This title of the special issue reflects the centrality of the underlying topics for the duty of family firms Just as the Increasing interest of governance scholars in family businesses. Ownership and governance In family firms have attracted broad scholarly attention as critical determinants of family Involvement with the potential to influence firms’ goal setting, strategic activities, and finally performance. Researchers have applied an ample […]

Advantages of Starting up a Business Advantages of starting your own small or medium business can include: Being your own Boss – You can make your own decisions, keep your own time and not have to answer to “The Boss” Hard Work & Know How – If you are a hard worker and / or have immense industry know how, you may want to benefit […]

Aldous Huxley was a writer of several novels, including the most famous Brave New World. He was born on 1894 and died on 1963. His interest includes politics, philosophy, parapsychology, psychology and mysticism. He was known to have close relationship to several people who have inclinations towards science. He has a botanical father and had worked in a chemical plant. Brave New World was written […]

Leadership, Change and Growth: CIO as a driver of business at IBM Company Profile: IBM is one of the largest globally integrated enterprise in the world and since 2000, the company has spent over $70 Billion on research and development to implement innovation to technology that supports Big Data, cloud, mobile and social computing. The company boasts the world’s largest cloud for analytics and allows […]

The most important element the US government looks at more than anything else is anyone getting any benefit by doing business in the US will have to pay the appropriate tax. There are also other reasons why the whole process needs executing with the full knowledge and permission of the authorities. In most cases any company that wants to get engaged in business activity that […]

Have you ever wondered where Microsoft will go next with Windows, well now it is time for you to find out. Microsoft has almost completed Windows 2000, which will be the new era for software around the world. In the last year computers have grow dramatically, with the new Pentium II chip and processors with the speeds up to 450MHZ. Almost every family home in […]

Leadership has different meanings to various authors.  Leadership could be defined as influence, that is, the art of process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the achievement of group goals (Bass, 1981).  Although their approach to leadership theory is primarily one of analyzing lead­ership style, Fred E. Fiedler and his associates at the University of Illinois have suggested a […]

Q1. Which of the following is the correct formula for Market Capitalization? (MCQ)Previous share price × Number of issued sharesCurrent share price × Number of issued sharesPrevious share price × Number of issued preference sharesCurrent share price × Number of issued convertible shares(2 marks) Q2. Statements given below relate to asset-based valuation for equity. Select appropriate types of asset-based valuation. (HA)Historic Cost Values are easily […]

How to collaborate effectively with the business at all levels remains the key IT challenge. Key Issues There is increasing pressure on business to be more flexible and to deliver products and services to customers quickly. IT practices often inhibit these business goals. IT Is expected to deliver both cheap, reliable operations AND create new business value. These goals can get confused by both business […]

            Depreciation is the systematic and rational allocation of tangible asset cost over the periods benefited by the use of the asset (Smith, Stice, Skousen & Skousen, 1998). The objective of depreciation is to have each period benefiting from the use of the asset bear an equitable share of the asset cost. There are a number of methods for allocating the costs of depreciable assets. […]