,Sarah L. G January 6, 2013 Written Assignment #1 1. A) $1,000 with 5% interest after 10 years gives you $1,628. Therefore, you would gain $628 in interest. B) If the interest is withdrawn each year, a total of $500 would be earned because the $1,000 investment would earn $50 of simple interest each year. C) The answers are different because if the interest is left untouched, it makes the principal amount higher each year, giving more money after 10 years.
Industry sales of children and juvenile books for 2009 were $3.2 billion (AAP, 2009). Since the staff and employees are X and Y’ers with young families, adding these titles to the product portfolio is a sound strategic move. The demographics give CanGo insight into the most popular titles and the capital expenditure for additional space is addressed by the ASRS systems. While hardcopy book sales declined in 2009, sales of e-books increased. In fact there are 500,000 book titles available for electronic readers and according to the AAP e-book sales increased by 176% in 2009 and Audio book sales totaled $192 million (AAP, 2009) making the addition of e-books and Audio books to their portfolio a logical strategic move.
4. The market for film collapsed in the face of digital cameras Fujifilm successfully competed in the remaining film and print market Digital camera companies overtook Kodak in the camera market Printing photographs has been losing ground to photo sharing Although Kodak dominated the North American film market in 1990 at the beginning of the digital age it gravely misread the signs of change, it poured $M500 into Advantix a short lived hybrid film and digital system in the mid-90s (1). Kodak’s revenues peaked in 1996 and in 2003 Kodak still made 70% of its revenue from film sales (4). Kodak’s decline follows both the entry of Fujifilm into the US market in the 1990s (2) and the decline in film sales by approximately 20% per annum since 2004 (3). The photographic paper market similarly declined from a peak in 2003 to about 60% of the size by 2011 (4).
Although Permaclean has several competitors, the total sales of each are small in comparison with those of Permaclean, mainly because none offers such a complete product range. In 2006 the price of one of Permaclean’s major products, Permashine, was raised from 75p per bottle to 99p when the product was repackaged in a newly designed bottle; however, the contents were identical to the previous pack, both in formulation and quantity. During the following two years sales fell by 27%. At 75p per bottle Permashine had been competitively priced but when its price was increased manufacturers of similar products had not followed. In the period from 2004 to 2007 the price of competing products had been raised by only 5p.
Olympic purchased new cars, rented them to customers for 15,000 to 30,000 miles(approx. a period of 8 months to 1 ½ years) and then sold them to retail(60%) and wholesale markets. External: Industry analysis Slow growth rate after a decline in 2009, when total market revenue fell 6.5% from 2008. In 2012, there were 1.6 million rental cars in service, 0.5% fewer than in 2009 but higher than in 2010. Matured market size of $24 billion, with a projected 2% annual growth rate.
Given the popularity of theatre here and conclusion of a recent nationwide study indicating that a typical theatre fan spends close to $500 per year on theatre entertainment , a new medium sized theatre I Thespiana would be tremendously profitable . Explaination:- The writer's conclusion that the typical theatre fan spends close to $500 per year on theatre entertainment so that a new medium sized theatre in Thespiana would be tremendously profitable ,is not necessary correct because that conclusion is arrived from the certain assumption which, if they are not justified ,will render the conclusion baseless. It is assumed that ,as the 10,000 people had attended last spring annual theatre festival so that, next year same situation will be occur in Thespiana because theatre is extremely popular in the city of Thespiana. This assumption is pointless. Because writer not giving any reference to population of the Thespiana .If the population of Thespiana is near about 1 billon and out of 1 billon only 10,000 thousand people were gave the response to annual theatre festival.
In the mid-1970s, Kodak controlled 90% of the film market. With the advent of and increasing demand for digital imaging technology throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Kodak faced declining demand for its film products and decreasing market share in the overall camera market. The Graph below shown how the Kodak business had evaluated over the 2O last year compared with one of its strong competitors Fuji.
P/E Ratio Model and Future Price Walmart (WMT) recently earned a profit of $3.13 per share and has a P/E ratio of 14.22. The dividend has been growing at a 12.5 percent rate over the past few years. If this growth continues, what would be the stock price in five years if the P/E ratio remained unchanged? C. $80.20 Pn = (P/e) * E0 * (1+g)n P5 = (14.22) * 3.13 * (1+.125)5 = 80.2059 7. Expected Return The Buckle (BKE) recently paid a $0.90 dividend.
In 2003 Samsung ranked 25 from number 34, which shows that it was able to compete and be successful in the market with its new products. Samsung’s debt of $15billion in 1997 has been reduced to $4.6 billion by 2002. It was also able to survive in the Asian financial crisis due to its product being different than its competitors. The net profit of $5.9 billion compared to $2.8 billion in
Exports are expected to rise to 65% of total sales by next year. Major issue that Minolta is facing is of distribution of Cameras to Export markets through unauthorized channels. Mr. Nakamura who is the manager of International division of Minolta cameras expects the sale of Minolta cameras through ‘Gray markets’ to be lesser than 10% of total camera sales. But the magnitude of this camera movement through unauthorized channels is increasing continuously. Few major distributors of Minolta have accused firms in Hong Kong for these gray market sales in US and Europe.