN .............................................................................................................5 Environmental
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CHAPTER 18 INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL BUDGETING SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Why is capital budgeting analysis so important to the firm? Answer: The fundamental goal of the financial manager is to maximize shareholder wealth. Capital investments with positive NPV or APV contribute to shareholder wealth. Additionally‚ capital investments generally represent large expenditures relative to the value of the entire firm. These
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“Make mistakes‚ take chances‚ be silly‚ be imperfect‚ trust yourself and follow your heart.” (Mary Lopez) Something Borrowed‚ a novel by Emily Giffin expresses the themes of friendship‚ relationships and the unfairness of life. In the second quarter of the novel‚ Dex continues to cheat on his fiance‚ Darcy‚ with her best friend‚ Rachel. Dex and Rachel’s feelings grow stronger for one another but Darcy and Dex’s wedding rapidly approaches. There’s no longer much time to put off making the decisions
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Case study in Derivatives The Walt Disney Company’s Yen Financing GROUP SIX Liang Zhang Xiao Cao Xiang Wang Le Lu 1 / 10 All rights reserved. www.lelu.tk. Contents & Structure Part I. Overview -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Part II. The problem facing Disney ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Status quo 1 - JPY royalties grows fast -------------------------------------------------- 3 Status
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Venture Concept Geri Rowland University of Phoenix FIN/375 Kent Moser December 24‚ 2012 Venture Concept Venture concept is business idea individual search to venture to profit big. New business idea takes more than just launching the new idea in hope its target consumer accept and support it and call it a success. Venturing out new business idea is a high risks to take because no one knows for sure if the targeted consumer will accept the new business idea; therefore planning for success
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