Dirty Rotten Numbers – Article Review
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A 5 page synopsis of Andy Serwer's article of this title in Fortune Magazine. Serwer begins with an analogy to a scene in Charlotte's Web where the rat eats the garbage and thinks it is a feast but Americans can no longer digest the garbage being handed out in corporate financial reports. This essay captures Sewer's main points, including the Enron debacle being the catalyst for closer analysis of corporate financial reports. This essay ends with three questions accountants need to ask themselves. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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DISCUSSION ABOUT FRANCHISE COSTS
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This 4-page paper discusses costs of franchising by examining various financial statements of parent companies. Topics included are costs of franchising, how franchising impacts financial statements, and how franchising is a better investment than a wholly owned subsidiary. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Dividend Distributions
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This 3 page essay examines a fictitious company that plans to distribute a $20 million dollar dividend. An overview of implications concerning dividend distributions as it relates to business law and taxes is included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Dividend Policies
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14 pages in length. A finance director believes that the market price of the company's existing ordinary shares will not change even if the company changes the dividend policy that has been maintained for the past thirty years. The finance director could be wrong in his belief, however; in order to determine whether this is the case, this paper will focus on investment strategies, dividends policies, and will include examples. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Dividend Signalling
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This 5 page paper considers the way that dividend signalling is used and how it differs in UK companies compared to German or Japanese companies. The writer argues that this is due to the differing models of corporate governance in each country, with the UK using the Anglo-American model of capitalism, with short term goals and individualism taking priority, compared to the longer term, stakeholder approach of the Germans. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
Filename: TEdivsig.rtf

Do "Extraordinary Items" Affect Investors' Choices?
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A 6 page paper discussing investors' willingness to accept the statement, "excluding extraordinary items." Exclusion of extraordinary items is a valid approach to considering them, according to researchers and nearly every analyst working today. Stockholders in VeriSign and Rite Aid seem to be saying that they hold a much different view than do any of these researchers and analysts, however. Annual results that appear to glow can be changed dramatically when considering extraordinary items, which can turn positive business results into negative ones. It may well be that investors will begin using examination of extraordinary items as an indicator for their investment decisions. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Domesticity and Discontent:
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This 5 page paper examines the 1950's era and the role of women. This paper reveals that many of these women inhabited domestic roles simply out of lack of other viable opportunity, and that much has changed for women since those post-war days. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: GSDiscon.rtf

Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette
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12 pages in length. Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette is one company that turns the phrase 'big business' into a totally inadequate understatement: they boast total capital of over $3.46 billion and total assets of over $55.56 billion. DLJ is involved in every facet of commercial finance endeavor ranging from investment banking to stock brokering to asset management to institutional equities to emerging markets to any other imaginable aspect of commercial financial operation. The many separate businesses that comprise DLJ fall into three groups: Financial Services, Capital Markets and Banking. The one discussed in depth is their online investment trading services. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Lufkin.wps

Downsizing's Effects on the Real Estate Market
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9 pages in length. Certainly the real estate industry, both residential and commercial segments, were greatly affected by the downsizing waves on either side of the year of 1990, as were many others. With the sustained growth of the national economy, however, many of those depreciated properties have now regained and even surpassed their former values. The private owners and real estate developers suffered, but we all really did, too. We're growing now, and we even have the added benefit of lessons learned from the effects of downsizing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Downsize.doc

E*Trade Case Study
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This 5 page paper answers questions posed by the student to help them understand the case. The paper considers the strategy of E*Trade in 2002, looks at their financial position, undertakes a SWOT analysis and considered potential future strategies. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
Filename: TEetrad1.rtf

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