Business Reports Samples For Students

Question 1

The recession presents a situation in which firms have to re-strategize their marketing mix to ensure that they remain competitive in the ever dynamic market segments. In the case of SPSL its marketing mix has focused primarily on the product and the price. The Blair brothers have concentrated onensuring that the products they provide are of high quality and secondly that the prices of their services are towards the premium price in the market. Resultantly, the company SPSL has given itself a competitive edge over other plumbing companies in the South London region. With effect, the company ...

The SME is a small firm with an independent business managed by its owners/part owners having a small market share. The abbreviation SME is commonly used in the European Union and by different international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (Kaufmann, Friedrich., 1995).

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are business enterprises that maintain the number of employees below a certain standard with limited turnover and balance sheet. The size of an SME company depends on the industry in which the company competes. There are 3 different categories defined for Small ...

perational management is the main function in the modern organization. It contributes to the production of services and goods for consumer consumption. It is the process that allows organizations to meet its objectives by effective use and acquisition of resources. During the individual and group project, I have learnt that operation management helps the organization to coordinate and control its resources in the process of production of products and services. It also contributes in the change of the business inputs such as information and raw materials into finished products. It helps organization to arrange resources that change inputs to ...

Part a

An imperative strategy in any type of business is to make it easy for the customers to acquire the services or buy the goods. This specifically applies in situations where the customers apply or place orders for the services and goods in advance or that are not immediately available. Therefore, Winford services plc have a mandate to make it easy for West River Borough customers to acquire leisure services. In addition, in its accounting activities, it must conform to all the regulatory financial reporting requirements. The accounting activities that Winford Services plc will be undertaking are important ...

Operational management as a subject initially appeared to be broad and hard to comprehend. From its introduction, operation management is all about management and design of processes, supply chains and services. These activities are not easy to understand in theory and most are the times I got stuck on the way during subject tuition. Before I could get convinced that operational management is a hard nut to crack, I grasped at least something about the subject; that operational management considers the acquisition of development and utilization of resources which is required by an entity in the goods and services ...

Question 1

The following areas of Sydney have high rates of unemployment: Central West and Inner West (the rate of unemployment 9-13%); Gosford-Wyong and eastern part of South West part of Sydney (the rate of unemployment 7-9%); southern part of Gosford-Wyong, the part where Sydney Inner, Inner West, and George Sutherland are crossing; southern part of Sydney North West region and the part of Sydney Central West crossing Sydney North West (the rate of unemployment 5-7%). Almost all of the territory of North West region and Sydney South West are having low rate of ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in the year 2002 in response to financial malpractices among the corporations in the United States of America. The Act led to significant changes in corporate governance and financial practices as a way of reducing frauds prevalent in the financial sector. There were a myriad of factors that interacted to form a culture and suitable conditions, which led to a series of corporate frauds between the year 2000 and 2002. These factors were closely analyzed, and their root causes necessitated the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. This paper analyses the pre-Sarbanes-Oxley Act ...

According to the Federal Trade Commission, the test for unfairness assumes a tripartite approach. Three critical aspects are considered in analysis whether a practise is unfair or not. The paper shall briefly examine the three steps of analysis. Foremost, the substance of the injury is examined. The injury must be substantial in a way as to cause economic, social safety and or a health damage. According to this test, the harm occasioned by the conduct of the market player needs to be substantial enough to occasion an injury to the consumers and that injury must to be against public ...

Intercontinental Hotel Corporation is a company which has many outlets in the world. The headquarters of this large company is in the United Kingdom. The main operations of this company are done in the city of Denham. This organization has more than 100 branches from various countries across the world (Martin 2009). It has been regarded as one of the best hotel institutions in the world due to the quality services provided by its workers. The stocks of this company are listed in New York and London stock exchange markets. This indicates that this organization has a good reputation ...

Australia and New Zealand are in a unique part of the world. They are both fairly isolated, and the nearest countries to them tend to be much worse off socioeconomically (Papua New Guinea, for example. Many factors have contributed to their uniqueness over the years.

