Overview Blades‚ Inc.‚ is a USA based company that has been in corporate in the United States for three years. Blade relatively is a small Company‚ with total assets of only $200 million. The company produces only a single type of roller blade. Ben Holt the CFO of the Blades Inc. Financial Information Total assets of was only $200 million and first year net income of $3.5 million. Return on asset is 7%. It stock price has fallen from high of $20 per share three years ago to $12
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BLADES‚ INC. CASE Assessment of Future Exchange Rate Movements As the chief financial officer of Blades‚ Inc.‚ Ben Holt is pleased that his current system of exporting “Speedos” to Thailand seems to be working well. Blades’ primary customer in Thailand‚ a retailer called Entertainment Products‚ has committed itself to purchasing a fixed number of Speedos annually for the next 3 years at a fixed price denominated in baht‚ Thailand’s currency. Furthermore‚ Blades is using a Thai supplier for some
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Synopsis BPO‚ Inc. is a professional service organization that offers clients a range of services from risk management and insurance to management consulting. The company has grown and profited from the developing trend in the 90’s and 2000’s of companies outsourcing business processes‚ such as human resources and claims processing. Presently‚ BPO has launched a six sigma initiative to identify areas for process improvement and financial savings in the Human Resource Outsourcing department. Concurrently
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Four Star is a mattress manufacturer known for a focus on quality‚ productivity and customer service. In order to meet market demand from customers as well as competition Four Star increased proliferation of mattress varieties offering a total of 230 different model types at one time. This change caused Four Star to experience operational issues and bad inventory management‚ resulting in low profitability and productivity. Of the many problems faced by Four Star‚ proliferation of mattress varieties
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Star and extended star topologies The star topology is the most commonly used physical technology in Ethernets LANS‚ when installed ‚ the star topology resembles spokes I n a bicycle wheel. The star topology is made up of a central connection point that is a device such as a hub‚ switch‚ or router‚ where all the cabling segments meet. Each host in the network is connected to the central devices (switches) with its own cables (we are using Fiber Optic Cable) although a physical star topology costs
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o \ Course: Financial Decision Making Date: 01/26/2012 Investment Analysis and Tri Star Lockheed 1 (A) According to the information provided the pay back time shall be 35000/5000 = 7 years. Formula for net present value NPV is as follows (CALCULATING NET PRESENTVALUE‚ PAYBACK PERIOD‚ AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT): 15 NPV= -35‚000 + ∑ 5‚000 / (1 + 12%) ^ 15 i=1 = $947 The IRR 15 0= -35‚000 + ∑ 5‚000 / (1 + IRR) ^ 15
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RSSWORKS INC Case Memo What business model would be appropriate for the RSS Works? The Business model for RSS Works would be advertising supported content by inserting adds on the feeds posted by RSS and while users are surfing the information they add window will automatically open up and thus revenue can be maximised. And they should combine with Freemium and Enterprise model with this combination the content can be developed more. Rather than going for the option of investing in physical
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Nike Inc. Case 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? WACC is weighted average cost of capital‚ which is the expected rate of return on average from all the company’s existing debts and securities. It takes into account all different types of financing in the company’s capital structure. The reason it is important to estimate WACC is because it measures what it costs the firm to take on a project based on its current Debt and Equity mix. When the
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" Star Empire‚ the new boy - IMFACT lollipop group released their debut music video . Star Empire IMFACT their new boy group is gearing up for the debut . The agency ‚ which manages Zee : A ‚ 9MUSES‚ and former Jewelry member Yewon ( Children of Empire ) ‚ in January 2016 to start a new boy group is planning May this year ‚ a new male group under Star Empire is preparing to make his official debut ! Star Empire Entertainment IMFACT under the five-member male group will release their debut album
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Figure 3(a) shows ripples in the form of contours on the surface of the water‚ which represents the splash formation. Figure 3(b)‚ Illustrates the results from the FEM analysis and the experiments conducted by Kindervater‚ wherein the experimental graphs were passed through 600 Hz SAE [7] filter‚ and FEM was passed through a 1000 Hz filter. Acceleration values for the FEM analysis and the experimental data was 91G and 69G respectively. Figure 3(c) shows the later phase in which a half ‚non-rigid
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