Assessing Cash Flow at FedEx and UPS
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A 6 page paper examining cash flow at FedEx 2003 – 2005. It was during this period that FedEx acquired Kinko's, a fact reflected in the company's changes in cash; it was shortly before this period that UPS acquired Mailboxes, Etc to create the UPS Stores. The paper includes 10 quotes from an introductory accounting textbook. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Assessing Company and Share Values
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This 9 page paper uses three different valuation models to assess what the share price of a company should be. The paper looks first at book value and how this may be used as a foundation for valuation before moving onto the dividend discount model, DDM, and the capital asset pricing model, CAPM. The paper uses an example provided by the student to illustrate the different models. Each model is discussed, looking at the advantages, disadvantages and the best scenarios for its' use. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Assessing CU
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This 3 page paper is based on a case study supplied by the student. The paper puts together an income statement and then looks at the viability of a new project. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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Assessing Delta Airlines and an Investment
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This 3 page paper looks at Delta Airlines and assesses the current performance of the company and the share price to determine if this is a good buy. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Assessing Divisional Performance
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There are a number of traditional approaches that may be used to assess the performance of different division within a firm. This 6 page paper looks at some of these methods including assessment of targets against market share, profit requirements and in line with the BCG matrix and then suggests some more modern and flexible approaches including the use of activity based costing. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Assessing Financial Statements
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A 3 page paper evaluating the financial statements of Not-For-Profit Organization, obviously a fictitious nonprofit. Not-For-Profit Organization's financial statements appear to be sound. If one assessing the organization's financial strength would have any reservations, they should lie in the area counting assets not yet received. The corporate world can do this because those organizations have means to collect payment for services. That route is not available to Not-For-Profit Organization to collect gifts pledged but not yet received. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Assessing Financial Statements: GM, Home Depot and Billabong
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A 6 page paper defining several accounting terms and assessing the income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements of GM, Home Depot and Billabong. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSacctFinStmtGM.rtf

Assessing Global Strategy at HSBC Bank
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A 20 page paper discussing the global banking industry as it is and as at least one bank is designing it to be. "The world's local bank" is the slogan of Britain's BSBC Bank. This is a marketing paper, evaluating HSBC's position in its industry, trends in the global market and suggesting steps that the bank can take to further differentiate it from its competitors while continuing to build on the concept of becoming "The world's local bank." Bibliography lists 18 sources. Includes 2 figures.
Filename: KSbankStrat.rtf

Assessing Harley Davidson as an Investment
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This 5 page paper looks at selected financial ratios for Harley Davidson in the years 2006 and 2007 to assess the performance and determine whether or not it is a good investment. The ratios examined are the net profit margin, the inventory turnover, the debt ratio and the price earrings ratio. The paper ends by calculating the weighted average cost of debt and then makes a hypothetical recommendation. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Assessing Investment Choices
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This 16 page paper looks at how three potential courses of action may be assessed. These are whether to open or close an office, if a new product/service should be launched and if an investment should be made to expand a business. The paper performs a financial analysis of each situation, including potential profit ad loss figures, profit margins, net present value of investments and various other calculations. The bibliography cites 18 sources.
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Assessing Risk and Benefits; Should a University Offer a New Course?
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This 14 page paper is written in 3 parts. Te first an longest looks at the tolls that a company, or in this case a university, could use to assess risk, including HAZOP and HAZIM, Monte Carlo, cost benefit analysis and NPV. The second part of the paper looks at which models could be used by the university to determine the potential risks and rewards. The last part of the paper considers how the progress could be monitored. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Assessing Risk at Tasty Foods
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A 4 page paper discussing risk associated with a potential new product. Assessing the project risk is difficult in that we cannot know all conditions that will apply by the time the product reaches the market. It does appear that there is less risk than originally believed, however, based on the results of CAPM analysis. Monte Carlo simulation likely will confirm the findings of assessment using CAPM. Other approaches include altering variable values (salvage value, unit sales, revenues, sales price, variable costs) to find the level at which NPV remains positive. CAPM provides an acceptable overarching view. Bibliography lists 2 sources. Accompanying spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation are available.
Filename: KSfinRisk.rtf

Assessing Small Office Accounts Receivable
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A 9 page paper discussing operations of a small medical center’s business office, particularly as they apply to the accounts receivable function. There are several steps that the center can take now to both streamline its operations and create a more secure environment. The ultimate goal needs to be full automation of course, but the center still can take beneficial measures now in anticipation of fully automating business operations in the future. Includes a flowchart of one clerk’s responsibilities and suggestions for pre-automation improvements that can be made now. No sources listed.
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Assessing the Effects of Increased Corporate Governance
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A 15 page proposal for studying this topic. Nations and organizations throughout the world are more aware of the need for greater corporate governance, and many have taken or are considering alterations to standards that could increase corporate responsibility and compliance in financial reporting. What remains unclear is how some of the proposed and realized changes may affect business operation. The study proposed here seeks to determine how accounting and auditing standards may be affected by these changes. Bibliography lists 31 sources.
Filename: KSacctCorpGov.rtf

