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10 Financial Yardsticks For Your Small Business
Small entrepreneurs wind up taking big orders that get them in trouble. Time and again, accountants and consultants who specialise in small businesses say that such enterprises don't pay enough attention to cash flow, which is the measure of how much money you really have in the business. This paper...
Tags: Yardstick, Financial, Small Business, Financial Accounting, Finance
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Grey Global Group's Mellors to Asia-Pacific Creatives: You Suck
Tim Mellors, worldwide creative director of Grey Global Group, has a message for his Asia Pacific creatives: You suck. He didn't say it quite like that, of course. But in this video below, where he is much more diplomatic, the message is plain: Grey's creative in Asia...
Tags: Yardstick, Agency, Asia-Pacific, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-02-17

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FCC needs better yardstick. (Back Talk).(the FCC reports that cable rates increased by 8.2% in 2002, five times the Consumer Price Index)(Column)
The Federal Communications Commission last week released a report saying that cable rates rose 8.2% last year, or five times more than the Consumer Price Index. That yardstick -- the CPI -- has always baffled me, because in the case of...
Tags: cable, consumer price index, FCC
Research articles 2003-07-14
Nuance Voice Control Tops the Handango Yardstick Best Sellers List for the BlackBerry Platform
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Nuance[R] Voice Control ranked as the best selling BlackBerry[R] title based on units sold from all Handango storefronts for the first quarter of 2007. The ranking is based on the First...
Tags: Nuance, RIM BlackBerry
Research articles 2007-05-08
Bask: New look Boomers measure up well against Ming yardstick
00-00-0000 Bask: New look Boomers measure up well against Ming yardstick By Laine Clark SYDNEY, July 4 AAP - Suddenly it's fun again for Australian guard Brett Maher to wear the green and gold. ...
Tags: New Look Co.
Research articles 2002-07-04
WTI is losing its glitter as a global oil price measure
Less surprising than the change in the benchmark for Saudi oil sales into the US, whereby Saudi Arabia has dropped the West Texas Intermediate contract, was that it took so long to happen. Neither Riyadh nor its US customers have been happy with using WTI crude as their yardstick, even...
Tags: Oil
News items 2009-11-03
Capital Markets: Taking Issue - Barclays Capital Gives A Reality Check On An Outdated Model; CSFB Makes A Loyal Friend For Brazil; And Merrill Has A Plan To Avoid Past Mistakes. Brian Caplen Reports.
What lies behind an outdated yardstick What lies behind an outdated yardstick
Tags: Barclays Plc., capital market, Credit Suisse Group AG
Research articles 2005-11-01
Coca-Cola Settlement to Affect Work Force Management.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Nov. 19--ATLANTA--Coca-Cola's sweeping $192.5 million settlement of a class-action racial discrimination suit last week may become Corporate America's new yardstick for measuring how well companies manage an increasingly diverse work force. Nov. 19--ATLANTA--Coca-Cola's sweeping $192.5 million settlement of a class-action racial discrimination suit...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Corporate America, settlement
Research articles 2000-11-19
BP ANNOUNCES 25% RISE IN PROFITS IN FIRST QUARTER.
UK oil group BP Plc announced on May 8 a 25% rise in profits in the first quarter of this year. BP's replacement-cost profit (a yardstick that takes into account the cost of replacing the company's oil reserves at current prices) rose to USD3.4 billi UK...
Tags: BP Plc
Research articles 2001-05-11
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken under advisement a case challenging the EPA's implementation of the Clean Air Act (CAA).(Environmental Protection Agency ozone standards questioned)(Government Activity)(Industry Legal Issue)(Brief Article)
American Trucking Associations vs. Browner questioned strict smog and soot air quality standards EPA issued in July 11997. The agency set a standard that limited ozone to less than 0.085 ppm, compared with the previous yardstick of 0.12 ppm. American Trucking Associations vs. Browner...
