we apply ratio analysis to Unilever based on its annual reports in 2013 and 2011 and compare its 2013 figures to that of L’oreal and P&G‚ two competitive companies in the same industry as follows : 1. Profitability comparisons over time ---Unilever Ratios 2011 2012 2013 Return on equity 0.43 0.45 0.48 Return on assets 0.14 0‚.14 0.16 Net Profit margin 0.13 0.13 0.14 Gross profit margin 0.40 0.40 0.41 Earnings per share 1.46 1.54 1.71 The ROE shows that for each dollar
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Ethical Decision Making Ethics is a set of moral principles that set forth people’s actions when in conflict with having to examine and decide what is right or wrong‚ what is legal or illegal‚ and what is proper or improper to do. Every business action and decision we make during the course of our lives could indicate when a situation has a wrong or right implication. Most people tend to make business ethical decisions based on personal interest‚ economic status‚ professional values‚ and social
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following assignment is based on operations managements within IKAE. The aim of this unit is to analyse the operations functions within the organisation by understanding strategic operations management‚ the operations process and planning and control. “Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services‚ and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. It is also the management of resources‚ the distribution
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Problems 1-3 below‚ submit a non-technical consulting report (approximately ½ a page for each problem) accompanying by a technical appendix. The report should highlight your findings (e.g. business implications) and be prepared as if to be presented to an audience that has little knowledge of quantitative models. The technical appendix should include a formulation of a linear model‚ as we did in class (decisions‚ objective‚ constraints)‚ and standard printouts of the spreadsheet model with an optimal
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO Operations Management Teaching Notes Many students come to this course with negative feelings‚ perhaps because they have heard that the course includes a certain amount of quantitative material (which many feel uncomfortable with)‚ or perhaps because the course strikes them as “how to run a factory.” Others seem to have very little idea about what operations management is. I view the initial meeting with my classes‚ and this first chapter‚ as opportunities to dispel
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CHAPTER I WHAT IS ETHICS? - Each society form a set of rules that establishes the boundaries of general accepted behavior. These rules are often expressed in statements about how people should behave‚ and they fit together to form the MORAL CODE by which a society lives. - The term MORALITY refers to a social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely shared that they become the basis for an established consensus. DEFINITION OF ETHICS: ETHICS – is a set of beliefs about right and
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Derrick Anderson Introduction A decision-making models verbally demonstrates a method used for making team decisions. Rational‚ intuitive‚ combinations‚ and decision support systems are the four models used to make team decisions. These models are used every day when making group decisions. The methods chose by those groups are based on the personalities of the members in the group. The rational decision making method is the method that is more frequently than the others‚ it is the most rational
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Saint-Gobain Containers Andrew Vaccarezza Ryan Russell 05/17/2007 INTRODUCTION 3 BACKGROUND 3 STUNNING FIGURES 4 OPERATIONS OF THE GLASS MAKING PROCESS 5 RAW MATERIALS 5 MELTING 6 CONDITIONING 6 FORMING 7 ANNEALING 8 INSPECTION 9 PACKAGING 10 CONCLUSION 10 Introduction Saint-Gobain Containers is one of the leading glass packaging companies for the food and beverage industry. Employing over 4‚000 people and having 14 locations in North America‚ Saint-Gobain Containers
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As consumers of myriad products we make decisions every moment‚ at times without realizing that we have actually taken one. Everyday people make consumer decisions on what cuisine to devour on a particular day‚ where to spend money on the next holiday vacation or simply how much in groceries do you need to buy for this week. Thus consumer decision making process can be defined as the manner in which a buyer identifies or recognizes his requirements‚ gathers the necessary information related to his
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Operations Management in Health Care Operations management is the organizing and controlling of the fundamental business activity of providing goods and services to customers (Encarta‚ 2005). In the healthcare industry‚ operations management generally focuses on providing a service of healthcare to patients. An organization has three basic functional areas‚ and theses are: finance‚ marketing‚ and operations (Operations Management‚ 2004‚ p.4). Since operations is one of the three basic functions
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