Japan On Its Way To Be The World's Largest Economy
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preservation of harmony are the most important elements in society. "It is
their sense of identity and destiny which gives their industrial machine its
effectiveness."1 "Among the Japanese, there exists an instinctive respect for
institutions and government, for the rules of etiquette and service, for social
functions and their rituals of business. Japan is a traditionally crowded island,
the people are forced to share the limited space with each other and to live in
harmony.. The Japanese ar .....
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How Do Dixons And Tandy Add Value To The Products They Sell?
.... part of the system to match, as the Dixons systems came with some
added bonuses such as extra multimedia software and Internet capability. I
therefore reduced the price of the Dixons machine to account for these
differences, by deducting the price that it would cost to upgrade on the Tandy
machine. So, to give the Tandy computer Internet capability would cost £150, so
that was deducted, and the multimedia software would have cost £50, so that was
deducted. The computer specification I aimed to ha .....
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How Employees Affect Consumer Behavior
.... Most of the time I've been able to find
another person to help solve my problem and I was able to walk away a satisfied
customer. There are some instances when I have consciously went to a competing
business, because of the way I was treated. I know I am not the only person who
does this, so I feel it is very important to have a work force that helps market
your products, by being friendly and knowledgeable. This will prevent customers
from turning away from your products and services. Ask yo .....
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Import Substitution
.... level will decrease in
order to ensure the necessary equilibrium of the balance of payments and the
lower the amount of domestic currency exporters receive per unit of foreign
exchange earned.
There is no need for high protection at the first stage of import
substitution in the replacement of the imports of non-durable consumer goods
(clothing, shoes, household goods, textile fabrics, leather, wood and other
types of inputs) since these commodities exist in the developing countries that
are at the initial .....
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Inaccuracies Of The Consumer Price Index(CPI)
.... the standard
of living.
Secondly, because the base period was over a decade ago, the quality of
the products has increased significantly, and therefore the prices should be
higher. The CPI, however, assumes that the increases in prices is a result of
inflation rather than quality improvements which is false. Here also, the CPI
overstates the rate of inflation.
Many consumers do not mind the overcompensation of the CPI because in
most cases it means more money in their pockets, but there are som .....
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The Investment Industry
.... in the
industry or branching off into full brokerage services. For example, the
brokerage firms for CIBC, Royal Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia
and Bank of Montreal are Wood Gundy, RBC Dominion, Evergreen, Scotia McLeod and
Nesbitt Burns respectively. In addition, the aforementioned chartered banks have
also branched into the discount brokerage sector.
As of December 1994, the Securities Industry as a whole included 158
firms, directly employs over 24,000 people, has operating rev .....
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Information Technology Outsourcing
.... expenditures." It offers the benefits of both systems involved.
Another important goal that IT outsourcing takes on, is reducing technological
risk. By outsourcing your needs you know that that the employee know what they
are doing.
Some of the problems IT outsourcing may encounter are, loss of strategic
control, risk of technological obsolescence, limiting of long-term flexibility,
difficulty in benchmarking initial contract, hostage to additional charges,
high exit or switching costs, limit .....
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Increasing Shareholder Wealth
.... corporation, they might have
the power to employ methods which are difficult for the workers to prevent or
counteract.
One tactic used by corporations to reduce labor costs is the utilization
of “sweatshop” labor. A sweatshop is a manufacturing facility that operates
below minimum standards of safety and/or wages and benefits. Sweatshops
flourished in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
This paper will examine the re-emergence of sweatshop manufacturing in
the U.S. and abroad, and i .....
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Intel
.... board-level unit volume growth, new factories coming into
production, shifts in process and product mix, and in the fourth quarter of 1995,
by costs associated with unusually high reserves related to inventories of
certain purchased components. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 1994
included the impact of a $475 million charge, primarily to cost of sales, to
cover replacement costs, replacement material and an inventory record related to
a divide problem in the floating point unit of the Pentium micro .....
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Internationalization Of Accounting Standards For Consolidation - Japan: A Case Study
.... such clear merits that they deserve adoption by the whole world.
No one country can claim to have a uniquely correct set of rules. The United
States has the longest history of standard setting. It has the largest standard
setting organization which is characterized by high standards of professionalism.
But, even the rules of the United States exhibit compromises between different
interests of a kind which could have reasonably been decided otherwise.
Furthermore, no unanimity exists among U.S. accountants .....
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Interview To Dow Jones
.... More than 40% of our operating profit is now earned outside the U.S.
We are a focused company. We are not a media conglomerate, nor an entertainment
company. We stick to our business of business, providing information essential
to an ever expanding and increasingly interconnected worldwide business
community.
Q. What is the strategy behind your television operations?
A. Dow Jones aims to provide business news in any form customers want it.
When we looked at our operations a few year .....
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Introduction To Business
.... system is satisfying the needs of
the consumers with the use of limited supplies. The purpose of a business is to
combine resources such as land, labor, and capital in a way that will make them
more valuable. Operating in a political and economic climate that supports
individual rights, American business has as its guiding principle the right to
private ownership and profit. The amount of goods produced depends upon the
number of resources available for use. This idea is commonly known as "Supp .....
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Investing In Canada
.... deficit reduction and job creation.
The following are some essential points all of which prove Canada is a favorable
choice: Domestic market; wage competitiveness; work force quality; International
business skills; raw materials; energy costs; infrastructure; business services
and legal environment.
Domestic Market
Canada's per capita purchasing power is second only to that of the United States,
among the G-7 countries, and the OECD expects Canada to lead the industrialized
countries in near-term e .....
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BECOA Report On Investing Currencies In The Far East
.... to accurately and to the best of his or her's ability to make
any significant amount of money on the currency market. However, I believe that
by my researching the countries trends in areas such as: Inflation, Capital
Investments, Unemployment, Exports, Budget balances, and Real Growth rates, that
this is the key to making money through currency exchange. In this report my
selections for currency exchange will justified by using the above areas as well
as currency trends and volatilitie .....
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U.S Investment In Mexico
.... the U.S. registering a surplus of $1.3 billion, virtually unchanged from
1993. However, there was a sharp increase in trade opportunities, as both import
and export growth exceeded 20 percent. One-fifth of the total trade that occurs
between the United States and Mexico was created in 1994.
One of the major sectors that holds a large promise for the U.S.
manufacturers is that of the automobile industry. The Mexican market for auto
parts is expected to grow by 24 percent from 1994 levels to $16. .....
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