Week 9 Final Project – Financial Analysis Beverly Moorer XACC/280 Financial Accounting Concepts and Principles January 22, 2012 Lisa Pendleton, MAcc, MTax, CFE In determining whether or not company is financially healthy and whether or not they would be a good investment it is of the utmost importance several analyses should be performed on their financial reports. Every company should present accurate analysis, of their companies’ annual financial reports. These revenue analyses of the annual reports will reveal insights and knowledge regarding the revenue performances of the companies. I am hoping that I will be able to reveal a financial evaluation and a comparison involving The Coca-Coca Company and PepsiCo. The information provided in this paper was taken from both Coco-Cola and PepsiCo Consolidated Financial Statements to present the analyses performed by utilizing three revenue statement analyses tools: The Vertical Analyses, Horizontal Analysis, and Ratios Analyses.
Strategic Initiative Gene Foster, University of Phoenix FIN/370 March 12, 2012 Professor John Scherzi Strategic Initiative This project will be the continuation of Team C’s review of PepsiCo. This paper will take on the challenge streaming the company’s financial processes to make them more effective. The team will review the impact on the organizations financial planning, more specifically the effect on the sales and costs on a global basis. The team will continue with the risks associated with this initiative. Finally the team will demonstrate that once implemented this initiative will make PepsiCo stronger financially and more efficient.
4. Does Smucker’s lineup of businesses and brands exhibit good financial resource fit? Does it appear that J. M. Smucker Company’s businesses are cash hogs or cash cows? What do the company’s cash flow characteristics disclose about its ability to make new acquisitions or major investments in the current business lineup? 5.
What are Kodak’s competitively important resources and capabilities? Which of its resources have the greatest competitive power? Apply VRIS (Value-Rarity-Imitability-Substitutability) framework to test their sustainability. 6. What does an analysis of Kodak’s financial statements for 2007-2011 reveal about the strength of its business model and strategy?
According to Bloomberg Business Week, Coca-Cola remains the best globally recognized brand across all industries for years, while Pepsi’s brand ranked number 25 in the year 2008. Thus, Coca-Cola is able to charge premiums for its syrup concentrates due to its larger market shares and better brand name recognition. In order to compete against Coca-Cola and increase revenue, Pepsi has diversified its businesses as I stated above into other markets such as snacks, chips, and breakfast foods, with its core business focusing on soft drinks. Undoubtedly, the company’s strongest and most identifiable brand is indeed Pepsi but it has a certain advantage over Coca-Cola since it is more diversified. On April 9, 2009, Coca-Cola Company reported cash and cash equivalent to be $6,816,000,000 and on December 26, 2009, Pepsi reported cash and cash equivalent to be $3,943,000,000.
What is this firm’s free cash flow for the year? (2 points) Increase in NFA: $50 Increase in NWC: $20+$45=$65 FCF=NOPAT-increase in NFA-increase in NWC=$400-$50-$65=$285 (3) The four key elements of a good corporate strategy that has the potential to create substantial shareholder value are: (4 points) Good strategy must think more expansively about the right scope. Can typically distinguish the firm sharply from its competition. Match opportunities to capabilities and core competencies. Corporate focus (4) Describe how the four key elements of the Value Sphere interact to create value ( don’t just list the four elements—describe how they interact): (4 points) There are four elements of Value Sphere: Strategy, Resource acquisition & allocation, Performance metrics, People & organization culture.
(The Coca-Cola Company, 2008.) The pensions plan for the Pepsi Co is based on the willingness of the individual. It benefits full-time employees and some international employees. The key consideration is either the years of service and in other cases the combination of this and the size of earning (PepsiCo, Inc., 2008, p.43). This is also a key consideration by Coca-Cola.
INTRODUCTION From the case study of The Financial Detective, 2005, we decided to choose beer industry as our coursework. First of all, we will analyze and compare the financial ratios of the company in the beer industry. As we know, different industries have different managerial strategies. Therefore, we will discuss about the effects of managerial strategy used by beer industry by interpreting their financial ratios. In the following, there will be the ratio analysis of two beer brewing companies, C and D to identify them.
Case 10: One Ford Strategic Management 4813 Can Ford continue to keep its current momentum moving forward? It has transformed from a loss situation to a profit making business since 2006 when Alan Mulally became CEO, but can he continue that trend? In order to better understand the activities through which Ford develops a competitive advantage and creates value for its shareholders, it is useful to separate it into a series of value-generating activities referred to as the value chain. Michael Porter, in his 1985 book Competitive Advantage, introduced and outlined a standard value chain approach that delineates a series of activities which appear to be common to a wide array of firms. (Porter, 1985) These activities are separated into two main categories, primary activities and support activities.
What is MMC’s business model? What is your assessment of Mystic Monk Coffee’s customer value proposition? its profi t formula? 5. Does the strategy qualify as a winning strategy?