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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Capital Assets"”.
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Pricing Large-Ticket Capital Assets: The Case of Residential Income-Producing Real Property
The selling price of large-ticket capital assets has been hypothesized to increase as time on the market increases in previous theoretical literature. However, the results of empirical studies using single-family houses have been inconclusive. This study extends the previous empirical work by using …
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Sustainable development and comprehensive capital : The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia
… natural, human, organizational, and social capital assets. This loss of various kinds of capital assets over the past decade reduces the current potential and capacity of the region to implement reforms for sustainable development. While Central Asia entered the 20th century as a …
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Was the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment in CSARS v Founders Hill correct?
… will be focused on the tax effect of realizing capital assets by the use of a realization company and evaluating the nature of a receipt or accrual in the hands of a taxpayer. This objective will be achieved by analyzing the judgment of the Founders Hill case and by looking at previously …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
… through the concepts of multidimensional capital assets (Bebbington 1999). This research demonstrates how activities on allotments involve human, social, cultural, natural and political capital assets, encompassing both basic food security and a quality turn towards ‘good food’ (Sage …
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The production planning and inventory management of intermediate products for a pharmaceutical company
… TCG hopes to effectively maximize its capital assets by reducing warehouse inventory. This thesis aims to reduce the inventory of intermediate products through the use of fixed demand rate production planning and inventory controls. The production planning model attempts to derive the …
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Engagement, Trust, And Reciprocity: Exploring The Relationship Between Social Captial And Participation In Nonprofit Organizations
… the extent to which various forms of social capital impact participation in nonprofit organizations. Previous research has focused on the importance of trust and engagement among social and political networks to form strong community ties that can cultivate the growth of social capital and …
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The Viability of Community Tourism in Least Developed Countries: The case of Zanzibar
… is a call for more research to determine the capitals that destination communities should acquire to implement community tourism. Hence, the objectives of this thesis are: (1) to conceptualize the theory of capitals as related to community tourism; (ii) to develop a conceptual capital assets …
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Foreign Savings, Financialization and Minsky: How External Capital Flows Pave the Way for Financial Instability in the Face of Increasing Risk
… to finance investment by leveraging their fixed capital assets against their internal liquidity. Opposition to Minsky often points to two distinct circumstances that might discourage the external finance of investment: a rise in effective demand and increasing risk. A rise in effective demand can …
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Quantification of extreme event statistics in ship design
… challenging. The high value of these capital assets puts great pressure on designers and decision-makers as they work towards preventing such failures while balancing both engineering and material cost. The current method for the quantification of extreme events is direct Monte Carlo …
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The study of inventory management of raw materials for a pharmaceutical company
… industry, TCG plans to effectively maximize its capital assets and reduce the warehouse space from 3500 to 1500 pallet spaces. This thesis focuses on the raw materials procurement and ordering methods in TCG. We study the accuracy of the demand forecasts for the finished products. And we …
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Mobilizing Assets for Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere
… where relevant, map the tangible and intangible assets that may support sustainable tourism development in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere and to understand the challenges impeding these developments. Three asset mapping workshops were conducted in the Biosphere involving 23 participants, including …
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Transaction Cost Economics of Rice Irrigation Systems in Tanzania: Implications for Collective Action
… soil fertility, water, market access, and human capital assets development on technologies application and agri business oriented production for successful CA.
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Negotiating regional futures:the successes and failures of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency Network
… organisational learning; and trust and social capital. The structural components of the West Midlands RDA network are explored, including the structural configuration of the network and stocks of human and social capital assets. These combine to form the asset base of the network. Three sets of …
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Should Advertising Remain a Tax-Deductible Business Expense?
… to some, advertising creates intangible capital and should, therefore, be capitalized and amortized like other capital assets. According to other analysts, advertising does more to reduce welfare than to augment it; therefore, the deduction should be completely denied. Advertisers and …
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A study in the decline of the British street tramway industry in the twentieth century with special reference to South Yorkshire
… inadequate receipts and/or excessive working and capital costs are examined, particularly by contrast with the competing and profitable Yorkshire Traction bus company, which ultimately bought out the tramway in 1933. The Doncaster tramways were more successful, alternating between profit and loss, …
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Synanthropic survival: low-impact agriculture and White-shouldered Ibis conservation ecology
… strategy. Household incomes and livestock capital assets demonstrated that local people share a dependence on the livelihood practices and dry forest landscape supporting the ibis. Nevertheless, local livelihood change (such as mechanisation) may uncouple this linkage, making a potential …
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Automation of inventory management
… services used to track trucking fleets and other capital assets via satellite. Order fulfillment and inventory management practices in QWBS were non-uniform and manually intensive. Buyers used their own intuition and rules-of-thumb to decide how many parts to order and how many parts should be …
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Wood as an energy source in the Kraft pulp-paper industry of the southeastern United States
… that a significant investment be made in capital assets designed to economize on high-cost, fluid fuels. A second discusses wood fuel supply within the context of the total timber supply. Heightened demand for fuelwood unleashes both opposing and complementary forces that affect the supply …
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An Empirical Investigation Into the Effects on Tax Equity of Selected Alternative Methods of Taxing Capital Gains and Losses
… of the effect of alternative tax treatments of capital assets on tax equity as defined by selected definitions. The data source for this study was the Internal Revenue Service Individual Tax Model Tapes for tax year 1975. The five alternative tax treatments used were (1) the 1975 Code rules, (2) …
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Flexibility in early stage design of US Navy ships : an analysis of options
… One method of addressing uncertainty in capital assets is by imbedding flexibilities in their architecture. The thesis offers early stage design suggestions on flexibilities for naval platforms to incorporate pre-planned repeats of the platform with new or different missions. A conceptual …
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