We decided to group all the retail companies together by understanding that a retail company will have a relatively low collection period and then break them down further based upon our knowledge and research of industry averages. We believe that the Department store is represented by column K. The first aspect that caught our attention was the fact that there was a very large amount of inventory‚ which makes sense because a department store will need to have a continuous flow of inventory in
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THE CASE OF THE UNIDENTIFIED INDUSTRIES West Coast Finance In the Case of the Unknown Industries‚ we matched several industries with their corresponding balance sheets. We used several different methods to come up with our conclusion. An important factor we had to remember was the economic state industries were in their respective year. A. Online Retailer This set of data belongs to the online retailer industry. The most significant categories that helped with our decision was the low inventory
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Alexander Farnell 260058399 19 September‚ 2012 Business Tools – PMBA Response to “The Case of the Unidentified Industries – 2006” INTRODUCTION: “The Case of the Unidentified Industries” challenges the reader to match 14 firms operating in 14 different industries with 14 sets of financial data from the year ending in 2005. This section aims to enlighten the reader about the methodology used to derive the responses shown in the subsequent section. First‚ the industries are placed in
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HBS - The Case of the Unidentified Industries -2006 With The Case of Unidentified Industries‚ William E. Fruhan Jr. wants us to visualize the balance sheets belonging to fourteen unknown companies and connect them with the suitable industries. In order to determine which balance sheets belong to which industry‚ we studied several companies in those industries. Using a number of different sources such as Yahoo Finance‚ Google Finance‚ Wikipedia and Investopedia‚ we were able to the link the unidentified
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The Case of the Unidentified Risks This project takes place in South Australia. In September 2000‚ ACME Fabricators advised its staff that their new factory and offices out in semi rural Angle Vale would be ready for completion by the end of April 2002. ACME was responsible company and liked to keep their premises clean and tidy and their staff happy. The new premises at the Angle Vale were developed on a 4.5 hectare site‚ previously used for grain crops. Consequently‚ ACME decided that significant
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Segmentation in Industrial Product customer: e.g. banks or insurance companies or people who purchase for public authorities. • Product/technology: e.g. fibres for the carpet industry or the clothing industry. • Customer size: e.g. larger customers might receive different ‘treatment’ to smaller customers and this is called ‘key account selling’... Premium719 Words3 Pages The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2006 The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2006 By Masiven From the balance sheet and the financial
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[pic] The case of the unidentified industries – 2006 I tried to match the 14 firms operating in the 14 industries with the 14 sets of financial data presented in Exhibit 1. To identify characteristics of 14 industries in financial data‚ I used ‘Yahoo! Finance’ homepage that enable us to obtain financial information such as balance sheet‚ income statement and cash flow of any firm by one click. First I focused Inventories. Because inventories should be used by manufacturers or retailers
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The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2006 By Masiven From the balance sheet and the financial date given in Exhibition 1‚ I manage to connect the dates with the companies in the following order: 1. The online book seller correspond to balance sheet A‚ due to high inventory turnover but at the same time keeping low inventory‚ high cash and long term debt. 2. The book store chain correspond to balance sheet B‚ due to keeping high inventory‚ high plant and equipment assets‚ and profit
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The Case of the Unidentified Industries—2006 FIRM A- Department Store Chain Looking at the balance sheet of firm A‚ we can notice several things right away. We can see that a large chunk (54%) of its assets is in cash and marketable securities. From this fact we can deduce that this firm does a majority of their business with consumers and not other businesses. On the liabilities side‚ we can see that the company has large percentages of accounts payable and long-term debt (37% and 41% respectively)
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The first one I figured out is “N”- commercial bank. N- there is no inventories in commercial bank. Compare to the other factor‚ accounts receivable occupies the biggest portion about 90 percent‚ which means commercial bank loan money to clients. As a result‚ it has a very long receivable collection period for 4071 days. In the meanwhile‚ clients would save money into commercial bank which lead to high notes payable-73%. There are 3 industries without inventories left.(M‚E‚G) M- In comparison
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