INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT BACHELARS OF SCIENCE BANKING AND FINANCE CLEMENT MUMBO STUDENT NUMBER BFIN-0521043 THIRD YEAR SECOND SEMISTER LECTURER- MR. GIBSON KAPILI 26TH September‚ 2013 QUESTION 1 Describe Fundamental analysis. QUESTION 2 Describe steps involved in fundamental analysis Introduction This assignment aims at describing fundamental analysis and then describes the steps involved in fundamental analysis. Fundamental
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Sephora. Aim: To offer Sephora a detailed service improvisation package that will facilitate the enhancement of their service delivery. This in turn will enhance the outcome of their marketing activities‚ ultimately resulting in a better‚ more satisfied customer base. Therefore leading the company in a more systemized direction. Introduction: Dominique Mandonnaud founded Sephora in France in 1969. Sephora was originally called Shop 8‚ but Dominique Mandonnaud re-named Shop 8. In 1993 Mandonnaud
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bathrooms in the luxury field? What was its strategy? How can they improve their sales and market share? Those are the question that we tried to answer‚ with some theoretical aspects as the five competitive forces and the value chain or Porter or even the SWOT analysis‚ without forgetting the PESTEL study and some concrete examples. By analysing the whole environment of Boffi‚ we could finally know why is this firm so different from others‚ why the crisis hasn’t influence that much its activity
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Q.1: a) PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS & PORTER’S VALUE CHAIN TECHNIQUES. Michel porter(1998) provided a frame work that models an industry as being influenced by five forces. This simple tool that supports strategic understanding where power lies in a business situation. It also help to understand both the firms current competitive position‚ &strength of a position that the company looking to move in to. Five forces diagram in the (Appendices 1.1). Threat of new entrants:
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impact. To assess how each of the market drivers impact‚ this tool serves to be handy. Companies like Haier are known to study the markets they wish to approach thoroughly and deeply before they make a move and it is in this perspective that this analysis is undertaken further. Industry Rivalry All the white goods manufacturers are engaged in severe competitive rivalry‚ hence this point is especially true for Haier. Threat of competitiors is hence very high. Haier cannot take its position in the market
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Sephora and Ulta are two very popular makeup stores around the United States. People have different opinions on them as it states in the ratings. Sephora has a rating of 3.4 stars‚ and Ulta has 4 stars. They both sell good quality makeup even if they are all different brands. Sephora and Ulta are different in many ways. For example‚ Sephora has a higher end of makeup brands like Laura‚ Mercier‚ Dior‚ and Nars. On the other hand‚ Ulta has more of a drug store products. Ulta also has more hair products
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BPL 5100 Business Policy (Spring 2010) Mid-term Exam Name: Section: OQ13C Please finish the exam within 120 minutes. It is open book and open notes. Part I Multiple Choices (Please use RED color to mark your answers): Question 1 to 20: Each is 3 points; Question 21 to 30: Each is 2 points. 1. The four key attributes of strategic management include the idea that A. Strategy must be directed toward overall organizational goals and objectives B. Strategy must be focused on long-term objectives
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1. PESTEL: Strategic analysis is basically concerned with the structuring of the relationship between a business and its environment. The external environment which is dynamic and changing holds both opportunities and threats for the organizations. The organizations while attempting at strategic realignments‚ try to capture these opportunities and avoid the emerging threats. So it is very important for organizations like Intel to study and understand about the external environment. To do this
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02/13/2013 BUA 560 SEPHORA CASE SEPHORA PLATFORM 1. Assuming that Bornstein gets additional funding‚ how should she consider allocating across the various digital platforms/categories? Given that the additional funding request must be shifted from traditional marketing‚ what would you propose to cut and why? Please state your rationale based on their customer base for all decisions. Before deciding which funding should get cut‚ we need to check out the analytical metrics of traditional
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First Written Analysis Assignment CASE #10: eBAY‚ Inc.: Bidding for the Future – page 142 of case book. Case analysis puts you in the shoes of those faced with actual managerial situations and forces you to make decisions as managers based on limited information and a finite time frame. Your objective is to appraise the situation from a top manager’s perspective‚ by asking the following: 1) What factors are critical to understanding the current situation?
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