1. Victoria Chemicals evaluate its capital-expenditure proposals in four ways. They are average annual addition to earnings per share‚ payback period‚ net present value‚ and internal rate of return. An earnings per share method is to indicate a company’s profitability. For Victoria Chemical‚ this was calculated with the average annual earnings per share contribution of the engineering-efficiency project over its entire economic life. However‚ for the basis of the calculation‚ the project’s initiator
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Background Victoria Chemicals‚ a major player in the global chemical industry that supplies polypropylene‚ polymer that used to manufacture carpet fibers‚ packaging‚ automobile parts to the customers in Europe and the Middle East. Apart from numerous small producers‚ the company also receives the threats from the other seven major competitors. The company owns two plants in Europe‚ one being Merseyside Works‚ England and Rotterdam Facility‚ Holland. Both plants were built in 1967 and are identical
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC THE MERSEYSIDE AND ROTTERDAM PPROJECTS I would choose Merseyside project rather than Rotterdam’s not only for its superior prospect based on the quantitative criteria‚ but also for a more rational strategy consideration. For the four investment criteria‚ here’s the elaboration. NPV. Since the two plants are of identical scale‚ age‚ design and similar project size‚ it makes sense to use NPV to compare the two projects. Not taken into account the erosion at Merseyside‚
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其A3 Diamond Chemicals PLC (A) and (B) Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives These two cases present the capital investment decisions under consideration by executives of a large chemicals firm in January 2001. The A case (case 20) presents a go/no-go project evaluation regarding improvements to a polypropylene production plant. The B case (case 21) reviews the same project but from one level higher‚ where the executive faces an either/or investment decision between two mutually exclusive
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With reference to your own research and the item above‚do you think that governments should make corporate social responsibility complusory for businesses? Corporate social responsibility refers to the extent to which organisations accept obligations to society. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a business theme in the corporate world ever since the inception of capitalism. This has led to the adoption of CSR practices in several corporate companies on a large scale. The major
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Dawning of a new age- Queen Victoria The Early Life of Queen Victoria Queen Victoria‚ the well-known Queen of England did not start out as some would expect. Her Grandfather‚ King George the third of England had fifteen children‚ his third child was The Duke of Kent‚ Queen Victoria’s father. The Duke of Kent married Princess Victoria of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha. Later they had a baby girl together on May twenty- fourth eighteen- nineteen. They christened her as Alexandrina Victoria. Her childhood was not
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I) Executive Summary The history of lingerie can be traced back thousands of years to 3000 B.C.‚ but it was not until 1977 when Roy Rogers founded Victoria’s Secret that lingerie evolved into what we think of now. In this paper‚ we examine the emergence of Victoria’s Secret as the leading retailer in women’s lingerie‚ the context for the innovation‚ and the approaches the firm took to commercialize the innovation. Victoria’s Secret was hardly the first lingerie retailer‚ but it was able to take
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CASE REPORT OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Diamond Chemicals PLC (B) Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects Table of content Key Issues 3 Analysis 3 Recommendations 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 1: Company Description 7 Appendix 2: Calculation on Merseyside Project Revision 7 Appendix 3: Calculation on Rotterdam Project without Right-of-way 7 KEY ISSUES The Diamond Chemical PLC as the producer of polypropylene has two production plants which are in Merseyside and Rotterdam. Both factories
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her legacy. On this tragic day‚ gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into Shady Brook Elementary School. He began to shoot students and staff. After killing 15 students and two teachers in the first classroom‚ he entered the classroom of 27 year old Victoria Soto. Soto‚ knowing that their life was in danger‚ had already hidden her sixteen students in a closet. When the gunman burst in‚ Soto lied and told him that her students were in the gymnasium. As a result‚ she lost her life to protect the lives
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2012 Kaplan University Victoria Secret‚ a subsidiary of Limited Brand LTD‚ began its operations in the United States in the 1970’s. The company has faced many uphill battles and many successes. Victoria Secrets American operations are head quartered in Reynoldsburg‚ OH. Currently the successful lingerie and beauty product store has more than 16‚000 employees domestically and operate over a thousand retail stores domestically. To accurately measure the success of Victoria Secrets operations domestically
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