Earnings Reports Samples For Students

Executive Summary

Fundamental analyses of company shares involve the review of the financial aspects of a company and generate metrics, such as the price and book value of a security or the enterprise value and the EBITDA to value of a stock. Conversely, the technical analysis of a company shares involves the valuing of company shares on the historical information about pricing and volume. In this analysis several assumptions are used: the market value is taken to reflect the demand and supply of the security, the demand and supply are driven by factors such as economic and information analysis which are rational and speculations which ...

Question 1

The factor that would be interesting to an investor is the decline in revenue. The management of the company has reported a decline in revenue from the year 2012, resulting from a contraction in the overall PC market as well as competitive pricing pressures. These causes negatively impacted the performance of the company’s major segments. The factor would be interesting to the investor since the primary objective of investors is to maximise their returns. A decline in revenues indicates that the business is experiencing challenges that if not addressed, may have an adverse effect of the future profitability and growth ...

Executive Summary

This paper assesses the determinants of earnings among workers in mid-Atlantic. The study uses a sample of 3,000 workers. The data for the study was collected between 2003 and 2009. The average age of the participants was 42.41 years. All the study participants were male. The study participants had diverse demographic profiles in terms of race, educational background, and marital status. A preliminary analysis was conducted to identify factors that show some relationship with wages among the variables in the dataset. A preliminary analysis revealed that wages appear to be influenced by age, educational attainment, and race. A ...

Introduction

Financial statements are documents that public companies or corporations create and publish for the benefit of current investors and shareholders, and also for the benefit of people who may want to invest in that particular public company in the future. There are a lot of things that can be obtain and or analyze in a financial statement. For instance, a fund manager looking for a company that has a high level of and consistent growth rate may be able to determine whether any particular company listed in the New York Stock Exchange has had this feature by simply looking at any one company’s ...

Viability Report on JV

There lies a distinguishing characteristic of Multinational Corporation (MNC) in contrast with a collection of independent national firms dealing at arm’s length is, its ability to move money to its affiliates through internal transfer mechanism. In multinational financial system there is transfer of goods, services, technology and capital.
In the interest of facilitating stronger sustainable profitability and growth, decisions on resource allocation in organizations require a systematic, analytical and though approach as well as sound judgement. Project and investment appraisals and capital budgeting which involves assessing the financial feasibility of a report should use Discounted Cash Flow(DCF) analysis as a supporting ...

(Excel Maritime Company)
1 Introduction
According to Albertijn et al. (2011), the maximization of the shareholders’ wealth depends on the type of capital structure employed by the company. As defined by Ali, Salleh and Hassan, (2010), the capital structure is how an entity funds its operations and expansion using the various sources of funding available in the market. The capital structure of a company can comprise of equity, debt or a mix or both. The maritime companies listed on the New York Stock exchange can either be funded by equity, debt or a mixture of debt and equity based ...

Target Company

Target Corporation is a retailing corporation in America. It is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1902 and is ranked second after Wal-Mart as the biggest retailer in the United States. The company has stretched out its operations to Canada through a subsidiary, and it now operates in close to 100 locations in Canada. The corporation boasts of a large customer base of nearly over 110 million. The company operates stores in Canada, and United States that deal with general merchandise. These include pharmacy, baby care, beauty, cleaning products, personal care among others. Jewelry and clothing accessories for both sexes ...

Britvic Company Financial Analysis:

Introduction:
With operations in prominent countries of Europe like the Great Britain, Ireland and France, Britvic is renowned as one of the leading soft drink companies in the whole of Europe (Marketwatch.com, 2014).
The Company has been able and successful in setting up a definite portfolio across the markets where it operates. The brands of the Company that have captured its own market include Robinsons, Tango, J2O, drench, MiWadi, Ballygowan, Teisseire and Fruité. The Company also produces and sells famous drinks of PepsiCo Company such as Pepsi, 7UP and Mountain Dew Energy, in Britain and Ireland, as per ...

1) In equity markets, dividend declaration is generally a very significant event and usually affects the price of the stock in a large manner. However, the relevance and usefulness of declaring dividends has been debated for a very long time.
It is well understood that declaration of dividends is not a legal requirement (ASX). Firms can not declare dividends and choose to reinvest their whole profit into the business. Some of the popular companies which do not pay dividends are Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, Yahoo, Adobe etc.
Even companies like Google and Apple had stopped paying dividends for long periods ...

