Benchmarking Thor Industries’ Inventory Management - Group 2 Teddy Dwork‚ Alexa Esquivel‚ Noelle Fennessy‚ Alec Madow‚ Marc Milgrim 1. Inventory Share of Total Assets Net Accts Rec. Share of Total Assets Gross Profit Percentage (GP/Sales) SG&A Percentage (SG&A/Sales) 2008 15.3% 14.7% 12.2% 6.7% 2007 16.0% 16.7% 12.7% 6.2% 2. 2008 5.8% 13.2% 20.2 25.3 2007 6.9% 17.6% 22.7 24.7 Return on Sales = EBIT/Revenue Return on Equity = NI/Inv Days Receivable = AR/(sales/365) Days Inventory= (Avg Inv/COGS)
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Chapter 7 Homework Solutions Q7-1 Absorption and variable costing differ in how they handle fixed manufacturing overhead. Under absorption costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a product cost and hence is an asset until products are sold. Under variable costing‚ fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a period cost and is expensed on the current period’s income statement. Q7-2 Selling and administrative expenses are treated as period costs under both variable costing and absorption
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Solutions to Homework Assignments: Chapter 4 6. Are all capital gains (gains on the sale or disposition of capital assets) taxed at the same rate? Explain. No. If a taxpayer holds a capital asset for a year or less the gain is taxed at ordinary tax rates. If the taxpayer holds the asset for more than a year before selling‚ the gain is generally taxed at a maximum 15% rate but could be taxed as high as 20% for high income taxpayers. If the taxpayer sells more than one capital asset during the year
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I-INTRODUCTION / STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM a-) Introduction: Luxury hotel segment is getting more competitive. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts have been competing in this segment more than 25 years with its distinctive individual hotel brands. On the contrary‚ guests want to see one unique brand‚ same quality and service at every hotel that they stay under one corporate brand name. One corporate brand strategy help companies increase their retention rate‚ make multi-cross selling and have loyal
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An expense is normally incurred by a firm to generate sales‚ e.g. promotional expenses which are selling expenses which are directly related to the generation of sales. Most of the expenses normally form a part of operating expenses and are included in ‘cost of sales’. It may either be raw materials‚ labor‚ etc.‚ or capitalized assets which are either depreciated or amortized over a period of time. These are known as matching costs. The other types of costs are ‘period costs’ which are mostly mentioned
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MARKETING STRATEGY Ryanair case What is your assessment of Ryanair launch strategy? From my point of view‚ the strategy implemented by Ryanair was perfect because it is focused on capturing those passengers who have the price as the main criterion in choosing the mean of transport. There is a wide difference between the fare of the air companies with the ferry or rail giving rise to another variables‚ as comfort or no time‚ do not influence by the time of the decision-making. However‚ Ryanair
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• If Franchisees buy things from informal sources or the above confinement on wellsprings of supply is unenforceable‚ sovereignties are forced or (if eminences are as of now part of the framework) balanced upward significantly to compensate for lost income at the Franchisor/partner level. • If Franchisees don’t get deals/item buy shares‚ they can lose their regional rights‚ be ended and/or ineligible for reestablishment. • If you are uncomfortable with the working association with a Franchisee
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RESEARCH TOPIC An In-depth-study of OTC medicine segment of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry with special emphasis on consumer behavior RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Macro objective To study the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry as a whole Micro objectives To understand the consumer’s attitude towards OTC products of the pharmaceutical industry To understand the healthcare products’ contribution and also its effects on pharmaceutical market To determine the extent to which the respondents prefer self-medication
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Partnerships Based on your reading of chapters three and four‚ define public and private partnerships. Discuss the rationale for utilizing public-private partnership in business ventures. Give examples of public-private sport partnerships‚ how revenues and expenses are assessed and how money is made. Discuss sport stadium financing and construction. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of privatization. ESSAY 2-Hiring Personnel Based on the reading in chapter six‚ outline and discuss the basic
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Dilemmas Case Studies Professional Accountants in Business December 20112 Contents Introduction ...............................................................................................................................3 Case Study 1...............................................................................................................................5 Pressure to overstate stock valuation ...................................................................................5 Case Study 2
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