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About the report

The objective of this report is to assist One-World Investment Consortium, who is planning to invest £150 million in Thomas Cook PLC, a British global travel company listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker sign of ‘TCG’. We duly understand the impact of our professional recommendation on Consortium’s final decision making related to investment, and therefore, we intend to be comprehensive in the approach our analysis.
As for the structure of this report, it will be a two-part report. In the first section of the report, we will evaluate the past 5 year(2007-2011) financial performance ...

Financial Accounting

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Computations of the 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo

The computations of the 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, including the current ratio, accounts receivable turnover, average collection period, inventory turnover, days in inventory and current cash debt coverage, are provided below.

The 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo

According to the above-performed analysis, PepsiCo had better liquidity ratios in 2014 comparing to Coca-Cola’s financial performance in this regard.
Thus, PepsiCo’s liquidity ratios, such as the current ratio, inventory turnover and current cash debt coverage, are significantly larger than Coca-Cola’s similar financial figures.
As a result, PepsiCo’s average collection period, as well as the ...

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment 2

Issue 2 - Organizational Environment 4
Issue 3 - Critical Thinking 7
Issue 4 – Business Associations and Torts 8

Issue 1 - Ethics and Legal Environment

As an agent of her employer, Monique has legal obligations of obedience, loyalty, accounting and performance to her principal. The duty of loyalty involves a fiduciary obligation where the agent is required to serve one principal at a time and shun from conflicts of interest, inform the principal about any material information, and keeping away from actions that would adversely affect the interest of the principal (Hartigan, 2014:272). Additionally, Monique has the duty of obedience towards her principal. The obligation ...

Irie Caribbean restaurant is located in the heart of Toronto’s Italy district. The restaurant was established by Leroy Morrison and Elgon Walker. The restaurant focuses on providing its clients with an authentic Caribbean experience ranging from the restaurant's décor to the menu. The restaurant is fully licensed and has a catering service which accounts for 9 percent of its total revenue(Jackson, 2014). Irie Restaurant has been experiencing a fall in its sales figures in the second year of operations making the goal of franchising the brand a distant dream for the two co-owners.
Decreasing sales figures ...

1. Company Profile

Thomas Cook Group Plc operates within the tourism and travel industry. The Company owns, operates and manages travel agencies, tour operators and car hire agencies, as well as owning their own aircraft fleet, cruise ships and resort properties. Thomas Cook is known as one of the largest travel companies in Europe.

2. Financial Analysis

The Thomas Cook Group has reported a robust set of results for the 2009 and 2010 financial years despite the uncertain economic environment and the significant adverse impact of a weak sterling pound. Thomas Cook‘s revenue for the year decreased by4% to £8,890million (5% deduction at constant currency).

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Management Accounting

Step 1:
Question 1:
The total variable cost for the company comprises of manufacturing costs and sales and administrative cost. Accounting both, the total variable costs for the firm was calculated at $10 per unit

Question 2:

The total production costs for any organization is bifurcated as fixed costs and variable costs. Important to note, while the variable costs and output carry a direct and proportional relationship, fixed cost is not related to output level and remains constant throughout. In other words, while the variable costs increase in proportion to the increase in output level, fixed cost does not change and ...

Profit Wheel Analysis

Cash Wheel
This part of the profit wheel is composed of the operating cash, inventory, accounts receivable, and sales. The main question therefore is whether the company has enough inventories, accounts receivable, operating cash, and sales to switch to a private brand of coffee. The answer to which would be a yes. In terms of cash, the company posted an initial cash of 1.121 Billion ITL at the start of the year; the composition of private coffee sales on total sales is continuously increasing month on month and the same goes for the account receivables as well.

Profit Wheel

Sales, investments ...

Introduction

Mary’s case reflects a serious case of criminal behavior, not counting the numerous crimes committed against her by her family members. Mary is a serious psychological case, as she has faced numerous negative influences in her life and suffered serious emotional trauma. Raised by a father who was abusive against the family and a mother who was emotionally distant, Mary’s childhood and most formative years were spent facing damaging abuse that would affect her for the rest of her life. Her step-father, who arrived on the scene when Mary was nearly ten, sexually abused her and her ...

Audit and Internal Control

Question 1 - Relationship between the Concepts of ‘Business Risk’ and ‘Financial Statement Risk’
The business risk and financial statement risk tend to have a direct relationship with one another because occurrence of business risks, if not addressed by the internal management of ABCDE Company in a timely and wise manner, will potentially result in material misstatements of the figures in financial statements of ABCDE Company. For instance, due to increase in competition, the demand for cleaning equipment sold by ABCDE Company to commercial cleaning contractors decreases which itself is identified as a business risk for ABCDE Company. Due ...

Background: The rising prevalence of obesity in children is a serious public health concern. Obesity is like a silent killer, and can predispose the child to a number of lifelong disabilities and chronic diseases. Obesity is negatively linked to life span. A child with obesity has higher amount of adipose tissue deposition, when compared to a normal weight child. The excess calorie that is not utilized for work or growth, is deposited in the form of adipose tissue and stored in the body. Adipose tissues are made of adipocytes or other called fat containing cells.
Obesity occurs from factors ...

Foing-nova is an IT company located in Varaždin, Croatia, which provides software for users of the state budget. However, Foing-nova remains a small business despite recently changing its location and expanding its headquarters. After consulting RajkoTomiek, who is the CEO of Foing-nova, it was clearly understood that the most suitable method of company’s expansion would be to increase their market share. Although, Foing-nova is expected to gain new customers by entering a new market and thus become more profitable. However, a strategy must be put in place to ease the diversification of the company and to ensure ...

