British Petroleum: The Global Oil Giant
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
BP, or, British Petroleum as the world knows it, is one of the giants in the oil industry. Initially known as the Anglo-Iranian oil company, BP took on the name of British Petroleum in 1954. Apart from selling fuel and lubricants for transportation, BP also provides petrochemicals and energy in...
Strategy and transformation portfolio - Corporate Social Responsibility
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
Over the years, organisations have continually engaged in activities that aim at improving their position and competitiveness in the market. They have been taking more considerations towards the wellbeing of the community as well as trying to improve their business models. This paper entails a...
Corporate Compliance Plan
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Business ethics and social responsibility affects customers, businesses, shareholders, and the reputation of the organization. A business that is dishonest can cause harm or even send an individual to jail. Several forms of doing business are through sole proprietorship, partnership, and...
A study on working capital management in Visaka Industries Limited
Case study - 44 pages - Finance
The company was incorporated under the Indian Company's Act 1956 on 18th June 1981 as Visaka Asbestos Cement Product ltd and promoted by Dr.G.Vivekananda with investment of Rs 4 crores to set up cement asbestos plant in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. It has grown in to multiple folds and now...
A presentation on capital structures (26 Slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Finance
Capital denotes the long-term funds of the firm. Long-term funds of the firms are financed by two major components, i.e., debt capital and equity capital. Mix of long-term debt and equity maintained by the firm is called capital structure. Financial structure includes both, long-term as well as...
Corporate Corruption: Culture of Enron
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
Shareholder value was being diluted. It was worse than just being dishonest: stock options provided managers with strong incentives to get the value of their stocks up quickly - what mattered was not long-term strength but short-term appearances. Corporate officers responded to the...
Corporate governance and business ethics of Diageo
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
In spite of a global crisis, global businesses are reaching record profits like Exxon. In fact, businesses are more powerful than ever and the biggest ones are even wealthier than some countries (Leonard, 2008; Johnson et al., 2006). The power of these corporate influence policies and could...
Business and society
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
A partnership is a type of business in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business. In a partnership the owners share financial obligation and are tax individually. A corporation is a legal body separate from the people that own it. It may be owned by and individual...
Human resources: The film analysis
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The film depicts two HR realities. The first is that of the complex relationship between Frank, a young intern in Human Resources, who is dynamic, energetic, and his father who is both fearful and disillusioned with the job he has held since he was young. Frank is a victim of deceptive illusions...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting corporate governance and the practice of public accounting since the US securities laws of the early 1930s. The Act is relatively recent in the history of American accountancy. It was signed into law on 30 July...
Procter and Gamble marketing strategy
Dissertation - 36 pages - Services marketing
We chose Procter and Gamble because it's a huge company, which is established in different sectors and owns a multitude of products. It acts internationally and has a good place and a good experience in the market. After a successful start, P&G is now an international company which owns more...
The Salomon case
Case study - 3 pages - Business law
Since the Salomon case, the doctrine of separate corporate personalities constitutes the corner stone of British company law. Thus, a properly incorporated company is considered as having a legal personality of its own and ought to be treated as a legal entity distinct from its...
Function of the human resources within the French group, Dassault Aviation
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
Dassault Aviation, a French industry group, accounts for 8000 collaborators, including 3000 with a site in Saint-Cloud. As a major player of the world aircraft industry, the group posts its specificity: the support of its customers. The manufacturer civil-soldier bases its strategy on products of...
Strategy and organization of the Ford group
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
While developing a strategy, a company no longer considers each supplier, customer or competitor as enemies who will undermine its immediate benefits. Automakers around the world now share this vision, which is why they have completely changed the nature of their relationships with their...
Strategic Analysis of Michelin
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
The Michelin group is a global manufacturer of tires dimensioned on Euro, and headquartered in Paris. It is a multinational, whose head office is in Clermont-Ferrand in France. With 20% of the worldwide market, Michelin is the world leader in the tire industry. Its net sales in 2006 rose to 16.4...
