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Business Audit: Coca Cola

Business Audit: Coca Cola

Executive Summary

This report takes a look at the business audit of the Coca-Cola Company. After introducing the audit, a brief background of the company is given. This is followed by a macro-analysis of the company. This analysis deals with the management tool i.e. PESTLE which details Coca Cola’s political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental analysis. This is followed by a micro-analysis i.e. the financial data relating to Coca Cola. The competitor analysis of the company is next in line. This includes the strategic groups in Coca Cola’s line of business. A perceptual mapping ...

Austerity Policy Measures in the UK

Introduction The process of putting into place strategic measures with an aim of reducing of deficit and increasing economic growth in the United Kingdom has taken a paradigm shift from various aspects. The government of UK has put deficit reduction measures, which entail a series of strategically sustained reductions in public expenditure, undertaken towards a reduction of the government budget deficit and the UK’s welfare state. The design of this research paper is structured towards assessing the rationale on which the UK’s austerity policy is based with regards to deficit reduction and stimulation of economic growth (Burns, ...

The company is an integrated retailer that enables shoppers to use both physical and online shopping to meet clients’ shopping needs. The headquarters is in Hoffman, and all the retail stores are located within the United States of America. This report uses financial ratios to provide a general picture of the financial status of the company.

Profitability of the Company

The gross profit margin is one of the main metrics that is used to gauge the company’s ability to transform sales into profit. It indicates the amount of net income realizable out of one dollar of sales revenue. Gross profit margin = net ...

CHAPTER II

This chapter will seek to conduct an absolute inquiry into what makes up security interest laws in the United States. In order to lay the foundation for comparisons in subsequent chapters, the three main elements of the study of the Saudi system will be reviewed here in the context of U.S laws with an emphasis on California state law. The features of the California legal system will include the assessment of foreclosure rules and patterns in California. This will include a detailed fact-based evaluation of CCP580 (b), CCP580 (d) and CCP726 (a). The different components will enable the study ...

The case involves a guest of the hotel in Jamaica, where a guest was severely injured while working out in the fitness center of the hotel.  

Issues:

What jurisdiction and law should apply for the case? The jurisdiction and law that should apply here is the Jamaican law, in Jamaica. The US law in Miami cannot apply because, as stated in 28 U.S.C subsections 1391(a), a US court only has jurisdiction in such cases over the defendants where at least one defendant is domiciled in the particular judicial district. This principle has been affirmed in the case of Steven ...

In any type of company, one of the significant challenges for leadership is connecting industry knowledge and business analytics. Bartlett (2013) observes that these two components serve as the primary sources of information for decision makers. Managers generally hold much insight and wisdom in their accumulated experience, but unfortunately, any gaps in the facts are commonly filled with opinions (Bartlett, 2013). Instead of relying on subjective sources, leaders can utilize business analytics to validate new ideas and test industry beliefs (Bartlett, 2013). A starting point for effective business analytics is to recognize that data and information are not ends ...

“The Few. The Proud. The Marines.” This is a well-known, long standing slogan for the Marine Corps military recruiting campaign; originations dating back to 1799 (Szoldra, 2015). This slogan wishes to draw attention to the promise of creating one with an elite social status. Through many centuries of recruiting, and many slogan trials, this slogan has stood the test of time and creates familiarity by mere existence. Now consider the latest slogan being launched by the US Marine Corps, “Toward the Sound of Chaos” (Dao, 2012). The marketing method unfolds by focusing on something that is found in endless ...

Introduction

Natural law theory and positivism are two approaches to thinking that differ in the basic legal principles and rules on the treatment of law. Principles and rules influence English jurisprudence and the administration of justice through the attitudes, perspectives, approaches, decisions and pronouncements of judges and jurists. Natural law theory and positivism dominate respective areas of English jurisprudence and adjudication process, but these approaches may also simultaneously exert influence to raise issues and cause developments in other areas.

Influence of Natural Law Theory

Natural law is “the order of the dynamic tendencies that are proper to man as a rational being”. The rule of ...

Introduction

There are several options open to Acme Fireworks. As a sole proprietorship, the owner is able to hire employees. The biggest benefit of a sole proprietorship is the easiness of dealing with taxes and the easiness of running the business. There are some drawbacks to being a sole proprietorship, such as the fact that the owner is personally liable for any legal situation that arises through various contracts or business deals (Dishman, 2010). The owner of Acme Fireworks should strongly consider upgrading his sole proprietorship because the business contracts appear like they may be permanent; regardless, as Acme is ...