Abstract

This paper intends to evaluate a case study that proposes Nestle with business plan. The case focuses on various essentials such as strategy formulization, SWOT analysis, and Porter’s Five Forces Model to generate insights and develop systematic framework accordingly. However, clear mission and vision is absent, which introduce various ambiguities in plan. Over the years, Nestle faced various environmental challenges that altered decision-makings and corporate earnings. However, the company has some strong competitive advantages and competencies that differentiate their products from competitors. Among these advantages, research and development (R&D) activities is a noticeable investment made by Nestle. The ...

WTTC’s Blueprint

World travel and Tourism Council is the organization of international significance with the overall aim to bring forward knowledge innovation and outline the critical role of tourism as the driver of national and international economic affairs. Comprised of the top management partners from various international companies within the top 100, the organization built on the sustainable internal capacity and experience, able to deliver the important mission of raising the awareness of the population about the impact of tourism and travel activities on generating global wealth and wellbeing (WTTC, 2016). The WTTC's Blueprint for New Tourism was announced in 2003 ...

How has Aurora Textile performed over the past four years? Be prepared to provide financial ratios that present a clear picture of Aurora’s financial condition
On the basis of financial statement overlook and the outcome of the financial ratios, we found that over the period of 1999-2002, the company’s financial performance was bearish. Moreover, just like the other companies in the industry, even the company had not considered the possible impact and consequently lost its financial standing.
Beginning with the revenue figures, the amount has been decreasing consistently and plummeted from $245.90 million to $147.503 million by ...

International management in an Asian context: Business life and management in China

Introduction
Globalization has complicated the management process. As such, for one to be an effective manager, that individual needs to understand the global context of the management process. Fundamentally, one needs to appreciate the role of culture in the management process (Luthans & Doh, 2014). As such, the paper shall examine several features of the Chinese society and evaluate the ways they will affect the management process.

Discussion

Culture sensitivity is highly linked to effective management (Luthans & Doh, 2014). Considering the Chinese society, the Chinese have been socialized to believe that they are the descendants of Hun. As such, the Hun ...

D. One-statement format one of the two commonly used forms for the income statement or profit and loss statement. The one statement uses only one subtraction to arrive at the net income i.e. Net income= (Revenue+Gains)-(Expenses+Losses). The heading of the income statement conveys critical information (Fridson & Alvarez, 2002). The name of the company appears first, followed by the title ‘income statement. Income statement prepared anytime; you must inform the reader of the precise period.
The two-statement format involves above a single substation to come up with the net income, and it provides additional information than ...

A Tale of Two Markets: NYC Subway Line

Executive summary of the case
The case, “A Tale of Two Markets: NYC Subway Line” speaks about the various business establishment strategies applied by Lynne Lambert during her pursuit to establish her brand NYC Subway Line and the line of products used the New York Lifestyle based positioning. The case describes how Lynne tried to channel across the conventional distribution system of the apparel retail markets and tried to develop retail sales for her products in two different markets, the gift retail, and the apparel retail markets. The case study provides an elaborate detail of the competition, costing, distribution, ...

Milford Industries is a company that sells its products via the partners’ retail stores. It is of great importance for the company to set up reliable relations with the buyers, have a good product layout in the stores and a large number of locations where the products can be solved. Therefore if Milford Industries is going to maintain or grow its customer base, it should pay more attention to the sales people that are responsible for the communication with the buyers and increasing the sales figures. Distribution of the company is divided into the regions and districts, but the ...

Describe and discuss different entry strategies that Arla Foods has implemented in emerging and less-developed markets. Present advantages and disadvantages for each strategy identified.
Multinational wants to enter new markets, reach new consumer segments, and create new revenue streams. Globalization as a phenomenon has been the key trend and with a borderless economy in terms of the business environment, going global or internationalization as a phenomenon is a vital element of Arla Foods way forward in terms of stamping a global presence.
Arla Foods is operating in the European Union and many of the emerging or less developed markets, ...

Q1 (a) Cash Flow Statement for the period 1 Jan 2015 to 31 December 2015

The missing/modified figures (as shown in yellow in the cash flow statement) are calculated as follows:
Employment income,
Keaton,
Given,
Gross Salary and Bonus= $120,000.00

Alyssa,

Given total salary and bonus=$64,800

Half paid in Aus and half in Singapore,

Thus her Salary and bonus paid in Singapore=$32,400

Employer’s CPF contribution,

Keaton- 37 % of 120,000=$44400
Alyssa- 20% of $32,400=$6480

Dividend and rental income

Dividend – Keaton-No dividend in 2015
Alyssa, $689 in 2015
Rental income
Keaton and Alyssa combined rental income for property in Singapore registered under joint tenancy agreement is $3,050 per month or $36600 for the year.

The portion of CPF and cash used for the housing installment is as mentioned below.

Total housing installment =$4099

Keaton:

Total monthly income=$10, ...

1. One problem of setting budgets from the case described.

i. Missing the target – When a budget is set like in the case of XL foods, it is most likely that the targets may not be met.
ii. Lower budgets set for particular activities result into lack of accomplishments. In the case of Mick, the budget was set at a lower value and when he requested for more allocation he could not be granted.
iii. Expenditure increased (the cost of transportation) and since the budget was already set, he could not perform better as the costs were higher that estimated.

2. Importance of comparing budgets with actual figures

i. They help in measuring how an organization is ...