Introduction

Receiving education is a costly choice. There are costs to education in terms of direct monetary payments and an opportunity costs. The choice to go to school means forgoing waged employment. Therefore, there is an opportunity costs of the wages that would have been earned. Therefore, there is a need to compare the returns versus the cost of education to make optimal decisions. Estimating the returns to education for any population segment is useful in making decisions on the optimal schooling level at both a personal as well as societal level. From a policy standpoint, estimating returns to education ...

State

Executive summary
Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as shell is oil and Gas Company operating in many parts of the world. London it is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. It is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and trade. However, the company has entered into partnership with many international organizations to conserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock exchange and its financial statement are presented in accordance to ...

Procter & Gamble is a Multinational consumer goods company which was incorporated in 1905 in Ohio, United States. It manufactures several consumer products and offers around 65 different brands under several product categories such as “Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care” (The Procter & Gamble Company, 2016). The company sells its products in almost 200 countries and conducts on-the-ground operations in almost 100 countries.

Balance sheet

P&G follows generally accepted accounting principles applicable in the Unites States for presentation and preparation of its financial statements. Much like other publically traded companies, P&G also electronically files its annual, ...

Share capital is the amount of money that is raised by the company by issue of shares. Shares are indivisible units of the capital of the enterprise. On the other hand, capital maintenance is a combination of laws that are designed to ensure that a company can obtain the capital it claims to raise. Secondly, capital is maintained, focusing on the demands of the company for the protection and benefit of the creditors of the company and the release of its liabilities. The objective of this paper is to give a description of the types of capital, how dividends are paid to ...

introduction
Financial performance of the company is one of the main indicators that influence the investors to decide whether to invest in the company or not. Financial performances of different companies are analyzed using financial ratios. By using financial ratios, investors are able to analyze how different companies have rewarded the investors and these ratios are also used to predict the future trend as well. Therefore these ratios are widely and consistently used by investors.
This report analyzes the financial performances of Abbott which is a pharmaceutical company. In order to analyze the performance of Abbott, the performances ...

BUSINESS FINANCING

Introduction
Business owners and managers seeking financing encounters an essential decision regarding choice of whether to borrow money or to make use new equity capital. Given that equity and debts have very varied characteristics, each of them has different effect on cash-flow, earnings, and taxes as well as on balance sheet. They also have different impacts on any company`s dilution, leverage as well as a host for other financial metrics by which companies are measured. Lastly, each business financing options presents a different kind of relationship in relation to the financing source. Thus, a company`s plan on ...

Discussion and Conclusions of Analysis

Financial Ratios are often used to describe the different values of a stock. In the financial industry, there are different ratios that can be computed to determine how overvalued or undervalued a company presently is. One of the most commonly computed financial ratios is the P/E ratio (Price to Earnings). To compute for the P/E ratio, two variable values have to be available; the current and past share price (depends on the time horizon the analyst wants to compute for a particular stock), and the earnings per share . These two variable data can often be found on company disclosure websites and from ...

Abstract

In order to make a sound investment, it is important to evaluate the available opportunities and come out with a proper investment decision based on the past, present and future market trends. This calls for thorough analysis of both the industry and the individual investment in order to ascertain its viability and profitability. This paper focuses on Ford Motor Company stock, which for quite some time, had been left for dead. The paper gives a brief background of the problems that the company was faced with, which resulted in its poor performance. It further highlights how the company turned around from an ...

Executive Summary

Financial management is one of the crucial success tools for any organization. A good financial management must include the use of the required accounting standards when presenting the financial reports. A company that is financially viable is most likely to compete favorably with its peers. In this paper, I have analysed the financial performance of Persimmon Plc in the last four years. The company’s current success lies in its ability to treat the global competition as an opportunity in building capabilities, and adopting strategies that result into competitive advantage. The analysis includes a brief introduction of the company and ...

Profitability ratios

Gross profit margin =Gross profit/Net sales
The formulae used in the calculations are listed in the appendix. ("Growth, Profitability, and Financial Ratios for Myer Holdings Ltd (MYR) from Morningstar.com," n.d.)

