...Go to the CanGo intranet found in the Report Guide tab under Course Home Use the financial statements from the most recent year to fill in the table below. You may find some formulae calling for an average, e.g., average inventory, average receivables. Because we only have the Balance sheet for one year, you can only use the one year number not an average. Assume interest expense is $0.00 Be sure to cite your references Ratio Formula (express the ratio in words) Detailed calculation (actual numbers from financial statements used for the calculation) Final number (final result of the detailed calculation) Explanation of why ratio is important Example: Term A/Term B (Term A divided by Term B) 1000/2000 .50 This is the explanation of the role of this ratio and why it is important Efficiency Ratio: Receivables Turnover Net Sales/Acct Receivable* 50,000,000/ 32,120,000 1.56 Measures how effective the company's credit policies are. A low ratio could be difficulty collecting or the company is too generous granting credit. The higher the ratio the better. Efficiency Ratio: Inventory Turnover Net Sales/ Total Inventory 9,000,000/ 32,000,000 0.28 Measure how efficiently the company is able to move its merchandise. Review of Industry norms and ratios to compare this company with others in the industry. Financial Leverage Ratio: Debt/Equity Ratio Total Liabilities/ Shareholder's Equity*** 94,900,000/ 141,000,000 67.30%...
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...http://hwcampus.com/shop/busn-460-complete-class/ Week 1 DQ 1 Selling your team’s services to CanGo Week 1 DQ 2 Mission, Vision & Values Week 2 DQ 1 Planning a Technological Solution Week 2 DQ 2 Cost Benefit Analysis Week 3 DQ 1 Flow Charting Processes Week 3 DQ 2 Implementing Technology Week 4 DQ 1 Group vs Team Week 4 DQ 2 Matrixed Employee Environments Week 5 DQ 1 Performance Review Session Week 5 DQ 2 Status Reports Week 6 DQ 1 Corporate Decision Making Week 6 DQ 2 Weighing Decision Criteria Week 7 DQ 1 Corporate Ethics Tactics Week 7 DQ 2 Profit vs. Responsibility BUSN 460 Week 1 Team Name and Contract BUSN 460 Week 2 Analysis Report - Issues Report BUSN 460 Week 3 Individual Financial Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 4 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 5 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 6 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Final Project Consulting CanGo Final Report BUSN 460 Senior Project Week 3 Individual Financial Analysis Report Individual Financial Analysis Report Conclude working on your Individual Financial Analysis Report, due this week. Note that this is not a team assignment. Be sure to include proper citations for all references you use. Go to the CanGo Intranet and pull the financial statements. Use these to fill out the table found in Doc Sharing labeled Financial Analysis Project, and submit to the Individual Financial Analysis Dropbox in Week 3 after making sure that you have added your last name at the beginning of the file...
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...Team A – One in Diversity Final Report 2011 One in Diversity Members: Janet Knowlden Ximena Garrido Donna Smith Theresa Henderson Robin Lewis Financial Analysis To ensure effective financial forecasting, an owner of a small business firm should have developed a complete set of projected financial statements. These projected financial statements, often times referred to as pro forma financial statements, assist in forecasting future levels of balance sheet accounts as well as profits and anticipated borrowing. Concurrently, projected financial statements become the small business owner's financial plan. (Vrouvas, 1999-2011) The significance of financial planning is that a firm's top leadership is afforded the ability to evaluate their company’s operating performance. Through evaluation and analysis of financial information, senior managers are able to determine how financials affect business decisions and corporate profitability. Additionally, external users of financial data, such as a lender, a customer or a supplier, are able to measure a company's financial healthiness by reviewing its operating data and informational assumptions used in preparing projected financial statements. The function of financial analysis is to provide a corporation's top leadership with information to examine financial statements for many purposes, such as its financial standing and company profitability based on annual reports. “Accurately and honestly communicating your company's strengths...
