ORGANIZATION SERDAR SERDAROĞLU Fiat’s Strategic Alliance with Tata What is the business opportunity in India? Do you think that Fiat needs a partner? Why? Actually there is a lots of opportunities in India. There is a huge automobile industry in India which was valued at over 26.3 billion USD. Unit sales in the same year exceeded 1.5 million. Passanger vehicle sales is expect to grow 14%-16%. There is a big potential in owned car statistics. It was expected to grow from seven in 1.000 to eleven
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GAAP / IFRS Fiat Group’s first-time adoption of IFRS Differences Between Key Accounting Methods Under Italian GAAP And IFRS What characterizes the differences between the two sets of methods? - Substance over form Example: Recognition of revenue - Less flexibility Example: Recognition of R&D cost - More transparent Main factors that affect management’s reporting incentives and strategy in fiscal year 2005 - Research & Development: Because Fiat main operations are based on the manufacturing
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Question 1 When a project ’s NPV exceeds zero‚ The project should be accepted without any further consideration‚ assuming we are confident that the cash flows and the required rate of return have been properly estimated. Question 2 Which of the following capital budgeting techniques does not adjust for the riskiness of the cash flows? Payback Question 3 A(n) ____ is the return on the best alternative use of an asset‚ the highest return that will not be earned if funds are not invested
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compensation policies‚ ownership structure‚ and the legal environment pose significant challenges to all mergers but especially international business combinations. On 6 May 1998 in London‚ Daimler-Benz of Germany signed a merger agreement with Chrysler Corporation of the United States. This chapter focuses on value creation and destruction‚ and the challenges of an international transaction. Given the favorable market response to the merger‚ we review the potential sources of value creation
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Product Plan Product Plan Joe Veltri Joe Veltri Chrysler Group LLC 2010‐14 Business Plan Chrysler Group LLC 2010 14 Business Plan November 4‚ 2009 Product plan development process Identify consumer & market trends Commercial Industrial I d ti l Controlling Marketing Determine opportunities with our brands Determine optimal use of available platforms • Utilize existing platforms • Common parts/technologies • Speed to market Speed to market Ensure containment
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This need for individualism as a culture affected the overall efforts to combine knowledge and skills. Daimler employees were competitive and resented the Chrysler division. Efforts and goals were not combined and there was a lack of synergy. One of the reasons for the merger was to combine their operations‚ share R&D know-how and joint sales. As a result of the lack of cooperation there were production manufacturing glitches. Manufacturing was not properly streamlined. Both companies had very
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Thiago Antonio Beuron3 Abstract American company Chrysler Corporation due to differences in the organizational cultures involved or due to a so-called ‘clash of culture’. What happens when two successful car producers with different know-how and a different knowledge background‚ different work processes‚ different product portfolios and last but not least‚ completely different corporate cultures decide to merge? Daimler-Benz and Chrysler wanted to strengthen their position during economically
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Balance Sheet Analysis The Chrysler Group’s current assets continue to increase at a normal rate from year to year. This is good news for any company‚ but especially for Chrysler since they recently came out of a financial crisis. If you look at the balance sheet for the Chrysler Group‚ after computing the common-size and percentage change analysis‚ you are able to configure that the current assets steadily increase around 15% each year. Also‚ the total assets increase almost to a total of 10%
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Case Study 17 Chrysler Chrysler Corp was established in 1929 ( by Walter P. Chrysler) during the time when the auto industry had just began to bloom. During the depression‚ smaller more specialized companies began to disappear and the larger companies began to consolidate and buy up some of their smaller competitors. It was at this point in time that the Big Three emerged (Ford‚ GM‚ and Chrysler). It was also around this time that the UAW (United Auto Workers Union) was established‚ and this
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DID CHRYSLER MAKE THE RIGHT OUTSOURCING DECISION? On April 4‚ 2008‚ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)‚ a leading global information technology services provider‚ announced it had signed a multi-year‚ multimillion dollar outsourcing contract to provide Chrysler LLC with a comprehensive set of information technology services. Was this a good move for Chrysler? Tata Consultancy Services is a unit of the Tata Group‚ and a sister division to Tata Motors‚ a company that will compete in India – and potentially
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