Value Chain

The objective of analyzing Monster’s value chain is to make a product that will become popular to its customers, which includes not only the production segment but also marketing and distribution (Horngren and Data, 2015). This is because products will eventually need to be discontinued due to changing customer preferences and product innovation from competitors. This means that the company’s core operations and its products must continuously evolve and this could be done using the value chain analysis tool. For an energy drink company like Monster, one of its main goals is to continuously adapt to the ...

CLOSING CASE:

Teams Fuel Global Innovation at Whirlpool Cross functional team at Whirlpool Charles Jones came up with cross functional teams with his expertise and knowledge regarding the products that need maximum benefit at Whirlpool. He was actually hired to build a better and a global division that enhanced the cross functional teams, as such he was a Vice president of the company. there were reasons as such to select the cross functional team at Whirlpool because the design of the products matter and as such the new product development part has to be carried with some consequences that led to ...

Internal Analysis of Encana

Internal Analysis of Encana

Introduction

The oil and gas industry in North America is currently experiencing challenges and transition stage. The increasing need for the environment-friendly and sustainable forms of energy is affecting the industry negatively as more governments and companies are encouraged to use energy with no or low carbon emission. More companies are now developing solar and wind energy and create vehicles that can rely on electricity rather than oil. Such growing trend in the energy sector resulted to lower demand of oil and gas particularly in the North America. Many oil and gas producing countries and companies ...

The one year return on Microsoft stock has been 23.38%. In comparison, Technology index has increased by only 5.79% during the period. The performance of the stocks of some competitors has been lower than Microsoft as well, with Adobe giving a return of 20.83%, HP a negative return of 54.47% and Yahoo a negative return of 1.70% (Yahoo Finance). The one year return on PG&E Corporation stock has been 26.99%. In comparison, Utilities index has increased by 16.53% during the period. However, the performance of the stocks of some competitors has been higher than PG&E, with Scana Corp giving ...

Business

Assignment 2

The financial statement for the last seven years of the company shows improvement in earnings or revenue of the company every year. From 2009-2016, the revenue of the company showed significant improvement. This fact is also evident from ratio analysis of the company. The profitability of the company has increased from 2009-2016, return on equity in percentage has shown improvement in seven years, and in the same manner return on invested capital in percentage has increased. Further, return on assets in percentage has also increased, and interest coverage has also shown remarkable improvement. Growth has also been ...

Research

As the first step to gain insight to the attitude of the company towards gender awareness, a content analysis was carried out on what information was available in the media regarding Oracle Corp and gender awareness.

Method

Analysis A 2014 survey of top companies conducted by Calvert Investments found that Oracle Corp had one of the most developed diversity programs in place . The company scored a 90 out of possible 100 points which indicated that their diversity program had strong performance metrics and they were proactively working towards a fully inclusive workplace. The survey assessed the companies on several criteria. ...

Each student will submit a 2500 words (including exhibits) Business Plan for their Simulation Company.  Use Times Roman 11 font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.  The business plan should provide the Board a report on your strategic decisions, with an account of your performance state, and your plan for the future.  Specifics of your decisions over various quarters, assessment of those decisions, and how you stand vis-à-vis competition should be included.  Use the following headings and subheadings to organize your Business Plan:

            2) Strategy of the Firm – SWOT, STEEP and Competitor Analysis             3) Analysis of current situation and ...

Strategic management

Introduction Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a very common strategy that combines two or more organizations to become a new business. It is agreement between two companies’ to combine their different resources and run operations. In merger, one company is completely absorbed by other company. The merger and acquisition are changes in control of organizations that involve combining the operations of different entities into a single organization. The horizontal merger is a common method that exists between two organizations that are competing in the same industry such as energy sector. It can increase the market share and decrease the ...

Executive Summary

The modern business environment is characterized by the increased use of information technology and data comprise an essential component of the modern information systems. Database management systems are softwares that were developed with the objective of creating, storing and retrieval of data with ease. The database management systems commonly abbreviated as (DBMS) are software systems that can easily be updated with new information with ease. They have been essential in the use of information systems because they link the end applications with the end users of a database. Additionally, unlike the traditional methods of filing where data was easily ...

Why would a company choose to create an internal startup?

The internal startup enables the company to complete tasks with the greater speed compared to the typical environment of the large corporation. Again, it is always exempted from the parent company restrictions and rules and hence make easier in doing things quickly. Notably, it is the cheaper way to the innovation, execution, and fast market; it motivates the employees and offers the opportunity to differentiate items in the market (Honigmann, 2007). The long-term sustainability gives the company the opportunity to try and tests diverse business models and hence the policies and the process is not applicable forcing the need ...

