Operating income moved along the same path for the period albeit at a lower rate. The company’s invest ment in its self-insurance fund and interest income contributed significantly to the difference between operating income and net income. Revenue fell off by 12% in 2009 however; it increased by 22% in 2010. The company was able to increase it domestic and commercial rate after an application was made to the Fair Trading Commission. Fuel expenses grew at a faster rate than sales, fuel costs although seeing a fall off in 2009 by 20.52% rose by 29% in 2010.
May 30, 2011 Reaction Paper on Science Technology Company’s 5 year Forecast STC’s management used a standard increase in sales of 30% annually The Company President should investigate further the basis for the 30% annual sales increase as it seems evident that not enough rationale thinking was used in the planning of the 5 year Sales Forecast. Aside from the market and industry, an important consideration is the historical performance and looking at the past data, the annual sales growth has been erratic at 7%, 11%, 20%, 10%. Using a fixed 30% sales growth every year seems inconsistent with the actual trend of the company’s performance - A fixed 30% annual growth was also used for the projections on COGS, R&D expense, Selling, Gen. and Admin expense. This should again be studied further because it is inconsistent with the actual growth rates from the historical data of 1980 to 1984. There is also a significant increase in loans from 1988 to 1989 but it is not clear where they will be used.
How does Net Sales change during these three years? What could be the reason for the change in Net Sales in 2011? According to the Risk factors mentioned in the Financial Statements, factors such as current economic conditions, timing of new merchandise releases and promotional events, changes in merchandise mix, success of marketing programs, and weather conditions are the main factors that affect sales in a company such as The Gap Inc. 4. What was the change of Retained Earnings from the year 2010 to 2011? Retained earnings increase by $597.00 they raised from $11,767.00 to $12,364.00, an increase approximately of 5.07% And what was the Net Income for the year 2011?
2010) is provided below. 1167872 4 Despite the leading position and the good business results, SWOT shows several sources of potential risks for UST. The company is losing market share against new price-value competitors because of slow innovation and late product introduction and extensions. Historically, UST relied on his leading market position boosting earnings with annual prices increases. But in the meanwhile smaller competitors started to quickly erode market share with prices cut.
PPG anticipated its full-year share repurchases to be at the high end of what they had originally projected. They also reported earnings per share from continuing operations to be $1.52, which included previously announced charges from restricting and nonrecurring costs. (About PPG, 2013) The health of the economy is critical for the company because its products are not primary products; so during a recession, people will choose to purchase items of more importance than maintenance products. This explains the big decline in revenues for 2012; this equates to a 14% drop compared to the previous year. Also, it can be seen the earnings per share were down by 12% and the return on average capital was down by 10%.
The second series is an uneven cash flow stream, but it contains an annuity of $400 for 8 years. The series could also be thought of as a $100 annuity for 10 years plus an additional payment of $100 in Year 2, plus additional payments of $300 in Years 3 through 10. 8-3 True, because of compounding effects—growth on growth. The following example demonstrates the point. The annual growth rate is I in the following equation: $1(1 + I)10 = $2.
The figure on the right shows the trend of total population from 1800 to 2005 and from there in three projections out to 2100 (low, medium, and high). The second figure shows the annual growth rate over the same period. If population growth were exactly exponential, then the growth rate would be a flat line. The fact that it was increasing from 1920 to 1960 indicates faster-than-exponential growth over this period. However, the growth rate has been decreasing since then, and is projected to continue decreasing.
The decrease in staff costs of €10,199 from 2009 to 2010 could be a possible cause for the increase. Lease rentals and other hire charges decreased by €196. Restructuring costs also decreased by€13,584. 12. Identify three efforts made by the Group to emerge from the economic downturn.
Capital expenditure of $155,000 was incurred during last 2 years. Increase in invested capital reduced both IGR and SGR. As sales growth rate was higher than IGR and SGR, firm had to rely on trade credits and trade notes, besides internal accruals and bank notes to finance its cash outflows. Projections for 1996 are based on information provided and other assumptions described in excel sheets viz. all trade notes will be fully paid and trade credit of 10 days is for additional purchases made from April 1, 1996.
The volume is a constant which is assumed at 80% in the analysis of the price. On the other hand, informing the price-flex the price decreases would be the variablecosts, which can easily be reduced for the benefit of the company. In this worst and base case, ten percent decreases and this same percent remain for all the prices effectively. These are the main changes in both the methods of the pricing strategy. Furthermore, there is a need to increase the price by 6% to maintain the company’s original profit potential over the increase of cost.