Firstly, due to their isolation, they both have very unique biodiversity. Australia, in particular, is known for its marsupials, such as the Kangaroo, the Tasmanian Devil, the (extinct) Tasmanian Tiger, Wallabies, etc. New Zealand is also famous for its unique animals, most famously the now-extinct Dodo bird. It is also of note that early ...

As a student at Humber College, I usually use the computers at the lab quite often. I do this to check my mail and research on class work. The labs have Pentium three computer, the operating systems that run on these computers are archaic. The network used to access the internet is also in bad shape causing the speeds to be extremely slow. This is a worrying trend in a day and age where the use of CRT screens is widely known to cause eye problems; internet speed are much faster and commands are completed on the click of ...

Business communication is a course that is expected to improve individual’s essential skills of communication at all levels of business. The effective business communication skills derived from the course is important because it enables a firm to increase sales, develop cohesive and better functioning teams and as a result improves the financial operations. The skills and knowledge helps the management to effectively identify the opportunity for the growth of business, the optimal efficiency of the business and cohesive procedures in the business. Thus communication skills are an important requirement for the managerial team of a business to attain ...

This business communication course has equipped me with a wide scope of knowledge and skills. This includes the fact that it has addressed the different types of business communication which the course has addressed so far include verbal communication which is a form of communication which involves using of words for the purposes of communicating. Non-verbal communication is a communication mode that only majorly makes use of body language as well as subsequent other physical gestures in the communication process. Written communication is a communication form, which only includes forms for communication that are written. Electronic communication is a ...

The federal and state governments and some nongovernmental organizations have been offering an array of assistance to elderly persons in the society. Of most importance is the support offered by both federal government and state government where they help aged people from the age of 60 years and above to access health care, housing and retirement issues. They fund various centers that offer these services for senior citizens of the nation. (Butler, 3)
In my response to the requirement of this course assignment, I selected Silver Manor Home of The Aged, which is located in Meriden, Connecticut. This independent ...

Globalization is an integration process that occurs across the world and arises from interchange of products, world views, ideas and cultural aspects. The act of globalization can be traced from the old ages to present modern world (Stromquist M. P 2009). It begun with investments, trade, migration and dissemination of knowledge and was further linked with global climatic challenges, cross boundary pollution and sharing of socio-economic resources. Location of globalization begins at the local, national then regional continuum with economic and social relations organized at all stated levels. Modern forms of globalization can be said to have begun during ...

Starbucks Corporation is one of the most successful and most admired coffee companies globally and, operates a chain of coffee houses across the United States and, globally. Its headquarters is in Seattle, Washington DC. It began with a single store in 1971 as a retailer and, a roster of ground coffee and whole bean. Currently, it boasts of over 19000 retail stores in more than 60 countries and, has more than 30 different brands of coffee. It also serves iced beverages and related products.
Globally, Starbucks is one of the leading firms in utilization of the internet to market ...

The quality and aggressiveness of the marketing and advertising strategies that a business, especially the startup ones, implements can spell the difference between a booming and steeply declining startup sales figures. Naturally, more innovative and aggressive marketing and advertising strategies would equate to significantly larger sales margins and vice versa for more lame, old school and outdated marketing strategies. Marketing and advertising strategies are so extremely important for startup businesses that it can be one of the primary indicators of the company’s success in future, aside of course from more innate factors such as the necessity index of ...

Ergonomics plays an important role towards the contribution of better efficiency at the workplace and even in everyday life. May products are ergonomically safe and contribute towards better efficiency; however, some products may cause hindrance towards attaining efficiency because of their poor design. Most of the times, people are unable to identify the cause of decreased efficiency; therefore, ergonomics is a science that is employed commonly at the workplace. A very basic example of an ergonomic product would be a desk chair. It is important to recognize that one chair may not be the ideal chair for every person. ...

