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... Olstein of Olstein & Associates were particularly helpful and repeatedly made themselves available to answer my many questions In my research, I was assisted by two diligent research assistants, ... managers and stock analysts, many of whom preferred to speak on background, also shared their strategies for reading Securities and Exchange Commission filings Pat McConnell at Bear Stearns and ... implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials The advice and strategies contained...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... meanings in financial statements and is popular with many professional money managers, for David Tice & Associates “Wall Street and analysts tend to ignore restructuring charges.” Of course, all ... professional money managers have also largely ignored these items in the past, some are paying a lot more attention as the size and number of “special” charges continues to increase Some companies ... professionals to spend several hours when they pick up a 10-K for the first time Chanos says he spends at least an hour on a first reading and then spends several additional hours on a second...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... charge,” says Turner “But when investors see that, they should see a great big red flag What is wrong with this business? That s what investors should say Any time management is saying it s a ... would any company want to repeatedly announce big charges? Because as long as everyone was happily ignoring these charges, it was easy for companies to brush away all sorts of bad decision making ... forma and GAAP results can be substantial, even without any changes to the rules on options that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) began considering in early 2003 (changes Rodgers also...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... earnings release Professionals also keep a close eye on options because it s one of those footnotes that can speak volumes about a company s management and whether it has shareholders’ best interests ... companies, distributing options enables employers to save on things they’d have to spend actual cash on—such as salaries and benefits And since companies are the ones selling their own stock, any ... Accounting Standards Board s (FASB s) rule on related party transactions requires companies to inform investors of any deal that is material, or significant, companies have a good deal of leeway here...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... would have to happen first is that a company does a small deal, gets away with it, and sees that it s okay,” says Young RED FLAG Don’t automatically dismiss small related party deals as too insignificant ... would have taken a much closer look at the company “We’re taking a lot harder look at management teams,” says that analyst “The idea that assets and cash flows can win out in spite of poor management ... information on a quarterly basis “Pensions are one of the biggest areas of abuse because it s just a paper profit It has no impact on cash It s like waving a magic wand,” says Ted Oglove, who first...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... wasn’t required to, such as the asset allocation in its pension fund and what impact lowering the interest rate might have on plan assets and obligations (See Exhibit 7.4.) As at most major airlines, ... airlines, pensions are a significant item at Continental And the sharp decline in pension assets and lower interest rates couldn’t have come at a worse time, with so many airlines cash-strapped ... including the trustee s review of asset class return expectations by several consultants and economists as well as long-term inflation assumptions 2003 that it actually planned to use a percent return...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... that many companies do), at least as far as most investors are concerned So why pay any attention to this footnote at all? Because all it takes is one large verdict to send a stock into virtual ... derivatives Companies often provide a few basic details about what goes into the recipe in the Management s Discussion and Analysis (MD &A) section In its MD &A, IBM said that the primary reason ... quarters of results and was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with large-scale accounting fraud At Enron, a massive congressional investigation found that the company had created...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... large as the old 10-Ks and 10-Ks that are as impenetrable as Vergil s Aeneid—in Latin—and even though the Accounting Standards Board, after months of delays and false starts, is actually up and ... year Many companies either post these reports or provide links on their own web sites They are also available on the SEC s Edgar database at www.sec.com/edgar and on several subscriptionbased ... are signs of aggressive accounting and any significant changes that were not in the filing last quarter or last year What makes something significant? That s difficult to say In a way, it s similar...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... 46, see also Debt, off-balance sheet Financial Accounting Standard (FAS), 87 See also Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), pensions Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB): options, ... Management s Discussion and Analysis, p 52 13 IBM, 2002 10-K, Notes to Consolidated Statements, Note S, Subsection E, p 91 14 IBM, 2000 10-K, Management s Discussion and Analysis, p 57 15 “Altria ... Indrani De Basak and Michelle R Clayman, “Tax Rates and Stock Returns: An Empirical Analysis of the Information Content of Corporate Tax Rates,” New Amsterdam Partners LLC., February 2003, p...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... f S hang hai OTHERS Citic Ka Wah Bank Bank Mandiri Bank Ce ntral As ia S ing apo re S to c k Exc hang e Citibank in As ia Pac ific ING in As ia Pac ific China Life – DCC SOUTH EAST ASIA HuaXia ... 1979 Asia emerging countries • • • • Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Cambodia Brunei Nepal Maldives Laos Singapore, 1970 APJ HQ Australia 1967 Copyright ©2003 HP corporate presentation All rights ... and regional basis Business needs HP solution Business benefits Realignment of business processes through leveraging of IT implementation • Provide domestic and international customers and partners...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 15:59

