The claims made by the two parties include whether or not athletes are employees, how much money is spent on athletes, and the effects of injuries. Recently appearing in the news, Football players at Northwestern University have been in the process of forming a players’ labor union. These players are claiming they are employees for the university. The argument states that revenues are earned for the school because of the effort football players put on the field, much like in the National Football League. The only difference is that players in the NFL are being compensated for their efforts.
One strategic initiative presently contemplated is to reduce company costs by consolidating financial advisors in 5-10 person offices in large metro areas. While this strategy offers some benefits, we believe the opportunity costs outweigh the cost savings. On the other hand…..”thesis……did we decide to consolidate just a few offices or leave all of them the same and focus on expansion?” Compared to other financial investment firms, Edward Jones is relatively small with limited resources and limited access to cash (Exhibit 5). Since its foundation it has remained a limited partnership. While remaining private has yielded benefits, it also limits its access to cash- not sure if I should just erase this.
Republican vs. Democrat Studies show at the national level there is a difference on spending and taxing between parties, democrats generally spend more, republicans save more. States level party control does not make a significant difference between parties and policy instead policy differences are based on economic difference among the states. Dawson and Robinson in 1963 published a paper, Thomas dye in 1966, Lewis and beck in 1977, and hwang and grey in 91 A study in 1985, by James gerent, focused on spending priorities between 45-68 in American states, showed that no short term impact occurs but it does have a long term effect. Partisanship might have little impact on overall state spending; it does have an impact on specific areas especially those that are redistributable. For example: Welfare More partisan competition you have the broader the appeal for voter support.
Add $31.50/50 gal/bbl = $0.63 to $0.52 cost to get bulk whiskey inventory of (8,665,585.62 * $1.15) = $9,965,192.31. Next, you must add the value of Bottled and Cased Whiskey by the costs of aging barrels. For this account, there are only 35 gallons/bbl (due to evaporation), so the cost increase would be $31.5 / 35 = $0.90. Applying this increase gives $1,969,000 / (11.20 + 0.90) = $2,127,223.21. Total change in whiskey inventories would be 9,965,192.31 – 4,506,000 = $5,459,192.31 for bulk whiskey and $158,223.21 for a grand total increase in inventories of $5,617,415.52.
* Cost of Equity: * Beta: she used the average beta of the last 5 years, which is also acceptable. However, we decide to use the Bayesian beta calculated with the firm’s present beta as a measure of the future beta assessing for future risk. * Risk-free rate: from the investor’s perspective, we conclude that a 10-year holding period would be more realistic estimate than 20-year. Therefore, we decide to use 10-year U.S. Treasury yield as our risk-free rate in this case. * Risk premium: using the geometric mean from 1926 to 1999 might be problematic, since the risk premium of recent decades is obviously lower than earlier (stated in the lecture).
Should College Athletes be paid? More than 49,699,419 fans attended games at the 638 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football-sponsoring schools around the country this past year. It is a record number of fans that ever attended those games. This brings a question that is around for few years now, should college athletes get paid? The first time this question was asked was by Howard Savage, a staff member of the Carnegie Foundation.
Alcohol can put this sort of development to a stop, which puts the young adult at a much higher risk for addiction, depression, violence, and increases the chances of suicide. Having the drinking age set at 21 lowers the overall amount of alcohol consumption. There was a study back in 2002 to prove this. The results showed an 87% decrease in alcohol consumption with a higher legal drinking age. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) did some research in 2009 and found that nighttime drivers’ percentage on the weekend with a BAC of .08 had dropped from 5.4% back in 1986 when there was a lower drinking age, to 2.2 %.
Less than 1% were left available Porsche announced that they had accumulated a 74.1% stake in Volkswagen on October 26, 2008. This caused chaos in financial markets around the world because the German state of Lower Saxony held a 20% interest in Volkswagen, and DAX index funds held an additional 5% of Volkswagen shares. These three groups accounted for 99.1% of outstanding Volkswagen shares. This left only 0.9% of Volkswagen shares available on the open market. Unfortunately, investors around the world expected that the value of Volkswagen would decline given the state of the world economy in 2008, and these Investors had short sold 12.8% of Volkswagen shares.
Kwik Lube Case Study Compute the loss for Kwik Lube stations during the last two years using trend analysis. How accurate can results claim to be? With a -.01 bias and a negligible tracking symbol, the forecast analysis substantiates Dick Johnson’s assertion that the presence of competition cut directly into Kwik Lube’s profit. A trend analysis was conducted and projects sales in the amount of $1,419,445 and $1,530,445 for 2006 and 2007, respectively. Comparing the gross sales forecast to actual sales, this results in a loss of $309,445 in 2006 and $420,445 in 2007.
However, during the recent crisis of 2008, the attendance dropped by 4% because people have cheaper substitutes like home theaters where the movie subscription can be bought for cheaper. Going to the movie theater stays the cheapest way of entertainment but it becomes irrelevant when many households can have the same experience from their houses. Political/Legal Segment There are no political or legal issues that impact the movie industry. Sociocultural Traditionally, there were four reasons for people to go to the movies: watch a movie on the big screen, enjoy the movie theater quality sound, to get out of the house, and the local place for dating. As the TV screens became bigger and the home sound systems were able to deliver the same movie theater quality sound, the first two reasons for people to