...BA60098 CLASS: BA0661 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF KODAK AND ITS BANKRUPT I) Introduce For many years, the name Kodak synonymous with camera, but after 131 years, Eastman Kodak prepare to fade in history. What happened? The recent report showed a dismal situation and bankruptcy may be inevitable. So essentially, what mistakes did Kodak acquired ? II) History of Kodak With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888. In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone.Since that time, the Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes to make photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. In fact, today's Kodak is known not only for photography, but also for images used in a variety of leisure, commercial, entertainment and scientific applications. Its reach increasingly involves the use of technology to combine images and information--creating the potential to profoundly change how people and businesses communicate.Just as Eastman had a goal to make photography "as convenient as the pencil," Kodak continues to expand the ways images touch people's daily lives. The company ranks as a premier multinational corporation, with a brand recognized in virtually every country around the world. | | Kodak has made it easy to enjoy your pictures. The expression 'You...
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...Kodak 1. Marketing Mix –the 4P’s- Kodak’s pixpro FZ51 is the perfect camera to capture all the special beautiful and happy moments in life. With its perfect slim design, it can be use anywhere and at any time. Captures high quality photos without missing any detail with its 16MP CCD sensor and 5x zoom. (1) Product: Price: $.76.00, $.79.99, $.89.99 Place: www.Amazon.com, Best Buy, Wal-Mart Promotion (1 Ad and 1 Promotion) Add: Promotion: Another great promotion Kodak offers for this camera is that it can take up to 200 pictures without a camera flash drive. (1) This camera’s seller point is its rechargeable battery, no more purchasing of AA’s or AAA’s, which can get quite costly and bothersome. Wal-Mart also offers Kodak PixPro with an 8GB camera flash drive for a total of $.91.29, saving the customer $.4.39 if bough separate. (2) In the past, Kodak has also used movie- themes promotions and sweepstakes prizes by using a variety of media outlets. For example, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out, Kodak EasyShare Gallery offered consumers free movie tickets with a $.20.00 purchase at KodakGallery.com. They also offered a chance to win Kodak products or a trip to Disneyland by an online sweepstakes whom asks consumers to participate in a photo treasure hung. (3) STP: Every business has to focus on all the elements that will affect the company, or a product before putting it in the market. There are 6 elements, which include:...
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... |School of Business | | |ACC/230 (11/05/2012 – 01/20/2013) | | |Financial Reporting: Peeking Under the Financial Hood | Copyright © 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description In this course, students will learn to analyze financial statements and methods used to value companies. Financial reports help managers choose between business paths. They also help investors and analysts evaluate the financial health of companies. This course is a practical means of discovering how financial data are generated and their limitations; techniques for analyzing the flow of business funds; and methods for selecting and interpreting financial ratios. It also presents analytical tools for predicting and testing assumptions about a firm’s performance. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read...
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...COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA A REVIEW OF THE COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION POST DLF CASE INTERNSHIP REPORT DECEMBER 2012 SUBMITTED BY: Kirti Dashora, IV Year, Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar A REVIEW OF THE COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION POST DLF CASE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The successful completion of this project could not have been completed without the valuable guidance and insights of many people. I would like to thank Mr. Yogender Chaudhary, Adviser (Law) for guiding me throughout my internship period. I would also like to thank Ms. Bhawna Gulati, Deputy Director (Law) for providing me helpful suggestions regarding the project. I also thank all the officers in the Commission who provided knowledge of the working of the Commission during the rotation exercise. The library staff also provided help whenever it was required. Page 2 A REVIEW OF THE COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION POST DLF CASE TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………………5 OVERVIEW OF THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR IN INDIA…………………………..….6 Regulation of the Sector………………………………………………………..……7 The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2011………………………....7 ABUSE OF DOMINANCE IN THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR……………………..……9 Relevant Market…………………………………………………………………..…9 Assessment of dominance………………………………………………………..….9 Abuse of dominance……………………………………………………………...
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...1. How does Porsche differ – operating structure, financial results, etc. – from other major European-based auto manufacturers? To begin with Porsche is a privately owned company controlled by the Porsche and Piéch family. They hold all the 8.75 million voting shares while mainly large institutional investors hold the other 8.75 million non-voting shares. Despite the fact that stock exchange and analysts’ requests more frequent and more detailed financial reporting Porsche is not willing to meet these needs. Another questionable input is the management compensation that only depend on Porsches profitability from year to year and not the share prices. Porsche manufacturing is conducted in German but also in Finland which make them a global brand with a cost base mainly in euro. They want to keep it so despite the fact that 42% of its revenues come from sales in the US since they believe that the heart of the brand comes from its performance in manufacturing and engineering. Porsche is therefore, by far the most exposed company among other European-based auto manufactures to changes in exchange rates. While the other manufacturers increase their amount of natural hedging by conducting more manufacturing in their countries of large sales Porsche increase their put option hedging. According to their 2006 model year they are going to fully hedged all their sales. This is done even though Porsche has the largest US exposure among the manufactures. Their hedging strategy has been criticized...
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...What Leaders Really Do by John P Kotter . Reprint r0111f December 2001 Required Reading r0111a Barbara Kellerman HBR Survey Personal Histories: Leaders Remember the Moments and People That Shaped Them r0111b Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance r0111c Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee HBR Roundtable All in a Day’s Work r0111d A roundtable with Raymond Gilmartin, Frances Hesselbein, Frederick Smith, Lionel Tiger, Cynthia Tragge-Lakra, and Abraham Zaleznik What Titans Can Teach Us r0111e Richard S. Tedlow Best of HBR What Leaders Really Do r0111f John P Kotter . The Hard Work of Being a Soft Manager r0111g William H. Peace Leadership in a Combat Zone r0111h William G. Pagonis Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings r0111j Thomas J. Peters The Work of Leadership r0111k Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie In Closing Followership: It’s Personal, Too Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones r0111l Best of HBR 1990 What Leaders Really Do They don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they The article reprinted here stands on its own, of course, but it can also be seen don’t even organize people. as a crucial contribution to a debate that What leaders really do is began in 1977, when Harvard Business prepare organizations for School professor Abraham Zaleznik change and help them cope published an HBR...
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...C H A P T E R A Further Look at Financial Statements o STUDY OBJECTIVES 2 T H E N AV I G AT O R I I I I Scan Study Objectives Read Feature Story Read Preview Read text and answer Before You Go On p. 58 p. 63 p. 69 p. 72 p. 75 Work Using the Decision Toolkit Review Summary of Study Objectives Work Demonstration Problem Answer Self-Study Questions Complete Assignments I I I I After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1 meaning N Explain the principlesof generally accepted accounting and describe the I basic objective of financial reporting. F E AT U R E S T O R Y 2 qualitative N Discuss theinformation.characteristics of accounting 3 N Identify two constraints in accounting. 4 N Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet. 5 compute ratios N Identify andprofitability. for analyzing a company’s 6 N Explain the relationship between a retained earnings statement and a statement of JUST FOOLING AROUND? Few people could have predicted how dramatically the Internet would change the investment world. One of the most interesting results is how it has changed the way ordinary people invest their savings. More and more people are spurning investment professionals and instead are striking out on their own, making their own investment decisions. Two early pioneers in providing investment information to the masses were Tom and David Gardner, brothers who created an online investor bulletin board called the Motley Fool. The name comes...