Commentary

- Profitability

Generally, profitability ratios give someone an idea on how the company is utilizing resources to make the profit.

Myer has a lower gross profit margin compared to David Jones. The gross profit, net profit margins for Myer decline over the two-year period, 2012 and 2013. During the same time, David Jones improves marginally on the margins. This is an indication of changing fortunes in the industry, where one company gains as the other declines.
The two companies have a similar tax environment as tax expense ...

Introduction

This report aims at evaluating the financial statements of Xstrata plc. In light of its corporate objectives and the industry practises and performance. To achieve this, this report provides a brief history of Xstrata and analysis of sources of finance, gearing and dividend policies. This report primarily relied on Xstrata financial statements for the last five years; 2007,2008,2009,2010 and 2011.

Xstrata Plc. is a multininational company in the minning industry which is listed in the London Stock Exchange and is part of the FTSE 100 index. It has its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, however, it has another registered ...

Background

Nike Corporation is an international organization whose core business activity entails the sale of footwears, sport equipments and other accessories. The company is well known for being an aggressive marketer and dominant designer of sporting equipments. In addition to marketing, designing footwears and sporting equipments, the corporation is famous for distributing its products across the globe. The performance of the corporation is highly esteemed and is usually termed as the best among various companies in the same industry.

The company was founded in the year 1964. Back then, it was not known as Nike Inc. but was known as ...

The Social Security Program in the US was structured based on changing economic and social conditions as well as long standing traditions. For instance, obligations to help the needy became a necessity when efforts from friends and family were not sufficient from the earliest colonial times. As the society became more organized, measures were developed to offer allowances to specific categories of people. Soon, both the Federal and State governments due to the need to recognize risks that face employees in the industrialized economy implemented a social insurance approach to public welfare (Crawford, and Rigoli 110). Retirement programs for civil employees ...

The Australian stock exchange has been established to economically assist the investors by bring to together in one market the investors who have the capital and the companies in need of capital in a highly liquid and well regulated market. In this case the companies are assisted to raise capital while the investors are given the chance to create and accumulate their wealth. Investors have a pool of more than 2000 listed companies to invest in. Amcor ltd, APA ltd, amp ltd, ASX ltd, Asciano ltd and Suncorp ltd are some of the companies listed in the ASX; each operates in ...

This paper presents profitability analysis of two companies listed and active in the London Stock Exchange. The two companies selected for the analysis include Premier Oil PLC trading under the ticker symbol PMO and Genel Energy PLC falling under the ticker symbol GENL in the exchange. The two companies fall under the Oil and Gas Producer main market segment of the London Stock Exchange. At the time of presenting this report, GENL traded at a price of 97.50p with a 52-week range of 71.75p to 441.00p. On the other hand, the MPS of Premier Oil PLC was at 63.50p ...

FASB, in its subtopic 225-20, defines extraordinary as unusual and infrequent events. The underlying transaction must have a high degree of abnormality and must not be related to any ordinary or typical activities of the entity (Fasb.org). Secondly, the event must be infrequent, that is, an event that would not be reasonably expected to recur in the foreseeable future. FASB required that if an event meets the two condition, it should be reported as an extraordinary item. Thus, an entity should separate the income or loss from extraordinary items from those incomes and losses from ordinary operations of the ...

Avon financial analysis

Profitability analysis
Avon’s return on assets was -7.07 for the year ended December 31st, 2014 indicating that it suffered a net loss of $0.0707 for every dollar of total assets used during the period. The negative sign shows that the company’s operations were not profitable (Berry, 2011). ROA was -0.5757% in 2012 and -0.8687% in 2014. This trend shows that the firm’s return on assets declined in both 2013 and 2014 implying a decline in Avon’s profitability.
Its return on equity was -134.1% in the year 2014 meaning that it earned a loss of $1.34 ...

Analysis of Financial Statements

Financial Analysis Statement
Report
Introduction: I was asked by the directors of Universal Health Services to write a report on the analysis of financial statements for the last three years to identify the elements which are affecting the internal cash health of the business. The followings are my findings and recommendation.
The financial health of the business depends on the historical financial data of the business. It is the responsibility of the CFO of any listed company to identify important financial signals and reports to the higher management in timely manners for the proper planning. It is ...