Briefing Paper 1

a.) The “act of state doctrine” provides that a court in the United States, cannot pass judgement on the actions of a foreign government taken within their own country or territory that it has jurisdiction over (Cheeseman, 2012). In essence, the doctrine bars U.S. courts from interfering in the domestic policy actions of another government in their own country. b.) Under a communist theory of the world, the government of Cuba did act ethically when it appropriately the Glens’ property. From an American perspective, the expropriation was not only ethically questionable but most likely illegal. Club Med, under the ...

Genre theory explanation, genre conventions and attributes

A genre helps people classify films according to its category or type. It is convenient as viewers know what to expect when they see certain iconography at the advertising bill for instance. Different film genres possess familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography etc. (Goodykoontz & & Jacobs, 2014). Main film genres are: westerns, gangster films, mysteries, film noir, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romantic comedy, musicals and documentaries. In this paper, the fantasy genre will be discussed on an example. Fantasy genre is always a story which lets its characters escape from reality, experience situations where they act beyond the ...

Business

Assignment 1 Business Model of Dollar General Corp The business model can be described in terms of value proposition, market segment, value chain structure, revenue generation and margins, position in value network, and competitive strategy.

Value Proposition

Dollar General Corp is facilitating customers with household needs, and is providing variety of products of general merchandise. It is providing items at everyday low price in small box stores that are conveniently located. The strategy of the company is to satisfy needs of customers by providing them convenience, quality products at low price, and help them in saving money.

The company is serving ...

US 311: Business Law I

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and ...

Nashville Predators

Nashville Predators hockey team based in Nashville - the capital of the state of Tennessee. The team entered the NHL in 1998 and since that time show good results as “NHL’s top on-ice performing teams” (Dunkan, 2009). The most important information about the team include the location of home stadium - the Sommet Center, with a capacity of 17,133 and 70 luxury suites, the average ticket price – $45,75 what is a bit lower than average NHL ticket price.

The revenuer per game in 2008/2009 – $600,000.

The financial situation of the team seems to be dramatic. In 2007, the team occupied 23rd place in ...

Part A

A major engineering firm has introduced virtual teams around the globe to resolve client emergencies. Although some of these emergencies are routine (they occur often enough that the engineers have ready-made action plans), several are novel. Furthermore, information about the client emergencies often comes second hand from employees of the client, so some of the details are missing or ambiguous. Although the company plans to eventually offer a variety of communication media that these virtual teams can use, engineers are currently limited to email, telephone, fax machine, and an instant messaging program that was recently introduced.First, discuss media richness. ...

Samsung Electronics

The name of the company is Samsung, which is a multinational conglomerate company. The link to the original website is www.samsung.com.

BACKGROUNG and HISTORY

Samsung is headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. The South Korean multinational conglomerate has numerous subsidiaries and affiliation with several businesses. The largest chaebol of South Korea was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul. The business started as a trading company, but the group expanded itself by diversifying into areas such as textiles, insurance, retail, securities, and food processing. In the late 1960s, the company stepped in the electronic industry. Samsung was separated into four groups in 1987 following ...

Sony Music Entertainment, a fully owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation began its journey in 1929 as American Record Company. Not many companies in this highly competitive and ever evolving industry have survived for long and that too as a leader. This essay will focus on the core competencies of Sony Music Entertainment and a comparison with the competition. The year 2007 was a landmark year for Sony Music Entertainment as the company entered into multiple innovative ventures in partnership with others to expand their portfolio and increase the revenue and market share. In this year, Sony entered into collaboration ...

MEMORANDUM

Dear Sir, This memo is written to address the problems faced by the Big Corp. as a result of the bankruptcy of its subsidiary Sub Corp. the memo discuss the different statutory and regulatory matters applicable in this matter. It also recommends the solution on whether the dividends paid by the company should be treated as a return on capital or ordinary dividends. At first, it is important to understand the basic difference between preferred and ordinary stocks. Preferred shareholders have a preferred claim to the earnings and profits of the company. When the company has excessive cash and ...

A report on new car industry in B.C. Canada

Introduction

The automotive industry in British Columbia is majorly a service industry revolving around sales, marketing, repair and dumping of vehicles. Officially, the sector accounts for 1.9% of gross GDP (by maintaining a vehicle fleet to sustain a flow of goods and services through the province) and employs 2.3% or 45,000 people combined for both technical and corporate positions. With businesses spread across the province, the sector is primarily run by small businesses with less than 10 employees (Greg. Keenan, 2014). Owing to factors such as drifting technological changes, complex ...

