The decrease in expenses observed in 2009 was primarily due to cost-containment measures implemented at the Company’s global and regional offices beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 (10-K, p. 20). Pre-opening Expenses, Relocation, Store Closure and Lease Termination Costs These expenses have been falling over the last few years. This decrease is due to the company’s consistently having relocated or closed fewer stores annually from 2008 to 2010. Interest Expense Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized, has decreased by a small amount in the last few years. Interest expense for these years consists principally of interest expense on the term loan entered into on August 28, 2007 to finance the acquisition of Wild Oats Markets.
However, the company was not able to sustain the growth in sales between years 7 and 8, which resulted in a decrease in net sales of -15% or $897,000. The company’s loss in net sales in year 8 is a weakness due to overall sales being down. Cost of goods sold (COGS) between years 6 and 7 show an increase of 31.8% or $1,048M. The increase in COGS corresponds closely with the increase in net sales for the same time period, which illustrates the company’s ability to effectively control its inventory levels and material costs. For years 7 and 8, the cost of goods sold decreased by -14.5% or $630,400, which again corresponds to the change in net sales for the same period.
National Brand sales fell by 1.6 percent and now account for 64.6 percent of sales (FY2012: 66.1 percent). Pleasingly sass & bide sales grew by 19.0 percent. Online sales enjoyed a second consecutive year of strong growth of over 200 percent. This trend is very encouraging, and online continues to present a significant growth opportunity given online sales remain a small proportion of total sales. The best performing states were Queensland, Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
Mantkelow (2014) explains lean manufacturing as based on "finding inefficiencies and removing wasteful steps that don't add value to the end product." Lean operations helps to reduce waste in production by using resources to only produce what the customer is demanding. A company that is using lean operations has measurable throughput. “Every minute that a product is not sold the cost accumulates and the competitive advantage is lost, this is the manufacturing cycle time” (Heizer and Render, 2010) this analysis could have been used to scale down production in the third and fourth quarter when it became obvious there was excess inventory. For starters, there is no value in holding 60 days' worth of inventory, to adopting lean principles would immediately help us to commit to inventory reduction and better alignment between production and demand.
As the time horizon increases, variable costs rely less on existing factors and restrictions and therefore will begin behaving differently which will in turn affect the cost of production (Wright, 2007). The second way a firm that’s into profit maximization can decide its greatest level of output is by way of the marginal revenue -- marginal cost method. This is done by subtracting the marginal cost from the marginal revenue that a product generates. Using marginal cost and marginal revenue as the bases, profit maximization will be obtained at the point when marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost. If the marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost this would be when a profit maximizing firm would need to increase production until marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost.
What is the effect of the depreciation accounting method change on the reported income in 1984? How will this change affect profits in future years? The effect of the depreciation accounting method on the reported income in 1984 increased net income by $11.0 million or $.90 per common and common equivalent share. For future years, this change could cause profits to increase at a higher rate. 3.
Assignment 1: Making Decisions Based on Demand and Forecasting ECO 550 – Managerial Economics and Globalization Thursdays (6:00-10:00PM) November 24, 2013 The Pizza Company is considering entering the marketplace in your community. Using this output, we can derive estimated regression line for demand for pizza as; determine that Price (P) = $175, Competitor Price (CP) = $250, Advertisement (A) = $325, Income (I) = $95 Q= 128,832.2 – 19,876 * (P) + 15,467.94 * (CP) + 0.260701 * (A) + 8.780403 * (I) Q= 128,832.2 – 19,876 * 175 + 15,467.64 * 250 + 0.260701 * 325 + 8.780403 * 95 Q= 108,956.2 * 15,642.64 * 250.26 * 333.78 * 95 Q= 518,361.1 Coefficient of determination (or R- square) = 0.977914223. This means 97.79% of the variation
The author’s main theory is that the economy is headed for a recession. The text book defines fiscal policy as: Changes in government spending and tax collections designed to achieve a full-employment and non inflationary domestic output. Government spending is understated and slightly overlooked in the article. The author only hints of the fact that federal government spending on defense is down. “Another negative factor was a 6.6 percent drop, on an annualized basis, in federal defense spending.” She supports that the decrease in GDP is directly related to the decrease in government spending g which proves how fiscal policy can affect overall economic growth.
Total Liabilities Home Depot reported its total liabilities for the ending fiscal year 2010 at $21,484,000, and the following year 2011 reported a fiscal year ending total of $21,236,000. There is a decrease in the total liabilities category as well, totaling ($-248,000). Overall Home Depot has been able to decrease the liabilities associated with operating within the home improvements industry by reducing re-supply times, and organizing rapid deployment centers to service customers and retail locations in more efficient and effective
J.M. Smucker has been paying dividends ever since 2002. They have grown their dividend each and every year so far (15 years) and their dividend growth rate over the last 5 years has been 9.11%. Now, their most recent increase was only 4%, therefore, the yield being higher starts to make a little more