beirut | FINANCE 210 CASE | PEPSI VS. COCA COLA | Instructor: Leila Atwi | | 12/12/2010 | Raneem Jaffal (Ratio Computation) Jana Haounji (Ratio Analysis) Alexandra Aboulhosn (Recommendations and Comparison) This is a financial comparison between Pepsi and Coca Cola in terms of company liquidity‚ solvency‚ asset management‚ profitability‚ and valuation between the years 2008 and 2009 respectively. | Part One: Pepsi Ratio Analysis: Pepsi PEPSI RATIOS | | 2009 | 2008 | Percent
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Two general approaches are used for costing products for the purpose of valuing inventories and cost of goods sold. One approach is called absorption costing. Absorption costing is generally used for external financial reports. The other approach called variable costing is preferred by some companies for internal decision making and must be used when an income statement is prepared in the contribution format. Ordinarily absorption costing and variable costing produce different figures for net income
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Advantages and disadvantages of variable costing Many managers use variable costing for internal reporting and decision making since it has number of advantages (Myers par. 1). First‚ on variable costing reports costs are organized by behavior which makes it easier to understand. Also‚ variable costing statements facilitate cost volume profit (CVP) analysis because it separates cost behavior by fixed and variable. Under variable costing‚ changes in inventory or production do not affect the
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Coke and Pepsi are the main pieces of this market. They struggle for over a century to conquer the number one position in the market‚ competing fiercely in last few years‚ following each one’s strategic decisions. Nevertheless‚ something seems to threaten the profitability of these two giants. The increasing share of non-carbonated soft drinks seems to be able to decrease the high margins that once ruled in the CSD’s industry. In this sense‚ what will the future of Coke and Pepsi be? How will
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PEPSICO‚ INC. Custom Supply-Chain Planning Solution Enables PepsiCo to Optimize Manufacturing and Distribution against Seasonal Sales Demand PEPSICO BUSINESS NEEDS AND CHALLENGES PepsiCo approached PCA‚ seeking improvements to how they managed their supply-chain planning and forecasting operations — their ability to optimize manufacturing‚ distribution and warehousing of hundreds of different beverage products and snack foods against seasonal sales projections across European‚ Middle East and
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Advertisement review Product: Diet Pepsi In this review‚ a series of Diet Pepsi advertisements were taken into investigation. Since 2011‚ the drink has been endorsed by the 40-year-old American-based Columbian actress‚ Sofia Vergara. In 2013‚ Vergara was featured in a series of two TV commercials‚ namely Toast and Come on. The slogan for this promotional campaign is “Love Every Sip”. As part of the promotional campaign‚ Vergara also briefly appears in an episode of the Ellen Degeneres Show‚ a
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Financial Analysis of Pepsi Co. Pepsi Co. was Created and developed in 1898. It was first introduced as "Brad’s Drink" to be later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on June 16‚ 1903‚ 60 years later removing the “Cola” and leaving just Pepsi. "Brad’s Drink" got its name in New Bern‚ North Carolina‚ United States‚ in 1898‚ after his creator‚ Caleb Bradham He made it in his home where the drink was sold. It was later labeled Pepsi Cola‚ named after the digestive enzyme and kola nuts used in making the beverage
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The Pepsi commercial is about selling a soda‚ a coke‚ there’s no real reason behind it. It begins insulting other cultures (as told by viewers on social media) by showing several racial stereotypes. Then‚ a white‚ famous‚ wealthy women‚ Kendell Jenner‚ comes out to stop a huge protest by giving the police officers a Pepsi. The SNL commercial makes fun of it‚ pointing out the ridiculesness of the commercial itself. The satire in the SNL commercial points out the racist points of the Pepsi AD by talking
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its doors wide to foreign companies. Both companies experienced a range ofunexpected problems and difficult situations that led them to recognize that competing in India requires special knowledge‚ skills‚ and local expertise. In many ways‚ Coke and Pepsi managers had to learn the hard way that "what works here" does not always "work there." In spring 2003‚ Alex von Behr‚ the president of Coca-Cola India‚ admitted ruefully‚ "The environment in India is challenging‚ but we ’re learning how to crack it
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Supply Chain Management Adel Abou Heneidy Learning objectives To develop understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships: * Basic concepts of logistics and supply chain management * The strategic role of a supply chain * The key strategic drivers of supply chain performance * Analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis 2 Supply Chain Management Adel Abou Heneidy Highlights: • • • • • • • • Understanding the Supply Chain Supply Chain performance: achieving strategic
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