California Pizza Kitchen Chris Schroeder FI 602: Financial Strategy and Valuation Fang Chen September 21‚ 2012 Introduction In July of 2007‚ California Pizza Kitchen (CPK)‚ a casual dining pizzeria started in California by co-owners Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax‚ was faced with the decision to invest in a stock repurchase program. Led by Chief Financial Officer Susan Collyns‚ the financial team of CPK was reviewing the preliminary results for the second quarter to determine if the stock
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OSCILLOSCOPE ANALYSIS AND CONNECTIVITY Adding Live Oscilloscope Data to Popular Analysis Software Includes Excel‚ Visual Basic‚ MATLAB and LabVIEW Examples MADE EASY Copyright Tektronix Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed software products are owned by Tektronix or its suppliers and are protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. LabVIEW and LabWindows™/CVI are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Mathcad is a registered trademark of MathSoft
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ABC Company Internal Audit Manual Internal Audit Manual Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS...................................................................................... .....2 CHARTER......................................................................................... ....................5 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................5 ORGANISATION AND BOARD REPORTING....................................
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| Achieving Operational Excellence | Identifying supply chain management solutions | | home | 11/15/2009 | Is one of the suppliers they should use to order their gas tanks Global sources will approximately take 2 days to arrive and will cast 4 $ a gas tank to ship to Colorado. CycleBuy.com is another manufature I suggest‚ and their shipping would be their over night for 5$ a gas tank . 2. I2 helps automotive companies define a global process for demand and supply balancing and
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THE MANUAL EPICTETUS The Handbook is a guide to daily life. Epictetus focuses his attention on how to practically apply oneself on a philosophical level. The primary theme in this short work is that one should expect what will happen and wish it to happen so. The other motif that appears is Epictetus’ opinion on the judgment of events: What upset people are not things themselves‚ but their judgments about the things. For example‚ "death is nothing dreadful or else it would have appeared dreadful
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Operational CRM simply defined are systems and processes that support the “front office” daily operations that focus solely on the customer base of an organization or entity (Baltzan & Philips‚ 2010). Increasing competition and decreasing customer loyalty have led to the emergence of concepts that focus on the nurturing of customer relationships (Henning‚ et al. 2003). With Operational CRM systems one can improve the efficiency of CRM business processes and comprise solutions for sales force
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OPERATIONAL ISSUES are the issues arising in the process of how something is done‚ these are the 4 types of operational issues; Security of data: protecting a database from destructive forces and unwanted actions of unauthorised users. Backups: process of copying or archiving data so that it may be used to restore the original after data is lost. Health and safety: regulation and procedures intended to prevent accidents or injuries in the workplace or public environment. Business continuity
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PIZZA HUT & VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS: About Value Chain Analysis: Value Chain Analysis describes the activities that take place in a business and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the business. A value chain identifies and isolates the various economic value adding activities such as differentiating a product‚ lowering the cost‚ and meeting need quickly that occur some way in every firm. It portrays activities required to create value for customers of a given product or service
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information‚ sold information and delivery information. Management information system Input: data from TPS Processes: use the data to summarize into report. Output: the report present the employee performance‚ the time to make pizza and delivery to customers. Besides‚ report present the profit and loss. Decision support system Input: data from TPS and external data Processes: managers analyze data. Output: analyze customer’s favor and sales feature. Managers
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Preparatory Questions for California Pizza Kitchen 1. In what ways can Susan Collins facilitate the cusses of CPK? 2. Using the scenarios in case Exhibit 9‚ what roles does leverage play in affecting the return on equity (ROE) for CPK? What about the cost of capital? a. Leverage increases Beta for the firm since debt to equity ratio increases from unlevered beta. We use 10 year Treasury bond as our risk free rate and for market risk premium we use current prime lending rate for June 2007
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