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...http://hwcampus.com/shop/busn-460-complete-class/ Week 1 DQ 1 Selling your team’s services to CanGo Week 1 DQ 2 Mission, Vision & Values Week 2 DQ 1 Planning a Technological Solution Week 2 DQ 2 Cost Benefit Analysis Week 3 DQ 1 Flow Charting Processes Week 3 DQ 2 Implementing Technology Week 4 DQ 1 Group vs Team Week 4 DQ 2 Matrixed Employee Environments Week 5 DQ 1 Performance Review Session Week 5 DQ 2 Status Reports Week 6 DQ 1 Corporate Decision Making Week 6 DQ 2 Weighing Decision Criteria Week 7 DQ 1 Corporate Ethics Tactics Week 7 DQ 2 Profit vs. Responsibility BUSN 460 Week 1 Team Name and Contract BUSN 460 Week 2 Analysis Report - Issues Report BUSN 460 Week 3 Individual Financial Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 4 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 5 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Week 6 Analysis Report BUSN 460 Final Project Consulting CanGo Final Report BUSN 460 Senior Project Week 3 Individual Financial Analysis Report Individual Financial Analysis Report Conclude working on your Individual Financial Analysis Report, due this week. Note that this is not a team assignment. Be sure to include proper citations for all references you use. Go to the CanGo Intranet and pull the financial statements. Use these to fill out the table found in Doc Sharing labeled Financial Analysis Project, and submit to the Individual Financial Analysis Dropbox in Week 3 after making sure that you have added your last name at the beginning of the file...
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...CANGO, INC ANALYSIS SENIOR PROJECT 2011 Final Report 10/16/2011 Christopher Planck Kesha Wilcoxson Ricci Cashwell Steven Thompson Table of Contents Item | Page # | Table of Contents | 2 | Executive Summary | 3 | SWOT | 4 | Market Analysis | 5-6 | Competitive Analysis | 6-7 | Financial Analysis | 7-10 | Financial Recommendations | 10-12 | Strategic Planning Recommendations/ Conclusion | 12 | Work Cited | 13 | Executive Summary Cango is an Internet startup that retails a variety of products and services, ranging from books and videos to online gaming services. To do away with the growing pains of a new e-business, there are numerous ideas on how Cango can be a long lived success in the online gaming industry. We will answer the following questions: * What should we do with the $130M received as a result of the IPO? * Should we go through with purchase of the Automated Storage & Retrieval System? * What should we do with the online...
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...Devry University Final Report – CanGo Business Proposal Professor Ghattas Table of Content Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………3 SWOT Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Market Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………..6 Competitive Analysis……………………………………………………………………………..8 Financial Analysis…………………………………………………………………………….…..8 Strategic Planning Recommendations…………………………………………………………...11 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….13 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………………...14 Executive Summary – Lauren Harrison The main purpose of the following report is to provide CanGo with an innovative approach to not only capturing the online gaming market but to identify the main strengths and weaknesses that the company faces with their inner management structure. Expert C Consulting is dedicated to focusing on the core current and potential opportunities that are available to CanGo as an advantage over the e-commerce industry. We will also point out the many threats that exist in the e-commerce world and the online gaming industry. CanGo is a small company that in a short time has experienced a great deal of success and we want to help their company continue to earn the success that they deserve. We as a consulting firm are eager to establish CanGo with the necessary tools and strategies to build a solid business structure to handle the current operations of e-commerce and conquer the online gaming market. SWOT Analysis – Lucienne Sias As we have...
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...CanGo Week Two Analysis Report DeVry University Bus460 Senior Project Instructor David Mozinski Introduction The Grad Consultants have spent the last two weeks observing CanGo and their business practices to help them determine the weaknesses within their organization. We will use our knowledge and experience to provide suggestions for improvement that will have a positive impact not only on CanGo’s bottom line but also on the morale of all those who are employed by the organizations. Elizabeth (Liz), who is the owner of CanGo, first conceived the idea of the company in 2006. Since then, the company has grown exponentially. According to the company’s intranet “Liz’s experience and education helped refine her vision of a business environment centered on the Internet revolution. Under her leadership, CanGo has grown from a small online book retailer to a leader in entertainment focused e-commerce”. Liz has done very well for herself and the company with the effort and ideas that she has used thus far. CanGo is growing so fast that she now needs help to show her how to be prepared for what could happen and what she wants to happen as a company. When there is so much growth and so much competition, Liz and CanGo need to have a plan. That is why we are here; to help the company stay successful even when they are considering expanding into a new market. During this research period, The Grads have come up with the top...
