Calveta Essay

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Recommendation Calveta Dining Service should acquire Great Southwest Dining Service (GSD) and restructuring the organization in future to fulfill Antonio’s requirement which want Frank to double the company’s revenues within five years and can maintain the special company cultures. When Frank have decide to acquire GSD there have several advantages that can be achieve by Calveta. In the case given, Frank has been done some financial calculation using various growth projections for both GSD and Calveta over the next three years. After calculation, Frank perceived the opportunity to meet or at least come close to the revenue goals his father had set. Therefore, this is the best opportunity to Frank to build strategy in order to meet his father requirement. Since GSD was produced annual revenue of $1.5 billion and has growth in revenues over the past three years but they faced quite heavy debt. One of the strength given in the case Calvet applied cost control model to distinguished itself from competitors. By using this model, they could increase the net profit. The calculations as the evident as follows: Current Ratio = Current Asset / Current Liabilities = $270 million / $272 million = 0.9926 : 1 Profit Margin Ratio = Net Income / Sales = $65 million / $2012 million * 100 = 3.22% Debt Equity Ratio = Total liabilities / Total Equity = $272 million / $181 million = 1.50 : 1 It proven that, Calveta’s ability to meet short term liabilities is low as the required current ratio. The company’s debt also more than the equity. So, it can be conclude that from GSD revenues can cover the debt of Calveta. If the company continues in the existing status, it would not earn much of revenue as such which therefore would make it unable to cover the desired target of doubling the revenue, even though it had less risk, no

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