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Abstract
This report delves into John Fitzgerald Kennedy Airport (JFK). It provides a brief history as well as the old and new structure of the airport. As well, it gives a panoramic view of the old and the new structural features of the Airport for the future needs.

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) Airport: An Introduction

JFK is run by the Port Authority of New York as well as New Jersey, under a charter ratified in 1947. It is amongst the leading passenger-volume airports all over the USA, as well as the busiest international air passenger entrance, managing more ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

The discovery of computers and usage of such in the business have paved way to a more efficient and excellent way of tracking down data. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) particularly has improved the way prices of good are identified and their corresponding prices are computed. Further, it has also set a standard on how inventory tracking is done to come up with an accurate daily sales data. Gone were the days when merchants have to write down the prices of every goods they have on their sales book. Gone were the days when computations of prices and sales do ...

Change is only realized whenever modifications to a given system are implemented. This may be in line with a new innovation, new ideas or techniques of handling a given task. Adoption of these notions calls for hard work, dedication, trial and also error. People tend to resist change mainly because of the communication channels embraced, management policies, and the concept behind the innovative process. Change executors can carry improvement for the client by inspecting their preconceived thoughts about the way things ought to be carried out. Personnel must be open to change themselves; they must have the capacity to ...

Executive Summary

The strategic perspective of an organization, and the direction in which it moves helps determine the strategic position of the organization, as well as its market competitiveness, survival and growth. In the case of TESCO, being a multinational retailer, its performance and branding are closely associated (Hammond, 2008). Apart from providing consumers with a wide range of products under one roof and becoming a one stop shop for all domestic needs of the consumers, TESCO also is actively a part of several community programs and social development. Moreover, leadership in terms of quality and customer retention has been attained ...

Executive Summary

Introduction
The main perspective of this assignment is to apply the concept of marketing on a given organization. The company which has been selected for the same analysis is ASOS. Different tools would be applied on the same company in particular, as SWOT, PESTLE, ANSOFF and others. It is assumed in this particular assignment that ASOS is trying to launch a new product of men T-Shirt in the market of the UK and for that stance they want to have a perfect communication or marketing plan.
ASOS plc is a UK’s leading online platform that is associated to ...

- Apportionment, Allocation, and Absorption of Overhead

Total overhead=€650000, Thus overhead as percentage of Direct material cost=650000/3430000*100=18.95%.
Thus overhead to be absorbed to Econo bikes at 18.95% of €2150000=€407425, and to Luxi 18.95% of €1280000=€242575
**Under the blanket overhead absorption rate as was the practice, the €650000 overhead absorbed between Econo and Luxi was 2000/3000*650000=€433333 and 1/3*€650000=€216667
1. After all the service department costs are apportioned to the production departments, the next step is to spread the factory overhead to the different products or job produced. This is termed as overhead absorption ...

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

An organization structure explains in which the activities in an organization are allocated, supervised, and coordinated in order to achieve the goals of the organization. The structure of an organization depends on the type and the market structure of the organization. It is usually developed depending on the firm's objectives as it helps in determining the ways in which the operations in the business will be operated and performed. The structures allow the business management in determining the ways of allocating responsibilities to the various functions that are available and the different entities in the business such as the ...

INTRODUCTION

Lee Byung-Chull established Samsung in 1938. The Samsung group started as a trading company centered in Su-dong. At the beginning, it acted as a grocery in the city. In 1947, it expanded its services to Seoul but moved after declaration of the Korean War. The founder ventured into the textile industry in Korea. In 1960, Samsung penetrated in the telecommunications hardware industry. Later on, the company started to produce Telecommunications equipment, semiconductors and home appliances. Since then, it has expanded its services to more than 68 countries and it has more than 285 operations across the globe. The company’ ...

Executive Summary;

This paper aims at evaluating the Thurlstone Hotel. It encompasses the types of services that the hotel offers, the staff composition and catering and ethical considerations of the hotel.

