Executive Summary Wanting to add Nike’s share to her portfolio‚ Kimi Ford asked her new assistant‚ Joanna Cohen‚ to estimate Nike’s cost of capital. Cohen‚ later‚ came up with the cost of capital of 8.4% that was contradicted to Ford’s cost of capital of 12%. This report points out flaws of Cohen’s assumption and recalculates the WACC to obtain the most accurate cost of capital. In the cost of equity calculation‚ we will use CAPM‚ the dividend discount model (DDM)‚ and the earnings capitalization
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Total Quality Management is a management style based upon producing quality service as defined by the customer. TQM is defined as a quality-centered‚ customer-focused‚ fact-based‚ team-driven‚ senior-management-led process to achieve an organization’s strategic imperative through continuous process improvement. TQM principles are also known as total quality improvement‚ world class quality‚ continuous quality improvement‚ total service quality‚ and total quality leadership. The word "total" in
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Mini Case: Nike’s Decision Nike‚ a U.S.-based company with a globally recognized brand name‚ manufactures athletic shoes in such Asian developing countries as China‚ Indonesia‚ and Vietnam using subcontractors‚ and sells the products in the U.S. and foreign markets. The company has no production facilities in the United States. In each of those Asian countries where Nike has production facilities‚ the rates of unemployment and underemployment are quite high. The wage rate is very low in those
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Nike has been accused of using child labor in the production of its soccer balls and shoes for Nike in Pakistan. While Pakistan has laws against child labor‚ the government has taken very little action to terminate it. It is said that only a boycott by the United States and other nations will have any impact on child-based industries. In addition‚ the U.S constitution states that child labor is an illegal and inhumane practice and any U.S. company found guilty practicing and encouraging it will
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594 Total current assets 11‚531 11‚297 b. What method does the company use to value inventory? The Notes indicate that NIKE uses “last in first out‚” or LIFO‚ for domestic inventories and “first in first out‚” or FIFO‚ for international inventories c. What depreciation method does the company use? The Notes indicate that NIKE uses the straight line method for buildings and leasehold improvements and the declining balance method for machinery and equipment. As with the
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Historical Recurrence "A favorite theory of mine to wit‚ that no occurrence is sole and solitary‚ but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before‚ and perhaps often”(Twain). This quote from a famous writer‚ Mark Twain‚ talks about how he believes that history can and does repeat itself. Mark is saying that everything takes place for a reason and has occurred sometime before in history. This idea of history repeating itself is present throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Business ethics within business is crucial to the world economy and more importantly to expansion of the MNCs which are growing to meet the needs of the world economy. However there are clear perspectives to take into account when resolving these ethical issues‚ primarily human rights‚ acceptance by the MNCs of foreign cultures and by contrast corruption and exploitation arte closely monitored. Human rights movements are clearly restricted by the United Nations as it prevents any child labour
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Do you think the criticism of Nike is fair‚ considering that the host countries are in dire needs of creating jobs?Yes and no. In a pure capitalist economic system employers will seek to pay workers as little in cash and benefits as possible and will locate his plant in the location that incurs the least cost. That being said there is a certain moral consideration to pay a wage that allows the worker to reasonably support themselves and their dependents. Lastly you should consider Henry Ford’s Famous
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conclude that deregulation is always and everywhere a bad idea would be to engage in the same kind of absolutist thinking that was‚ arguably‚ Milton Friedman’s greatest flaw. 结束放松管制总是和到处都是一个糟糕的想法将从事相同种系谱思考的是，可以说，米尔顿 · 弗里德曼最大的缺点。 “Footwear mogul Nike is still dealing with the back lash of a UK-instigated campaign that accused it of employing child labour in developing countries. It responded proactively with a rigorous CSR initiative‚including the
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