The fine represented about 6 per cent of the companies' annual turnover.

The negative growth was also attributed to repayments of intra company loans by foreign subsidiaries and or reduction in the equity of foreign subsidiaries controlled by Singaporean TNCs.

The value of India s arms contracts with US firms exceeds that of American military aid to any country except Israel.

Since the 1980 s, shareholder value has increasingly become the focus of corporate governance.

It is more valuable than the product in my eyes. I don't have one.

Brazil and Mexico have been the hardest hit so far, to the point that the value of their firms has fallen by approximately 50 .

Others, particularly large corporates, appear more skeptical.

They value them in part because they want to draw more attention to themselves, from more valuable people.

The ratio of market value to book value, termed Tobin s Q by financial economists, is a standard measure for evaluating how effectively firms use the capital they have.

Consumer to business (C2B) is a business model in which consumers (individuals) create value and businesses consume that value.

That should make them more humble, more vulnerable and more human.

Foreign enterprises are increasingly investing in emerging markets.

That she died in the camps made her I didn't dare wonder why more present, more precious.

Through these big companies, the government controls approximately 30 of the stock values at the Oslo Stock Exchange.

In the cities, a lot of the cost of property is actually wrapped up in its speculative value.

These instruments combined worth reached 5.9 trillion last year, led by corporate bonds ( 2.3 trillion).

If the companies managers do their job, that reinvestment will boost the value of your shares to 10,450.

Prior to 1890, big business was widely regarded as more efficient and generally more modern than small business.

Thus, firms in East Asia and Europe are benefiting more than firms in the US from increasing demand in China.

The company he founded has since grown into one of the largest and most influential pharmaceutical corporations in the world, and the largest corporation in Indiana.

Most SINTNCs in the sample are not intensive manufacturers per se. Rather, they are high value added manufacturers or service providers.

Monetary policy cannot make safe wealth in the future any more valuable.

The ceasefire is one of the most valuable and most fragile achievements of recent months.

More than 160 offices representing U.S. businesses currently operate in Lebanon.

Japanese companies currently produce some of the most advanced, high tech toilets in the world.

And the Indian government played a large part in fueling rupee appreciation by easing companies ability to borrow abroad.

Rules that impede business start ups may be an even more important obstacle to making monetary expansion effective.

The won has been devalued sharply, making exports more viable.

Coherent, long term and targeted government policies are necessary in order to support the strategic vision for internationalization of firms and to move to higher value added, knowledge based activities, as well as to expand a pool of competitive and efficient local enterprises.

The CFA franc s fixed exchange rate is pegged to the euro and overvalued in order to shield French companies from euro depreciation.

Innovation may increase even more when firms and managers realize that even the most successful firms those that have done everything right may languish and disappear.

Sheep, cows, and money, unfortunately, can be more valuable to Afghan fathers than their daughters.

By 1998, more than 80 of enterprises were in private hands.

First, its currency would naturally depreciate, making exports more competitive and imports more expensive.

Apart from the fact that it is enshrined in Standard Accounting Statement (SAS) 3 and IAS 16 that value of asset should be carried at the net book value, it is the best way of consciously presenting the value of assets to the owners of the business and potential investor.

Now we have more means of reaching each other than ever, but with less worth saying.

As a result, investors value a strong public partner now more than ever before.

Indeed, avoiding continuous competitive devaluations is more a blessing than a curse.

Background Branding has emerged as a top management priority in the last decade due to the growing realization that brands are one of the most valuable assets that firms have.

To boost the value of their shares, these shareholders backed the drive to reduce the global volume of the payroll and the number of workers that companies employ.

African governments know that SMEs help to create new production channels for domestic markets, thereby generating significant added value.

Even more valuable, history provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended consequences of ideas.

Impressionism being the most valuable art form on the planet as we know it 100 million dollars, easily, for a Monet.

(a) Does not permit any injured State to recover, by way of compensation, more than the damage it has suffered

That is a much more rewarding achievement than the independence of a State torn by internal wars that threaten the future of the nation, the State and the people.