Essays Tagged: "earnings"

Do Athletes Deserve Soaring Salaries?

about how much he gets to keep and what he has to go through. He will have to pay about 50% of his earnings in taxes and pay his agent about 10%. After all is said and done, he will receive roughly e ...

(3 pages) 108 0 4.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Islam: The true religion

f Islam as it teaches that one should not be greedy and that one should donate 2.5% of their annual earnings. Fasting is part of a muslims life for one month a year as it teaches one to not take thing ...

(1 pages) 98 2 2.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam

"College and university education should be free for all students, fully financed by the government."

Anyone headed for college has enormous wealth in the form of intellectual capital and will receive earnings from his/her college education. So, the benefits of a college education are essentially rea ... a college education are essentially reaped by the individual acquiring higher education. The future earnings of the individual typically constitute an adequate return on the gross investment in abtain ...

(3 pages) 226 0 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

How to make money in the stock market. It discusses various techniques that will yield a profit.

a technology stock named Computer Concepts. The stock was 70 cents per share and they had negative earnings, but I didn't care because this stock was red hot. I was excited the next day because the s ... ar the tech stocks went crazy.After you know exactly what the company does, you can now look at the earnings per share. Every company releases financial results every quarter and their are 4 quarters ...

(4 pages) 310 2 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Rates & Indexes

A Job or a Career?

hile both are classified as working for income, a career differs from a job in personal dedication, earnings, and prestige.A job is mainly part-time, because it usually has to work around school sched ...

(2 pages) 139 2 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Economy, Finance, Industry and Trade in Northern Ireland

e in Northern Ireland has been consistently lower than the rest of the UK, and average gross weekly earnings are also lower than those in other parts of the UK. In 1997, average gross weekly earnings ...

(4 pages) 79 1 4.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Cosmetology.

tThere are many different specialists for cosmetology. Advancement is usually in the form of higher earnings, that result as a Cosmetologist gains experience or becomes a skilled specialist in one or ... make $1,000 a week, or more, especially those with an established following, in metropolitan areas. Earnings from tips are included in the wage ranges. Salaried Cosmetologists usually get paid vacatio ...

(8 pages) 113 1 3.2 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Alfred E. Smith. 12pg term paper includes bibliography, endnotes, outline.

nts of Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine Mulvihill. His father was a truck driver and although his earnings were small, they were adequate enough to keep the family content. In 1886, his father's dea ...

(15 pages) 180 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Why a graduate degree?

te degree for several important reasons. Most commonly, the first reason is the capacity for better earnings. Also, they wish to develop additional expertise in a particular field to enhance their opp ...

(2 pages) 255 1 3.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Comparing Profitability: Companies: NFX, KMG and Burlington Using ROA, ROE and other ratios to compare profitability of these three companies.

rate of return on asset (ROA) calculates a firm's effective autonomous use of an asset to generate earnings without regards to the assets financing. Banks and other creditors use this ratio to evalua ... e been due to the chemical industries volatility and, therefore, had a direct effect on KMG's total earnings. Another contributing factor to the decline in the companies ROE, may have been their 10% a ...

(4 pages) 124 1 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Provide a summary of how Beveridge proposed to eliminate poverty.

ate maintained Social Insurance should provide subsistence-level income to reconstitute interrupted earnings. Endeavouring to provide a foundation whilst simultaneously advocating individual voluntary ...

(2 pages) 31 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Accounting Case Study on General Mills

eral Mills, Inc.Financial Accounting Case StudyModule 1:A. General Mills Consolidated Statements of Earnings:1. The recorded sale amount of almost $8 billion is not the actual amount of cash collected ... 6 = .103)24. If you owned 10,000 of the company's common stock in 2002, your claim on the company's earnings would be $13,800 (10,000 x 1.38 ( EPS-basic) = 13,800). If you were to own 10,000 of the co ...

(5 pages) 213 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

To Kill a Mockingbird - Racial Issues

that the situation was going to escalate and become like that of South Africa where black people's earnings were only about half of those of whites. Many blacks did not have the right to vote and cer ...

(6 pages) 49 1 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Canada in the Great Depression

didn't treat the depression as seriously as they should have.As the unemployment rate skyrocketed, earnings dropped during the depression but the cost for living dropped faster. So although most peop ...

(2 pages) 46 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

The Causes of the Great Stock Market Crash

n this period, because of the depression, many of the rich families, instead of putting some of the earnings back into the economy, they chose to place it in savings. Despite all these circumstances, ...

(2 pages) 100 1 3.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Labor market policies

that the unemployed will find jobs and that the underemployed will increase their productivity and earnings.Labor market policies across the world have developed what its call the Japanese, the Europ ...

(2 pages) 72 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Technological development often ends up increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Do you agree? Provide clear arguments to support your position.

t of UNDP warns us of the widening income gap between rich and poor. In 1960, the ratio between the earnings of the top 20% and the bottom 20% was 30:1. By 1990 this had risen to 61:1, and by 1997 to ...

(2 pages) 60 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Discount Rates, helpful in determining future net worth.

mpany's future earning is ever in question. Discount rates are used to fill the void of such future earnings that may have been lost by circumstances out of the company's control.The Discount rate ref ... siness; they must be compensated by the offender. Using discount rates coupled with probable future earnings is the best method for determining compensation.

(2 pages) 87 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

The Economic and Government Effect on America's Poor

xplains that the level of poverty is high today partly because of economic aspects such as sluggish earnings and the increasing gap between rich and poor (p.2). It's obvious that the government and th ... America become even more blatant. Sherman (1999) explains that the top one-fifth of the household's earnings in the U.S. has increased 40 percent in the last 23 years, while the bottom one-fifth has o ...

(2 pages) 62 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Accounting As A Career

would like to know more of what it entails. Dealing with numbers, and recording and projecting the earnings of a company, accountants are placed with the responsibility of keeping track of the moneys ...

(10 pages) 324 1 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting