Shareholder Reports Samples For Students

- Introduction
Meetings are the only solutions for the shareholders of the corporations for interaction with the board in respect of matters of their concern as they are not entitled to take part in the internal affairs of the corporations. With is backdrop, increased shareholder activism has resulted in their calling for special meetings with board in addition to the annual general meetings which are traditional means of interaction with the board for the shareholders. Shareholders are able to speak with the managers and the board members in regard to the company results and its long-range plans only ...

The Concept of Agency Problems

In the field of business and financial management, when a principal hires or appoints any agent to carry out or perform some sort of duty, this activity gives a rise to an agency relationship. An agency problem, known as a conflict of interest, comes to existence when there is a clash of interest between the needs of the agent and the demands of the principal.
A conflict of interest or an agency problem is said to be inherent in any kind of relationship where one party is obliged to act in the best interests of counterparty. The major concern in such kind ...

The addition of a new shareholder in farming solutions limited has taken a different change. It is so since Jed is now a minority shareholder who opens his own business just after being a shareholder. The objective is to understand about duties of directors like henry, the law on the protection of the minority shareholders, in this case Jed. The different types of meetings held once a company has been incorporated are also of interest. It also aims to establish the rights of shareholders and debenture holders and the effect of the liquidation process on employees, directors, creditors, and everyone else involved in the ...

- Investment analysis of the Emirate Airline
- The University
- [Instructor’s Name here]
- Table of Contents
- Financial highlights analyses, 2010-2014 .. 02
- Horizontal analyses 02
- Vertical analyses 04
- SWOT analysis .. 04
- Cash flow analyses, 2010-2014 . 06
- Cash flow statements analyses 06
- Profitability position 08
- Liquidity position 08

Horizontal analyses
The four-year revenue growth of Emirates Airlines was 90.4 percent, or an average annual growth of 22.5 percent. This growth performance is moderately high and impressive ...

In capital budgeting, the ultimate condition underlying any investment decision in whether or not it maximizes the wealth of the shareholder. It might be of interest at this point to note that it is shareholders and not any other providers of capital who are considered in the investment decisions.
The best rationale for the maximization of shareholder wealth is the ownership claim that shareholders have on any company. Essentially, shares represent ownership, and thus it follows that any business decisions should be in the best interests of the owners. Investment decisions should thus all be geared towards improving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Executive Summary/Introduction

According to recent research, corporate governance is categorized as the overall mechanism used by business entities to gives directives or controls the day-to-day activities. It defines the rule and regulation that controls the market mechanisms, therefore, stating the relationship or connection of the organization's management shareholders, and the board of directors. Seagate's corporate governance articulate in the creation of a system that assists in resolving existing and emerging conflict of interest of the company's stakeholders.
Seagate Company, being one of the world’s leading brands in data storage. The company began as a manufacturer of rigid magnetic disks and ...

It’s Application to Corporate Governance in the 21st Century.

Corporate governance has been defined differently by various authors. According to Turbull (1997, p.1), “corporate governance describes all the influences that govern the institutional processes, including those for controlling and regulators, involved in the production and sale of goods and services”. As such, this definition indicates that corporate governance encompasses all types of firms (Donaldson, & Preston, 1995). Another school of thought has suggested that the system to govern companies, which entails controlling and directing the activities of those companies, is what constitutes corporate governance (Cohen, 1995). In essence, this system includes the market mechanisms, as well as regulatory frameworks ...

Inset your name

Hamleys, a flagship store located in London, is the personification of success when looking at business. The company is named after its originator, William Hamley, who in 1760 founded a toy shop. Over its long history, Hamleys has changed ownership a number of times due to innumerable of reasons, the very latest being by a toy retailer located in France. This paper will analyze the change in business environment for Hamleys in the last decade using the three sigma theory of business models. Special attention will be given to human resource development and management as well as the financial function at Hamleys. Finally, ...

The FA

The FA i.e. The Football Association refers to the English football’s governing body, which was established in 1863. Ebenezer Morley is considered the father of The Association. The activities of the company include overseeing, promotion and development of the game at different levels like The FA Cup and England International Teams. The activities also include broadcast and media rights, sponsorship, licensing, merchandising along with sales of tickets (The Bloomberg, 2017).

Financial Position of the FA

Current position with respect to financials of the company as on 31st July 2015 provided an overview of that the company is continuously striving to generate commercial revenues ...