Executive Summary 3

Overview of Current Situation 3
Summary of Needs and Objectives 4
Summary of Recommendations 4
Summary of Expected Outcomes 4
Important Information 5
1.0 Objective 6
2.0 Current Situation 6
2.1 How to get there 7
3.0 Recommendation 1 9
3.1 What is Salary Sacrifice? 9
3.2 Steps 9
3.3 Benefits of the Recommendation 11
3.4 Risk Associated with the Recommendation 13
4.0 Recommendation 2 14
4.1 Steps 15
4.2 Benefits of the Recommendation 15
4.3 Risk Associated with the Recommendation 15
...

Executive summary

The stock price of Southern Cross Media Group Limited did not show any reaction to the announcement of the 2015 financial results. The stock price increased days before the announcement and the day after the event but declined two days after the announcement. Financial analysis of firm indicates that it has a strong liquidity, and this has improved over the last five years. Its debt to equity ratio has increased due to the capital reduction in accordance with the relevant statute. The year 2015 saw a decline in the profitability of the company although this did not affect the ...

Internal analysis of Enbridge Inc.

Introduction
Enbridge Inc. a distribution and transportation of energy company operating in the United States and Canada. The company is divided into five segments to facilitate its operations and achieve its long-term corporate objectives. The sections include Liquids Pipelines; Gas Distribution; Sponsored Investments and Corporate and Gas Pipelines, Processing and Energy Services (Finance.yahoo.com, 2016). The company operates a common carrier through the Liquids Pipelines segment by contrasting natural gas liquids, refined products, and crude oil pipelines as well as terminals. The Gas Distribution Segment is a natural gas utility serving industrial, commercial and residential customers in Quebec, New York, ...

Compass Group plc

Compass Group plc is a multinational company dealing with contract food service, support management, cleaning management and property management. It is a British multinational company with headquarter located in the compass house along Chertsey Surrey. Compass Group Company is the largest contract food service organization in the world. The company operates in more than fifty countries across the entire world. The company offers different food services in different locations and institutions such as the hospitals, cultural venues, offshore oil platforms, major sports, schools, offices, mining camps and various universities. The company has several shares and is very active in ...

Company Overview

Enbridge is primarily an energy delivering company, supplying energy across Canada and the U.S. It boasts of the biggest crude oil and liquids supply system worldwide. Other industry-related businesses of Enbridge include natural gas stocking, transmitting and midstream. It is also into generation of renewable and alternative energy, including solar, wind and geothermal energy (Enbridge, 2016).
When stating its mission, Enbridge uses clear words, describing its core values of integrity, safety and respect. It lays stress on environment, health and safety, based on safety principles and life-saving norms by underlining these values. Informing about its 65 years old record ...

COMPANY PROFILES

Greene King
Greene King Plc. is a UK pub retailer and brewer that brews, markets and sells beer. It has three operating segments; Retail, Pub Partners, and Brewing & Brands. It also operates restaurants and hotels. The company had about 1909 franchised pubs, hotels, and restaurants as of May 2015. It was founded in 1799 and has its headquarters in Bury St Edmunds.

Swot analysis of Greene King

Strengths:
Its strength lies in the high quality of products. It has sustained the high quality of its products.

The company also has strong local roots that have contributed to customer loyalty.

It also has a strong distribution and sales network.
Weaknesses:
Over-reliance on the UK market.
High costs of ...

San Francisco based company, Diamond Foods Inc. mislead its investors by lying about walnut costs in order to boost their earnings. The company and its two former lead executives will therefore have to pay five million dollars to settle the civil charges. Allegations that were made by Securities and Exchange Commission stated that the previous Chief Financial Officer for the company spearheaded the fraudulent scheme. The scheme involved under reporting the amount of money paid to Walnut growers by delaying the recording of payments to the next fiscal periods. This scheme allowed the company to register better results and ...

Enter Your University

This paper will address the different nuances of Health care company merger and acquisitions , specifically it will address the key financial drivers which prompt a merger, post merger analysis , financial planning in the post merger arena and the relevance of financial analysis in a healthcare organization. Finally the paper will address the current state of the healthcare system and what we can expect to see in the future.

