away from what they call “the budget bus date.” It was my goal to get the national debt from 70% to below 60% of GDP and prolong the budget bust as long as possible. After one failed attempt and then another long run‚ playing around with different cards‚ I was finally able to accomplish this. It was through my personal values and beliefs that I was able to reduce the debt from 70% to 59.7% and delay the budget bust date by two years. My first step in my quest for a better future was with an issue
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“Can Altman Z-score Models Predict Business Failures in Greece?” Nikolaos Gerantonis Department of Management and Business Administration University of Piraeus‚ 4 Ag. Marinas Str‚ Greece Konstantinos Vergos PhD‚ Director of Research Department‚ Cyclos Securities S.A 39 Panepistimiou Str‚10564‚ Athens‚ Greece Apostolos G. Christopoulos Corresponding Author University of Athens‚ Department of Economics 5 Stadiou Str‚ Athens 105 62‚ Greece E-mail: axristop@econ.uoa.gr Abstract This paper
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financial measures in this role. In recent years‚ however‚ there has been increasing recognition that financial measures alone will not provide managers with sufficient information to manage a business effectively. Non-financial measures The balanced scorecard 323 must also be used in order to gain a deeper understanding of the business and to achieve the objectives of the business‚ including the financial objectives. Financial measures portray various aspects of business achievement (for
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June 2001 pp. 147–160 COMMENTARY Transforming the Balanced Scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management: Part II Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Robert S. Kaplan is a Professor at Harvard University and David P. Norton is founder and president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative in Lincoln‚ Massachusetts. In a previous paper (Kaplan and Norton 2001b)‚ we described the role for strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards to develop performance objectives and measures
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The IT Balanced Scorecard A Roadmap to Effective Governance of a Shared Services IT Organization Ronald Saull‚ CSP The essentials of this study were delivered at the ISACA International Meeting and Conference in July of 1999 in Denver‚ Colorado‚ USA by Ronald Saull. The discussion and study results were based on events that occurred and dynamics in place at Great-West Life Assurance Company/ London Life/Investors Group‚ Canada‚ signified by the acronym GLI. As investments in information
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The following paper presents a balanced scorecard for the supply chain management in a hospital. Hospitals strive to operate efficiently while providing the best patient care. By managing the supply chain strategically‚ hospitals can save costs‚ provide better patient care‚ better serve the demands of professional staff and also maintain a sound relationship with its suppliers. According to my understanding‚ the main goal of the hospital that I previously worked was not profitability‚ but to provide
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Shannon Ciuk Honors 100-01 April 29‚ 2011 Q&A #10 The article The Human Mind and Human Art by Trevor Pateman was the most interesting to me. The reason being I am a psychology major and he made a number of references to psychology studies…it even sounded like a psychology paper. The psychologist that stuck out the most to me was Chomsky. A reason for this may be the fact that we recently just covered his work in my developmental psychology class. I found it very interesting that
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PB303: BANKING IN MALAYSIA/NAZRI CHAPTER 1 ROLES AND STRUCTURES OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA Roles of Financial Systems a) Financial Intermediation Malaysia has a modern and comprehensive financial system that continues to evolve in response to changing domestic and international conditions. A financial structure consists of two major components; financial institutions and financial markets. Principally‚ the financial system aims to facilitate the effective use
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1. Credit scores are a system used to show banks how reliable a person is in terms of borrowing money. A higher credit score is earned when a person pays back money they have spent with their credit card‚ the more they repay‚ the higher credit score the number. The higher the number‚ the proof to the bank that the person is capable of paying back the loan the bank gives them. The number also can affect what kind of terms and conditions should go with the loan agreement the banks gives. 2. Credit
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the cards are dealt. The cards are dealt either 9 or 18 times depending on how long of a game you wish to play. The Game Consists of: These Card Counts These Card Counts 5 Sand Trap Cards 10 points 2 Hole in One Cards -3 points 5 In The Rough Cards 10 points 3 Eagle Cards -2 points 5 Water Hazard Cards 10 points 7 Birdie Cards -1 point 5 Out of Bound Cards 10 points 8 Par Cards 0 points 9 Double Bogey Cards 2 points 9 Bogey Cards 1 point There are two cards called
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