Month: March 2012

Essay: RIM’s SWOT Analysis

Sample Essay The company also needs to be wary of some external threats with regard to its growth plans (SWOT Analysis). Google and Apple are taking advantage of the talent pool available in their respective areas and may be able to get better engineers into their R&D departments leading to better innovation. RIM needs to react soon to this or it may get left behind in the fast-moving industry (Beamish). Major competitors are also accessing RIM’s talent pool at Waterloo, recognizing it as one of the best in the world which may further diminish the supply for the company at a time when it needs to grow in terms of personnel. (more…)

Essay: Return Variables

Sample Essay Return Variables

Return Variables indicate how much profit the bank has made on money invested by shareholders. ROE is computed by dividing net income by shareholders' equity. ROE also find out how efficient the bank management uses shareholders’ investments (Hassoune, 2002).  (Samad, et al., 1999)  (Brown, 2003) (Hassan, et al., 2004) included ROE in their study. (more…)

Essay: Risks facing European Union

Sample Essay There is however a range of risks associated with setting up new operations in the European Union as well. One is the substantially high wage rates that labor would have to be paid inEuropebecause of the minimum wage regulations. This poses problems in terms of managing costs which can go up coupled with the mandatory employee welfare provision policies in the European Union as well as severance payments. (more…)

Essay: Role of the Australian Stock Exchange

Sample Essay Stoddart (1999) also highlights the role of the Australian Stock Exchange in lobbying the government for the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards and for the development of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (CLERP). This was important for the ASX as before a company can enlist its securities on the stock exchange, it is required to comply with the accounting regulations in Australia. (more…)

Essay: Royal Dutch Group

Sample Essay on Royal Dutch Group

The Royal Dutch group was similarly involved in a global financial scandal, though with relatively less consequence. The company’s financial statements are released with an estimation of the oil reserves it claims to have control over in the fields it operates in. There estimates were reported to be grossly overestimated by Shell. Some reports suggested the company had over reported the oil reserves in Oman by nearly 40 percent (Crowther 2007). (more…)

Essay: Second Amendment for Gun Control

Sample Essay By the second amendment, every citizen of the United States has the right to bear firearms for his or her own protection as well as the possible need for a militia in times of war (Kopel 1999). This is a remnant of the country’s history which had to endure a revolutionary war against great Britain, a massive civil war as well as the ever-present issue of slavery which always seemed to require households to carry guns. (more…)

Essay: Significance of Gun Control

Sample Essay Gun Control relates to the security and the good living of the American public. If keeping these assault rifles open to the public does not give us a better society, what good is there to protect this right? Certainly, freedoms should not be curtailed but should be defended to every last inch but if it compromises the very security of our children and our future, then it is freedom worth relinquishing. (more…)