Introduction;

The Thurlstone Hotel has a variety of food services that serve to its clients. The foods are divided into different categories such as; breakfast meal, lunch, dinner, buffet, family meals, conference meals, event meals and VIP meals. All these meals attract different prices depending on the type of customer and quantity of food. The hotel maintains the same food quality irrespective of the class of the client paying a visit ...

Russia is vulnerable to disruptive terms of trade because of its dependency on oil. Because of fluctuating oil prices, sluggish domestic demands, weak external environment and high rate of inflation, Russia’s economic growth declined in the year 2012 to 3.4 percent, and it is projected to be constant in 2013. Capital outflows in the Russia are expected to increase while debt ratios are expected to be favorable.
Russia is a large size economy and its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate is 3.4 percent. The adjusted dollar terms of the GDP, purchasing power and income per capita is $ ...

Executive summary

The international human resource practices in the worldwide business require effective management to ensure unceasing existence of the global business organizations. Avon being a multinational beauty company operates globally in the manufacturing and sale of the beauty products for women, apparel and fashion ornaments. It conducts its operations in over 100 countries and does direct marketing to its consumers through 5.8 million sales representatives and it has over 42,500 associates allied to it.
This report incorporates discussions and evaluation of the strategic international human resource practices of Avon in terms of staff training and development, the reward management ...

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Executive Summary

Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches is a restaurant chain based in the United States with more than 1,500 locations in 43 states. Jimmy John’s was founded in 1983 by Jimmy John Liautaud, and today the chain is the privately held company with headquarters in Champaign, Illinois. Most of the locations (98%) are franchise-owned with Jimmy John’s Franchise, LLC, as a parent company.
Today there are no Jimmy John’s foreign units, and all restaurants are located within the United States. According to the Franchise Times Estimate, the 2013 sales of Jimmy John’s Gourmet ...

Introduction

Analytically, Softwood Ltd has been experiencing growth in the recent years thanks to its large client base. In its effort to expand, the business should make sound financial decisions to avoid a possible decline of its current position.

In their endeavor to expand, Softwood Ltd has various sources of finance to rely.

1. Internal sources
Internal sources encompass all sources of finances within the company. These could be retained profits, proceeds from sale of furniture of the company’s property and personal savings by the owners of the venture (Dlabay, 2008).Examples of internal sources are;
- Retained profits
- Tighter credit control
- Reduce inventories
- Delay paying trade payables
2. External ...

INTRODUCTION

Information management is an important concept in any organization. The management of IT management is an important aspect because there is a need to ensure that the business aligns with technology optimally. There are frameworks that have been developed to ensure that IT service management is achieved and undertaken well. One of the frameworks is ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). One of the objectives of this report is to convince the Terra Firma management to adopt ITIL framework to manage their IT services. The report will then recommend the business process reengineering for the organization. This will mean that ...

Business report

Financial repression can be seen in many countries. The concept of financial repression was introduced in 1973 by Stanford economists Edward S. Shaw and Ronald I. McKinnon. The term financial repression means a government policy which aims at lowering interest rates and restricting capital movements. The goal of such government policy, which concerns monetary policy, is to reduce the government debt. Such government measurements can be defined as “stealth tax” (Polin 3). The long-term goal of such measurements is to reduce unemployment in the country and to spur the economic growth. It can be said, that such measurements can ...

Project Title: Selection Materials

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Plagiarism means presenting another person’s words, ideas, designs as your own word. Plagiarism comes in a different form, like copying text, diagram, formulae, etc. Plagiarism is a serious offence. Plagiarism is referred to the disciplinary committee of the university. Committee will take the serious action on the plagiarized materials.

Aim and Objective

This project is being aimed to model the stress the board by considering a typical beam supported by the equal pressure on the bottom and it must withstand a point force.
1. Introduction
The material selection is the process of designing a ...