Financial drivers that prompt mergers and acquisitions in Healthcare organizations.

Target company value: If the acquiring company feels that the target company to merge with is undervalued it would be a win fall for the former. Also from the perspective if the target company ...

Introduction

Strategic management is all about advancing the companies to enter in a new region and flourish their earnings (Barksdale & Lund, 2001). Strategic management is a field that directly impacts or leads to organizational productivity, as it will analyze the facts that how the organizations can attain effectiveness and earn economic prosperity accordingly. There are numerous companies in the world which are now experiencing numerous problems accordingly, and they are required to analyze these aspects accordingly. In this assignment it is also required to have the same analysis on a chosen company (Barksdale & Lund, 2006). The company is trying to enter in region ...

Introduction:

In this report, we will conduct an analysis of the financial leverage of the company and will also comment on the recent trends over the financing activities of the company. Overall, an extensive discussion will be made relating to the financial structure of the company and also the comparable firms.

Firm’s Leverage Policy: In comparison to Industrial Averages

For the purpose of evaluating the trend in the leverage policy of the company, we will be calculating the solvency ratios that will include analysis of the recent trend in debt management ratios and interest coverage ratio. In addition, we will also comment over the management’s discussion over ...

Management

Manulife financial corporation: life insurance
Introduction
Manulife Financial is a Canadian based financial services company that has its principle operations in Canada, Asia and the United States. Since its inception in 1887, Manulife has built a solid global presence that provides its clients with trustworthy, reliable, strong and forward thinking solutions for some of their most significant financial decisions.
It has an international network of employees who are more than 84,000 including agents who offer clients a broad range of wealth management services and products as well as financial protection. Manulife offers commercial, personal, corporate and investment banking products ...

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Executive Summary
The University of Maryland is considered as one of the best public universities in the United States. However, the rising cost of tuition fees and other charges has placed public institutions in an awkward situation making it questionable if whether they can provide affordable and quality education in the face of the current economic hardships. Students, on the other hand, could not help but seek for various loans in order to make their way through college. For most families who are earning a median income, sending a single child in college would leave them financially unstable ...

Company Overview

Sony Corporation is among the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics products in the world. The company engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of various types of electronic instruments, equipment, and devices for consumer, industrial, and professional markets. Primarily, the company operates in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and America. The company also distributes gaming software and hardware ('Sony Corporation SWOT Analysis' 2013, p. 3). The company does the distribution, manufacture, and broadcasting of image-based software such as motion picture, television products, and recorded music. The company’s manufacturing facilities are mainly located in Asia, but the company ...

Business Valuation

The forecasted sales growth rate is expected to be at 24% from the year 2015-2018 reflected by an increase in the sales from 98,375 to 230,704. Such an increase can be explained by the fact that, Oroton group signed a new contract with Brooks Broters, a move expected to sustain the sales even after the loss of Ralph Lauren.

Forecasted ATO

The forecasted ATO stands at 2.2179, consistent over the period of 5 years. Such consistency is explained by the fact that, Oroton has fashion leather goods as its main products which have been consistent over the five years.

Forecasted PM

The forecasted ...

International Financial Strategy

International Financial Strategy

Short term debt: interest rate x (1-corporation tax rate)
10% x (1-35%) = 0.065

Long term debt: yield to maturity x (1-corporation tax rate)

$17.07 x (1-35%) = $11.1 (million)

Equity: required rate of return

E (Rj) = Rf + βi [E (RM) – Rf]
[E (RM) – Rf] = 6%
β = 1.04
E (Rj) = 6.37% + 1.04 x 6% = 0.1261
WACC = (E/V) x Re + (D/V) x Rd x (1- Tc)
13626/23049 x 10% + 9423/23049 x 6.5% x (1-35%)
= 0.0591+ 0.001727 = 0.0608 or 6.08%
There was global financial recession during the 2008-2010 economic years; this had an adverse impact on many enterprises in terms of financing. All financial institutions including banks could not ...

