JUST FOR FEET‚ INC. CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1) Prepare common-sized balance sheets and income statements for Just for Feet for the period 1996-1998. Also compute key liquidity‚ solvency‚ activity‚ and profitability ratios for 1997-1998. Given these data‚ comment on what you believe were the high-risk financial statement items for the 1998 Just for Feet audit. 2) Just for Feet operated large‚ high-volume retail stores. Identify internal control risks common to such businesses. How should these
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with the long-run objective‚ NetFlix is to attract as many as new clients‚ sustain them as paid as long as possible‚ enlarge its market shares in the DVD rental business‚ and finally make the firm go public. In order to achieve its long-run objectives‚ Netflix offers various services to increase their customers’ loyalty. For example‚ when the customer first becomes a membership‚ he or she can enjoy a one-month free trial with unlimited DVDs. At the same time‚ Netflix takes advantage of the Marquee
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Netflix Looks to Bounce Back from PR Nightmare Netflix is alive again despite a PR debacle in 2012 that nearly sunk the company as a whole when it increased its monthly subscription from a flat $9.99 rate to two separate $7.99 online streaming and DVD rental packages just over a year ago. CEO Reed Hastings calmed the storm by cancelling the upcharge in an attempt to regain its lost subscribers. In an early 2012 interview‚ Hastings noted that “a full brand recovery‚ as we said before‚ will take multiple
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The two multinational corporations I am researching are Amazon and Netflix. Amazon is the largest online retailer and Netflix is an industry giant in the movie streaming or DVD rental business. Both began as small companies with fewer than 100 employees and now are multi-billion dollar corporations as a result of their innovation and their desire to be elite. Amazon’s mission statement is “to be earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy
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the fortunes of Netflix‚ Redbox‚ Hulu and others have been on the rise. It’s the same thing that’s been happening to the newspaper and publishing industries; new and more efficient business models have emerged‚ making previous models increasingly obsolete. Netflix’s rental-by-mail model and Redbox’s $1 DVD kiosks have clearly won‚ but so have the online video distribution models that Netflix‚ Hulu‚ YouTube and others have pioneered. In a word‚ Blockbuster is the past; Netflix‚ Redbox and online
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Case Study Questions Clarkson Lumber Company The Clarkson Lumber Company case is divided into 3 parts. Part I deals with assessing the financial performance of the firm. For this section you need to able to understand why Clarkson Company is so short of funds despite its record of profitable operations and‚ in this connection‚ develop the distinction between profits and cash requirements. An important contribution in this part is to emphasize the dichotomy between accounting income and cash
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Sep 19 Student Name: Miao Wang Net ID: mxw142330 Case Study 1 Biopure Case Questions: 1. Hemopure: a. Identify relevant market segments and speculate whether the product is valuable to each segment at the suggested prices ($600-$800) As the case said the Biopure in human market‚ sometime the Hemopure could be $600-$800 per unit‚ which is very higher price than the Oxyglobin. This high price product which relevant market segments should be taken this price level ‚ following the attach Exhibit
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Philip Andersen Questions Assume that one of Philip’s clients is a married man‚ aged 36 with two young children‚ who wishes to reallocate a significant portion of his retirement funds that are currently invested in certificates of deposit. Philip recommends a growth investment‚ and he identifies the three representative possibilities shown in Table A. Table A Three Investment Alternatives Alternative A Alternative B Alternative C Investment Growth fund from a large investment company
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BUSINESS POLICY SPRING TERM 2012 BUS 450 Questions for the Next Several Cases Friday‚ February 24 Case: Competition among NA Warehouse Clubs (case 4 in text) 1. What is competition like in the North American wholesale club industry? Which of the five competitive forces is strongest and why? Use the information in Figures 3.4‚ 3.5‚ 3.6‚ 3.7‚ and 3.8 (and the related chapter discussions on pp. 57-70) to do a complete five-forces analysis of competition in the North American
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Bellagio Questions Name: Sam Clark Bellagio Questions 1. Focus on three key roles at mainly three levels of authority in the casino—blackjack dealers‚ pit bosses‚ and the vice president of table games. How would you characterize the “control strategy” (e.g.‚ tight vs. loose) used over each of these roles? 2. Prepare a list of the controls described in the case. What control problems are they designed to address? Are the managers interviewed for the case justified in being proud of their
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