Abstract

The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism.
In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

A Study on the differences between Maersk and Citigroup in IHRM practices

Globalization of business operations and the emerging issues have necessitated that business organizations reformulate their management policies to resolve the problems arising out of a diverse cultural atmosphere. Business destinations in developing countries offer a multitude of opportunities but organizations have to prepare themselves well to address the differences in business factors influencing success. These factors may be related to political, economic, cultural or legal environment and affect the functions of organizations. One of the organizational functions affected seriously by the diverse factors is that of International Human Resource Management (IHRM) and multinationals formulate different policies to confront the ...

About the report

The report is based on our assistance given to Wheel Industries where we have analyzed the long term investment opportunities available with the company using the techniques of capital budgeting. To facilitate better understanding for our readers, we have included all the calculations within this report while every calculation is explained comprehensively.

Project Details

Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per ...

Abstract

Financial analysis is an essential tool in the hands of the manager, as it is with its help the decisions related to the company’s finances are taken. Without the analysis and grounds for making such management decisions, the firm cannot achieve the desired level of income, or the lack of financial settlement will lead the company to bankruptcy. The purpose of the assignment was to perform financial analysis of a company listed on the Bursa Malaysia. Dominant Enterprise Berhad was chosen for the completion. The Malaysia-located company turned into public listed organization with thirteen subsidiaries, operating on production ...

The Health of the Family Business

Introduction
JCDecaux Group is a multinational company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris in France. The company was established in 1964 by Jean-Francois Decaux to offer bus stop advertising systems, billboards, public bicycle rental services, and street furniture (Jcdecaux.com, 2016). Currently, the company is the best outdoor advertising company in the world with annual revenues of more than 2.8 billion Euros. Its commitment is to deliver quality outdoor advertising services to its clients as well as providing first class public services to its customers around the world. The JCDecaux Group core values are innovation, quality, design, sustainable development and trustworthiness in ...

Vision

Our vision is to create the most compliant green car rental company in Saudi Arabia in the 21st century.
Mission
Our mission is to offer our customers the most affordable green car. Customer satisfaction is an important part, to utilize available resources to make our customers satisfied with the service they receive.

Values

Our value is to make our customers satisfied with the green car rental service we will be offering in Saudi Arabia. Our core values are honesty, integrity, transparency, respect for diversity, and care for social, economy, and the environment.

Stakeholder Relations Management Guidelines

Investigations by Liu et al. (2014) suggest the ...

Abstract

Since its founding in 1886 by three brothers, Robert, James, and Edward Johnson, Johnsons & Johnsons has reached more than 275 operating companies around the world to include Asia, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa. Its goal of creating new and better products for customers and healthcare professionals pushed it to expand into three product segments: Pharmaceuticals, Consumers, and Medical Devices and Diagnostics (MDD). In 2013, it stood as one of the top 10 companies in the United States in its Pharmaceutical segment. It has driven growth through a concerted effort to restore reliability in providing products to its consumers with a focused ...

Part 2:

Introduction
The Capital Structure Propositions proposed by Nobel Laureates, Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller has a significant relevance even in the modern day financial theory. The propositions proposed by them are popularly known as MM Propositions which they proved under restrictive set of assumptions to counter the traditional approach of capital theory which states that there is always an optimum mix of capital structure for a firm that assists in attaining maximum value for it. The difference in the traditional approach and MM Propositions will be discussed in detail in the succeeding sections, while now we will explain the propositions ...

Introduction

Every sphere of the corporate world has seen the integration through Merger and Acquisition. Merger and Acquisition (M&A) usually take place when two or more corporate entities join together their operations, either in part or full. The factors which play a large role behind such an activity include the relative size of the participating companies, their collective share in the market of operation, the ownership and control of individual partner after the combining of the business.

Merger and Acquisitions in Entertainment and Media Industry

As already mentioned before, Merger and Acquisition, are widely occurring phenomenon, encompassing every sphere of corporate activity. Thus, the field of Media and entertainment ...

Brand Equity Management

Part One: Introduction
One of the key reasons behind the success of a business is a strong brand image or building brand equity. The main rationale behind building brand equity is because it serves as a basis for business success and also helps assists in offsetting stiff competition by letting brands to maintain high pricing, differentiating the product, and enjoying loyal set of customers. Explaining in short what makes such a brand, on the other hand, is not as straightforward a task as saying what a brand should bring about (Carman, 1990). Notably, the outlook of a brand is primarily associated with an identity, a name, a symbol ...

