in the fast lane

... for the left and right sides respectively The in x occurs in all sentences However, the matching of the part-of-speech tags of the sentence sequences to the left and right of the in x, against the ... computed in the first pass of the procedure for scoring the patterns, determines the score of the candidate fact in that context The overall pattern-based score of a candidate fact is the sum of the ... retaining a fact and skipping the following consecutive N facts, where N is incremented at each step The resulting list, which preserves the relative order of the facts, contains 1414 facts The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... good business results.” © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2014 The challenge of speed Driving slow in the fast lane Coping with life in the fast lane Improved speed and agility can bring ... research © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2014 The challenge of speed Driving slow in the fast lane Is the need for speed properly understood? In business, the advantages of being a speedboat ... speed and agility Adopting these approaches, or taking them further, will go a long way towards helping The challenge of speed Driving slow in the fast lane companies to achieve the speed and agility...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:23

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... other internal accounting reports needed by business managers The “failing” of GAAP is not that these accounting rules are wrong for measuring profit, nor are they wrong for presenting the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 11:34

... taking place in the field, and get a direct line with your customers (Weber 2009) 2.5 BRAND AND BRANDING IN GENERAL, BRANDING IN FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS SECTOR Why is branding interesting ... create sales in the shops Weber approaches the question of branding relating it to the consequences for branding considering the emergence of the social media He defines branding as the dialogue ... The research problem in this thesis, as formulated in the introduction in chapter is: “To increase the understanding of the role of social media for the creation of brand awareness” Considering...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... cover the individual writing process in detail in Part 2, including the following topics: • Writing and editing processes • Organizing the logic and structure of your document • Developing the ... Organizing Your Ideas 125 Introductions 125 Creating the Thesis Statement 128 Developing the Body 130 Tech Tool: Outlining with Software 131 Making a Conclusion 132 End Point 134 Fast Forward to the ... Paul A Argenti The Fast Forward MBA in Marketing (0-471-16616-2) by Dallas Murphy The Fast Forward MBA in Business (0-471-14660-9) by Virginia O'Brien The Fast Forward MBA in Finance (0-471-10930-4)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:32

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... other internal accounting reports needed by business managers The “failing” of GAAP is not that these accounting rules are wrong for measuring profit, nor are they wrong for presenting the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:32

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... other internal accounting reports needed by business managers The “failing” of GAAP is not that these accounting rules are wrong for measuring profit, nor are they wrong for presenting the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 03:15

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... other internal accounting reports needed by business managers The “failing” of GAAP is not that these accounting rules are wrong for measuring profit, nor are they wrong for presenting the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20

... findings for the fast- food industry by comparing changes in teenage employment rates in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York in the year following the increase in the minimum wage Again, these ... to the increase in the minimum wage by reducing on -the- job training and flattening the tenure-wage profile (see Jacob Mincer and Linda Leighton, 1981) Indeed, one manager told our interviewer in ... increase in the minimum wage will lead to an increase in product prices If we assume constant returns to scale in the industry, the increase in price should be proportional to the share of minimum-wage...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... other internal accounting reports needed by business managers The “failing” of GAAP is not that these accounting rules are wrong for measuring profit, nor are they wrong for presenting the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... equity, is not the market value of the business Rather, the balance sheet value reflects the historical amounts of capital invested in the business by the owners over the years plus the accumulation ... businesses The SEC has broad powers and can suspend the trading in securities of a business The SEC also has primary jurisdiction in making accounting and financial reporting rules, but over the ... generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) In the income statement, the final, bottom-line profit is generally labeled net income and equals revenue (plus any extraordinary gains) less all expenses...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... a summing-up, of their stewardship of the business entrusted to them by the investors in the business The quarterly and annual financial reports of a business to its owners contain other information ... business, in other words GAAP and financial reporting standards not ignore the need for information by the lenders to a business 41 FINANCIAL REPORTING But the shareowners of the business are the ... serious deficiency in gross margin by cutting other operating expenses, so its bottom line suffers An inadequate gross margin cascades down to the bottom line, in other words Therefore investors keep...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... of the line on these units and is selling off its remaining stock In this situation the book value of the inventory (the recorded accounting cost) is not relevant What the business paid in the ... differences in the products or service In this case the cost savings would improve unit margins and profit would increase accordingly Improvements in the unit margins are very powerful; these increases ... costs could be eliminated or slashed The key question is whether the company’s products remain the same, whether the products’ perceived quality remains the same, and whether the quality of service...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... each of the product lines, the delay in collecting the increase in sales revenue combined with the cash outlay for increasing inventories puts a double whammy on cash flow The slim margin on the ... manufactures the products it sells or it purchases the products it sells from other businesses In either case, an increase in inventory usually involves a corresponding increase in accounts payable ... is in the ballpark for many businesses For each $12.00 of increase in variable operating expenses, assume the business pays only $11.00 during the year The other dollar will be paid in the early...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... is recovered in a short period of time The capital is then reinvested in the assets in order to continue in business The cycle of capital investment, capital recovery, and capital reinvestment ... of how much the future returns would have to be for the investment The business has to recover the capital invested in the cash registers, which is $500,000 in the example The business has five ... determine the stream of future returns from acquiring the assets If the assets are purchased, the returns provide the money to recover the capital invested in the assets and cover the business’s...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... of the importance of forecasting major changes, adapting the core strategy of the business to the new environment, developing and implementing initiatives, and in general keeping ahead of the ... witness for the plaintiff in a patent infringement lawsuit against a well-known corporation The defendant had already lost in the first stage, having been found guilty of patent infringement For ... marketing questions can be raised Indeed, the job of the manager is to consider the whole range of marketing strategies, including the positioning of each product, setting sales prices, the most...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... is one of the three primary financial statements of a business, the other two being the income statement and the statement of cash flows The values reported in the balance sheet are the amounts ... take into account the cost of capital from the start of the investment until the future point in time when the return is received Present value (PV) is the amount resulting from discounting the ... to the capital used by a business that “belongs” to the ownership interests in the business Owners’ equity arises from two quite distinct sources: capital invested by the owners in the business...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... Networking Then, performing the matrix multiplication in (A.6) for the first row of the matrix will give Similarly, the same can be done for the third row of the matrix (A.5), and so forth In the ... of the coupling coefficients versus the SNR Conclusion In this paper, the problems of 2-D D3 LS algorithms were studied for recovering of the signal in the presence of mutual coupling and driving ... matrix not singular, the additional equation is introduced through the constraint that the same weights when operating on the signal produced a gain factor Q, which is the first equation Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... Note: The amounts reported at the beginning of the year are the carryover balances at the end of the preceding year; the amounts continue seamlessly from the end of the preceding year to the start ... high inventory turnover—their products not stay on the shelves very long Even taking into account the holding period in their warehouses before the products get to the shelves in the stores, their ... details in their income statements Terminology differs somewhat from business to business For instance, some companies prefer the term gross profit instead of gross margin in their external income...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20