Your shoppers must always be able to find these necessity items in stock whenever they are needed. These much needed products include household cleaners, health and beauty items, paper products and food items. As the current market structure of the dollar general store is important we look at the effect of government regulations. As seen in the last couple of years, DG has started offering advanced in-store services to their employees which in turn is passed to the consumers. However, more services can be added to attract consumers the best thing any business person can do is to get familiar with the country that you’re targeting.
Other key factors are to maintain a record of the inventory that is being sold so the store can better equip products in all three locales and provide for better product placement within all Kudler stores. The design trade-off approach for the project is as follows. A trade-off for the company to increase revenue will be the expenditures for the frequent buyer program, because essentially the company will not see a return profit for an allotted time. The implemented program will allow the company to see a small profit after the first year of the program being implemented. Another trade-off for the company will be the stores performance.
Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program Concerns Kudler Fine Foods wants to implement a frequent shopping program to monitor the shopping habits of its customers, and increase customer satisfaction with a projected revenue increase of 4.75% over the first year. As Kudler Fine Foods is a high end grocer, the goal of the frequent shopping program will not be centered around cost savings, but as a point system offering exclusive awards similar to credit card point systems. Kudler Fine Foods can increase customer satisfaction by tailoring their inventories around customer’s shopping habits, but some concerns need to be addressed concerning the tracking of individual customer purchases. The management needs to understand how the frequent shopper
Hibbetts has a large number of employees compared to the average store size. It has an amazing training program for its employees which would lead some to think that this would be a great source of competitive advantage. Hibbetts also offers a wide variety of benefits to its employees including a College savings plan. Since Hibbett stores are usually located in strip malls and shopping centers they use very intense displays to get the attention of their customers, and usually these displays are based on the local interests. For example, here in Lawton basketball and football are really the two sports that a lot of people here are interested in, so our local Hibbett store displays the latest sneakers, jerseys, and equipment related to these sports.
Social Security is a social insurance program officially called "Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance" (OASDI), in reference to its three components. It is primarily funded through a dedicated payroll tax. During 2009, total benefits of $686 billion were paid out versus income (taxes and interest) of $807 billion, a $121 billion annual surplus. An estimated 156 million people paid into the program and 53 million received benefits, roughly 2.94 workers per beneficiary. Reform proposals continue to circulate with some urgency, due to a long-term funding challenge faced by the program.
AS the current and quick ratios both went down over the past year, I am concerned that the company liabilities may be rising faster than assets and we may not be able to liquidate assets quickly enough to cover debt, if necessary. 4. Calculate the 2013 inventory turnover, days sales outstanding (DSO), fixed assets turnover, and total assets turnover. Inventory Turnover= 4, DSO= 39.6, Fixed Assets Turnover= 6.2, Total Assets Turnover= 2 5. Calculate the 2013 debt ratio, liabilities-to-assets ratio, times-interest-earned, and EBITDA coverage ratios.
If the firm decides to use its cash for the notes payable it will then have to obtain financing to maintain the cash balance. The firm may need to renegotiate its notes payable and obtain additional financing to maintain the minimum cash balance of $15,000. 5-1A (Compound Interest) To what amount will the following investments accumulate? a. $5,000 invested for 10 years at 10 percent compounded annually rate (i)= 10% number of periods (n) = 10 Payment (PMT) = $0 present value (PV) = $5,000 type (0 at end of = period) = 0 Future value (FV) =
No, many “real world” stocks do not satisfy the constant growth hypothesis because the real world circumstances can be unpredictable and harder to forecast so being able to continually grow your business at a specific rate each year is difficult. 2. The Wall Street Journal lists the current price of James River Current stock at $27. Based on this information, and the Value Line expected dividend, and the annual rate of dividend change for the growth estimate, what is the company’s return on common stock using the constant growth model? What is the expected dividend yield and the expected capital gains yield?
The stock prices we computed were $6.29, $16.84, and $19.10 in comparison to their closing stock prices of $27.89, $61.15, and $69.95, respectively. Each stock is over 3.6 times overvalued. There are many reasons that suggest these stocks are overvalued based on financial statements and ratios along with the required rate of return based on the stock closing
If Head Start programs received their full allocated monies from the ACF’s proposed 2009 budget increase, then programs would still operate in a negative stage by $923 million. This would cause a funding cut of 12% at the end of the budget period. This budget cut does not take into consideration the additional millions of dollars needed to operate according to the new requirements approved in December 2007. Allocated amounts for collaborative grants during the 2007 fiscal year level; has been allocated to be at least 2.5%, but no more than 3% for training and technical assistance. 20% of this allocation is to be used for providing assistance to Early Head Start