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 ...

Every child in the world from all generations can recognize the most popular mice in the world that is Mickey Mouse whenever they can him. He is the product of one of the most diversified entertainment company Walt Disney. The company and its subsidiaries have five major business segments namely Parks and Resorts, Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Interactive Media and Consumer Products. The company also shares effective ownership in its major business ventures in major cities around the world ranging from 15 to 51% (Google Finance). The Walt Disney Company is currently headquartered on South Burbank Street in California ...

Overview of the company including size and revenue

The Home Depot, Inc. was incorporated in 1978. This company operates full-service warehouse style stores all over the United States, selling materials for building homes, improving homes, tending the lawn and the garden, and other related services.

Home Depot’s strategy is to provide products and services to do-it-yourself (DIY) customers, do-it-for-me (DIFM) customers and any other buyers of building materials, product and services. As of January 2012, the company has 1,974 stores in the United States alone and another 278 stores abroad. The company operates in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, Canada, Mexico and China.

Home Depot ...

Part 2- Company Research/Graphs/investor Information

Commonwealth bank
Newcrest Mining Limited is a gold mining company is in the Resource sector. It deals with mining of gold.
Managing directors name, Greg Robinson.
Managing Directors share.
Total assets for the year 2010 was $6,334
Dividends given- 20% per share for the year ended 30th June.

Numbers of employees are over 16000 in all the countries the company operates in.

Total share price was $1,762,200
It is in the service provider sector and financial services to the people of Australia. These services are like offering of loans, credits, managing of accounts etc

Managing director and chief executive officer is Ian Nerev.

Dividends given- $1.37 per each share.
The total shares are ...

Disclosure Index

The financials in 2010 and 2011 have been prepared according to the relevant AASB standards. The expansive disclosure section is quite thorough, informing potential investors and current shareholders about existing trends within the company. The financials disclose all required information about the company’s operations, including the detailed requirements for financial instruments and other items that have to do with extended credit. During the year under report, there were quite a few changes in the AASB reporting requirements, as the financials note, but none of those changes had a significant effect on the reporting methodology at David Jones.

The 2010 and ...

Executive summary

The National Bank of Canada has its headquarters in Montreal, and it is Canada’s sixth largest bank. It was started on 4th May 1859 by the francophone business people in Banque and Ontario. The bank has 2.4 million personal clients and most of its branches in the Canadian provinces. It has many representative offices partnerships and subsidiaries in other countries where it serves both non-Canadian and Canadian customers. The bank’s management structure consists of the board of directors and the office of the president. The bank is upholding a proper governance system and appropriate ethical strategies to ...

A. Introduction

Toyota Motors Corporation (Toyota) is a ¥25.69 trillion (US$256.91 billion at ¥100.00:$1 exchange rate used in the 2014 annual report) automotive manufacturing enterprise (Toyota, 2014, p. 26) with four major market regions globally, namely: Japan (home), North America, Europe, Asia, and Other regions (see section C for details). Since 2010, it grew 35.57% from ¥18.95 trillion. Its return on equity has grown from 2.1% in 2010 to 13.7% in 2014, or 6.5 times. Moreover, its return on assets grew 6.7 times from 0.7% in 2010 to 4.7% in 2014.
Toyota has one core product (automobiles) and core ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct a comprehensive financial analysis of UK based telecommunication company, BT Group PLC for the year 2011-2015. As part of this analysis, we will be using the tools of common-size statements and financial ratios. In addition, to perform the cross-sectional analysis, we will also compare the financial performance of the company with its competitor entities, Vodafone Group and Sky PLC.
Along with analysis of the financial performance using the above stated criteria, we will also perform broad economic environment analysis to adjudge the company’s performance in relation to the economic trends and will ...

easyJet Plc’s Governance Disclosures: A Critical Evaluation
1. Introduction
The concept of corporate governance has gained considerable significance since the collapse of a series of corporate giants including banks worldwide followed by the global financial crisis 2008-09. The global financial crisis led to huge financial losses and massive job cuts across the globe, particularly in United States and United Kingdom. Official investigations following the crisis revealed that accounting fraud and other top management malpractices contributed notably to high-profile corporate scandals. In response to these reports, the UK government designed and enacted the UK Corporate Governance Code that specifies ...

