Some companies have decided to stop conducting performance appraisals, believing this process to be a waste of time and energy with little, if any, long-term added value. Evaluate this decision.
Performance appraisals act as a motivation booster for any employee. They motivate the employee to work more efficiently and effectively to obtain the rewards for their performance. The performance appraisal may include a salary increment and also a promotion depending upon the conditions and criteria than an employee fulfills. If the company stop doing performance appraisals, then there will be less benefit for an employee to put extra effort into his/her work. The productivity, effectiveness and efficiency of employees will sharply drop, a situation not favored by any company. So, the process of appraisals is not a waste of time and money, but rather a growth promoter for employees as well as for the companies.
Some companies have decided to stop conducting performance appraisals, believing this process to be a waste...
Waste companies have great latitude in setting reserves (liabilities) for future environmental costs at their dumps. The process involves estimating how high the costs will be 30 years or more in the future and calculating how big a fund is needed in today's dollars to satisfy the future obligation. For example, Waste Management Inc., previously accused of using aggressive accounting methods, once recorded a $173.3 million cost that lowered its third-quarter profit by 63 percent. The cost included $45 million...
The table shown below contains a variety of performance measures that companies might use as internal business process measures in their balanced scorecards. Each measure is accompanied by a + or − to indicate whether the performance measure should increase or decrease over time. Required: For each measure, place an X in one of the three columns to indicate whether the measure would most likely be adopted by a company pursuing a strategy focused on operational excellence, product leadership, or...
You and some of your friends have decided to test the validity of an advertisement by a local pizza restaurant, which claims it delivers to the dormitories faster than a local branch operated by a national chain. Both the local pizza restaurant and the national chain are located across the street from your college campus. The variable of interest is delivery time in minutes from the time the pizza is ordered to when it is delivered. You collect the data...
8. Conclusions about capital budgeting The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm's strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project's cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that...
The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm's strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project's cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that apply. For most firms, the...
You are interested in investing in some corporate bonds from companies that have been severely hurt by the Covid virus. You do some research and find there are five companies whose bonds are currently yielding around 20%. Each of the bonds is described in the table below. Answer the questions that follow. You may use Excel if you wish, although with some time on a calculator you can answer each of the questions. If you do use Excel I still...
8. Conclusions about capital budgeting The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm's strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project's cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that...
8. Conclusions about capital budgeting The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm’s strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project’s cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that...
8. Conclusions about capital budgeting The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm's strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project's cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that...
7. Conclusions about capital budgeting The decision process Before making capital budgeting decisions, finance professionals often generate, review, analyze, select, and implement long-term investment proposals that meet firm-specific criteria and are consistent with the firm's strategic goals. Companies often use several methods to evaluate the project's cash flows and each of them has its benefits and disadvantages. Based on your understanding of the capital budgeting evaluation methods, which of the following conclusions about capital budgeting are valid? Check all that...