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...CHAPTER 11 Reporting and Analyzing Stockholders’ Equity Study Objectives • • • • • • • • • Identify and discuss the major characteristics of a corporation. Understand the Components of Stockholders’ Equity. Record the issuance of common stock. Explain the accounting for the purchase of treasury stock. Differentiate preferred stock from common stock. Prepare the entries for cash dividends and understand the effect of stock dividends and stock splits. Identify the items that affect retained earnings. Prepare a comprehensive stockholders' equity section. Evaluate a corporation's dividend and earnings performance from a stockholder's perspective. Chapter Outline Study Objective 1 - Identify and Discuss the Major Characteristics of a Corporation 1. A corporation is a. a legal entity created by law b. a corporation has most of the rights and privileges of a person. c. Corporations may be classified in a variety of ways. Two common classifications are i. by purpose ii. by ownership. 1. Classification by ownership differentiates publicly held or privately held; a. A publicly held corporation is regularly traded on a national securities market and may have thousands of stockholders. b. A privately held corporation, often referred to as a closely held corporation, does not offer its stock for sale to the general public and may have only a few stockholders. 2. Distinguishing Corporations from proprietorships and partnerships. a. Separate legal existence: i. An entity separate and distinct...
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...Books by Saul Alinsky John L. Lewis, An Unauthorized Biography Reveille for Radicals The Professional Radical (with Marian Sanders) Rules for Radicals RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY RANDOM HOUSE New York Acknowledgments This chapter "Of Means and Ends" was presented in the Auburn Lecture Series at Union Theological Seminary. Some of the other sections of this book were delivered in part in lectures before the Leaders of America series at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, April, 1970; The Willis D. Wood Fellowship Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, May, 1969; American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 1968; U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.; March, 1968; A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Labor Press Association, Miami, Florida, December, 1967; American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967; Centennial Address, Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968; Harvard Medical Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Copyright © 1971 by Saul D. Alinsky All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. ISBN: 0-394-44341-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-117651 ...
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...c02AFurtherLookatFinancialStatements.qxd 7/27/10 9:39 AM Page 46 chapter 2 A FURTHER LOOK AT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ● the navigator ● ● ● ● ✓ Scan Study Objectives Read Feature Story Scan Preview Read Text and Answer Do it! p. 52 p. 53 p. 62 p. 68 Work Using the Decision Toolkit Review Summary of Study Objectives Work Comprehensive Do it! p. 72 Answer Self-Test Questions Complete Assignments Go to WileyPLUS for practice and tutorials Read A Look at IFRS p. 96 study objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1 Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet. 2 Identify and compute ratios for analyzing a company’s profitability. 3 Explain the relationship between a retained earnings statement and a statement of stockholders’ equity. 4 Identify and compute ratios for analyzing a company’s liquidity and solvency using a balance sheet. 5 Use the statement of cash flows to evaluate solvency. 6 Explain the meaning of generally accepted accounting principles. 7 Discuss financial reporting concepts. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● INSIDE CHAPTER 2… 46 c02AFurtherLookatFinancialStatements.qxd 7/27/10 9:39 AM Page 47 feature story Few people could have predicted how dramatically the Internet would change the investment world. One of the most interesting results is how it has changed the way ordinary people invest their savings. More and more people are striking out on their own, making their own investment decisions. Two early pioneers...
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...$400mm in savings certificates were to be rolled over on September 1. If interest rates continued to rise, then these certificates would be rolled over at the prevalent high interest rates (as mentioned in the case, the savings certificate interest rate was fixed at a spread over the T-bill interest rate). If the firm hedges itself from the interest rate fluctuations, then the loss that would be caused due to the savings certificate rollover at a high interest rate would be offset by the futures position. Let us look at this in detail: From exhibit 3, Profit and Loss Statement, comparison of the interest payment expenses ( as denoted by Dividends) has increase from 1979 to 1981 by 104.3% which is attributed to the rise in T-bills interest rates. Table 1.2 Time Period 1981 1980 1979 % Increase from 1979 to 1981 Dividends (denotes interest paid or credited to members) 40,162 26781 19660 104.3% Net Income (3125) 800 2169 Table 1.3 Time Period 1981...