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...Intent of Report: This report is intended to provide CanGo management an understanding of the challenges that they face and a recommended plan of action that will help CanGo overcome these challenges. This report covers the first and second week of videos provided for analysis. Findings: 1. CanGo is a company that is operating without a strong vision or mission statement along with a set of values that identifies their presence and purpose in the market of online gaming. CanGo also does not have a clear business strategy: without this it is very difficult for any of CanGo’s personnel to have any sense of business acumen. 2. During the management meetings it is evident that there is a strong need for some structure and proper utilization of the strategic management process. Everyone seems to be working on projects that are not their strong points, and clear deadlines and expected deliverables are not established. 3. Currently CanGo does not utilize proper planning. Management does not give subordinates appropriate guidance to establish timelines for project deliverables. It is also clear that Nick, the project manager was perhaps a poor choice by management due to his lack of organization, planning skills, and experience in project management and leadership. It does not help the situation that Nick was given very little direction from his superior, Warren. 4. CanGo dove into a new business venture without any financial or market analysis that will afford...
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...CanGo is a rapidly growing business and is currently lacking a strategic plan in order to continue to grow and stay viable. Stealth Applied Concepts has been working together to develop many recommendations to increase future endeavors and to expand in order to reach customer needs. This report contains the final analysis of the business practices and recommendations for CanGo from Team D, Stealth Applied Concepts. Stealth Applied Concepts has analyzed CanGo for approximately seven weeks now, which consists of several findings and recommendations based off of that detailed analysis. The team goal was to analyze current business practices in order to determine what is working, as well as to identify what changes and improvements are needed. The final analysis reports consist of a detailed SWOT analysis in order to determine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; it also consists of a market analysis, competitive analysis, financial analysis, and a strategic planning recommendation. This final analysis report should be...
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...Final Report Team B: Legacy Consultants Ian Byrne, Darcy Cafiero, Sierra Collins, Tim Downen, Alvis Ford BUS 460 Senior Project Professor Maureen Lockwood DeVry University October 20, 2011 Executive Summary A comprehensive look into CanGo has led to a number of conclusions and recommendations by Legacy Consultants. A SWOT analysis of the company shows that there are good opportunities for expansion into other markets and that the threats and weaknesses that exist can be overcome or managed by an already dedicated senior staff with some additional training and direction. Product delivery and customer service can be streamlined by utilizing updated technology such as an AS/RS in CanGo’s warehouses. An online customer support and service center will improve customer experiences. A competitive advantage can be expected with state of the art product delivery and improved customer service. Strategically, CanGo needs to expand in order to stay ahead of growing competition. Legacy Consultants recommends purchasing Webjouster as the way to enter into online gaming. CanGo should stay away from offering violent games in order to maintain brand integrity. Server capacity should be increased in order to accommodate expansion demand with minimal down-time. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ...
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...Financial Analysis First in this report, our team has prepared a detailed analysis of CanGo’s current financial condition, which included Income Statement and Balance Sheet reorganization and complete analysis of the company’s Financial Ratios. Next, we analyzed the impact of the anticipated 500% increase in Revenues on the company’s Income Statement. Lastly our team has prepared a detailed Cost Benefit Analysis, which includes our proposals to ultimately increase CanGo’s Cash Flow and Revenues, decrease Expenses and eventually increase the company’s Return on Equity by 8.17% and Net Income by $6,027,657. Balanced sheet and Income Statement reorganization: Simply the Best Consulting recommend reorganizing the current balance sheet for better read and faster analysis by adding rows for Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Current Liabilities, and Fixed Liabilities. We also suggest keeping the assets to the left side of the sheet and moving the Liabilities and Capital to the right. Implementing the above changes will make the company’s balanced sheet easier to read and analyze. With regards to the income statement, we recommend CanGo to make an additional line statement to reflect the total divisional revenues for the various departments and differentiate between the amounts of returns for each department. This will allow the company to analyze the departments better in terms of their sales and returns. The followings are the reorganized balanced sheet and income statement...
