KEELE UNIVERSITY KEELE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES ESSAY 2013-14 MAN-40074 Essay title: Tesco Plc. 2012 Annual Accounts compare them with Sainsbury Plc. as appropriate Word Account: 1957 Student Name:SICHEN LU Student ID:1301529701 Module Leader: Professor Istemi Demirag Date of Submission: 2nd December 2013 Introduction Tesco was established in 1919 and now has become the largest retailer in the UK‚ the second largest retailer measured by profits
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The market in which Tesco operates is supermarkets. Although this is a highly competitive one Tesco holds a disproportionate amount of power. The figures below indicate that Tesco holds over a third of the market share‚ and even double the amount of Asda ’s market share‚ the second leading supermarket. Market share is the percentage or proportion of the total available market or market segment that is being serviced by a company ’ (Wikipedia 2006). SUPERMARKET SHARE Tesco: 30.6% Asda: 16.6%
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chosen. The selection of topic was the rationale decision due to two basic reasons. First reason was that the information available on the topic is excessive and vast quantity. The secondary information is readily available in the libraries‚ internet‚ Tescos head office‚ blogs and journals. The second reason for the selection of topic was the access to the management of Tesco’s. The access becomes barrier in most of the selection and the topic. Therefore the rationale decision was taken to consider the
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Tesco & Oxfam Oxfam The two companies I have chosen is Oxfam and Tesco; Tesco’s is one of the biggest companies in the world and is known very well through out the whole of England. The charity I have chosen is Oxfam and the reason I chose this is because it is a well-known charity and company through out the whole of England‚ the charity is working in 94 countries worldwide to help fight poverty. Oxfam was founded in 1942 in oxford; the charity also helps with disaster relief. Oxfam is a Voluntary
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company and its decision. They influence the company’s decisions as they are the main say of it. The owner of the business can be role models for the employees. As the employees watch the owner’s behaviour all the time. Designing the workspace to have a nice environment for the employees to work well in this will increase the efficiency of the company. Influences the aims and objectives of Tesco‚ as they have a large say in the company so therefore most of the aims and objectives that are put through are
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Financial Review. 2013‚ ‘Tesco to form venture with Chinese retail giant’‚ The Australian Financial Review‚ 2 October‚ viewed 4 October 2013‚ Summary According to the Australian Financial Review (2013)‚ Tesco has agreed to form a 20/80 joint venture with China Resource Enterprises. This initiative occurs in the light of the declining retail environment in Europe and aims to combine Tesco’s 134 Chinese branches with 2‚986 outlets from the China Resources Vanguard business. This deal will provide
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pursued by Tesco both before and after the review in 2012 and‚ in doing this‚ show how the company has redefined the markets in which it operates and patterns of marketing thinking across the retail sector. From the beginning of Tesco’s operations‚ the company was following a price leadership strategy accompanied by low cost and pricing. Furthermore‚ as customers began to be more and more demanding‚ the company started doing new investments‚ especially on its physical stores. By this way‚ Tesco aimed
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significance of organizational culture in Tesco Introduction Culture is one of the terms that have been becoming more familiar in the 21st century among the multinational companies all around the world. The world has been shrunken by the fasting travelling and communicating technologies which has brought down the barriers for the organisations having business in international market. But still then there are few barriers that make the international business critical and hard for everyone to succeed
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Human resource planning is the development of strategies for matching the size and skills of the workforce to organizational needs. It assists organizations to recruit‚ retain‚ and optimize the deployment of the personnel needed to meet business objectives and to respond to changes in the external environment. The process involves carrying out a skills analysis of the existing workforce‚ devising manpower forecasting‚ and taking action to ensure that supply meets demand. This may include the development
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|Oxfam Oxfam’s aims and objectives are ….. |Tesco Tesco’s aims and objectives are….. | | |Stakeholders |Description |Point of view and influence on aims and |Description |Point of view and influence on aims and | | | |objectives | |objectives
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