No matter what a person sells, he or she must become an expert at communicating value. Value comes in two forms: tangible and intangible. Tangible value is easy to see and measure. A 5 percent increase in revenues, a 24 percent increase in personal productivity, a reduction in time-to-market by...
Tom Armistead submits: Shares of refiners Valero Energy VLO and Tesoro Corp TSO have tanked badly over the past few months, falling 60% and 77% respectively from their 52 week highs. Crack spreads were squeezed as oil prices skyrocketed and consumers dug in their heels on gas prices. They are...
The challenge in services marketing lies in communicating the tangible aspect of services. People relate to the tangible aspect readily. This helps them in evaluating the pros and cons of the service and arriving at the purchase decision. The paper examines the relevance of imparting a tangible nature to services...
This paper decomposes stock returns into components attributable to tangible and intangible information. A firm's tangible return is the component of its return attributable to fundamental accounting-performance information, and its intangible return is the component which is orthogonal to this information. The evidence indicates that intangible information reliably predicts future...
The determination of sales and use tax liability generally turns on whether the transaction in question is a sales transaction versus a service transaction or whether the property involved is tangible personal property versus intangible personal property. Even if the transaction in question involves the retail sale of tangible personal...
Protecting the Future showcases tangible examples of the practical implementation of sustainability and the triple bottom-line plus one (comprising environmental, social and cultural economic and governance dimensions) in the scholarship and operations of Melbourne's RMIT University. Over 13 chapters, the stories of...
Lewis Mumford performs the astounding intellectual feat of tracing the interwoven strands of history, technology, and anthropology, back to where today's technology-dominated world probably started. He contends that the historical overemphasis on tangible artifacts has blinded us to the central invention that made modern technology possible: the horrific and bountiful...
GAZA CITY AFP — Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas has said that there has been "tangible progress" in talks over the release of an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants in June. "There is tangible progress on this issue," Haniya told reporters in Gaza upon returning to his...
DOD said the changes relate to item marking and valuing providing cost information for tangible items such as contractor acquired property and tangible item deliverables. A public meeting to discuss the potential changes is scheduled for May 28 at DOD said the changes relate to...
AMMAN AFP — Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that tangible steps were quickly needed to contain violence in the Middle East, during talks with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Without tangible, specific steps to activate the implementation of the roadmap in the near future, the cycle of violence...
This article will expose the many problems with the excess earnings method as well as the large amount of criticism of the method that has come from all corners of the business valuation industry, including the very creator of the method. Business appraisers who continue to use the excess earnings...
Business Editors LAKE FOREST, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 31, 2001 Telenetics Corp., (Nasdaq:TLNT), a wired and wireless data transmission and network access products provider, today announced that as a result of second quarter performance, the company is now substantially closer to complying with the $2 million minimum net tangible assets...
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- 3D Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: TDSC), a leading provider of 3-D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, announced today that it has agreed to support Tangible Express of Springville, Utah with its new and innovative fractional ownership program.
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Glenn Schorr - UBS. Glenn Schorr - UBS How are you thinking about the cap ratios? In other words, I look at the disclosure and I understand where your targets and how you can rebuild through the middle of June; in...
Chad Brand submits: About a year ago, I commented on an article that appeared in Barron's which argued that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) was overvalued. In my post, entitled Barron's Pans Buffett's Berkshire, I agreed with the article that Berkshire Hathaway stock looked overvalued. A lot has changed...
Asif Suria submits: The 12% surge in the Dow over three trading sessions was certainly welcome but has hardly alleviated the level of anxiety felt by most investors as it could easily turn out to be a bear market rally. It is interesting to see from the adjacent table...
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Brian Foran – Goldman Sachs. Brian Foran – Goldman Sachs I know you covered this but I just want to ask very explicitly on tangible common because I think the fact that State Street and Wells...
"We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us." -David Ben-Gurion I. INTRODUCTION For five hundred years the book has survived as the unchallenged primary source of recorded information. The book continues to flourish in this century, despite the growth in popularity of information in multimedia formats. Silent...
As of Friday's close, KB Homes KBH is trading at a market cap of $1.93 billion with a dividend of $1 per share and P/BV as reported of roughly 1.5x. This discussion will suggest that KBH is significantly overvalued considering the housing market has yet to trough and KBH will...
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Steve Alexopoulos - J.P. Morgan. Steve Alexopoulos - J.P. Morgan René, can you talk quick about your exposure to Fannie/Freddie securities? What was it at the end of the second quarter? René F. Jones Yes, at June...
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