Compound Annual Growth Rate - CAGR

Compounded Annual Growth rate (CAGR) is a business and investing specific term for the smoothed annualized gain of an investment over a given time period. CAGR is not an accounting term, but remains widely used, particularly in growth industries or to compare the growth rates of two investments because CAGR dampens the effect of volatility of periodic returns that can render arithmetic means irrelevant. CAGR is often used to describe the growth over a period of time of some element of the business, for example revenue, units delivered, registered users, etc. the formula is  Let’s understand it with an example. Year => 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Growth Rate in the year 20% -8% ...

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Global flower trade threatens rare palm

Demand for leaves from an endangered palm, found in Central and South America, is threatening the species' long term survival, a study warns.Leaves from the xate palm are used by the international flower trade, and are mostly harvested from wild trees.UK researchers said training locals to cultivate the trees, thus easing the pressure on the wild population, only had a limited success.The findings have been published in the journal Plos One."One of the reasons why florists like this leaf so much is because once you have cut it, it stays green for 30-40 days," explained co-author Sophie Williams, a researcher from Bangor University, Wales."There can be about two weeks from the forest to the florist, yet they can still store it for another...

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Dampak Keyboard QWERTY pada Makna Kata

Pakar psikologi sosial di New School for Social Research mengatakan bahwa kesulitan dalam menggunakan obyek tertentu berpengaruh pada cara orang menilai obyek tersebut.Salah satu contoh adalah nama orang. Dikatakan bahwa semakin sulit seseorang melafalkan nama orang lain, seseorang tersebut akan semakin sulit menilai orang itu secara positif.Kini, ada contoh kasus baru yang dikaji peneliti. Dikatakan bahwa semakin sulit seseorang mengetik suatu kata di keyboard, maka semakin negatif pula makna kata itu. Kyle Jasmine dan Daniel Casasanto dari University of College London meneliti tentang QWERTY effect, dampak pada makna kata yang dihasilkan ketika orang mengetik dengan keyboard QWERTY.Jasmine mengungkapkan, kata-kata yang dengan huruf...

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