it’s bad. • C. charts Conclusion The friend-or-foe debate over wal-mart II. Walmart is good A. Walmart can be good. Opening stores where there’s nothing can help a town. An example is Oakland; this town was on its edge of becoming a ghost town‚ until Walmart came to town. “I think this is a benefit because there was nothing out here‚” (Mike Breuner‚ of Oakland.) Robert Turner
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FIN322 Advanced Business Finance Major Assignment Spring 2012 Due Date: By 4pm on 8 Oct 2012 (Monday in Session Week 11) Place for Submission: A hard copy of the assignment should be placed in the assignment box outside the front-office of the School of Accounting and Finance located in level 3‚ building 40. This box will be removed at 4 pm on the due day. A soft copy should be sent to your tutor by email by the due date. Penalty for Late Submission: Any assignment
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Introduction Since the mid 1950’s the quantity of studies into shopping behaviour has accelerated greatly. Store atmospherics and environments have changed monumentally over the past half century. Modern store managers are constantly looking at new ways to improve a shopping experience‚ rather than purely focusing on the product on the shelf. The type of shoppers attracted to a store may also differ to the types of shopper attracted to a product. At no point over the last fifty years of shopping
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significantly. Below are a few examples of their declining strength: Current liabilities 29.9% 66.5% Long-term liabilities 45.2% 72.6% Equity 54.8% 27.4% Current ratio 249.5% 27.4% 3. How attractive is it to take the trade discount? On a net basis‚ the trade discount of 2% is offset by the borrowing rate of 11%. However‚ since Clarkson’s profits are driven by volumes‚ their line of credit allows them to continue their growth in sales. Based on our calculations‚ for Clarkson to achieve $5
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Reserve Bank of India. DEFINITION: Bill discounting is a major activity with some of the smaller Banks. Under this type of lending‚ Bank takes the bill drawn by borrower on his(borrower’s) customer and pay him immediately deducting some amount as discount/commission. The Bank then presents the Bill to the borrower’s customer on the due date of the Bill and collect the
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proportion of one’s per-customer profit margin you expect to recoup over time. m: profit margin per period r: retention rate i: discount rate Key Insights | Assumptions | * Retention and loyalty are key to long-term value. * Other factors (e.g.‚ discount rate) only have an impact when retention is high. All the handwringing about what discount rate to use is irrelevant in many real-world situations. * Margin matters‚ but it is independent of the other factors. * Customer-based
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MARKETING ENGINEERING FOR EXCEL TUTORIAL VERSION v130522 Tutorial Customer Lifetime Value Marketing Engineering for Excel is a Microsoft Excel add-in. The software runs from within Microsoft Excel and only with data contained in an Excel spreadsheet. After installing the software‚ simply open Microsoft Excel. A new menu appears‚ called “MEXL.” This tutorial refers to the “MEXL/Customer Lifetime Value” submenu. Overview Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) represents a metric
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railroads and several storage buildings on land in which they owned and were expanding their operations. Their sales increased year after due to their moldings and sash and door products which they purchased in large quantities with substantial discounts. The company had been operating for over a decade and has been trying to expand ever since the launch of the company in 1981. The Clarkson Lumber Company had been increasing their profits year after year which began in 1993. Despite the consistent
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Describe operation of retail store (a convenient store or pharmacy). 1) What are the process steps? 2) What are the main inputs? 3) What are the main outputs? 4) How customer judges quality of the store? Why these important? 5) How can technology be used to improve performance? Solution: Inputs | Operation Process(convenient store) | Outputs | Manpower | Plan the strategic locations | Goods | Seller | Plan the consumer needs | Drinks | Cashier | Purchase orders to fill
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ways; one can be a sizeable reduction for pre-ordering next terms tickets at this time. This way a base can be proven for the next season. When it comes to this season‚ a small group of concerts can be thrown together as a package and offered at a discount to those who participated in the survey. The same offer can also be promoted to the general public as well to help bolster the remaining year’s performances. An idea that may be worth discovering would be to enhance the existing cultural offering
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