Part 1 - Strategic Capabilities

The VRIN Analysis, presented in Appendix 2 demonstrates some of the findings in regards to the resource and capability structure of the TCG. Given the outcome of this research is possible to argue that Thomas Cook is a resource based company, operating on asset-light value chain proposition. The research have identified that core competencies of the organization are located in the Management, Human Factor and Marketing elements. Given the focus on elimination of material assets the organization it is believed that Management and HRM are the key for the company. At the moment TCG is heavily investing into two elements: a) ...

Executive summary

The company; Rolls Royce is a well renowned business organization with global brand presence and reliance for quality. The company was initially set up to manufacture luxury cars but later on that function was assigned to BMW and the trademarks are utilized by the parent company, Rolls Royce. The group marks the history by establishing a strong presence in the engineering sector with emphasize on aerospace and marine sector. It provides integrated power solution to its strong clientele with a worldwide network of sales and service facilities. It is present in over 50 countries of the work and major marine and defense companies along ...

Part I

1. Time value analysis is the concept implemented when there is a necessity to identify future value of one unit of a currency supposed to be received in several years or the amount of money supposed to be received in future from one unit of currency invested today. The basic concept of time value of money analysis is that the value of alternative investments depends on the time when they will be exchanged. Interest rate may not cover inflation rate contributing to the differences between the present and future values of investments (Khan Academy, 2013).
Time value analysis is a tool ...

- Liquidity Ratios
Before the author of this paper analyze the ratios above, it is prudent to note that generally, liquidity ratios are always used to determine the ability of the firm or the business organization to meet its short- term debt obligations.

Current ratio

Current ratio= current assets/ current liabilities. The current ratio measures the company’s current assets against the current liabilities. Therefore, the higher the ratio the better. This is because higher number implies that the company has large amount of the current assets which can be used to meet the current liabilities. Therefore, we can say ...

There is enough evidence showing that many private investors make investment mistakes, such as non participation in the stock market at all, under diversification and overestimation of the domestic equity in their portfolios. Therefore value at risk assists them to estimate the potential loss of these risky assets over a specific period of time. Hence if the value at risk on an assert is $ 100 million at a one-week, 95% confidence level, there is a only
a 5% opportunity that the value of an asset will fluctuate more than$ 100 million within a specific period of time.
The value at risk is ...

Introduction

BP PLC Company, incorporated in 1909 is an oil and petrochemicals company. The company conducts exploration for and produces natural gas and oil, refines, markets, and supplies petroleum products, manufactures and markets chemicals, and generates solar energy (BP PLC, 2013). Chemicals manufactured by BP include acetic acid, terephthalic acid, ethylene, acrylonitrile, and polyethylene. BP is the third largest publicly traded company in the industry behind Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell. The company explores and produces oil and natural gas in thirty countries and has confirmed reserves of 17.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The company is the largest ...

Corning Inc. operates in an evolving industry due to which the industry goes through rapid changes. As the industry is mainly driven by consumers’ demand, the spending trends of average consumers also plays a vital role.
The display technologies industry faced a problem of oversupply as the consumer demand did not grow as much as it was forecasted by the industry expert owing to which the companies operating in this industry had to reduce their capacity in accordance with the demand. They also had to decrease the prices considerably in order to sell the excess inventory.
The continues growing ...

Abstract

In this document, unique data was utilized to determine the correlation between financial reporting quality and the dividend policy of a firm. Financial reports pertain to any and all disclosures made by firms to report current performance and direction. The quality of financial reports is critical because it drives capital market decision makers significantly. To test this hypothesis, data from fourteen Kuwaiti real-estate corporations were collected and analyzed. The dividends dispensed by these companies were analyzed against their reported Net Income, Total Revenue, Total Assets, Total Liabilities and free Cash. Regression analysis was conducted and the results were analyzed.

The ...

Supervisor:

Abstract
In modern business world characterized with competition, acquisition and mergers are dominating main company’s games. In fact, major companies in such as food sectors and banks are acquiring smaller firms in order to ensure that control competition and assets are strengthened. Just like numerous other decisions, there is need for careful prognosis and study before taking this important step in analysis of assets in a company, business performance, and acquisition overall viability. Embry Investment Group is a company that is exploring for a company to qualify for acquisition. This report is aimed at gaining a deeper comprehension on the viability ...

