Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper: Microsoft Corporation Team A: Chris Brooks‚ Elsa Gutierrez‚ Christina Perez‚ Jose Villarreal Kristen Walker‚ and Thomas Woodard FIN/370 Ruth Smith March 30‚ 2015 Financial management is important for any successful business. Good financial management requires proper planning and keeping up with the conditions of the business’ finances situation through ratio analysis and other performance measures. These analysis are done to ultimately keep up with
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Ratio analysis Track software‚Inc. ------------------------------------------------- Actual industy Average TS:Time series Ratio 2008 2009 2009 CS:Cross sectional | | | | Net working $21000capital | $58000 | $96000 | TS:ImprovingCS:Poor | Current 1.06 ratio | 1.16 | 1.82 | TS:ImprovingCS:Poor | Quick 0.63ratio | 0.63 | 1.10 | TS:ImprovingCS:Poor | Inventory 10.40Turnover
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APPLE INC. SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats in a business. It involves identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve an objective. Strengths: Attributes of a company that are helpful to achieve the objective. 1: Apple is a very successful company. Sales of its iPod music player had increased its profits. So iPod gives the company access to a whole new series
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Ahmed Alqahtani Food Inc – Summary The documented film "Food‚ Inc." rapt by Robert Kenner opens with the sentence‚ "The way we eat has altered in the past 50 years than in the previous 10‚000 years.” Later in the film it’s illustrated that one of the significant deviations in what we eat is that our food source has been flooded with sugar and other advanced carbohydrates. It also highlights that not all the food we consume is good for our health. Some areas of food production such as meat and
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Corporate Governance Analysis Microsoft The CEO: Steven Anthony Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since January 2000. He graduated from Detroit Country Day School‚ Michigan. He later joined Harvard University‚ where he studied Math and Economics. During that time‚ he lived down the hall from Bill Gates‚ Microsoft’s founder and Chairman of the Board. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11‚ 1980 as the first business manager and the 30th employee. His first salary was $50‚000 including 8% of
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EARTHQUAKE 2005: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWAN: It was extremely shocking and traumatic as what happened on the morning of October 08‚ 2005: an earthquake befell as a cataclysmic event in Pakistan’s history to be remembered for a very long to come. So many people were still asleep when suddenly they were jolted awake. All at once they began screaming from houses and apartment blocks‚ confounded and staggering as repeated quakes of 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked the earth. It was Saturday‚ just before 9 a
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Apple‚ inc. and its international business essay I. Introduction 1. Brief Introduction of Apple‚ Inc. and its International Business Apple‚ Inc. was founded in 1977 by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the U.S. At that time‚ the main product of the company was personal computers. After a success in the personal computer field‚ Apple started to expand their product area. They sold Macintosh‚ computer software‚ Pippin‚ video game console‚ Newton‚ world first PDA‚ iPod‚ mp3 player and so on. Some of
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Financial Analysis of Macy’s Inc. and Nordstrom Macy’s Inc. has established itself as a strong player in the retail industry‚ with over 850 Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores in 45 states. Macy’s competes against retail giants like Nordstrom‚ Kohl’s‚ JC penny and Saks Fifth Avenue for market share in the increasingly competitive department store industry. This financial report will choose Nordstrom as the major competitor‚ and serves as the comparison company. The annual report and 10-K filings
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Executive Summary This paper examines financial ratio analysis by defining‚ the three groups of stakeholders that use financial ratios‚ the five different kinds of ratios used and their applications‚ the analytical tools used in analysis‚ and finally financial ratio analysis limitations and benefits. The paper illustrates that financial ratio analysis is an important tool for firm’s to evaluate their financial health in order to identify areas of weakness so as to institute corrective measures
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lightweight compressor to the production run (Figure 2 below). We were then asked to consider‚ question 3‚ “What production plan for standard and light weight compressors would result in the highest financial return for Catawba?” To analyze which capacity mix provided the highest financial returns‚ we examined the following capacity mixes: 1) Maximum capacity of producing all lightweight compressor 2) Maximum capacity of producing all standard compressor 3) Combination of producing standard
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