COST OF CAPITAL REPORT AND SHELL OIL
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This 3-page paper discusses analysis of Shell Oil's cost of capital report. Topics discussed include weighted average cost of capital and capital asset pricing model, then describes advantages and disadvantages to each method. Bibliograpy lists 2 sources.
Filename: MTsheacc.rtf

Cost Reduction and Cost Avoidance
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This 14 page paper considers the ways in which a company may seek to reduce or avoid different types of costs. Different ways of achieving this are discussed, with examples used to illustrate points raised. Methods discussed included developing supplier relations, substitution, standardization, reducing waste, changing payment terms and different process changes. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEcostre.rtf

COST REGRESSION AT LINCOLN HOSPITAL
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This 5-page paper undertakes various cost analysis regression of Lincoln Community Hospital in New York to determine its financial problems. The regressions are also analyzed here.
Filename: MTlinana.rtf

Cost Structure Case Study
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8 pages in length. This comprehensive problem involves Intel, Inc. Intel must choose only one of its processors to manufacture. The problem lies in choosing which strategy Intel should adopt in using variable or fixed cost structures.
Filename: JGAmacct.wps

Could a Failure Similar to Enron Occur in the UK?
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This 5 page paper starts with an outline of why Enron failed. With this information the question of whether or not this could occur in the UK, with the different accounting and purporting frameworks, is considered. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
Filename: TEenronU.rtf

Credit and Collections A Case Study
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This 20 page paper takes a hypothetical case study and decides how it can improve through changes in collections practices. Credit and collections procedures are reviewed and recommendations made. A SWOT analysis is included. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: SA21Coll.wps

Credit Card Company - Capital One
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A 5 page paper. Capital One is among the top ten credit card companies in the U.S. The company has more than 46 million customers worldwide. This paper considers the company's policies and asks whether or not they are ethical. Since it is so hard to obtain all their specific policies regarding credit card approval, the available information is used, in conjunction with personal knowledge of credit cards, to ask if certain policies regarding interest rates, fees and distribution of consumer information is ethical. It may be legal but is it ethical? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PGcap1eth.rtf

Credit Card Interest Rates
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A 3 page paper about the cost of credit cards. The four basic types of credit cards are identified. Five credit cards are compared in terms of interest rates, grace periods and fees. The costs of one virtual bank is explained. The writer alerts consumers that different banks and companies have different costs even when the credit card is a Visa or MasterCard. 1 Table included. Data included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGcrdin.rtf

Credit Management and Budgeting in Society Today
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8 pages. This paper is a literature review about the importance of credit management in society today. This topic includes different types of budgeting as well, especially as is evident in the corporate world of credit management and budgeting. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: JGAcrmg.rtf

Credit Management: The Creditor's Perspective
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A 7 page paper discussing the perplexing possibilities of the origins and disposition of high consumer debt since the turn of the century. The landscape that currently exists is one not easily managed or navigated by credit managers. The much-touted recession now is being said to have been a phantom of everyone's imagination. Though other leading indicators have improved, layoffs continue to increase. In conditions such as these, the function of the credit manager can be seen as being socially significant. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KScreditMgmt.rtf

Credit Markets Articles
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A 6 page paper discussing a week's "Credit Markets" section articles from the Wall Street Journal. Published each day, the articles during the week of March 5, 2001 all discussed securities sales, activity in the Treasurys market and other activity such as municipal bond issuances. The leading news of the week was France Telecom's sale of $16.4 billion multicurrency sale of debt. The largest to date, the offering attracted $30 billion of investment interest, some of which went instead to Freddie Mac's largest-ever one-day sale of two- and ten-year notes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KS-WSJcredit.wps

CSX’s Acquisition of Conrail
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An 8 page paper based on Harvard Case 9-298-006: The Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (A). The paper discusses the differences in the two companies in terms of financial results; the influence of the merger on Eastern railroads; and the benefits that the new entity can expect after merging. The paper concludes with a discussion of the excessive price that CSX offered for acquisition shares of Conrail stock. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSfinCSXconrail.rtf