1. Return on Equity (ROE) measures company’s profitability by evaluating the return on the shareholders’ investment. It is calculated as a ratio between net income of the company and the average shareholders’ equity. The value of ROE tells investors how much profit the company generates with their money, thus providing information on the profitability of the investment. ROE can be compared across industries and markets in order to identify the best investment opportunity (Madura, 2010). For banks ROE can be misleading, since it does not directly reflect the debt position of the company. Moreover, high debt can often be ...

Company Profile

Revered as the biggest e-commerce website around the globe, Amazon Inc. is an American multinational entity engaged in e-commerce selling and cloud computing. Founded in the year 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington DC. Amazon is the biggest e-retailer in terms of revenue and market capitalization. Beginning with the modest background of selling books and Blu-Ray DVD’s, Amazon today offers more than billion products and is now operating globally with presence in 19 countries. The company is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of AMZN and is also the constituent of NASDAQ ...

Introduction

Genting Singapore is an international hospitality company that deals with integrated resort development and gaming (Genting 2017). Specifically, the company builds integrated resorts and runs casinos as its core business. It also consults for the hospitality industry businesses and investments in the area of sales and marketing support. Besides, it offers information technology services such as software development, systems integration and maintenance among others. Its markets of operation include Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, the Bahamas, Australia and the UK. The company that began as Genting International was first listed on the Singapore Securities exchange in 2005. It acquired the Stanley ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4
Decision Making 4
Decision Table 4
Figure 1. Decision table 5

Decision Making Under Uncertainty 5

Figure 2. Uncertainty decision 5

Optimistic 5

Pessimistic 5
Criterion of Realism 6
Equally Likely 6
Minimax Regret 6
Expected Monetary Value 7
Figure 3. EMV when no additional information was gathered 7
Figure 4. EMV with a favorable result from the additional information 8
Figure 5. EMV with an unfavorable result from the additional information 8
Figure 6. EMV from the additional information 9
Conclusion and Recommendation 9

References 10

Appendices 11
Analytical Experience and Plans 13
Executive Summary
Management decisions have always been considered a difficult task especially ...

Overview of the Industry

Over the last five years, the Singapore taxi industry has seen tremendous changes, most of which have resulted from the development of private app-taxi companies. The introduction of the taxi bookings apps in 2013 was marked by an explosive growth of the demand for the app based taxi services from the main global players that is Uber and Grab car. Over the years, this has continued to affect the traditional taxi operators; according to research, the advent of the taxi app companies has reduced the regular taxi earnings by 20 % (Lee, 2015). This has been the main concerns for ...

IBM Future Earnings

The prospect of a business performance is determined by the industry factors and effectiveness of its strategies. Further, the past performance of a business can be a good indicator of the trend in its future performance and can be used to inform the investors’ decisions. In that view, determining whether a business is likely to earn more or less in the future entails analyzing its industry prospects and past performance trends (Damodaran, 2010). In that respect, the following is a summary of the analysis regarding IBM’s future earnings.
IBM is a corporation in IT services and products market ...

Industry Background

The company chosen to be the focus of the discussion in this paper is Arcelik AS. It is a publicly listed firm in Turkey, under the Istanbul Bourse (formerly the Istanbul Stock Exchange). For the industry, analysis, two industries will be focused on since Arcelik AS markets a wide range of products in more than 100 countries. Its two biggest departments would be the consumer electronics and home appliances department. The company is a known manufacturer or white goods or large electrical products. Some of the best examples would include refrigerators, washing machines, freezers, dishwashers, coffee makers, food processors, ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

INVESTMENTS

Economic overview
The economy of Jamaica greatly relies on services that accounts for over 70 percent of its GDP. The Nation continues to earn most of the foreign exchange from remittances, tourism and alumina/bauxite. Both tourism and remittances accounts for 30 percent each, whereas alumina/bauxite exports contribute roughly 5 percent of the GDP. The alumina/bauxite sector was the greatly affected by global downturn whereas the remittance flow and tourism industry remained resilient.
The economy encounters several challenges to its growth including soaring corruption and crimes, huge-scale underemployment and unemployment as well as a debt-to-the-GDP ratio that is about 130 ...