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Analysing Random Access Memory Chip Yield Performance, Choy Sar Kam Jan 2000

Analysing Random Access Memory Chip Yield Performance, Choy Sar Kam

Student Works (2000-2009)

Despite advances in integrated circuits (IC) equipment and fabrication techniques, there still exist random fluctuations or statistical disturbances in any IC manufacturing facility. which can adversely affect the production yield. Actually devices and circuits are being designed with increasingly tighter parameter and performance margins. As a result, chip performance becomes even more sensitive to the statistical variations, and this may result in low production yield. One of the significant detractors of cost in a manufacturing line is yield loss due to contamination and the time required to increase the yield to profitable levels. Yield loss in a manufacturing line is …

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Comparison Between The Economic Fundamentals Of Malaysia And Singapore Prior To The 1997 Southeast Asian Currency Crisis, Mun Chow Lai Jan 2000

Comparison Between The Economic Fundamentals Of Malaysia And Singapore Prior To The 1997 Southeast Asian Currency Crisis, Mun Chow Lai

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research paper makes a comparative study on the economic fundamentals of Malaysia and Singapore prior to the 1997 Southeast Asian Currency Crisis (SACC). The overriding objective here is to determine the structural economic characteristics of Malaysia and Singapore prior to the SACC and to explore the possibility that underlying fundamentals might have contributed towards or exacerbated the SACC. The analysis begins with an overview of the economics of Malaysia and Singapore using graphical and tabular analysis of broad indices. This is followed by the formulation of simultaneous equation models, one for Malaysia and another for Singapore. Besides service balance …

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The Impact Of The Recent Currency Crisis On Malaysian Exports, Deivanai Kaliappan Jan 2000

The Impact Of The Recent Currency Crisis On Malaysian Exports, Deivanai Kaliappan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Since the outbreak of East and Southeast Asian financial crisis, a lot has been said and done to explain currency crisis that started with floatation of Thai baht. Economists and policymakers from all over the world gathered to discuss the causes of the main agenda in global economic as well as the action to be taken in bringing the affected countries in the East and Southeast Asian region back to recovery path. However, it is already 17 months since the crisis erupted, still there is no well defined measures that can be adopted by the ailing economies to improve their …

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The Effectiveness Of Monetary Policy In Malaysia In The Light Of Financial Liberalization, Farizah Ahmad Jan 2000

The Effectiveness Of Monetary Policy In Malaysia In The Light Of Financial Liberalization, Farizah Ahmad

Student Works (2000-2009)

Financial liberalization had caused instability in the money demand function as well as in the velocity of money. As a result, money supply is no longer reliable as the main intermediate target and there appeared to be a shift in the technique of monetary control towards greater reliance on interest rates as the main operating instrument. Developing countries that continue to emphasize on quantitative method in their monetary framework while at the same time implement financial refom1s may face the problem of a loss of monetary control and hence, monetary policy may possibly not be effective in influencing income or …

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Ownership Structure And Corporate Performance : A Study On Malaysian Public-Listed Companies, Yoke Ping Lua Jan 2000

Ownership Structure And Corporate Performance : A Study On Malaysian Public-Listed Companies, Yoke Ping Lua

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and corporation performance on 100 Malaysian public-listed companies from 1993 to 1997. We first investigate the effect of ownership concentration on corporate performance, as measured by return on equity, market to book value ratio and return on assets. Further, we extend our analysis by examining the relation between insider ownership and the three accounting ratios. The results showed no significant relationship between ownership concentration or insider ownership and corporate performance for the selected corporations in 1993 - 1997. This study further confirms the studies conducted by Kwabena (1993) and Yee (1998) that …

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Effective Debtors Management And Credit Control : The Key To Successful Businesses, Chee Ghee Teh Jan 2000

Effective Debtors Management And Credit Control : The Key To Successful Businesses, Chee Ghee Teh

Student Works (2000-2009)

Lack of information and control have been identified as major causes of corporate collapse, particularly in the aspect of debtors management and credit control (Argenti, 1976). Credit squeeze where during period of tight money, credit will be rationed out to those who are thought to be the best risks - as happened during the financial crisis since 1997, in which Malaysian corporations suffered deteriorated bad debts level, slow debts pile up and leading to cash-flow crisis and corporate restructuring . Have the past lessons being learned ? This study reviewed practical applications of the Malaysian Management Accounting Guideline No. 3 …

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Cases In Strategic Management By S. B. Budhiraja, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1996., L S Murty Dec 1996

Cases In Strategic Management By S. B. Budhiraja, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1996., L S Murty

IIMB Management Review

The author claims that this book is probably the first of its kind, in that, the project of bringing out the book was actively supported by some leading companies in the country (which form the subject of these cases) and was funded by ITC. The contribution of the participating companies to management education hould be appreciated. Industry and academia should draw the cue from this to further enrich the theory and practice of management in India.

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