Assessing the Effects of Increased Corporate Governance
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A 21 page revision of a 15-page proposal of the same name. This version includes a discussion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as well as an appendix listing 21 proposed survey questions and rationale for including them. Bibliography lists 32 sources.
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Assessing the Financial Statements of Alliance Health
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A 6 page paper examining financial records to assess the health of the company and to suggest methods of improving its cash position. Alliance Health has been growing in terms of all leading indicators of corporate health for three years (increased net income, decreased accounts receivable, decreased accounts payable, decreased debt and increased cash at year end), yet the company’s cash flow position has deteriorated. Because Alliance does not carry an untoward level of debt at present, the recommendation for improving its cash position is to take on debt sufficient to give it positive working capital and improve ROE, while simultaneously increasing its operating efficiency to reduce cycle time at least to 2001 levels. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Assessing the Likelihood of an Interest Rate Change using information from the Federal Reserves Beige Book
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This 5 page paper uses the 14th January 2004 Beige Book Report, made by the Federal Reserve, and examines the results to assess the likelihood of an change in interest rates. The analysis looks at the results in different sectors and then considers how and why economists may come to different conclusions over the need for interest rate changes. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Assessing the Real Value as Gold as an Investment
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This 50 page paper considers the use and value of gold as an investment. This in-depth paper puts forward the hypothesis that gold has a different role to play compared with other investments and due to the nature and longevity of the commodity, as well as the psychological association and international acceptance, gold is an investment that will prosper during times of uncertainty or recession. The writer considers the macro environmental influences, such as supply and demand and Kondratieff theory of credit creation and destruction. The writer also considers the gold standard and the interaction between gold and national currencies and the impact of the Bretton Woods agreement. The final part of the paper is an analysis of the performance of gold prices since the 1930’s depression to the current time, and how they compare to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The bibliography cites 35 sources.
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Assessing Three Business Plans
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This 3 page paper looks at three business plans and assesses which of the three is the most risky and would require the highest discount rate when assessing the potential investment returns. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Assessing Three Fast Food Companies; McDonalds, Yum Brands and Burger King Holdings
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This 84 page paper is an in-depth analysis of three companies all competing in the fast food industry; McDonalds, Yum Brands, owners of the Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell, and Burger King Holdings. The paper examines the corporate governance, looking at the CEO, the board of directors, the share voting and share ownership structure and the type of stockholder that have an interest or an influence. The assessment of risk and returns, looking at how the companies have performed on the stock market and using historical figures to create a beta as well as estimating the cost of capital, looking at investment returns and dividend policies and applying models of valuation. The bibliography cites 35 sources.
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Assessing Two Companies; BMW and Fiat
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This 22 page paper examines two companies using a range of tools to assess which may be the best investment. The paper starts with the use of ratio analysis and then moves onto different share pricing tools such as the book value, dividend discounting model and the capital asset pricing model. The paper ten argues there are many non financial influences and examines the way the companies compete looking at their competitive advantage strategies and using Porters Five Forces model. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Assessing WACC; Case Study
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This 8 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student. An investment manager needs to estimate the cost of capital for Nike. The paper looks at why WACC is important, assessing the calculation that has been used in the case study using CAPM to estimate the cost of equity. After this new cost of capital figures are calculated with a different Capital Asset pricing Model (CAPM) calculation as well as using dividend discount model and capitalization rate to assess the cost of equity. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEnikeWACC.rtf

Assessment of a Project
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This 9 page paper helps a student to assess a project. The paper starts out by calculating the cash flow and then looks at the NPV and how it will be impacted by different inflation rates and the impact of changing set up costs.
Filename: TEnpvcal.rtf