Tea market is trendy and continually attracting the consumers all over the world. France has one if the popular and biggest tea markets in the world. The French tea market is unique amongst the Western markets. Powerful conventional expressions can be dramatized through product design, print ads, packaging, and outdoor media. This plays a pivotal rule in reinvigorating the business. Major tea importers such as Unilever, and Tetley are active on the conventional market.
Every marketing activity, from product design, brand endorsement, publicity and packaging, to CEOs’ words matter a lot. Tea companies have turned their view of publicity ...

Introduction

The Best Western PLUS Chateau Granville Hotel is a five star hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia located just a few minutes’ drive from Canada Place. The location of the hotel makes it suitable for business travelers during their stay as majority of corporate location in the area are near The Best Western PLUS Chateau Granville Hotel, including St. Paul’s Hospital, Provincial and Federal Courts, and Vancouver Coastal Health. The hotel provides convenience for the busy business travelers, as it is located near the new Canada Line Rapid transit from the Vancouver international Airport. The hotel offers ample amenities ...

With every business or organization, there is a business model. Each individual industry tends to have a standard model in which organizations conduct their business. However, this is not always the case. Take for example the PGA Tour. Rather than follow the patterns of most other sports organizations and teams, this company has created its own model in order to make the best use of its resources. By making the best use of its limited resources, supporting charities and players, and creating a strong business culture, the PGA Tour creates an experience which retains its fans, players, and partnering ...

A person needs to remember President G. Bush world economic speech when he said, and I quote” Competitiveness does not mean protectionism. However trying to improve quality and productivity at home” to understand the scope of Deming’s philosophy in the success of cooperate life. Traditionally, most companies used to apply performance appraisal practices in order to archive their goals. Thanks to Deming the founder of the current management elements who sometimes is fondly referred as, and I quote the “Messiah of Management”. According to the global economic research studies that have been conducted in the recent years, most ...

I. Introduction
a. The Site:
The site that is accessed is BP at this URL: http://www.bp.com/ . It provides access to various information about BP including company information and historical background; as well as portals to products and services, sustainability, investors, press, careers, and the Gulf of Mexico restoration .
b. The Goal of the Company:

world in a safe and responsible way” . As such, it was also indicated that through the products and services produced by BP, the organization is enabled to “provide customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, lubricants to keep engines moving and the ...

Vitamin C Clock Reaction: Kinetics

Vitamin C Clock Reaction: Kinetics

Abstract

Collision theory refers to a theory that was proposed by Max Trautz and William Lewis independently. The theory qualitatively offers an explanation on the way chemical reactions take place and the reason behind differences in reaction rates in different reactions. The rate equation for a given chemical reaction refers to the equation that provides a link between the pressure or concentrations of the reactants and the parameters that are constant partial reaction orders and the rate coefficients. This experiment aimed to determine the rate of reaction of reaction between iodide and hydrogen peroxide and ...

Section 1

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., is a US based operator that specifically deals with Mexican foods with a particular focus on burritos and tacos, it has its outlets located in many regions across the globe, and these regions include Germany, France, Canada, and United Kingdom among many other countries. Ensuing its developments and stance in the contemporary time, Chipotle has since released a mission statement that merge well with its aspirations and futures perceptions, they refer their mission statement as Food with Integrity; this mission statement essentially accentuates the great effort they put in ensuring that they use natural organic ...

On behalf of the staff of Gilani clothing company, I would like to thank the public and our customers in particular from all the nations, for believing in us and supporting us to make us who we are today. Your backing cannot be underestimated and it humbles us to say that we would not have made it without each and every one of you. Gilani clothing is a big company multi-national company that gives the best of product to its customers. In addition to top quality products, Gilani clothing has several initiatives to giving back to the society. Observing ...

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

The Board of Directors of the company is one of the two organs of the company that is charged with running of the affairs of the company. The other organ is the General Meeting. This paper will constrict its discussion to the roles played by the Board members. Towards the end of the discussion, the paper will advance the argument that the roles played by the board members of the company are likely have changed dramatically due to the enactment of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. The paper ...