Tags: ozone, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2001-01-01
Fatal distraction: Bill Clinton's foreign policy.
An analysis of Pres Bill Clinton's foreign policy reveals that he is still utilizing NATO strategies in containing the advance of communism. In an era of post-Cold War politics, Clinton should devise a new foreign policy which will be the yardstick of his performance in his second term as president.By...
Tags: administration, China, NATO, president, U.S., U.S. Congress, White House
Research articles 1997-09-22
HIV risk from heterosexual intercourse may be underestimated
MEXICO CITY AFP — The standard method for assessing the risk of HIV infection through heterosexual intercourse could be badly wrong, according to a study to be presented at the International AIDS Conference here on Tuesday. The paper, published online late Monday by the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse
Research articles 2008-08-05
Investing Reality Check: Why You Think You're Above Average
Individual investors and professionals typically consider themselves above average portfolio managers, but they?re often deluding themselves. Sometimes, they inadvertently use the wrong yardsticks to measure their performance. Sometimes, their boasts are just plain deceitful. Driving...
Tags: S&P 500, Performance, Bond, Stock, The Vanguard Group Inc., Portfolio, Investor, MoneyWatch, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Allan Roth, Lake Woebegon, Dan Ariely, Larry Swedroe, American Association of Individual Investors, Terrance Odean, VTI, VEU, BND, Vanguard Total Market Index, Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex US Index, Vanguard Total Bond Market Index
Articles 2009-11-30
Living Up to Your Client's Standards
The standards a self-employed professional sets are mostly of his or her own making. Professional associations demand compliance with ethical standards of behavior. Other than that, the person sets expectations of himself or herself and then develops his or her own standards for measuring the success or failure of his...
Tags: Standards, Pertinent Information, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2006-10-19
Working around Personality Clashes
Many people blame conflicts on personality clashes, but what we perceive as personality clashes may, in fact, be something quite different. Each of us has our own unique mix of attributes and beliefs that make up our personalities. If we clashed with everyone who is different from us, we would...
Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Team Management, Personality Clashe, Person, Coworker, Team, Situation
Articles 2007-10-11
Dedicated Teams Successfully Merge Two Divergent Quality Systems
What happens when two companies with two distinct and effective quality management systems QMSs are merged. Ideally, the two systems are integrated to form a new system containing the most effective elements of each and shedding those that are redundant. Six Sigma Plus being able to effectively use that yardstick...
Tags: Team, QCI International, Training, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2000-01-01
Bank On The Brand
The state-of-the-art in strategic management through the corporate brand sees financial services companies using their brand as the uniting symbol of their differentiated direction and values. For the leading practitioners who are already there, we foresee that the next stage will be for them to integrate brand values into their...
Tags: Bank, Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2001-05-15
Risk-Adjusted Yardstick May Be Misnamed
"This paper represents an improvement over the traditional approach to capital structure management. But just as clearly, there are some significant shortcomings.As a consequence, there are grounds for thinking the equity ratios it produces may not be right. The key aim of the risk-adjusted return determine the overall downside risk...
Tags: Marakon Associates, Capital Structure, Equity, Capital Structures, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
White papers 1999-10-08
How to Conduct an Effective Pay Survey
One of the hardest jobs in managing employees is making sure they're happy. Although there are many aspects to creating happy employees, a fair and competitive wage is still the number one yardstick in measuring satisfaction. How do one make sure he is paying his employees fairly? The answer's enough...
Tags: Employee, Crain Communications Inc., Survey, Benefits, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Marketing
White papers 2002-04-01
The Value of Valuations
Why some fast-growing companies may be ideal takeover targets. This is the concept which have gained momentum in today's scenario. Plummeting stock prices tend to encourage takeover attempts. But remarkably, few finance chiefs at fast-growing companies have a good idea of what their businesses are worth. According to that yardstick,...
Tags: Valuation, CFO Publishing Corp., Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2002-07-24
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