Netflix Company Analysis
NETFLIX Company Analysis
Michael M. Akers521
June 3, 2011
Academic Crib Sheet
Continue your business analysis using the company you selected in Week Four.
Write a paper no more than 2,400 words in which you research the company’s business environment.
Review the company’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to determine the financial health of the company. Be sure to compare your company to at least two other companies in the industry. Be sure to answer the following:
• What have you learned about the company by reviewing each statement? • Is there information in any of these statements that concerns you? If so describe what it is and what it concerns. • How can management use this information moving forward?
Summarize the company’s financial health. How does it compare to other companies in the industry?
Include a summary of the company’s technological advantages, or lack thereof, in comparison to at least two other companies in the same industry.
Describe how globalization has affected the company’s business strategies.
Conduct a benchmarking analysis. Be sure your analysis includes the following in comparison with other companies in the same industry:
• Best practices • Operational processes and procedures • Products or services
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. For financial analysis Netflix has to make more Technological advances, including non-technical ones, are coming more quickly than ever before, thereby affecting all aspects of a typical company. As network computing technology progresses, there are increasing pressures to create a new type of workplace. The current workplace will experience a transition that will fragment it into myriad on-site and off-site offices. Not only will the work environment change dramatically in the 21st century, but there will also be a need for business systems to support the new work environments. A body of information
Michael M. Akers521
June 3, 2011
Academic Crib Sheet
Continue your business analysis using the company you selected in Week Four.
Write a paper no more than 2,400 words in which you research the company’s business environment.
Review the company’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to determine the financial health of the company. Be sure to compare your company to at least two other companies in the industry. Be sure to answer the following:
• What have you learned about the company by reviewing each statement? • Is there information in any of these statements that concerns you? If so describe what it is and what it concerns. • How can management use this information moving forward?
Summarize the company’s financial health. How does it compare to other companies in the industry?
Include a summary of the company’s technological advantages, or lack thereof, in comparison to at least two other companies in the same industry.
Describe how globalization has affected the company’s business strategies.
Conduct a benchmarking analysis. Be sure your analysis includes the following in comparison with other companies in the same industry:
• Best practices • Operational processes and procedures • Products or services
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. For financial analysis Netflix has to make more Technological advances, including non-technical ones, are coming more quickly than ever before, thereby affecting all aspects of a typical company. As network computing technology progresses, there are increasing pressures to create a new type of workplace. The current workplace will experience a transition that will fragment it into myriad on-site and off-site offices. Not only will the work environment change dramatically in the 21st century, but there will also be a need for business systems to support the new work environments. A body of information
References: Blackburn, R.A. (1996) ‘The Future of the Small Firm in the UK Economy’, the Third Midland Bank Lecture, delivered at Kingston University, July. Dewhurst, J. and Burns, P. (1993) Small Business Management (3rd edn), London, Macmillan. Oakey, R. (1995) High Technology New Firms: Variable Barriers to Growth, London, Paul Chapman.