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Verizon and BT are considered the largest institution in the video conferencing industry due to their capacity to finance the day to day operation. According to the recent research, it is evident that both Verizon and BT have a stable capital structure that has led to the realization of their high growth rate in the market. In other terms, the two organizations have set in place strategic planning and mechanism that ensures there is adequate inflow and outflow of resources. Verizon has been in a best position to increase its growth rate due to its ability to settle its Continue reading...

Investing In a Brewpub: A Capital Budgeting Analysis

Investing In a Brewpub: A Capital Budgeting Analysis

Initial investments include the following (Table 1)
Capital Investments for the project “Investing in a Brewpub”
Note: Data taken from Investing in a Brewpub: A Capital Budgeting Analysis. International Research Journal of Applied Finance (2013)

On the last period, the Brewpub is sold for $20,000 (estimated recovery value)

The change in working capital refers to amount spent on inventory and receivables at the initial period of the project and later on recuperated at the 10th year.
Sales in “best case scenario” are 7 barrels per set a year which equate to a total of 560 barrels or 138,800 pints a year at $5 Continue reading...

Introduction

The life is so uncertain; therefore it is very important for an individual to secure their life for their children and other important things accordingly. The decisions that specifically relate to maintain and manage the level of mortgage and other expenses are very important for a couple to manage significance in their life. Budgeting and Forecasting are some of the major elements and aspects that specifically associated with an organization as well as with an individual as far as manage their funds and effectiveness accordingly.
After the current economic crisis, the thing that strengthens its roots in the economic Continue reading...

Magna International is a company that deals in automotive products. The company is headquartered in Aurora in Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1957 as Multimatic Motorsports and became Magna International Inc. in 1973 after the merger between Magna Electronics and Multimatic Motorsports. It develops, manufactures and sells automotive products. It operates in the United States, Asia, Europe and other parts of the world. Its products include seating systems, body and chassis systems, interior components, door panels, powertrain systems, overhead systems, among other products. In addition, it offers vehicle engineering support services as well as contract assembly services. It Continue reading...

Executive Summary

During 1990’s UST was one of the leading producer of moist smokeless tobacco with 77% market coverage. Its product consist of chewing and snuff tobacco. UST is a profitable company focused on innovation and new product development. With the policy of rising the price of its products steadily and increasing demand for its smokeless products, its profits are increasing and shareholders are getting good deal of return. However, the company is criticized for not being able to introduce the new products quickly and losing its market share. So, UST introduced new products for its lower segment customers without Continue reading...

Management of Working Capital Case Study: "George's Trains".

Introduction
George’s Train Shop is a family-owned firm that sells and repairs model trains. Currently, the business is profitable but the owner needs advice on his working capital management strategies. Working capital management involves inventory management, management of debtors and creditors, management of cash, among other elements. The strategies have a direct effect on the current and future profitability. This paper analyzes the working capital management practices of George, his capital budgeting techniques. In addition, it explores the limitations of investment appraisal techniques. Finally, the paper develops a simple cash flow statement for the business and examines measures Continue reading...

Abstract Page

The paper discusses the possible risks to the Deluxe Corporation business of printing checks, and how Mr. Rajat Singh can help them in their financial rejuvenation. Deluxe Corporation’s CEO is expecting tough times ahead for the company because of proliferation of financial technology and e-transaction of funds. In addition, the company has retired all its debt and has also initiated share repurchase program. Hence, a prudent advice will be expected from Mr. Singh to revive the company, while maintaining its current investment rating in the industry.
Question No. 1: What are the risks associated with Deluxe’s business Continue reading...

Question 1(20marks)

Based upon the articles provided, describe which four (4) external forces may have impacted Island Abbey Foods the most in the last several years. Discuss in detail the nature of each force separately, with examples.

Island Abbey foods has been at the forefront in technological innovations in order to improve their honey products for their vast number of customer base. Their extensive innovation was driven by the founders experience during their mountain excavation in western Canada. John Rowes (The Honibe® Story, 2014). Rowes has been researching on the honey making concept since 1990s- a technique that siphons moisture from Continue reading...

Business

Section
Strategic Action for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
A critical strategic issue facing the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line is to actively adopt environmentally friendly strategies.
What actions can the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in order to actively adopt environmentally friendly strategies while at the same time achieving profit goals?

Stop dumping sewage into the oceans, ports and seas of the world using on-ship waste water treatment.

The strategic objective of the research project is to learn if Royal Caribbean Cruise Line can adopt an environmentally friendly way to discharge polluted water from the hull.

The financial objectives are to review the company’s annual report and find an affordable environmentally friendly strategy.

The strategic objective is to evaluate the opportunities the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line can adopt in order to meet environmental regulations on Continue reading...

Background

The case deals with the projections made by the Flash Company for the upcoming three years and the dilemma of whether to accept the new proposal or not.

Problem Statement

The problem that is clearly reflected in the case is that the Company, Flash Memory Inc. is trying to expand its operations of the business, but it does not have the required financing. Since there are doubt issues on the growth stability of the Company, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Hathaway Browne, was interested in analyzing the aspects of investing and financing requirements for the extension of the business Continue reading...