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, ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

Law

Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety THAT PHARMACARE DID and examine whether PharmaCARE violated the law.  Be sure to identify the law in all these areas.   The ethical issue in marketing and advertising emanating from PharmaCare’s actions can be attributed to fair treatment in which the company corrupted the medical professionals in terms if illegally acquiring patient information for CompCare. Furthermore, the offensive actions committed by the company also includes concealing the changes in the composition of the drug and marketing it as treatment to ...

Business

2016-06-02

Company Overview

The company for this study is American Airlines (AA). It is an American company and nowadays it is in the first place by the total number of passenger-kilometers in the world. The history of this company has started in 1926. The huge growth was characteristic for the company in 1980-1990s. Today the company American Airlines has 964 aircrafts in its fleet. The company offer flights on four continents. At the same time, the majority of flights are in the US. There are at least five hubs in the US, which are used by the company for regional flights ...

Introduction

Oracle Corporation is one of the largest companies in the information technology sector. In the third quarter of 2015 it reported earnings of $9 billion in revenues, mostly unchanged from the previous year and a steady growth in its Cloud Services . It has corporate policies on non-discrimination in terms of race, gender and is an equal opportunity employer . Yet its board remains mostly male, with only 3 out of 13 board members comprised of women . From the list of company executives found on the company website, it is found that only 4 out 30 executives, including co-CEO Safra Catz, ...

Introduction

Pegasus Technologies is a technology solutions provider, with an extensive team of devoted professionals. It is looking forward to manufacturing 8-inch touch-screen color LCD panels, which they expect to be of exceptional quality and high resolution. The company has for several years been recognized as the leading company in the manufacture of various lines of palm pallet computers. The capability of being touch screen is intended to ease its use since the user does not need to carry the keyboard as well as the mouse. It thus enhances its portability level, making it less bulky. The company is not ...

A market is efficient when the stock prices are dependent on all market available information on a given market or stock. When investors either institutional or individual investors invest money into the stock market, the major objective is to more returns on the investment put. The investors don’t just only focus on the profitability performance but also perform much better than the market itself. No investor has an upper hand in predicting the returns on the investment on the stock because it’s not possible to access the information that is not available on the market (Besley and ...

I.

The top polluter in California is CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT INC. located in Kettleman City. The top polluter is EXXONMOBIL OIL CORP. TORRANCE REFINERY. It is one of the top ten polluters in California (ranked 5). In 2002, this Los Angeles county ranked among the dirtiest/worst 10% of all counties in the U.S. in terms of total environmental releases. The top polluter in Los Angeles county is EXXONMOBIL OIL CORP. TORRANCE.

The top pollutant released in Los Angeles county is ammonia.

4 percent of houses in LOS ANGELES County have a high risk of lead hazards. Compared to other counties in the U.S. Los Angeles county is one of ...

The 1979 Sale of Goods Act is the most comprehensive pieces of legislation on commercial law in the UK that governs, inter alia, contracts for the sale of goods, implied terms in sale of goods, rules governing the transfer and possession of property (goods) and also provides some of the remedies that purchasers (buyers) may have against sellers for defects in goods or otherwise (Dobson, Dobson & Stokes 2012, p. 10). This Act thus ensures the effectiveness of the legal relationship between businesses and customers, for it contains rules and regulations that seek to protect the rights of buyers and ...

The article Samsung Makes Aggressive Play for Emerging markets by Jonathan Cheng appeared in the wall street journal on April 6, 2016. This article addresses the steps that Samsung has made to stay ahead of its competitors in the global market, and especially within the Asian continent from where Samsung products are manufactured. The electronic company is winning back customers by cutting down most of its products prices. The South Korea's tech giant has focused more on cheaper gadgets to reach a wider market. The company has set out to compete favorably with Micromax Informatics Ltd, an Indian company ...

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Introduction

Cruise ships are used to take vacationers on recreational voyages. The ships provide amenities that enhance the passengers experience such as lounging facilities, cinemas, indoor sports, swimming pools, and music concerts among others. Cruise ships usually take the vacationers on a round trip through a given number of destinations, which usually include a number of coastal downs, before returning them to the port of origin. The cruise industry started in the early 1970s and was widely embraced in 1971 as a viable tourist attraction when a ship known as the Pacific Princess was featured in ...

