a) What are the consequences of telling the president of your gross miscalculation? In order to determine the sales and income projection, it is useful to forecast the budget based on prior performance of the company. The business performance of the current year will shows how the company is actually performed and this is a good indication to expect the company will perform better in future. As to obtain an accurate sales projection, we collected all the information from the company because each area of business operation might have a separate budget. For example, Fernetti Conductor has a specific budget for advertising, purchasing, sales production and cash budget.
It requires reasonable business thinking to analyze if the stock will go up or down. Hence, it needs a portion of reading the recent news about the corporation. At least, I got an overview of how the stock market work by learning new business terms like short sell, margin, options, and many more. The stock market has influence me to be careful in buying shares from corporations. Stock market can either make me more money or lose more money.
Capacity makes a difference in the minimum price that can be set. If Rightway is close to capacity limits, it would replace regular business with the special order and need to price the order the same as regular business that it would forego to take the order. In this problem, 5% of capacity would be used for regular business, and 5% would be excess capacity. So, the special order would need to be priced high enough to replace the lost contribution margin of the 5% of regular business. E. Usually when operations get close to capacity limits, costs go up.
The think that I learn from this project, when there is economical problem the prices of stock fluctuate whether it goes up or down. This assignment taught me how to better understand the stock market and what we should expect when it falls or goes up. And what could be the risk when investing such a lower market. I learn that various industry have different trend and the way to develop those trend. I learn that the company who mislead their consumer could run to a higher risk.
The four financial statements therefore assist them to determine if their resources are being put into efficient use since this provides an indication of whether there is any risk they will end up losing the invested funds (Debarshi, 2011). Potential shareholders also rely on the financial statements to make a comparison of the performance of different entities before making important investment decisions (Taparia, 2004). Creditors Creditors supply goods and services to businesses on credit. They are mainly concerned with the liquidity of the firm and its ability to meet their obligations when they are due (Debarshi, 2011). They therefore rely on the balance sheet and income statement to determine the profitability and liquidity levels of different firms in order to make well grounded decisions relating to whether to go ahead and advance them goods and materials on credit (Debarshi,
The first way to improve working capital is to make the excess liquid funds work for the company. These funds should be invested back into the company. This can be accomplished by reducing long-term liabilities with high interest rates such as the mortgages on facilities. The second is to manage the inventory held by the company. Currently Competition Bikes purchases inventory for production the month before it goes to the production line.
Known in this case as Johnson Services which has accumulated significant losses. Issues: 1. Outstanding purchase of stock (a) Mr. Jones would like to know if he should purchase the stock of Smithton outright, leaving Smithton intact. He also wants to know if he issues debt in his Johnson Services to pay for the Smith Company would that raise debt to equity issues (b) Mr. Jones also wanted to know should he convert Smithton to an S Corporation and change the fiscal year to a calendar year. (c) Mr. Jones also asked what are the potential tax ramifications that exist for
The driving forces that are currently affecting the payday lending industry are entry or exit of major firms, regulatory influences and government policy changes, marketing innovation, and lastly changing societal concerns and attitudes. The entry or exit of major firms can change a firm’s profitability especially the three main pay day businesses that are present. Regulatory forces heavily influence the pay day industry because they need to adhere to the law and presenting themselves in accordance to regulation in order to avoid penalties (if
Abstract Our analysis of Target Stores, Inc. and Walmart Corporation has attempted to solve the common problems facing corporate and common investors when analyzing the past performance of a company, assessing market changes, how to invest capital, and what returns can be expected. We analyzed the companies’ weighted average cost of capital, dividend policy, degree of leverage, and cash flows through the aspect of the optimal capital structure. During this exercise we found that the companies follow the market in similar patterns, however utilize different investment policies which result in different capital investment patterns. The analysis broke down the two complex corporate frameworks and provided a side by side comparison of two companies. The results are detailed and relevant financial and operational descriptions of the two retail competitors.
I chose to identify the problems that our old design system was giving our design team. I also chose to present a bar graph on how much money the Branch was spending on the old design system. The bar graph compared how much money we can save if we use a new design system. It also shows how much