of 2007 has not looked to well for Home Depot. The company has seen a 3% decline in revenues and that resulted in a 21% decrease in earning as compared to the last half of 2006. The prudence concept is the accounting concept that best describes the situation that Home Depot is currently facing. The prudence concept is an approach that does not report revenues until they have been realized or very certain to be realized (Edmonds‚ Tsay‚ & Olds‚ 2011). Home depot 3% decline in revenues in the first
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Financial Reporting of the Coca Cola Company ACC/290 November 27‚ 2012 Financial Reporting of the Coca Cola Company When looking at a company’s financial statements‚ such as the Coca Cola Company‚ one piece of important information that should not be overlooked is the total current assets. Kimmel‚ Weygandt‚ and Kieso describe current assets as “assets that a company expects to convert to cash or use up within one year or its operating cycle‚ whichever is longer” (2009). The total current assets
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In 1979 Bernie Marcus and Arthur Black opened their first Home Depot store in Atlanta‚ GA. The mission of Home Depot was to create a superstore for home improvement that would offer customers a variety of products at a low price that other hardware stores would not be able to match. Managers were able to order and stock products that meet the needs of their local and regional customers. Jones (as cited by Pearson‚ 2013) states “when the authority to make important decisions about organizational
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HOME DEPOT‚ INC. IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Question 1: Estimation of intrinsic value of Home Depot’s stock as of Feb 1‚ 2001 To simplify the question‚ let’s Supppose ROE of Home Depot Inc would be constant during the following years as 20%: β=1.09 Re=Rf+β(ROE-Rf)=5.99%+1.09*6.5%=12.97% By doing this we assume: the Market risk premium during 2001 would be 6.4%. Acctually‚ according to the lecturer‚ the risk premium during year 1998-2008 should be within the range of 4% to 8%. Therefore the
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Communicating at Home Depot The company has a plan to install hire new staff to install curtain rods. This requires expert guidance on kitchen modeling; hence the company to hire a new staff in order to provide a helping hand. In addition‚ the co-founders‚ Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus have to design a retail culture to tackle the Home Depot improvement and repair projects by hiring contractors. In addition‚ the company has realized the need to serve the needs of professional
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1. Calculate the current ratio for y/e 2/1/09 and y/e 1/31/10 The current ratio for year ending 2/1/09 is 1.20:1=$13‚362/$11‚153. The current ratio for year ending 1/31/10 is 1.34:1=$13‚900/$10‚363. Reference: Pg. A-4‚ Consolidated Balance Sheets‚ Current Assets & Current Liabilities or Pg. A-12‚ 10-Year Summary of Financial and Operating Results‚ Balance Sheet Data and Financial Ratios 2. What were the diluted earnings per share for y/e 2/3/08? The diluted earnings for year ending 2/3/08
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Supply chain has never been Home Depot’s key strategic priorities in the past. Instead‚ the Atlanta-based home improvement’s management had always been focusing on expanding its stores. At the time‚ the company’s emphasis on expansion was appropriate considering the history of massive growth. What originally helped Home Depot’s growth was a decentralized business model where stores were populated with highly knowledgeable sales persons with backgrounds in various building trades. Regional and store-level
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INDIVIDUAL CASE ANALYSIS Home Depot Security Breach Prepared By ADAEZE ‘DAISY’ OCHIEZE PRESENTED TO Dr. C. Harben MBA 6090 Strategy Design and Implementation FALL 2014 Contents Introduction 3 Decision Makers 4 Problem Statement 4 Identify Alternatives 4 Analysis of Alternatives 5 Alternative One 5 Alternative Two 6 Alternative Three 7 Alternative Four 7 Alternative Five 8 Recommendation 9 Implementation 9 Evaluation 10 Generalization 11 References 12 Introduction Founded
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Speech Scope of the 1980’s During the 1980’s‚ the South African government was under immense pressure. Both internally due to an increase in resistance‚ as well externally due to an intensification of international pressure through sanctions and various campaigns. In order to combat this‚ the government introduced a policy of “Total Onslaught - Total Strategy.” This policy introduced a number of reforms in the hope of winning the support of non-white South African’s in an attempt to undermine
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The future value of Home Depot is simply the principle time value of money that is calculated to estimate the demand for future payments demand over the risk free rate of interest. The rate of discount is nothing but the summation of time value of money as proposed by the appropriate rate of interest. This aims towards increasing the nominal value of future returns. At 8% rate of risk‚ the company expressed an ideal future value of negative 425.78 million while the company would ideally prefer
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