... reads We present performance results of Store machines on both synthetic and production workloads Reads Benchmark Random IO Haystress Haystress Haystress Haystress Haystress Haystress Haystress ... programming languages and operating systems, pages 84–92, New York, NY, USA, 1996 ACM [15] A W Leung, M Shao, T Bisson, S Pasupathy, and E L Miller Spyglass: fast, scalable metadata search for large-scale ... storage at dramatically less cost and higher throughput than a traditional approach using NAS appliances Furthermore, Haystack is incrementally scalable, a necessary quality as our users upload hundreds...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... χ+ times an odd one χ− In this paper we discuss some results on the character ζ : QSym → R and its factors ζ+ and ζ− , and particularly on the restrictions of these characters to Sym ⊂ QSym (Note ... (scalar-valued homomorphisms), in which “even” and “odd” characters are defined A key result is that any such character χ is uniquely expressible as the convolution product χ+ χ− of an even character ... functions MI with the last part of I greater than 1, then it turns out that QSym is a subalgebra of QSym, and we have a homomorphism ζ : QSym0 → R whose images are the multiple zeta values In fact (as...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:20

... to teach some subject areas than others is a given, so try to stay away from specific academic subject areas or job-related classroom skills Instead, talk about your most “angelic” weakness, one ... my peers To continue to grow as a teacher and as a person, taking advantage of professional classes and seminars, eventually earning my administrative credential To value my students, to show them ... days: our doubts of today.” Corporations, associations, organizations, individuals, and families all proudly display them —Franklin Delano Roosevelt These mission statements usually include an allencompassing...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... two easy chairs and a rocking-chair; between the stove and the door, a small table Engravings on the walls; a cabinet with china and other small objects; a small book-case with wellbound books The ... Nora It 's a shame to say that I really save all I can Helmer (laughing) That 's very true, all you can But you can't save anything! Nora (smiling quietly and happily) You haven't any idea how many ... her hat and coat She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two; then goes cautiously to her husband 's door and listens.) Yes, he is in (Still humming, she goes to the table...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:11

... ice, that unspeakable tangle of blue-green slabs and cakes and blocks, that the expedition must now advance, dragging its boats, its sledges, its provisions, instruments, and baggage Bennett stood ... Freja was caught in a severe nip between two floes and was crushed, sinking in about two hours We abandoned her, saving 200 days' provisions and all necessary clothing, instruments, etc I shall ... on the sides of the floe began again, and on the smooth surface of the ice, domes and mounds abruptly reared themselves As the pressure increased these domes and mounds cracked and burst into...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... lới lới I II MB A AP1 MB A ĐK SS1 SS2 AP2 CM Tới tải Trong đó: I, II nguồn cung cấp Website: http://www.docs.vn Email : lienhe@docs.vn Tel (: 0918.775.368 MBA- máy bién áp AP1, AP2- áp tô mát ... Hình vẽ thể s đồ đóng cắt nh sau: BATG 1MC 1BA 3MC 2BA ATS 2MC Hoạt dự trữ phân loại 4MC Tải Hình 5MC động s đồ đóng cắt góp nh sau: 10 Website: http://www.docs.vn Email : lienhe@docs.vn Tel (: ... Z/2 ta thấy nh sau: Z Z B C Z A' R 0' ' ' ' Do NN' bị đứt ta thấy U AB = U ZA + U ZB , theo giả thiết ta có UZA = 1/2 UZB suy UAB = UZB + 1/2 UZB = 3/2 UZB suy UZB = 2/3 UAB = 2/3 380 = , UZA =...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 11:49

... Arabic speakers 195 Turkish speakers 214 Speakers of South Asian languages 227 Speakers of Dravidian languages 244 Speakers of West African languages 251 Swahili speakers 260 Malay/Indonesian speakers ... speakers 37 French speakers 52 Italian speakers 73 Speakers of Spanish and Catalan 90 Portuguese speakers 113 Greek speakers 129 Russian speakers 145 Polish speakers 162 Farsi speakers 179 Arabic ... 27 Speakers of Scandinavian languages In some cases where English nouns are in the plural, singular nouns are used in the Scandinavian languages Possible mistakes: *a pyjama *a scissor *the custom...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 08:35

... goal for system designers is make these copy operations run as fast as possible Because of physical laws, larger storage devices are slower than smaller storage devices And faster devices are more ... is identified by a unique number, known as its address, and the set of all possible addresses is known as the virtual address space As indicated by its name, this virtual address space is just ... Stallman The result was a family of standards, known as the Posix standards, that cover such issues as the C language interface for Unix system calls, shell programs and utilities, threads, and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2013, 22:05

... Syntax A Media Query sets a parameter (or series of parameters) that displays associated style rules if the device used to view the page has properties that match that parameter You can use Media ... only accessed via a browser on your desktop or laptop, writing CSS was fairly straightforward Although you had to consider cross-browser and cross-platform issues, at least you knew with reasonable ... The Scope of This Book CSS can be used across many types of media; almost any device that s capable of displaying HTML or XML can also display CSS rules, albeit in a limited form sometimes CSS3...

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2013, 09:09

... lúc nói Example: I’m reading a book reading a book writing a letter I’m _ writing a letter drawing a picture I’m drawing a picture singing a song I’msinging a song ... Thu: Who s he ? _ my pen English Nam: He s _ new _ friend He s _ S1 : What are you doing? S2 : I’m reading a letter from Tony S1 : What  are you  doing? S2 : I’m  V- ing ( I’m = I am ) Hỏi ... a song I’msinging a song _ b.Ask and answer: S1 : What are you doing? S2 : I’m _ Name Activities 1. _ Thao _ learning English 2. _ _ 3. _ ...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 03:10