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...MFI 442 International Finance-Individual Assignments I Name Institution MFI 442 International Finance-Individual Assignments I Most corporations expand beyond their local boundaries to become multinationals. There are myriad reasons behind this (Wells & Wint, 2000). The biggest of all these reasons is to gain access to international markets and perhaps invest in economic zones that have high investment returns as compared to home countries (Fu, 2000). The trend of globalization has made most firms become multinational corporations. The most common method for MNCs is through franchises (Jones, 2005). In line with this, economists have put up theories explaining why businesses expand beyond their national boundaries (Hicks, 2000). My primary objective in this paper, therefore, is to discuss international finance and other macroeconomics policies. To foresee this goal, I will delve into foreign exchange market and operations of multinational corporations (MNCs). Theories Explaining Why Corporations Expand to become Multinationals a). Financial economists have brought forward three key arguments that enumerate why companies expand their operations to global markets. These theories are; the imperfect markets theory, the comparative advantage theory and the product cycle theory (Levi, 2004). i).The Comparative Advantage Theory This theory is among the most important concepts in international trade. It states that economic welfare increases when countries specialize...
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...CSAC05 1/13/07 9:21 Page 123 5 Analyzing Resources and Capabilities Analysts have tended to define assets too narrowly, identifying only those that can be measured, such as plant and equipment. Yet the intangible assets, such as a particular technology, accumulated consumer information, brand name, reputation, and corporate culture, are invaluable to the firm’s competitive power. In fact, these invisible assets are often the only real source of competitive edge that can be sustained over time. —HIROYUKI ITAMI, MOBILIZING INVISIBLE ASSETS You’ve gotta do what you do well. —LUCINO NOTO, FORMER VICE CHAIRMAN, EXXON MOBIL OUTLINE l Introduction and Objectives l The Role of Resources and l Organizational Capabilities Classifying Capabilities The Architecture of Capability l Appraising Resources and Capabilities Establishing Competitive Advantage Sustaining Competitive Advantage Appropriating the Returns to Competitive Advantage l Putting Resource and Capability Capabilities in Strategy Formulation Basing Strategy on Resources and Capabilities Resources and Capabilities as Sources of Profit l The Resources of the Firm Tangible Resources Intangible Resources Human Resources Analysis to Work: A Practical Guide Step 1 Identify the Key Resources and Capabilities 123 CSAC05 1/13/07 9:21 Page 124 124 PART II THE TOOLS OF STRATEGY ANALYSIS Step 2 Appraising Resources and Capabilities Step 3 Developing Strategy Implications l Developing Resources and Capabilities...
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...Marketing Management By Philip, Kevin Lane Keller, Abraham Koshy, Mithileshwar Jha logo copy.tif SUMMARY by Chapter 1 Understanding Marketing Management Marketing is an essential art and science that is engaged in a vast number of activities by both persons and organizations. It has become an increasingly vital ingredient in the success of a business. Good marketing is the result of careful planning and execution. There are two sides to marketing – the formulated side and the creative side. It is important to lay the foundation in marketing concepts, tools, frameworks and issues of the formulated side while at the same time instil the real creativity and passion for marketing, as we shall come to see in this chapter. Social Definition of Marketing Marketing is a societal process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering and freely exchanging products and services of value with others. Marketing is increasingly becoming an important function in all organizations to ensure that demand for a product or service persists along with customer retention. Scope of Marketing A good marketer must be able to answer the following questions: What is Marketing? The formal definition of marketing is, Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationship in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders...
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...rates rose. Table 1.1 The bank would violate the regulatory capital requirements if its losses were not controlled. The T-bill interest rates were on the rise. $400mm in savings certificates were to be rolled over on September 1. If interest rates continued to rise, then these certificates would be rolled over at the prevalent high interest rates (as mentioned in the case, the savings certificate interest rate was fixed at a spread over the T-bill interest rate). If the firm hedges itself from the interest rate fluctuations, then the loss that would be caused due to the savings certificate rollover at a high interest rate would be offset by the futures position. Let us look at this in detail: From exhibit 3, Profit and Loss Statement, comparison of the interest payment expenses ( as denoted by Dividends) has increase from 1979 to 1981 by 104.3% which is attributed to the rise in T-bills interest rates. Table 1.2 Time Period | 1981 | 1980 | 1979 | % Increase from 1979 to 1981 | Dividends (denotes interest paid or credited to members) | 40,162 |...
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