1) What are the key elements of Silver Ship’s strategy? Which of the generic strategies is the company pursuing? Silver Ships’ strategy involves innovation, quality, and location. They provide customers with top quality, uniquely designed ships. They pride themselves in being able to build custom boats with the most superior materials available.
Silver Ships In Class Case September 29, 2011 1. Analyzing Silver Ships using Porter’s Five-Forces will be able to bring forward many key aspects and issues that may about the company as a whole. While assessing the bargaining power of suppliers it is stated within the case that, “nearly all manufactures of military and work boats paid about the same prices for engines, lights, seats, deck cleats, radios, and other fittings.” Having a medium bargaining power level is not a main issue for SS but should be watched closely as the demand for the industry increases. Also, stated in the case that the U.S. Navy, Cost Guard, Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies to place a greater emphasis on littoral patrol, or boats the SS produces. As the demand for these smaller 25-60ft boats increase SS needs to become a driver in the market and industry to remain successful.
Religion for all of these cities were the building blocks for developing their cities into highly populated and urban areas. Most buildings and other establishments are centered around churches or temples. Another similarity is the city’s economic success, each city is thriving economically and can sustain their populations. Another similarity between the six cities was that they were all port cities which enabled them to trade. Differences for the cities are the way they have succeeded economically.
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Investors find this information lucrative because the more expendable cash a company has the more likely they are to pay out in dividends for the stock holders.. Liquidity Ratios: Current assets are a business's total current assets divided by its total current liabilities. Total Current Asset / Total Current liabilities 1,971,000 / 116,290 16.949 = 16.9 Current Ratio- 16.9:1 or 17:1 (16.9 to 1 or 17 to
The global flow of silver majorly affected the involved people’s society and economy in both a positive and negative way. In documents 5, 1, 3, 6, and 7, these documents show how the demand of silver has changed the economy and the society. In document 5, it shows how the currency has changed from battering to paying in silver. In document 1, it shows how the economy and society has been affected with the silver flow because, with the high demand of silver it caused the value of silver to increase, and so the official is urging the people to save their silver since the government doesn’t distribute out enough. In document 3, the out official reports that the grain prices are dropping because the government isn’t giving out sufficient silver for the people to use.
The customers feel good. They spend more because they have jobs and sable income. More money is collected by the government from income taxes and VAT. The last, factor the prices tend to increase because of high demand so the inflation is rising. Recession- The recession is an opposite of boom stage.
Due to its close adherence to its initial founding values, Arthur Andersen & Co. managed to become one of the largest and most reputable accounting firms in the world. Andersen’s corporate values were judged to be detrimental yet simple to follow. The main values that Andersen focused on began with integrity and honesty. These were “think straight, talk straight” values that helped to ensure Andersen’s goal of protecting the public while also establishing the firm’s reputation. Andersen also enacted a “one firm, one voice” partnership model as a means to always speak as a homogenous firm.
A single factory might hire thousands of workers. These jobs brought people to the cities. Third, the factory system allowed ordinary Americans to own all kinds of things. There were more goods to buy, and they became cheaper as methods of manufacturing continued to improve. For example, the first cars were so expensive that only rich people could afford to buy them but cars became cheaper when Ford invented the moving assembly line and the work went faster.
Silver Trade DBQ The abundance of silver in Europe and the Americas had a great impact on the Chinese economy as the demand for silver by the Japanese and Chinese greatly increased to match the supply during the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Based on the Documents, Spain had much to gain economically by selling their abundance of silver to the Ming Chinese and Japanese while the Chinese and Japanese economies suffered due to the deflation of silver in their own regions. These fast economic changes caused drastic change socially by changing the standard of living as well as the mindsets of the people toward the silver trade, such as the issue of slavery, reflecting on their government. All the while other European countries such as Britain and the Portuguese were able to take advantage of the supply and demand of silver to make money as middlemen. The Spanish were able to mine the silver with some economic benefit quickly turning into negative inflation, and the British were able to buy from the Spanish and Japanese and sell to the Chinese as middlemen.