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- 1731: The Wrong Way To Sell A New Idea
- ... employee fringe benefits, among other things. Though businesses will try to pass on these costs to consumers and employees-by raising prices and trimming fringe benefits, for example-shifting the nations tax burden to the business community will not produce successful tax reform. Next, the flat tax initially would raise taxes on the middle class by 20 percent. On average, a family with between $40,000 and $50,000 in adjusted ... dividend income. Under the flat tax, the Smiths owe no tax at all because capital income is excluded from the tax base. To be sure, their dividend income was taxed at least once at the business level before they received it. But the perception would persist that a high income family would pay no tax. Will tax fairness be defined so that individuals consuming significant amounts of capital income would pay ...
- 1732: Bill Gates and Microsoft
- ... on this “Market” called the Internet. Gates’ vision in the area of the Internet has helped to create a global interactive network, which is and will continue to change the way we live and do business forever. This is already creating a paperless environment, we have less need to have printed out resources when we can just store these things on a computer and have almost instant access to them. Gates ... some of the graphical ideas, but they give very little credit to Apple. While Xerox did come up with the original idea, Apple made the idea work. This is just one example of the shrewd business sense that Bill Gates has. Gates talks a lot about things we are going to see in the future from computing, broadcasting, communications, and their integration. Since this book is a few years old many ...
- 1733: Organization And Benefits In The Workforce
- ... managers to get the people who get the job done, and of course, make the company money. People have always been central to organizations, but their strategic importance is growing in today's knowledge-based business world like never before. An organization's success increasingly depends on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of its employees. Particularly as they help establish a set of core competencies which distinguish one organization from its ... As Tom Peters stated in A passion for Excellence " Trust people treat them like adults, enthuse them by lively and imaginative leadership, develop and demonstrate an obsession for quality, make them feel they own the business, and your work force will respond with total commitment". Evidence points to a more active interest in and careful implementation of human resource management. Management is, by definition, getting things done through people. If managers ...
- 1734: Web Advertising – Is It Really Worth It?
- ... and therefore provides marketers with challenges that need to be dealt with, with caution. The realm of Web advertising is in uncharted territory. What implications will this new technology have for marketing? How can a business use the medium effectively? Setyn introduces the concept of interactive marketing through the words: “Interactive marketing uses new technologies to overcome practical database and direct marketing problems whilst building more rewarding customer relationships.” The developments ... companies that possess the necessary expertise to advertise effectively on the Internet. The origins of Web advertising are ironically rooted in what many consider as a frustrating method called “spamming” where messages concerning products or business information were sent at random to Internet users e-mail addresses. This form of advertising can be likened to common junkmail. Thousands of businesses have established a home page on the Internet which offers a ...
- 1735: The Trade Practise Act
- ... disadvantage the court takes such cases, involving exclusion clauses, very seriously, and the content of the clauses are carefully interpreted. With the current Trade Practises Act and the Fair Trading Act the standard form of business contract is adequate and effective in protecting the buyer. The Trade Practise Act is the most effective legislation for the protection of the consumer. It implies to the following situations:- - “A promise by the seller ... the train pass/ticket, the ticket inspector needs proof( on the spot ). In this case the condition does favour the seller however it is not unfair to the buyer. In conclusion the standard form of business contracts and the Trade Practises and Fair Trading Acts do provide the seller and in particular the consumer adequate protection. Although the court and the current acts do solve cases debating exclusions clauses, if the ...
- 1736: The Bank of Montreal
- ... Global Competitiveness, p.33.) The Montreal’s municipal finance also became involved with the bank as it expanded its involvement with the public sector. (Canadian Banks And Global Competitiveness, p.35.) The bank captured the business of the government on November, 1863. (Canadian Banks And Global Competitiveness, p.38.) "The bank was selected for five reasons: it had a large capital base, an extensive branch system, and experience in government finance ... Global Competitiveness, p.38.) Therefore, the branch system of the Bank of Montreal totaled six hundred and seventeen services outlets by 1925. (Canadian Banks And Global Competitiveness, p.44.) The Bank of Montreal had their business world wide since the founding in 1817. The bank has grown to have ten hundred and one billion in U.S. in assets, and over thirty two thousand employees in Canada, the United States, and ...
- 1737: The Japanese Economy
- ... at regulating the economy’s overall money supply, credit availability and interest rates. In theory and practice, the government directs monetary policy to induce changes in the money supply to achieve price stability, smooth out business cycles, and bring the economy’s employment and production to desired levels. By contrast, fiscal policy addresses the overall program for directing government spending and taxation and for maintaining GDP close to full employment without ... economic crisis stems from a variety of causes such as severe structural problems, failure to move out of traditional heavy industry, an educational system that stressed obedience over initiative, and a financial system that insulated business from market reality. However, Japan’s approach monetary policy has not been only halfhearted in dealing with this crisis. It has actually been counter productive and contributed to the recession. Krugman uses the analogy of ...
- 1738: Types of Employment Contracts
- ... age drilling risks and reduce costs. In the future, they may be able to utilize drilling management contractor services for complete field development programs. The offshore turnkey drilling industry remained a high-margin, low-volume business until about 1993 when turnkey drillers began to realize bidding prices were not competitive with most operators' internal cost estimates. Increasing market share could only be achieved by reducing margins to match the real competition ... and field management through depletion. Construction management contract plans. Construction management or construction include courses in project control and development, site planning, design, construction methods, construction materials, value analysis, cost estimating, scheduling, contract administration, accounting, business and financial management, building codes and standards, inspection procedures engineering and architectural sciences, mathematics, statistics, and information technology.
- 1739: Glass Ceiling in Corporate America
- ... S. corporations, including, but not limited to, the Fortune 1000 Industrial and the Fortune 500 Service Companies. In some instances, it also includes companies that have more than 500 employees and that have been in business for ten or more years. This means that Corporate America is a large group of organizations. Organization is defined as social entities that are goal-directed, deliberately structured activity systems with a permeable boundary. Corporate ... noticeable and feasible, and continually drive it through every level of the company. All corporations should include in efforts to achieve diversity both at the senior management level and throughout the workforce in their strategic business plans. Diversity should be echoed in human resources and marketing departments as the core for the companies success. Unfortunately, there is not a secret recipe that can be used by a company to measure diversity ...
- 1740: Britain and Joining The Economic and Monetary Union
- ... monetary measures in general. These are instead to be decided upon from the centre, the European Central Bank (ECB), which some argue has been based upon the German Bundesbank. Patrick Minford, a monetarist from Cardiff Business School, states that " far from making the ECB an exact copy of the German Bundesbank as is often supposed…". This view is further supported by Keynesians and Marxists in the UK . This has a very ... If not, the EMU may be weakened or could fail. ARGUEMENTS 'FOR' THE UK JOINING THE EMU ELIMINATION OF RISK The main problem caused by exchange rate variability is that it increases risk. Risk reduces business activity through depressing trade and investment. Businesses can insure against this variability by using the Futures market - hedging. However, hedging can prove to be costly if wrongly estimated. A single currency will make hedging a ...
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