1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996414047203316

Titolo

Lifespans & styles : undergraduate working papers on interspeaker variation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, , 2015-

ISSN

2057-1720

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

Hall-LewLauren

Disciplina

306.4405

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Bidialectalism

Voice

Speech

Discourse analysis

Periodicals.

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

The inspiration for Lifespans & Styles came from student work on the honours course, Sociolinguistics, as taught most years by Dr. Lauren Hall-Lew at the University of Edinburgh since 2011. The course is research based, guiding students in designing and carrying out novel empirical research in variationist sociolinguistics. Students on the course work individually or in small groups, designing and executing the entire project themselves: choosing the speaker(s) and the linguistic variable(s) for analysis and collecting all the data and running statistical analyses. Key words: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Gender Differences, Generational Differences, Phonetics.

Open Access.

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830897303321

Autore

Holland David

Titolo

Beyond earnings : applying the HOLT CFROI and economic profit framework / / David Holland, Bryant Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-119-44052-1

1-119-44050-5

1-119-44051-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Disciplina

332.632042

Soggetti

Profit

Rate of return

Capital investments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Step up stock selection with advanced valuation techniques Beyond Earnings provides finance professionals with the most advanced techniques available for complex valuation and corporate performance analysis. Deep in detail and comprehensive in scope, this book features the first empirical discussion of mean-reversion in corporate profitability and growth, with expert guidance toward practical solutions. By focusing on cash flow and the economics of a company’s performance, the discussion relates a more effective process for stock screening, selection, and valuation. Step-by-step calculations guide you through the application of the HOLT CFROI and Economic Profit approaches for measuring operating performance, and expert insight from Credit Suisse researchers and consultants sheds new light on familiar situations. Stock selection is the critical point in the performance matrix, and screening and valuation practices weigh heavily into a firm’s performance. As investors face increasing pressure to perform at ever-higher levels, this book provides essential analysis methods that help paint a more complete picture of a potential



investment’s performance. Assess a firm’s performance accurately by adjusting for accounting distortions Calculate economic profit and CFROI Estimate future cash flow, profit streams, and the firm’s value Model terminal value and eliminate the perpetuity assumption The effort to outperform benchmarks and exchange-traded funds grows increasingly Sisyphean as professional investors face mounting pressure from all sides. When the market is not performing to the level required to attain strategic goals, smarter stock selection becomes the lynchpin of high-performing firms. Advanced modeling provides an edge over traditional models in that it paints a truer picture of a corporation’s status, and extends that vision further into the future to facilitate more educated decision-making. Beyond Earnings is the professional manual to enhanced stock analysis and valuation, with invaluable guidance you won’t find anywhere else.