CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level GENERAL PAPER 8004/1‚2‚3 MAY/JUNE SESSION 2002 2 hours Additional materials: Answer paper TIME 2 hours INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your name‚ Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer paper/ answer booklet. Answer two questions. Write on one subject from each of two of Sections 1‚ 2 and 3. Answers should be 500-600 words in length. Write your answers
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General Electric Internal/External Factors For over one hundred thirty years General Electric has helped shape this country to the comforts known today. Their company motto “imagination at work” says it all. With their ability to adapt to the ever changing environment around them as lead the company’s success and drive over the years. In today’s corporate world you can not find a stronger company that has learned and changed through time. The following looks at how they survived and grew for
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Reporting Systems TRUE/FALSE 1. The most common means of making entries in the general ledger is via the journal voucher. ANS: T PTS: 1 2. Individuals with access authority to general ledger accounts should not prepare journal vouchers. ANS: T PTS: 1 3. The journal voucher is the document that authorizes entries to be made to the general ledger. ANS: T PTS: 1 4. Each account in the chart of accounts has a separate record in the general ledger master file. ANS: T PTS: 1 5. The responsibility center file is
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The role of the governor-general The Governor-General represents the Australian head of state‚ Queen Elizabeth II. Between them they have important formal powers. Some of these powers include the power to: h approve legislation passed by the two Houses of Parliament; h command the navel and military forces; h Exercise the general ’executive’ power of the Commonwealth. Many of these powers reflect an earlier‚ more active role taken by the monarch. In almost all cases today‚ however‚
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Dollar General Industry and Competitive Analysis INDUSTRY The first step to understanding a company is to examine its industry. There are four main areas to consider when analyzing an industry. These include: Competitors There are several different types of stores within the discount retail industry‚ and for comparison’s sake‚ the industry is further broken into many segments. DG is in the market segment known as the dollar store category. As a result‚ competitors such as Wal-Mart are in
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| General Mills Inc. | Executive Summary | | Xiao(Cynthia) Chen | 2012/4/24 | | Executive Overview General Mills (NYSE:GIS)‚ our company‚ is a global consumer foods company. We develop distinctive value-added food products and market with our unique brand names. We work continuously to improve our established products and to create new products that meet our customers’ potential needs and preferences. Our company has $14.88 billion in sales last year. Our sales has grown substantially
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CASE 22 Jeff Immelt and the Reinventing of General Electric[1] On April 25‚ 2012 Jeff Immelt‚ chairman and CEO of the General Electric Company‚ presided over the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Detroit‚ Michigan. As representatives of the “99 Percent Movement” protesting GE’s low rate of corporate tax were ushered from the hall‚ and GE’s board members and corporate officers took their seats‚ Immelt reflected on his eleven years as head of GE. Immelt knew that taking over from
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their jobs. The city was under a siege of silence. The poor working conditions‚ lack of jobs‚ low salaries‚ and long hours in which the Canadian troops from World War I came home to was the main reason this strike occurred. Many ask how the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was significant to Canadian History. The answer is simple: the strike set the stage for future labour guidelines and policies for workers around the country. Winnipeg was the fastest growing city in Canada from the period 1901 to
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company we decided on for our financial analysis is General Electric. At first we were looking at Starbucks‚ as it is a rapidly growing multinational corporation‚ but after some research we discovered that the earnings per share growth of Starbucks is 40.2%. Therefore Starbucks did not meet the requirement set at 50% EPS growth to be considered a truly “rapidly growing company”. We then continued our research and were able to find that General Electric has current EPS growth at 59.6%‚ which meets
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The Jack Welch Era at General Electric Abstract John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr. was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Company between 1981 and 2001. He was responsible for building a tremendous reputation for his company and the leadership that helped him achieve that. With combination of ruthless focus and contradictory commitment to staff involvement‚ Welsh delivered the growth figures that
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