Alcatel-Lucent fusion: the birth of a giant on the market of telecommunications
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
The merger of Alcatel, a French group of telephony (mainly fixed), and Lucent, an American mobile phone group, happened in 2006. After the first abortive attempt to merge in 2001, the merger was actually be accomplished 5 years later. -2001: First attempt at forming a merger failed -April 2,...
UK foreign exchange markets
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Foreign exchange markets are market where financial assets are traded. These assets include money in currency form, shares, rights, derivatives, and securities. Shares are the value of a company split into denominated units that investors purchase. The company selling its shares offers them as...
Strategic analysis of Nissan group
Market study - 20 pages - Accounting
“As the crisis has evolved, Nissan has remained focused on the recovery, guided by our corporate recovery plan. Although our company is still operating in crisis mode, Nissan is on track toward a complete recovery. In fiscal year 2009, we returned to profitability after losses in the prior...
GAAP, FASB and SEC
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is an accounting framework, which includes accounting standards and rules that every accountant needs to follow while preparing the financial statements. All companies should follow the GAAP rules and standards while presenting income & expense and asset &...
Managerial Economics: Welfare Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
Free market theory was a dominant theme of the 1780s propagated by economists such as Adam Smith. Amongst other things was its exclusive resolve that there should be minimal government involvement in the business of the economy if any at all. It was the era of the industrialization concerned with...
Presentation of Puma and PPR groups
Market study - 45 pages - Business strategy
The PPR group was pleased to announce that after the expiry of the additional acceptance period of its voluntary public takeover offer for Puma it had become the majority shareholder with a 62.1% stake in Puma. 1962: Creation of the PINAULT company Acquisition of companies in the same...
Company Logistic Analysis, Drawbacks, And Recommendations
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Home Depot is one of the largest retailers of home improvement products and services. The company has over 2255 retail stores across 50 states in the U.S. The company employs more than 300,000 employees. The company is listed on the New York stock exchange and in the doe Jones. The company enjoys...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - published: 16/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law a revolutionary Act: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act. In the wake of many financial scandals, this law establishes new accounting and control requirements on U.S. publicly owned...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A multi-lateral approach to the subject
Essay - 13 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a highly debated topic during the last recent years in most developed and developing countries. We can today distinguish among three main general views on the role that CSR could play in shaping companies' policies. The first view on CSR, which has...
The impact of FIIs on Indian National stock exchange and how effective the Government is in Liberalizing and controlling the National Stock exchange?
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
The intention of this research was to examine the impact of Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) on the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE). To achieve the aims, the following objectives have been determined to study how FII plays an important role in National stock exchange; to study the...
Customer relationship management in banks
Thesis - 25 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is at the core of any customer-focused business strategy and includes the people, processes and technology questions associated with marketing, sales and service. Simply stated, CRM is about finding, getting and retaining customers. The aim of these systems...
A study of capital structure trend in the Indian steel industry
Dissertation - 61 pages - Accounting
Capital structure is designed to maximize the value of a firm. However there is no unanimity on the effect of capital structure on the ultimate value of a firm. Various theories hold varied opinions. According to Modigliani and Miller approach value of the firm is created by optimal capital...
The ABN Amro bank
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
On 29 March 1824 King Willem-I issued a royal decree creating the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij with the aim of reviving trade between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. In 1964, NHM merged with De Twentsche Bank to form Alegeme Bank Nederland (ABN), while Amsterdamsche Bank and...
L'Oreal company case study: Management and performance
Case study - 49 pages - Management
L'Oreal, the global leader in the cosmetics industry celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. The group's history began in 1907 with the development of a formula for hair dye. That was when L'Oreal was launched officially. It is the world leader in cosmetics today. As part of a...
The role of private equity firms as an alternative investment model in the Middle East and globally
Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Finance
The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). This document will present an overview of private...