Virtual money of $100,000 was invested in diversified stocks during the stock trading simulation. The portfolio consisted of stocks from twelve companies all belonging to different industries. An overall profit of 0.41% was achieved in one month through the virtual simulation exercise. Stocks of all the companies are either listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. One hundred shares of General Electric Company were purchased on 4th April when the stock price was $31.69. These shares were sold on 7th April when the stock price decreased to $30.64. The stock of General Electric was sold ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Sally Reporteur’s News Story on the Reform the Electoral College Movement FACTS Sally Reporteur recently graduated from a prestigious journalism school. Soon after graduation she found a position as reporter for a local news station. Based on her educational background, and the small staff at the news station, her supervisor gave her a fairly significant amount of discretion to find, investigate and write her own news stories. Like many people of her age group, Sally was quite adept at using information technologies for both her work and in her private life. One day, while she was chatting ...

Financial Analysis Project

Target Corporation is one of the largest American merchandise retailers. As of January 31, 2016, it operated 1,792 stores in the USA. It is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The company earned a net income of $3,363 million in 2015 compared to a net loss of $1,636 in 2014 (Target, 2016). Horizontal analysis involves comparing each item on the most recent statement with the related item on the earlier statement in terms of amount and percent of increase or decrease (Warren, Reeve, & Duchac, 2009, p. 585).

Horizontal Analysis

Horizontal analysis of Target’s ...

In the case of Yakubowicz v Paramount Pictures Corp., Yakubowicz, the defendant in the case, was on his way home on the night of February 15, 1979 when he was stabbed by Michael Barret who had been at the Saxon theatre watching two consecutive screenings of “The Warriors”. The movie in question contained several scenes of juvenile-gang related violence. Additionally, Barret smuggled alcoholic beverages into the theatre where he got intoxicated. While they were parting at the subway, Barret stubbed Yakubowicz with a knife at the chest. Consequently, he died the following morning. His father brought a tortuous action ...

Introduction

Report’s aim Comprehensive analysis of a company is crucial for decision making regarding its inclusion in a portfolio. That requires forecasting a company’s performance to estimate the expected value of the stock and comparing it with the current market price so as to decide whether it is overvalued or undervalued. In that view, this analysis seeks to analyze the IMB Company with application of the Discounted Cash Flows method as well as WACC. With the values calculated, the value per share is compared with the current market price to make recommendations whether the stock is a buy, ...

Introduction

Human Resources policies have played an essential role in the success of an organization. It is important for any organization to plan its HR policies according to the laws and regulations that govern it. Before the formation of National Labor Relations Board, labor unions use to play an important role in protecting the rights of the employees. The NLRB took over the labor union by establishing several laws developed by the federal government to safeguard the rights of the employees. These laws help to protect the employees from injustice as well as provide the employers with regulations that may ...

Investment Goal:

The overall objective of this portfolio is to earn a sustainable return by assuming average level risk over the period of 10 years. The eventual objective of this portfolio is to fund my post –retirement life, however, I am keeping the time horizon here up to 10 years for now as with me still being in a young age, I opt to assume average risk. However, in order to avoid payment of taxes on my cash inflows, I will solely be investing in mutual funds suitable for IRA investment

Investment Style:

Considering my average risk tolerance and investment period of 10 ...

Summary

Chesapeake Energy Corporation was incorporated in 1989 and trades at the New York Stock Exchange under the Ticker Symbol (CHK) (Bloomberg). The company operates in the oil and gas industry. The company share price has declined form a 52-week high of $16.98 to a 52-week low of $1.50. As at April 4th, the share closed at $3.86. Over the past 1 year investors have lost 74.46% of their wealth. The share performance is 75.40% lower than the market return (S&P Index). The share price is likely to experience further declines and therefore recommend investors to sell of the company ...

The symbol of Kohl’s stock is KSS and it is listed on NYSE. The stock is currently trading at $46.05 (as of 30 March 2016) and the value is down by 1.07% in the intraday trading. The basic stock chart provided in the following depicts the declining trend in the company’s stock value over one year. The figure also reflects that the current price of the company’s stock is below the 20-day moving average. It indicates that there is a possibility of short-term gain from investing in the company’s stocks. However, in the long term ...

Introduction

Mining activities can pose serious environmental and health implications. Although, these environmental and health hazards can be mitigated and effectively managed through sound engineering and environmental practices, these environmental and health issues associated with mining operations could not be totally eradicated. In general, there are three major players in the mining industry: the company, which include the employees and the stockholders; the regulatory bodies, which include the government and other national and international environmental organizations; and the community, which are not directly related to the mining industry, but is impacted by its operations. Each one of these stakeholders has ...