Introduction to Executive Tools for Decision Making TUI Financial Accounting ACC201 Introduction to Executive Tools for Decision Making APPLE Inc. The total amount of cash available for Apple to pay their current debts is $123.55 billion dollars in favor of assets. I derived this from Apple’s Assets $207 billion and subtracted their liabilities, which was $83.45 billion. I believe that Apple is in good shape due to the total assets the company has received. $207 – 83.45 = 123.55 billion Apple is increasing its investment in operations every year.
Though they turned the corner with meaningful net income and EBITDA in 2010 its obvious during 2011 first quarter results that they are pouring significant dollar into sales, marketing expenses, and product development. Product development annualized in Q1 is almost 100 compared to 65 million in 2010, similarly sales and marketing are on a track to almost double from 2010 of 59 million to the first quarter annualized to 117 million. One of the concerns will be if these significant costs will drive revenues enough to deliver profits and EBIDTA. Net income for March 31, 2011 was only 2 million or annualized amount of 8.3 million compared to 15.4 million for the year-end in 2010. Registered member have increased 64% from 2009 to 2010 adding 35 million members.
Cash flow Growth: 8%. Dividend Yield: 2.90%. Dividend Growth: 9% (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has additionally grown offering 14 brands to the company making a profit of $1 billion or more in annual sales, the company sold $25.5 billion unit case and had revenue of $35.119 billion in 2010 (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has grown its’ revenue rapidly over 5 years, this brought about an important highlight for the company in between 5 years, so the company earned about 8.5% in annual revenue growth.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is rapidly growing and achieving things that many people thought would be impossible. This year alone, Dick's Sporting Goods has exceeded expectations with its third-quarter results and they have also pleased their shareholders with its plans to start paying dividends. Dick’s Sporting Goods now operates more than 450 shops across 42 states, along with 81 Golf Galaxy stores in 30 states and they do not plan to stop here. Dick's third-quarter net sales rose by 9.3% from the year-earlier, to almost $1.2 billion, with the help of additional sales from 19 newly opened stores. The company's gross margins went up by 126 basis points, to 29.7%, mainly because of better inventory management and a change in the product mix and selling and administration expenses range in at $274.4 million.
Citigroup was ranked 20th by Fortune 500 ranking of America largest corporations. In 2012 the company has profits of over $11 billion, which was up from $10.6 billion in 2010 (Citigroup, n.d.). The company is traded on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) under the symbol C and in 2012 celebrated its 200th anniversary (Citigroup, n.d.). Citigroup is a the world leader when it comes to financial services and has over 260,000 employees, 16,000 offices worldwide and does business in over 140 countries (Citigroup, n.d.). The company is still recovering from the hit it took during the financial
Popchips have been able to see its sales rise 40% this year and could possibly top $100 million in sales. According to an online article on Inc. 500, Pop Chips has had a 3-year growth of 1,045% and created $6.4 million in revenue for 2008 and $73.3 million for 2011. They’ve added 65 jobs in the previous 3 years and rank #8 in the industry.
Andrew Perry Dr. Ricketts MRKT 4330 Spring 2015 Janmar Coatings Out of all the industries in the U.S., the paint coatings industry is considered to be one with growth at a level that keeps up with rising inflation. It is a $16 billion dollar industry with one to two percent annual growth that is divided into three segments: architectural coatings, original equipment manufacturing (OEM) coatings, and special-purpose coatings. Architectural coatings account for 43% of the total industry dollar sales, and is estimated to be valued at more than $12 billion dollars for U.S. sales. About 50% of architectural coatings’ sales are brought in by DIY painters’ purchases. Professional painters’ purchases are accounted for about 25% of the dollar sales.
SUNRISE MEDICAL INC.’S WHEELCHAIR PRODUCTS A GLANCE AT THE WHEELCHAIR INDUSTRY IN 1993 Despite being a young industry, the wheelchair business showed a large amount of growth in a ten year span in terms of sales. By 1992, worldwide sales were approximately US 800 million, with half of these numbers coming from sales in the US while the rest were concentrated in Europe. These numbers were an indicator of the potential the industry had and this was confirmed by projected sales growth, which ranged between 5% to 15% annual increases for different product lines. There was excitement as an important US insurance program announced it would reimburse more money for wheelchairs of higher price, fact that could boost sales in the near future. Although sales potential was attractive, profitability margins were still low because costs ranged between 65% and 75% and additional operating expenses ranged from 23% to 34% of sales (exhibit 1).
Horizontal Analysis *** (see accompanying Excel Spread Sheets) A1a. Strengths and Weaknesses of Horizontal Analysis (amounts in millions except per share values) The First Strength: The Home Depot, Inc. Net Sales show a significant increase in growth from $74,754M in 2013 compared to $78,812 in 2014. The company increased sales by $4,058 a 5.4% growth. This is a comparable growth to 6.19% for the prior fiscal year 2013. This increase in net sales is supported by a decline in cost of sales.
Book Report for ‘One Up on Wall Street’ Peter Lynch is one of Wall Street’s most successful mutual fund managers. Having assumed the reigns of Fidelity’s Magellan fund in 1977, Mr. Lynch grew the fund to nearly $14 billion-which was an astronomical number for any mutual fund at that time- before he relinquished control of the fund’s investments in 1990. To simply illustrate the success of Fidelity Magellan, and investor who placed $10,000 in the fund in 1977, and then held on, would have watched his or her investment grow to $280,000 under Mr. Lynch’s 13-year tenure. It ranked as the number one mutual fund in the nation over that period of time. An avid proponent of individual stock picking, an unusual agenda for a mutual fund manager, Mr. Lynch lamented the increasing tendency for investors to abrogate their investment decisions exclusively to fund managers.