Heckscher-Ohlin Model states that the pattern of trade between countries depends on the type and abundance of factors of production. Therefore, a state that is capital abundant will produce more and export capital-intensive commodities, but will import labor-intensive products. Rybczyski effect says that a change in factor endowments in a country will cause a change in the quantity of the product that uses the factor in production. For instance, an increase in labor supply will lead to an increase in the amount of labor-intensive products (Salvatore 79) . Production Possibility Frontier is a curve showing all the possibilities of the Continue reading...

Equity Long-Short y is an investing strategy that is utilized principally by hedge funds and which entails undertaking long positions in stocks that are anticipated to increase in worth and short positions in stocks that are anticipated to reduce in worth. A long position involves purchasing a stock that will increase in value while a short position involves obtaining a stock you do not possess, selling it, then hoping it decreases in value, at which time you can purchase it once more at a lower cost.
Convertible Arbitrage is an investment strategy that entails undertaking a long position in Continue reading...

The Data that will be used for the entire analysis is as follows

Operating Income = $ 5 Million
Depreciation Expense = $ 1 Million
Interest Expense = $ 1 Million
Corporate Tax Rate = 40%

Net Income of Rattner Robotics is as follows

Operating Income $ 5 Million
Less: Interest Expense $ 1 Million
Net Income before Tax = $ 4 Million
Tax 40% = $ 1.6 Million
Net Income after Tax = $ 2.4 Million

Net Operating Working Capital (NOWC) of Rattner Robotics is as follows

NOWC = Current Assets – Account Payable
= $ 3.4 Million
NOWC = $ 3.4 Million
Assume that all the current assets and current liabilities are operating, and then the net working capital of the company will be the same like Net Operating Working Capital.
= Current Assets + Net Income - liabilities
= $ 3 million

The Free cash flow (FCF) of the company is as follows

FCF = EBIT (1-Tax Rate) + Depreciation – Change in Working Capital – Capital Expenditure
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Executive summary

Management is the process of ensuring that the resources of the company are effectively to achieve the goals and objectives. There are various resources which are utilized by the company and they include human skills and financial resources. The aim of any organization is to improve the competitive advantage in the global market. The company should utilize the resources effectively to maximize the output while minimizing the input and this helps to improve the performance of the company. In this report therefore, the report discusses the main concepts of management and resource planning and the policies that can be Continue reading...

Introduction

As influenced by increasing pressures from the rise of global marketplaces, many organisations are tempted to expand their operational activities to other economies to diversify their activities and underlying risks. One such organisation is Procter and Gamble (P&G), publicly traded company in the United States. This research paper is written to outline one episode related to Procter and Gamble (P&G) when it entered the boundaries of Egyptian market in 1986 due to its rapid industrial development .
All such expansion activity was carried out by international trade and foreign investment concept named internationalisation. Apart from highlighting the episode by P&G Continue reading...

The key issues in the case include low level of borrowed funds, cash and cash equivalents and reduction in the rate of sales growth. Recommendations on the increase of borrowed funds examine a recapitalization strategy, in which it lends equal to $1 billion to repurchase its shares. Recommendations concerning increase in cash and cash equivalents consider the sale of unused or unwanted objects and reserves for an amount of $456.65 Mio. Recommendations on the increase of sales growth rate to at least 4.4%, including the improvement of advertising campaign and application of the strategy of mergers and acquisitions.

Competent, Continue reading...

International Business

Introduction
Globalization is driving force which is doing an exceptional job to promote the productivity as well as the level of efficiency of an enterprise (Amireh and Majaj, 2000). At one place globalization increases the level of competition among the companies, but it also manages the effectiveness and well-being of the entity at the highest level. One of the best strategies that currently associated with the term of Globalization is Internationalization in which an organization will start to move its physical location from one place to another place. Internationalization strategy is also known or referred as Going Global Strategy Continue reading...

Capital Budgeting is found to be an effective part of finance management function, as it used specifically to analyze the level of feasibility of a project. Capital Budgeting has numerous options, which have the ability for the organizations to analyze the level of feasibility of a project. Some of the major types of capital budgeting tools that used by the organizations are

Net Present Value (NPV)

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Profitability Index (PI)
Accounting rate of return (ARR)
There is a case associated with this assignment of a company which is hypothetical names as Brody’s Sports LLC. The case divulged that Continue reading...

Lakeland Medical Center faces cost control problems while still maintaining higher revenues in an effort to increase the profits. According to the case scenario, despite an annual revenue growth of approximately 10%, the hospital still faces a daunting task in its cost control efforts. They have led to an accumulated date of approximately $55 million dollars. Both the hospital management and staff contribute either directly or indirectly to the cost control problem. The executive, in this case, the board of directors, has a biased opinion of medical personnel such as the cardiologist and the radiologists. The leadership management is Continue reading...

Businesses operate in a cutthroat market whereby financial intelligence is integral to success and operational sustainability. With such a competitive environment, it is prudent to have information regarding to the sources of finance before starting the business intended. As such, through proper financing, the business performance strategies are drawn out effectively. Further, budgeting instills proper financial planning in the running of the business. Through proper planning, the business emerges as formidable forces in the market through budgeting and cost control measures. Hence, in this paper, I will look at financial analysis and recommendations at Bank of America.

Financial analysis

First and Continue reading...