Assessment of British Airways 2005 – 2008
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This 11 page paper assesses British Airways. Written in three parts the first and longest section looks at the performance of the company between 2005 and 2008 from a number of perspectives, including market position, financial performance and customer satisfaction. The second part of the paper assesses a potential business only flight service which could be offered by BA and the last part of the paper discusses the way that NA may be able to compete in the future and assesses potential of the firm to remain a global player. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Assessment of Central Banks' Future Role
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A 3 page paper discussing the declining influence of central banks in the global economy dependent more on the movement of exchange rates than on actions arising from monetary policy. The paper uses an older (1997) article for comparison and assesses the statement in a 2004 context. It appears that the observations of the author of the primary article (Posen, 2004) are correct and that central banks – at least in developed nations – are facing a future of far less influence than in the past. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Assessment of Feasibility for a Project
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This 8 page paper looks at a case study supplied by the student and undertakes a feasibility study looking at the income and expenditure to create a five year cash flow and then use a net present value (NPV) calculation to assess whether or not the proposal meets the assessment criteria. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Assessment of the Rondo Calculations
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This 5 page paper considers the way in which calculation undertaken to help a student with a case study were in line with instructions given by a teachers and given preliminary results. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization
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This 36 page paper considers the use of stochastic modelling in the determination of asset allocation. The paper considers multi-stage stochastic programming and stochastic dynamic programming by comparing this to other models that may be used in assessing the contents of investment portfolios. Other models considered include models with their origins in mean variance theory leading to CAPM, efficient market hypothesis and the Warren Buffet method. The bibliography cites 29 sources.
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Asset Backed Securities and their Potential in Taiwan
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This 47 page papers examines the subject of securitization. The paper begins with a definition of asset backed securities (ABS) the market size and driving forces for ABS, the risks and opportunities for both companies and investors, their structure, the different classifications of ABS and how they may be valued. The United Sates and Japanese markets are then considered as developed ABS markets, with size, breakdown and systems outlined. The development in Taiwan as a very recent entrant into the securitization market is then discussed. The outlining of the development of the system leads to a SWOT analysis of the situation in Taiwan which is compared to other systems. This then gives the reader an indication of the way Taiwan should proceed if wishing to develop a thriving asset backed security market and the benefits that securitization could bring if the potential is realized. The bibliography cites 21 sources.
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Asset Impairment
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This 19 page paper considers the way in which asset impairment is accounted for. The paper looks at the introduction of SFAS 142 and SFAS 144, comparing them to the previous model and to the standards set out for international standards under IAS 36. The paper goes into detail of the requirements of the US model, including a few examples of the differences that the new statements will and will not make. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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Asset Impairment and Write-Downs
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A 3 page paper discussing the changes in asset valuation that were not possible under FAS 121 alone. FAS 142 and 144 simplify determination of asset impairment, and more easily include items such as goodwill and other intangibles. Rule changes more easily account for valuation changes in intangibles and goodwill, which were more difficult to value under FAS 121. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Asset Pricing Bubbles
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A 10 page paper discussing historical bubbles including the Dutch bulb craze, the South Sea Company in 1711 and South Florida real estate in the 1920s. The paper answers several questions regarding asset valuation, particularly in association with the fallout of the tech sector beginning in March 2000. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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ASSET UTILIZATION – TOYOTA AND WILLIAMS SONOMA
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This 3-page paper discusses asset utilization as it pertains to Toyota and Williams Sonoma. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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AT&T and MCI
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This 10 page paper examines these two rival telecommunications companies. The paper includes information their past and present positions, finical data, a strategic analysis of their goals, boundaries and activity systems as well as considering the different markets in which they operate and how they are seeking to expand. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEattmci.wps

Atlantico Inc Case Study
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This 5 page paper is based on a case study. Atlantico (a fictitious company) needs sales and budget projections for the next quarter, using information given sales, purchasing and cash flow budgets are prepared as well as income and balance sheets for the end of the quarter. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Audit Risk
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This 3 page paper considers what it mean by audit risk from the perspective of the external auditor and consider how they would approach auditing from a risk basis. The paper includes consideration of the different types of audit risk. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Auditing Intangible Assets
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This 4 page paper looks at case supplied by the student. The company has used transfers between different companies to create goodwill which is being used to hide $7 million losses. The paper considers disposition from the auditors perspective and looks at the way in which the intangible assets including goodwill, can be tested and measured during the audit process in order to give a fair picture of the company. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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Auditing Risk
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This 6 page paper considers what is meant by audit risk and the types of audit risk that exist; inherent, control and detection. This is applied to a range of scenarios supplied by the student. The aspect of inherent risk and inventory is also discussed. The second part of the paper looks at how the debtors figure may be established as correct in an audit. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Auditor Independence
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A 7 page paper discussing the Big 5's reactions to changes in SEC auditing rules that now disallow accounting firms from acting as consultants to the same firms they audit. It has divided the industry, with the AICPA and three firms vehemently opposed to SEC interference, while the other two firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young) have taken much more moderate positions and expressed disappointment that the AICPA has chosen not to "represent all its members" in the matter. The paper discusses accounting ethics and the likely implications on a global scales. Bbliography lists 9 sources.
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Auditor Independence and Banking Regulation
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This 10 page paper discusses the banking industry's Regulation Q and SEC rule S7-13-00, which attempts to ensure auditor independence by prohibiting auditing firms to have other business relationships with their audit clients. Both are seen as being unnecessary in today's business environment and serving no purpose aside from limiting the ability of affected firms to compete. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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