Risk and Return Analysis

Risk and Return Analysis

Question 1:

The relationship between the risk and the return can be defined as the positive correlation between them. In risk management procedures, it is highly probable that the investments or the projects which are more risky will generate high profits for the business or investor. Similarly, the investments or the projects which are likely to generate low levels of profits will expose the investors or business to the lower level of risk in the market. (Maranjian, 2013)
There are several methods for the financial accountants to measure the level of returns, according to their acceptable level ...

Introduction

Primarily any business' aim is to remain in business while maximizing the welfare of its shareholders. To start and continue its operations without hitches, companies usually require funding. The funds needed are either short-term or long-term (Carey and Essayyad, 2015). Sources of short-term funding include overdraft, short-term loan, trade credit and lease finance. These sources are repayable within a period of one year. Due to the volatility in the interest rates associated with the short-term funding, they represent high risks for the borrower (James, 2000). However, they are less expensive and more flexible (Chahyadi, 2000)
Long-term funding, on the ...

Introduction

Many people think that English Premier League consists of nothing, but players, clubs and supervisory authorities. In reality, the Football Association Premier League (also known as FAPL) is registered as a corporation in the United Kingdom. Legally, each club, which participates in the tournament, is registered as a shareholder with one vote (The FAPL, 2014). In order to oversee daily operations of the league, the clubs elect the chief executive, chairperson and board of directors (Singh, 2015). Despite the fact that the Football Association does not directly participate in the daily operations of the League, it has special veto ...

and Gamble and LG Electronics
and Gamble and LG Electronics
In the scope of this paper the analysis of the strategies, used by the Procter and Gamble and LG Electronics would be conducted while referring to both strong and weak points, which are inherent to each particular strategy; contributing factors of the strategic development and the outcomes which have been reached by both enterprises.

PROCTER AND GAMBLE

First of all it is essential to refer to the fact that the Procter and Gamble (P&G) is the global leader in the area of consumer goods; this business entity operates in more than ...

About the report

The core objective of this report is to analyze the financial performance of the four leading banking organizations operating in France, namely, Dexia SA, Credit Agricole SA, Societe Generale Group and Euler Hermes Group SA. For this purpose we will be analyzing the financial statements of all the above-named organization for the past four(4) yeas from 2010 to 2013 where we will be calculating the profitability ratios and risk ratios for each of them to compare their performance over the years.

Profitability Ratios

These ratios carries great importance for all the stakeholders of the organization as they directly indicate the ...

Financial Analysis: United Health Inc.

Financial Ratios
Ratios are important tool of financial analysis that are primarily used by the analyst so as to know the pas trend in the financial performance of the company and also to unearth the real time financial position. However, analysts never base their decisions on just one set of ratios for conducting the financial analysis of the company, rather the following set of ratios is commonly used by them:
- Liquidity Ratios
- Profitability Ratios
- Solvency Ratios
- Efficiency Ratios

Ratio Analysis: United Health Care Inc.

In this section, we will conduct the financial analysis of the company ...

[Institution’s Name]
Organizations have been termed as a place in which numerous professionals work together for the achievement of a single and pre-specified goal . Organizations have number of departments in particular and every department has to play their part in order to increase both the economical and strategic strength and belongings of an organization.
It is extremely important for an organization to keep all of their users in a perfect manner . There can be number of users related to an organization, like management, employees and shareholders as well. All of these users have their own significance and importance lies ...

Procter and Gamble was founded in 1837 when two men, William Proctor and James Gamble joined to form a partnership. William proctor an emigrant from England specialized in candle making while James Gambler was from Ireland and specialized in soap making. Both marrying two sisters brought about their union. Alexander Norris, also a soap maker and their father –in-law suggested to them to form a business partnership. They agreed to contribute $7,192.24 on a fifty –fifty basis, Proctor, and Gamble was Born. The two products were easier to produce together since they both used the same raw materials (P&G, 2013)
The ...

