Assurance of Learning Exercise 1A‚ (Step 4) A SWOT analysis of McDonalds restaurant industry reveals that they have a lot of strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats. To start 3 strengths would include brand names‚ locations and localized menu options. Brand items of McDonalds keep the competition from copying their products‚ for example‚ the happy meal‚ Big Mac‚ egg McMuffin are all brand name items of McDonalds. McDonalds maintains 42% of the United States hamburger business. Location
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strategically to be more competitive in the industry that they are in. In choosing which areas of the SWOT Analysis to discuss in this paper I have taken the financial side into perspective. For the Strength I have chosen - Our financial position and credit rating are good. For the Weakness I have chosen – Lack of a formal budget process results in expenses. For the Opportunities I have chosen – Most of our customers use us for only part of what our products can be used for. For the Threats I have chosen
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Enterprise Risk Report (ERR). In ERR‚ it mainly includes the overall PGB’s risk profile and status of risk mitigation implementation. Moreover‚ PGB INTERISK system will record all the updates such as risk mitigation actions‚ unexpected risk events and risk rating from its business. During this long process‚ we do find many clues in internal control statement of PGB annual report 2011 that PGB relies on many control mechanisms in its risk management to mitigate its financial risk. As the gas processing and
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Credit repair has the power to transform your financial life and help you meet creditor guidelines. We are in a period of hard economic times. For the last three years lenders have tightened their requirements. Consumers everywhere are finding it difficult to get home loans‚ automobile financing‚ and even credit cards. Millions of credit cards holders have been contacted by their creditors and told that their credit limits have been reduced‚ and in many cases even informed that their cards have been
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Q.No. 4: Using Hudson Bancorp¶s estimates of the costs of debt and equity in case Exhibit 8‚which rating category has the lowest overall cost of funds? Do you agree with HudsonBancorp¶s view that equity investors are indifferent to the increases in financial risk acrossthe investment-grade debt categories?There is a general concept that higher rating category willhavethe lowest cost of debt. Butrating categories only give the information about the default risk and loss in case of companydefault.
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1) Overview / Introduction Diageo was created when Grand Metropolitan‚ plc and Guiness‚ plc merged in 1997. While the Diageo name is not well known to consumers‚ its brands are among the most famous including Guinness‚ Smirnoff‚ Johnnie Walker and Cuervo. The company recently decided to focus on a strategy to grow through its spirits‚ wine and beer businesses and divest of its Pillsbury and Burger King subsidiaries. This case study will focus on the proposed capital structure decisions of Diageo
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Hertz A: 1. CD&R pursued Hertz for three years only to find itself facing an auction and a complicated deal. Is it worth it? • It is worth it. Because hertz is a mature company with predictable cash flows. Such acquisition provides a great opportunity to generate decent return on equity to sponsors • CD&R had access to available debt avenues to make the company grow • CD&R was able to make operating changes and improve the companies efficiency 2. What are the
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(2001-2007)-Analyzes the housing bubble‚ credit default swaps and subprime mortgages. Part 3: The crisis- Shows the effect of the financial crisis. Describes the recession of 2007-2008‚ stock market plummeting‚ lack of credit available by banks‚ global implications etc. Part 4: Accountability- Tope executives were able to walk away with no consequences and academia continued supporting bank deregulation. Part 5: Where we are now?- No major reform made on credit rating agencies‚ explains Obama financial
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1.5.4 Transaction Risks Having our operations overseas means that we are also exposed to a ‘transaction risk’. Transaction risks include also risks involved in borrowing or lending money denominated in a foreign currency since these would involve interest and principle repayments in foreign currency. We are exposed to transaction risk as when we issued the corporate bond and also when we build a new plant (which is a real investment to us) in Vietnam‚ a foreign country. This is because with
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* An ISO 9001:2008 Company INDUSTRIAL PROFILE To collect and disseminate both domestic as well as international marketing intelligence benefits of MSMEs. This cell‚ in addition to spreading awareness about various programmers/schemes for MSMEs‚ will specifically maintain database and disseminate information on the following. National small industries corporation (NSIC)‚ AN ISO 9001: 2008 certified company and a govt. of India enterprise has been working to fulfill
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