EM6602 Accounting for Decision-Making and Control Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy (HBR 9-100-027) Team Members Toh Wei Hong‚ Prashant Trivedi‚ Preethy Varadarajan Question 1 The difference between Microsoft’s market value and book value is primarily due to unrecorded intangible assets such as brand value‚ customer loyalty‚ human capital‚ and commercial advantages such as long-term contracts and market dominance. These intangible assets confer Microsoft a tremendous edge over its
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than to maximize their own profit. This view is called “Shareholder Theory”. Friedman argued that a company should have no social responsibility to the public or society because it’s only concern is to increase profits for itself and for its shareholders. He states that‚ when companies concern themselves with the community rather than focusing on profits‚ it leads to totalitarianism. In this traditional view of the firm‚ the shareholders or stockholders are the owners of the company‚ and the firm
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Nintendo-The Launch of Game Boy Color Peter MacDougall‚ president of Nintendo Canada‚ was highly anticipating the launch of the Nintendo Game Boy color version across North America and Europe on November 23‚ 1998. This launch was one of the most significant in Nintendo’s history; sales had declined from 1992-1996‚ but had finally started to recover in 1997. The responsibility of the Canadian release was paced on MacDougall‚ and although he planned on utilizing some elements of the U.S. launch
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“Delivering Happiness”‚ by Tony Hsieh‚ the founder and CEO of Zappos. Envision‚ create‚ and believe in your own universe‚ and the universe will form around you-biggest driver for developing the passion to serve one’s purpose There are a few key things that I took away from Delivering Happiness‚ and summarized below: 1. People Matter : Employees and customers alike are REALLY important * Zappos attributes much of its success to its investment into customer service‚ culture‚ and employee
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Value Chain Model 4. Porter’s Value Chain Model Analysis for PERODUA 5. Conclusion 6. References Porter’s Five Forces Model Overview Figure 1 : Porter’s Five Forces Model • Also known as competitive forces model developed by Michael E. Porter in 1979 to understand how the five competitive forces impacting an industry. • • An analysis tool to determine the profitability of an industry and develop a firm’s competitive strategy. As a framework that classifies and analyses the most important forces
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Impact of Information Technology on Financial Performance of Banks 1.0 Introduction As an emerged business trend‚ the vast applications of information technology (IT) on economic organizations are immense and immeasurable. Organizational systems and functions are now considered effortless and unproblematic because of Information Technology (IT). IT also expanded the opportunities concerning product development processes or innovations that provide organizations with cost and competitive advantages
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licensing program with six retail companies Started selling Nintendo systems in New York 1988- Sales reached 7 million; licensed to 31 American software companies 1990- Nintendo had 90% of market share worldwide 1991- Increased to 100 licensees; rescinded its exclusivity requirements 1992- Nintendo had 40% market share (Sega with 60%) Left alliance they had with Sony 1996- Launched Nintendo 64 in Japan and US (had 3D capabilities) Nintendo had 41% market share (Playstation with 49%) 2001- Gamecube
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Financial Management Hubble is a recruitment and management consultancy with based in both UK and Europe. The company provides both basic training and recruitment for junior administrative staffs and management consultancy at senior and strategic level. Hubble has recently entered the continental European market‚ with the senior management taking full responsibility and running of the company. This budget proposal will provide senior management with the required tools and data ‚ to
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investigated under two different approaches on corporate value maximization: Shareholder Approach and Stakeholder Approach. So‚ firstly both approaches are defined briefly. Secondly‚ compare and contrast of shareholder and stakeholder approaches is made. Keywords: Purpose‚ Corporation‚ Value Maximization‚ Shareholder Approach‚ Stakeholder Approach. Shareholder Approach on Value Maximization: Shareholder approach on value maximization focuses the corporation’s purpose on maximizing
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media in various ways; we use it to obtain new information‚ stay informed‚ follow trends‚ and monitor power of the government. Underneath the media that we all so love are the “well-informed” Journalist and the journalism they partake in. I put well-informed in quotes because they are well‚ well-informed but simultaneously not well-informed. Journalist are the ones that go on the hunt for the next big story to inform the public about at a rapid pace. Every day the media spews out news whether it’s current
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