Introduction

Adverts are part of our everyday lives. As one of the most effective forms of mass communication, adverts are essentially designed to attract people’s attention and draw them towards a certain product or service that the creator of the advert is selling. The last century has seen individuals and corporations perfect the art of advertising and currently, the advertising sector is a multibillion industry. Exquisite adverts grace our television screens, magazines, newspapers and roadside billboards urging us to buy certain products or services. To appeal to large audiences, the developers of adverts usually utilize fallacies such as pathos, ...

Abstract

Services industry is a typical industry. Its way of operation is different from any traditional manufacturing sector. Many managers try to manage a service industry like a product company and fail. For the successful running of a service company like the Grand Hotel Townsville, it is important to understand the concepts of service operations management. The main three founding concepts of services management are service package, characteristics of services and nature of services. Service package defines the resources and its capabilities. Characteristics of the services define the input and service interaction. Nature of service defines the differentiation and segmentation ...

Introduction

The Grand Formosa is a hotel that prides itself in providing the best atmosphere for its guests. The hotel is designed to provide the best relaxing environment so that guests enjoy their stay. The hotel’s business model looks very promising on paper. However, the previous management ran the hotel down through inefficiencies in its operations. The new management has been instituted and is in the process of turning the hotel’s business around. This paper will analyze the position of the hotel with the help of some performance measures. This is in an effort to determine whether there ...

Introduction of Tuning Printer

As it has been witnessed on previous years, there have been a lot of new printers that have been introduced in the market. It is on this wave that the Tuning printer was released. The launch as it was expected was popular due to the large publicity that the printer had received. Convenience and durability are the main features that the customers are focused on finding in a product. As opposed to the past, when customers focused on the cost and availability of spare parts, customers are interested in a product that will give them the printing services they ...

The business sector is one of the most challenging economical sectors in the global market. To be concise, the manufacturing sector is one of the most challenging business sectors the market. There are a lot of factors that are considered while making business decisions. These factors include, financial decisions such as cutting down on costs and improving sales.
The Foxconn Company is a company that deals with the Apple Company. The company manufactures i-pods and i-pads for the Apple Company and it works collaboratively with other leading technology firms. The company has been surrounded by multiple controversies concerning employee ...

Introduction

The food service business, in which McDonald’s engages in, is one of the most challenging industries when it comes to meeting corporate responsibility and sustainability expectations (Gagliano). This is particularly because of the allure to provide the cheap, tasty foods with little or no nutritional value to consumers. In many cases, restaurants prefer to choose the easiest route: to produce foods that consumers love with little regard to the nutritional value that the food would add to the consumer. This goes against the spirit of corporate responsibility and sustainability because it would encourage the growth of unhealthy generations ...

Management of Working Capital Case Study: George's Trains

Executive Summary
Actionable information on the future and current cash flow, working capital, and capital budgeting are what managers in both small and big businesses work hard to obtain in their daily activities. Working capital is can be used to measure up the liquidity of the operations of the business (Sullivan 2010). It is usually the current assets subtracted from the current liabilities. Managers are normally concerned about working capital and would always seek the best practices to achieve a better working capital management. This report tries analyses the case study of George’s train business with an aim ...

Analytical Framework

Section-A
There are two different companies which have been taken into consideration for the analysis and the names of the companies are Royal Dutch Shell and Endeavor International Corporation.

Net Present Value Analysis

Net present value (NPV) is a financial tool that is deemed as the difference between current value inflows and outflows. Generally, it is used for calculating budgeting to analyze the probability of an investment on any project that. It is required to analyze the NPV and IRR on the basis of two years like 2012 and 2013.
The NPV of Shell Plc. is -250,386 $ while it is, -1,006.83 $ ...

