Assume the taxpayer is in the 28% marginal tax bracket for ordinary income and 15% for qualifying capital gains and dividends in all tax years. The selected investment will be liquidated at the end of five years. The alternatives are: Taxable Corporate Bond yielding 6% before tax‚ and the interest can be reinvested at 6% before tax. The taxable bond and reinvested earnings will accumulate at an after-tax rate of 4.32% [(1 – .28) × .06] to equal $12‚355 at the end of 5 years [$10‚000 × (1.0432)5
Premium Taxation Tax Progressive tax
and Sustainable Business Leader. The Business Environment “In strategy‚ the environment means everything and everyone outside the organization” Lynch (2005). Organizations will need to take the environmental factors into account‚ as they will impact on the organization and its strategies‚ and
Premium Strategic management
A. External Environment (Macro environment) Analysis: With respect to the specific organization (in this case‚ BP); things are changing at a rapid pace since the supply and demand of oil is becoming highly dependent upon socio political condition of different parts of the world‚ where its business is operating.For the external business environment analysis of global oil industry (with respect to BP) the selected analysis tool is PESTEL. This model presents a strategy framework built over variables
Premium Strategic management Marketing
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN CHALLENGING TIMES: A NOTE Naseer Khan; PhD Associate Professor of Management‚ Al Ghurair University‚ Dubai‚ UAE naseerkhan@agu.ac.ae ; Phone: +971507783383 & Gouher Ahmed; PhD‚ PMP Associate Professor of International Management and Strategy‚ Al Ghurair University‚ Dubai‚ UAE International Management Consultant‚ North America‚ Middle East and India Email: gouher@usa.net; gouher@agu.ac.ae ; Phone: +971508367165 & Rashid Rahman; PhD Associate Professor of Management
Premium Economics International trade Business
WHAT IS CORPORATE STRATEGY? Although strategy has different definitions by various authors‚ to understand Corporate Strategy we begin by defining strategy. "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations” (Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington‚ 2008). From the definition given by Johnson
Premium Strategic management Management Strategic planning
Corporate strategy Strategy is defined as the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term‚ which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholder expectations. Johnson and Scholes (1982). Strategy can be used to describe an approach‚ stance‚ or long term. Strategies exist at several levels in any organization - ranging from the overall business (or group of businesses)
Premium Strategic management
CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY FORMULATION: CORPORATE STRATEGY Corporate Strategy Corporate strategy deals with three key issues facing the corporation as a whole: 1. Directional strategy- the firm’s overall orientation toward growth‚ stability‚ or retrenchment 2. Portfolio strategy- the industries or markets in which the firm competes through its products and business units 3. Parenting strategy- the manner in which management coordinates activities‚ transfer resources‚ and cultivates
Premium Vertical integration Strategic management
Starbucks Corporate Strategy Corporate Strategy fundamentally is concerned with the selection of businesses in which the company should compete and with the development and coordination of that portfolio of business.[1] In the case of Starbucks the corporate strategy they have implemented is unique to their industry which has allowed them to differentiate from their competitors and is summarized best by Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks‚ “We’re in the people business serving coffee‚[2]” high quality
Premium Strategic management Vertical integration Social responsibility
instructor needs to follow the mold of successful leaders and of successful virtual leaders. Leadership is not about doing things once and a while‚ it is about being consistent and it is about being visible. The three most important aspects of good classroom leadership are: Lead the class from the front Lead the class by example Lead the class through communication If an instructor can do all three of these elements‚ the instructor will be more successful than those that have great graphics
Premium Management Leadership
together to achieve efficiencies and effectiveness in achieving stated goals and objectives. Organisations also need to be ’adaptive’‚ they need to respond to ongoing changes in the environments in which they operate e.g. the political‚ social‚ economic and technological conditions that together form the environment in which organisations operate. Even if you do not aspire to be a manager‚ organisational theory should be of interest to you. We live in a world of organisations - work‚ university
Premium Management Organization