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Risk And Uncertainty As Barriers To Entry To The Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry In The United States., James Hyland Ryan
Risk And Uncertainty As Barriers To Entry To The Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry In The United States., James Hyland Ryan
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
For nearly 20 years, 95% of the ready-to-eat breakfast cereal industry has been dominated by six manufactures – Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods, National Biscuit, Ralston Purina, and Quaker Oats. Consumer demand for ready-to-eat (hereafter designated RTE) breakfast cereals increased from 4.6 to 5.9 pounds per capita from 1954 to 1964. The total volume of cereal produced rose from 747 billion pounds in 1954 to 1126 billion pounds in 1964, a volume increase of 51%. During this same period, the pounds of cereal consumed per household increased from 15.9 to 20.6 or 28%.
An Analysis Of The Effect Of Changing Price Levels On Financial Statements, Robert Donald Clyde
An Analysis Of The Effect Of Changing Price Levels On Financial Statements, Robert Donald Clyde
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
When prices change significantly, conventional accounting reports tend to become inaccurate and misleading. Those who use the reports are likely to be misled. Adjustments for price changes cannot readily be made by the reader of financial statements because of the limited information available to him.
Risk Classes And The Required Rate Of Return On The Common Stock Of A Firm., Robert Lee Cheek
Risk Classes And The Required Rate Of Return On The Common Stock Of A Firm., Robert Lee Cheek
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
This paper proposes a method of examining the assumption that there are homogeneous risk classes of firms which will have the same required rate of return on the common stock, the risk classes being defined as those firms whose expected average income is subject to the same degree of uncertainty. This assumption, proposed by Franco Modigliani and Merton H. Miller in their famous work on the cost of capital to a firm, has tended to be neglected in the empirical studies, and in particular the tests of Alexander Barges, which have been made during the recent years. The method proposed …
An Empirical Test Of Financial Theory Relating To Utilities In The Capital Market, Gary Owen Glenn
An Empirical Test Of Financial Theory Relating To Utilities In The Capital Market, Gary Owen Glenn
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
By observation of the average cost of new debt capital, average market price per share of common equity, average earnings per share of common equity, and average price-earnings ratios, it is apparent that utilities are facing a deteriorating competitive situation in the capital market in relation to industrials. It was the purpose of this study to determine if these deteriorating characteristics were statistically significant or whether they were strictly attributable to chance. It was also to be determined if the movements in the utilities' average cost of new debt capital were significantly related in a statistical sense to the movements …
An Empirical Study Of Superior-Subordinate Personal Values And Performances Evaluation., Robert T.G Lassiter
An Empirical Study Of Superior-Subordinate Personal Values And Performances Evaluation., Robert T.G Lassiter
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
Although numerous performance evaluation techniques have been developed, such as graphic rating scales, check lists, paired comparisons, critical incident, etc., there remains an element of human judgement in their application, ad judgment is affected by personal values. The relationship of value or orientations to interpersonal relations, understanding, communications, decision making, and the evaluation of decision has clear-cut implications to the problems associated with performance evaluation. In the administrative setting, the white collar worker' performance is interpersonal relations, communications, and decision making. This is particularly true of the 68 people who participated in this study, since they were all engaged in …
The Emerging Importance Of Mental Health Programs In Industry And The Implications Of Related Legislative Action., Jack D. Rex
The Emerging Importance Of Mental Health Programs In Industry And The Implications Of Related Legislative Action., Jack D. Rex
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
At the close of the nineteenth century, the accepted common law defenses of Contributory Negligence, Assumption of Risk, and Negligent Acts of Fellow Servants were interpreted by the courts as being too harsh on the claims of inured workers. As a consequence, the principle of common law declaring the employer responsible for the injury or death of employees resulting form a negligent act on his part became the accepted recourse. By 1910, many state legislatures had adopted the principle that employees do not assume the risk of their employment, thus setting the stage for the enactment of Workmen’s Compensation laws …