Assignment 6 Yajing Cao 1.Current Market Evaluation of Apple Inc. [pic] [pic] (Charts from Yahoo Finance and YCharts) From the charts above‚ we can find that Apple’s current PE is 16.7‚ much lower than its past five years’ average 23.32. Also‚ its PEG Ratio is 0.64‚ which is a very healthy one. What’s more‚ take Apple’s some key advantages into account: (1) Apple has a strong brand name‚ loyal customer base‚ and defensible installed base. (2) iPod is still a major traffic and revenue
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market share of the company‚ internal and external factors affecting its success and strategies adopted by the company to gain maximum share and retain its old customers. The report also emphasizes on performance of the company in comparison to its financial success in previous year‚ in reference to its competitors and the industry average. Pepsi with the application of BCG has defined its key star product and products which give no revenues‚ thereby improving and developing strategies which can fetch
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Financial Analysis (Submitted by) Abstract The following paper aims at discussing the financial position of the American multinational corporation‚ Apple inc.‚ which designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computers and personal computers mobile communication devices‚ and portable digital music and video players‚ as well as sells various related software‚ services‚ peripherals‚ and networking solutions. Apple Inc. together with subsidiaries sells its products worldwide through its online
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discuss principles of and similarities and differences between financial and management accounting and to highlight how management accounting could be used to improve TVD’s performance. In particular‚ one of the management accounting techniques‚ benchmarking‚ is used as an example of how MA can help a business to run successfully. Today‚ accounting is an important aspect of business. The primary idea is to present financial and non-financial information so that the company can make good decisions and
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Analysis of balance sheet and profit and loss account The whole industry that we have developed considers three companies. Confidence‚ Lafarge surma and the other one is Heidelberg cement. Considering the four year balance sheet and income statement we have got the account for the whole industry. In the horizontal and vertical analysis of the balance sheet we can get the picture of the overall industry. The company Heidelberg cement is increasing its Current Asset account not in terms of receivables
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Consolidated Edison Inc. Time-trend and peer group ratio analysis The first step in analyzing Edison Consolidated INC. was to conduct a time trend analysis‚ in which we compared the different ratios of the firm from the years 2009 to 2011. The results show a decrease of 4.59% in Profit margin‚ which could be attributed to the expansion of the firm and the acquisition of new assets. At the same time the ROE shows an increment of only 0.64%. Equity- multiplier for the firm decreased by 0.09. Based
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of Awree Natcacnotus Inc. The company‚ which operates under US GAAP‚ buys and resells electronics throughout the Pacific Northwest‚ and its fiscal year runs from January 1 to December 31. Its first year of operations was 2011. The Company has one owner‚ Lerriuqs‚ and financial statements and adjustments are prepared only at the end of the year. The accountant has resigned and Lerriuqs has hired you to help with the business’s December transactions and preparation of Financial Statements. The following
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inventory‚ salaries‚ and material‚ and revenue is generated through sales. When revenue are higher than the expenses‚ the company has an operating profit‚ and the company has an operating loss when the expenses exceed the operating revenue. 2) The accounting equation (A=L+SE) is a fundamental business concept. Explain what this equation reveals about a company’s sources and uses of funds and the claims on company resources. The equation reveals how heavily dependent a company is on debt versus owner
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Chieftain International‚ Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and production company. A recent balance sheet reported 208 million liabilities‚ all of which were short-term accounts payable. During the year‚ Chieftain expanded its holdings of oil and gas rights‚ drilled 37 new wells‚ and invested in expensive 3-D seismic technology. The company generated 19 million cash from operating activities and paid no dividends. It had a cash balance of 102 million at the end of the year. A) Name at least two
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Critical analysis Article descriptions The journal article named “The crisis of fair-value accounting: Making sense of the recent debate” is written by Christian Laux and Christian Leuz in Accounting and Organisations and Society journal (2009). Mr Laux works as a professor of finance at the Goethe University in Frankurt and his research has been published in many journals. Mr Leuz works as a professor of International Economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has done
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