Introduction

In every market system, two key players are involved; buyers and sellers. Buyers purchase products at their willingness and ability while the seller supplies the products and services to the market at their willing price and ability to the market. (Kumra, 2007)
The market system is defined by the forces of demand and supply. Demand is the capability of a consumer to purchase products at the prevailing price within a given period .Supply is the ability and willingness of a seller to produce and supply products and services to the market at the prevailing price at a given period. ...

The prime mantra of this paper is to exploit both the concept of cost and revenue models on the given companies whose nature of business are identical. There are two hypothetical based companies that have been selected for the execution of the same analysis. The underline companies are denoted by Company X and Company Y. They both have dissimilar pricing policies with one another. The entire assignment is divided into different headings that are mainly based on the Introduction, Analytical Framework, and the Conclusion.

Analytical Framework

Brand Y “lit” pricing/sales history
There are a number of tools and models that have ...

Introduction

Our supermarket chain sells “regular” and “lite” variety of two brands of soda X and Y. At any given time and at any store, each brand of soda can potentially have either no promotion whatsoever or a “price promotion” and/or an “in-store promotion”. We are to prepare a business report on our product’s current pricing structure and proposed pricing mechanism aimed at increasing profitability of your product line.

Discussion

In the pivot table, we can infer that when the Lite brand of X used in-store promotion, the Lite brand of Y chose not to have the in store promotion ( ...

Financial ratios are one of the tools that are applied in financial analysis. This is because they help an analyst in creating the overall image of an organization. This is achieved since the ratios provide insight on various aspects of the organization that includes profitability, cash flow ratios, debt ratios and profitability ratios. These ratios are instrumental in ensuring that the analyst understands the financial soundness of the firm before investing in it (Shim and Siegel, 2000). Although these ratios face various shortcomings, they are essential in providing a bird’s eye view of the company from an analytic ...

Company Analysis (Nokia)

Executive Summary
The current paper relates the strategic analysis of Nokia Company. The main objective of the paper is to assess the current internal and international strategy. The company description contains information related its product, headquarters, and revenue volume. The international strategy of Nokia is assessed with the help of SWOT analysis. The new marketing strategy based on the new meaning of the brand and emotional component is outlined. The description of logistics system contains the main logistics approaches and the current changes in logistics policy. Human resource policy was the main success factor for the Company in the ...

External Analysis

Demographic Forces
Economic Forces
Economic factor is important in the analysis of Pebble, but it does not play a crucial role in the development of the Company. The product is sold anywhere because it is available online. Customers who can afford this smartwatches can buy them online disregard of the economic situation or the level of inflation in a particular country. The financial support of the Company is an important component of the economic factor. The main concern is the limited advertising budget because Pebble does not have significant financial resources at its disposal. Therefore, the Company has to ...

Strategic planning is a vital component in the sustainability of school systems especially universities. As research shows, these problems are not unique to higher educational facilities only they need to be applied to other forms of business enterprises and nonprofit organizations. External factors like budgetary allocations, reduction in the funding some projects get an increase in tuition fees show the need for strategic planning in a dynamic financial economy. Strategic planning is therefore important if the university or other education facility is to fulfill the point of its existence. For universities and nonprofit organization alike, the need for strategic ...

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- Executive Summary
Aware of the challenges in the industry and competition scenario in the back drop of economic uncertainty, this business plan provides crucial competition and marketing strategies that will enable the company achieve its objectives.
With these business strategies, the company is projecting to grow revenues by an average of 36% per year based on its existing portfolio of clientele and potentially new ones within the business and government sectors. The average return on equity is about 29% while debt-to equity ratio is maintained at an average of 0.47, and current ratio at an ...

Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Big rivers Electric Corporation is a company that generates and transmits electricity. It is a partnership company that is a member –owned. The company is non-profit making company. It has three main cooperatives to which electric power and services are provided in wholesale. They include the Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation, Kenergy Corporation, and Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation. The three cooperatives distribute the electricity to 22 counties in western Kentucky.
According to financial statements for the year ended 31st, 2007, the Big Rivers Electric Corporation had a utility net of $ 911, 634. It had total utility net of $ ...