Introduction .3

Auditor’s Report ..4

Balance Sheet 4

Common Stock.5
Income Statement 6
Cash Flow Statement 6

Reference List7

Introduction.
Pepsi Co is an American based public company with long history and traditions. It was first imcorporated almost 100 years ago in 1919 in Delaware. Throughout the century it has become one of the leaders of beverage and food industry with brands like Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mirinda, Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, etc. It is a multi-billion dollar business with last year sales of more than $65 billion. PepsiCo employs 278,000 people worldwide and operates in each major geographical region of the world: ...

Management- Organisational Analysis Report

1.0 INTRODUCTION
The objective of this study is to evaluate an Australian organisation with over 100 employees. The organisation that has been selected for the evaluation is ‘BHP Billiton’. The central theme of this study is to diagnose BHP’s structure, human resource and symbolic frame.
The structure frame focuses on revealing the organisational chart. Through the organisational chart, the complexity along with the organisational level has been evaluated within the study. The study also encompasses the coordination of activities within the organisation, while identifying the coordination mechanism within the organisation.
The human resource frame entails ...

Introduction

BHP is a multinational company in Australia which deals with mining and petroleum. It has its headquarters at Melbourne, Australia and it also has a major management office in London, United Kingdom. According to the revenue measured by 2011, it was the largest mining company in the world. And as per February 2011, it was the third-largest company according to the market capitalization.
As the history goes, BHP Billiton Company was formed in the year 2001 when two companies formed a merger. The two companies were; Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) from Australia and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc. Since ...

Executive Summary

The motive for starting this kind of business is based on the fact that many people in the recent times are facing health problems resulting from body unfitness. These health problems include obesity and problems associated with being overweight. The objective of the business is to provide advice and instruction from professional trainers regarding proper exercises and healthy living. The market for the company is segmented in terms of demography. The demography segmentation consists of gender, income, age, language and social classes. The business will offer services that are categorized either as being private or public. The services that ...

Amazon.com Inc.

Description

Amazon.com Inc. is a worldwide online retailer company that has an international presence. It was started in 1994 in the state of Washington and later reincorporated in Delaware in 1996. The operations of Amazon are premised on retail through online orders and follow up by physical deliveries for goods and online service delivery for services transferable online. Amazon.com Inc. specializes in four broad categories of consumers; retail consumers, sellers, content creators and enterprises. The company has a number of services aimed at diversifying their investment through an expansive portfolio. Other than retail sales, revenue generating sources include marketing and ...

News Corp

News corp. is one of the world‘s second largest media company, after the Walt Disney Corporation in terms of its yearly income Mphail (2010 (2010, pp.168). It has established a vast and diverse media holding all over the world, these holdings include; Limited, 20th Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting Company, HarperCollins Publishers and many others. News Corp has faced many challenges in the past years. Notably, from the difficulties they face, many people would say it is because of their on purpose actions. These challenges began when the company started engaging itself in illegal unethical issues in its operation.

In ...

Table of contents
1. Outline
2. Introduction
3. Recent issue facing corporate governance
4. Relationship between corporate governance and business ethics
5. Review on ASX Corporate Governance Council’s “Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations”. The key principles that focus on ethics
6. Summary.

In many large and well established businesses and enterprises, corporate governance is a common term used when in any conversation or explanation that may include the company’s operation and governance. The term corporate governance refers to a wide aspect the processes, law, or rules by which a business is regulated, controlled, and ...

Performance measurement is the attempt in business to be able to quantify what management has been doing during a certain period. The principle behind it is that of giving management authority to make certain decisions in their areas of responsibility and later on make then making them accountable for their decisions. In the end, what a superior wants is a performance report from a manager concerning his division. The report would contain what he has been doing and whether targets set have been attained or not. There are three main financial performance measurement techniques; return on investment, residual income and economic value added.

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Introduction

The issue about communication is essential for any system in organization running. The coordination between source of information and the targeted destination of the information and the channels of dispatching the information presents the management organ various range of challenges. The focus of this paper is to create a comparative analysis of various methods of communication as one of the major edges that chase capitalises on in ruling the market. The paper begins by defining different communication methods of communication used at different levels within the industry. This is followed by descriptive comparison of the resulting consequences and their implications.

Definitions and theoretical issues

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The Walt Disney Company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DIS. This information is included in the Annual Financial Report on page 118. Another section of the annual report includes the Auditor’s Report. The purpose of the auditor’s report, which appears on page 70, is to confirm that the reports included in the Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Financial Report and Shareholder Letter “present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries (the Company)” and that it is “ in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted ...