ROLE OF THE PURCHASING AGENT IN INVENTORY MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT Inventory ties up the largest amount of cash in companies‚ and inventory management decisions directly influence the purchasing function. As these activities fall under the supply chain management umbrella‚ managers cannot act independently pursuing an objective that is going to satisfy one department. Instead‚ managers foster teamwork and cooperation not only within their own company‚ but also between their company and the company’s
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Corporate Finance Nike‚ INC: Cost of capital 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? Definition of WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital): WACC is basically the average of the cost of finance (debt and equity). Since a company’s assets can be financed by debt or equity‚ WACC can show the averages of the costs involved in the sources of financing. These costs are then weighted
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1. Describe how Purchasing interacts with other functional areas of the company. The strategic role of purchasing is to perform source-related activities in a way that supports the overall objectives of a business. It can make many contributions to the success of that organization through its key role as one of the organizations’ boundary-spanning functions. Purchasing can gain important information about new technologies‚ potential new materials or services‚ new source of supply‚ and changes
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Wise Purchasing Decision � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �5� Wise Purchasing Decision A Definition Essay Albert W.Kayper-Mensah once said‚ "A crown is a hat‚ but you don ’t buy that‚ when you need a hat." Making wise purchasing decisions can be difficult because there are so many different products on the market today. A wise purchasing decision is not the kind of purchase that is made based off of emotions or impulse; a wise purchasing decision requires you think before the purchase is made‚ during the
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Running Head: Purchasing Power Parity Testing the Evidence of Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange Rates Abstract Investment banks and foreign exchange dealers play important roles in the foreign currency markets. For purchasing power parity to hold in the long run‚ real exchange rates must be stationary. At the heart of the movement of foreign exchange rates is the change in a country’s balance of payments. If purchasing power parity held‚ then the real exchange rate would always equal
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firm’s bond‚ Johanna only used the interest expense of the year divided by the average debt balance‚ which fully ignored the discounted cash flow of the cost of debt. 2. If you do not agree with Cohen’s analysis‚ calculate your own WACC for Nike and be prepared to justify your assumptions. Combining the analysis above‚ we now give our own WACC calculation as following: 2.1 The value of debt(based on EXIHIBIT 3). Since the book value of debt may represent the market value‚ we merely
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CASE STUDY – NIKE CSR (page 70) 1. In referring to the opening profile and the closing for this chapter‚ discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in its supply chains around the world? Answer: There are 5 challenges related to CSR: a. Lack of awareness and benefit of CSR In fact‚ many of companies have little knowledge about CSR. In some cases‚ companies may have a greater understanding of CSR
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to look at the theory behind Purchasing Power Parity PPP‚ and the potential reasons why PPP may not hold. I will then be looking at the value of a can of Coca-Cola in several different countries and demonstrating the variance in price and whether PPP holds‚ therefore giving an indication on whether or not a currency is over or undervalued in relation to a can of coke. I will also be assessing reasons for this variance and relating this back to the theory. Purchasing Power Parity is based on the
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Purchasing Management Assignment Submission date: 26th JUNE 2014 Word count: Purchasing Management Class. Diploma Programme. Lecturer: Bernard Lian Introduction Starbucks Coffee Company was formed in 1971 and now has over 23‚000 stores operating in 64 countries. (Starbucks‚ 2014) The decision of whether to manufacture a product in-house (“make”) or purchase it from outside suppliers/manufacturers (“buy”) can have a significant impact on the operations
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Howard V. Perlmutter (1985)‚ "Strategic Planning for a Global Business‚" Columbia Journal of World Business‚ 20 (2)‚ 3-10. DeTienne‚ Kristen and Lee Lewis (2005)‚ "The Pragmatic and Ethical Barriers to Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: The Nike Case‚" Journal of Business Ethics‚ 60 (4)‚ 359-376. Devlin‚ Godfrey and Mark Bleackley (1988)‚ "Strategic Alliances--Guidelines for Success‚" Long Range Planning‚ 21 (5)‚ 18-23. Dussauge‚ Pierre and Bernard Garrette (1999)‚ Cooperative Strategy: Competing
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