$3,000,000 of the inventory happened secondary to a reversal of a previous write down, which was incurred in 2002. There may be questionable tactics involved and the account warrants further analysis. k) The overall decrease in sales and gross profit was due to a new player entering the market. With the entrance of “Stampy”, Elite had to cut their prices, in order to maintain their current market share. This would explain the difference in gross profit and sales revenue.
Economic costs of inflation- Inflations economic costs would include damage to competitiveness as high inflation could cause spiralling price multiplier effect; as prices go up workers would demand higher wages so increasing business costs and another round of price rises to maintain business profits- making exports for expensive, thus reducing the demand for them causing a decrease and AD domestically. Additionally this may lead to unemployment as more costs to the firm i.e. menu costs. Change in inflation could also cause uncertainty to consumers/businesses to spend and invest as they don’t know what the future holds, this can decrease confidence in the market and potentially, in the longer term, cause and reduction in AD. Economic costs of deflation- deflation has proved to have several economic costs, the main cost is that it encourages differed expenditure where people’s expectations change and they delay spending in the hope of getting a better deal.
On the other hand, as a result of the new reef centre it’s likely the budgeted costs will increase as the cost of the project is huge. After an extensive review into their budgeted costs and predicted profits I think that they are not in a good enough financial position to take on this project. Customer numbers and profits are falling. One of the reasons why customer numbers are falling could be as a result of the economic crisis which is affecting customer’s ability to spend and therefore less people are going on days out. For this reason, it is unlikely that the £20m project will provide a sufficient return on investment.
The weakness of Kudler Fine Foods is that an IPO (Initial Public Offering) has many inherent and potential weaknesses that must be examined prior to selection as a means for expansion. An IPO is the first sale of stock by a company. There are many advantages and disadvantages for the Kudler Fine Foods to go public through the IPO. The advantages include generating more capital needed to expand their three locations The IPOs are very expensive undertaking, and a large portion of any capital acquired will be lost to this cost. Because the company must produce all financial information to the SEC many businesses find it to be very stressful and time consuming which takes time and money away from a company that is thriving like Kudler Fine Foods.
According to Keynes, why might deflation create problems for an economy? ▪ In expectation of increased spending, too many entrepreneurs would begin businesses and most would fail. ▪ The cost of repricing goods would increase costs, and therefore reduce profits, for businesses and they would cut production. ▪ People would drop out of unions because unions would become ineffective at keeping wages of members high. ▪ Consumers might expect prices to fall further and cut back consumption now.
The asset turnover will increase when their profit margin increases, the high profit margin is because they are currently expanding . 2. To a certain extent, the high level of popularity was from their effective market analysis. In 2012 superstyles spent 20% of their profits on marketing. Compared to the industry average superstyles spends 50% more on marketing, however I think it is very useful as they are expanding and don’t have the brand image and reputation yet.
The think that I learn from this project, when there is economical problem the prices of stock fluctuate whether it goes up or down. This assignment taught me how to better understand the stock market and what we should expect when it falls or goes up. And what could be the risk when investing such a lower market. I learn that various industry have different trend and the way to develop those trend. I learn that the company who mislead their consumer could run to a higher risk.
M4–Analyse the reasons why costs need to be controlled to budget In this assignment I will analyse the reasons why costs need to be controlled to budge. If costs are not measured by Debenhams then their profits will be badly affected therefore budgeting is one process to regulate costs as it gives the organisation an approximation or a target on what their cost and revenue should be. A business has to budget and control expenditure in order to see what has been received and paid out, otherwise unrestrained spending could occur and decline could happen. One of the difficulties that could occur if costs are not controlled to budget is: high fixed cost per item which decreases businesses profit and ability to compete. Debenhams are very effective at controlling its costs to budget as the results were good for sales revenue throughout 2013.
(Hayek, 2008) When wages go up so does the cost of the production, which increases the cost of the consumer goods, and inflation goes up. The only way to sustain this is to have a high money supply. This will cause interest rates to decrease, according to Hayek; if they decrease it can cause investments to be insecurely high, leading to an economic bust-which is how the business cycles work. If a centralized planner is created to watch the industries and when they start failing, a stimulus package will have to be made to support and pick it back up. If the necessary data to watch the
Naturally, this construction cannot be started immediately but it could begin to be felt sometime next year. To sum up the economic impact, the short-term adverse consequences could push the economy the rest of the way into recession, but offsetting elements of stimulus should lead to a faster pace of business activity by the middle of 2002. As for the financial markets, the broad outlines of the implications are these: The stock market will be under intermittently severe pressure for some time, apart from defense- and commodity-related industries, including oil