... swelled almost 5 times, to $1 billion, since 1994. This drives the Debt-to-Capital Ratio to 61%. Cash flow exceeds interest expense by a comfortable five times. Revenue growth from new and enhanced services increased 35% last year, to $1.2 billion and has grown 35% annually. GTE’s Return on Equity was 40% that far exceeds rest of its major competitors listed. The company’s boosting margins and overall returns are clearly pictured from the Net Profit Margin of 2.1%, a nice 36% improvement over the prior year. The company announced a plan to streamline its telecom operation by reducing expenses by $1.1 billion. The article estimates an increase in Earnings per Sh ...
... charging market rate (not latest technology but provides privacy and intimacy). Treatment of a complex ailment in a private institution is more time consuming and expensive. · Economic liberalization : domestic and multinational companies - more competition · Demography : urban, high income as dictated by upper middle class and elite class, neighboring countries. · Psychography : Targeting people who can afford comprehensive high quality service; who are ready to pay more money for the comfort and treatment by more reputed doctors. · Market Growth (income + segments growth) : Sizable market of 30 million (wealthy ) and 135 million upper m ...
... of higher priced ones, the weight has shifted. The CPI assumes that this does not occur and therefore it overcompensates the standard of living. Secondly, because the base period was over a decade ago, the quality of the products has increased significantly, and therefore the prices should be higher. The CPI, however, assumes that the increases in prices is a result of inflation rather than quality improvements which is false. Here also, the CPI overstates the rate of inflation. Many consumers do not mind the overcompensation of the CPI because in most cases it means more money in their pockets, but there are some consequences. This may cause an ongoing inflati ...
... money in the long run. But since the Postal Service is a necessity for America, the government had to subsidize the service in order for it to continue in operation. In 1979 the United States Postal Service had a cash flow of $22.5 Billion and was additionally receiving $176 million from investing(#1, Intro). Even with this added revenue the Postal Service was still greatly under funded on its own (#1, Intro). During this time it was discussed to privatize the postal service and introduce competition because of the extreme losses that the service was experiencing. A positive argument for privatizing the Postal Service was with numerous competitors in the market th ...
... in 1994, with the U.S. registering a surplus of $1.3 billion, virtually unchanged from 1993. However, there was a sharp increase in trade opportunities, as both import and export growth exceeded 20 percent. One-fifth of the total trade that occurs between the United States and Mexico was created in 1994. One of the major sectors that holds a large promise for the U.S. manufacturers is that of the automobile industry. The Mexican market for auto parts is expected to grow by 24 percent from 1994 levels to $16.9 billion in the year 2000. It is also expected that NAFTA will help increase the U.S. export share of the Mexican market to around 70 percent by the yea ...
... in which that person works: The principal goal of pharmaceutical care is to achieve positive outcomes from the use of medication which improves patient's quality of life. These outcomes include: cure of a disease, elimination or reduction of the symptoms of a disease, arresting or slowing of a disease process, preventing of disease, diagnosis of disease, or desired alterations in physiological processes, all with minimum risks to the patient (Shall I Study Pharmacy 1). The pharmacist must perform numerous tasks sometimes under unfavorable conditi ...
... to benefit from services taken for granted in large urban centres. More than 98 percent of Canadian households have a telephone, and there are more than 15 million telephone lines for a population of nearly 27 million(Dept. of Communications, 1992, p7). It is therefore not surprising that Canadians are among the biggest users of telecommunications in the world. For example, in 1990, Canadians made more than three billion long-distance calls (Dept. of Communications, 1992, p8). Innovations made possible through telecommunications have also contributed significantly to the phenomenal growth of the Canadian telecommunications industry. For example, the total value ...
... it pretty much consists of the fact that in order for the company to stay competitive it needs to cut down on some of the privileges of its employees. The union members on the other hand refuse to recognize the financial situation of the employer and insist on better wages, bonuses, and all the other goodies associated with being in the union. James Dagnon a human resources senior vice president told the engineering-union leaders that they haven't recognized "the competitive battle that we're in here." Now I hardly ever fly, and if indeed the prices of airfare would go up as a result of the labor unions getting their way, or for if for some reason the union go ...
... these jobs include sale and managerial or "office" jobs. Most of the higher-paying and rapidly-growing jobs demand training and education beyond high school. Since technology is quickly changing and developing, the "upgrading" of skills is very important. This means that many people that are employed will need to continue their education to keep up with this new technology that affects their jobs. Furthermore, the higher one's education, the better. For instance, college graduates, on average, earn much more than those with a high school degree. With this known, people should consider obtaining the training or education that jobs are looking for. Job seeking s ...
... hours a day, seven days a week. Since the Internet can be accessed by millions of people all time, it would be a great incentive for such a business like Amazon to do business over the Internet. The Internet can help Amazon in number of extraordinary ways. First, the Internet is an excellent way to make business information available to possible consumers. Say a person hears about a product that Amazon produces and would like to know more information about that product. Well, through Internet access, that person can easily locate the Amazon web site and browse through the information needed. Amazon has the description, price, and pictures of all available products. ...