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...Running head: CanGo Final Report CanGo Final Report Advantage Plus Consulting Services Prepared for: Professor David Mozinski Prepared by: Tonya Blevins Sydney Coleman Brent Currie Glen Ferry Tina Foster DeVry University BUSN 460 Senior Project October 23, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. SWOT ANALYSIS 4 3. MARKET ANALYSIS 6 4. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS 7 5. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 10 6. STRATEGIC PLANNING 11 7. CONCLUSION 17 8. REFERENCES 19 CANGO FINAL REPORT ADVANTAGE PLUS CONSULTING SERVICES 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Elizabeth Bennett, who sought to break into the lucrative and booming world of ecommerce, founded CanGo in 2006. Over the proceeding years CanGo would establish itself as a regional online success story, providing customers with the opportunity to purchase books, music, videos and games in an online environment. As the country became consumed by an economic crisis, CanGo somehow managed to sustain its success by providing customers with affordable options for entertainment. In this way, CanGo was able to capture a mass market of a variety of segmented consumers. Despite CanGo’s initial success, however, the organization is not without its fair share of concerns. The primary issue with CanGo is that it lacks a formal strategic business plan. The company has also failed to clearly define what its short-term goals and long-term goals are and how it plans to go about realizing those goals. The company...
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...global market increased over the past 5 years has been more than 30%. We also found that CanGo customer satisfaction rate is under 50% which threatens the company poetical for growth. Solution: To Expand into the gaming market using a Strategic planning process as part of company operations utilizing internal personnel with external training to get people qualified where they are needed. Identify the companies’ capabilities through Opportunity analysis by replace communication system with a lean, to the point customer service system with operators as needed then build a return customer base by offering rewards and discounts. Market analysis shows the increase of revenue 38% in the US and 30.8% in the global market. Finically CanGo Return on assets is 2.3% and return on sales is 10.94% , excellent. Capital raised the cost of the online gaming to 30,000. With an increase in the market and customer base, CanGo estimates can exceed the 30,000 yearly. SWOT Analysis: Strengths: The e-service that CanGo has offered its customers is a huge success. CanGo has conquered internet integration of music and books that have contributed to CanGo’s success. CanGo’s successful reputation has given other businesses, such as Webjouster, the opportunity to collaborate and piggyback off of one another. Offering online music and books resulted in a significantly high IPO. Weaknesses: Although CanGo has great strengths, the weaknesses...
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...BUSN460 Final Report: Week 8 Component | Points Received | Points Allowed | Expectations | Executive Summary | | 10 | Concise, no more than a half to three quarters of a page. | Originality | | 15 | Paper is an original work, and contains little content (very minimal, if at all) from team analysis reports or other submissions. | SWOT | | 20 | Each section clearly labeled, focuses on tactical and strategic management issues, and does not recount videos or issues with individual employees. | Market Analysis | | 20 | Market research and analysis on the state of the online shopping and gaming market: Size of market, demographics, market trends, potential , etc. | Competitive Analysis | | 20 | Market research and analysis on the state of CanGo’s competitors in various market segments. Research at least three competitor’s product and service offerings, detail their relative strength and weaknesses vs. CanGo. | Financial Analysis | | 20 | Analysis and recommendations of Can Go’s current financial state, the impact of your recommendations on the company’s finances, any necessary financial planning required. CanGo’s position vs. competition and industry average liquidity, debt, profitability and efficiency ratios – and what they all mean to the company. | Strategic Planning Recommendations | | 20 | Actionable market, competitive and financial guidance to the CanGo board supported by research, facts and figures – not generalizations. Ethics and social conscience...
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...CanGo Final Report Senior Project Table of Contents Introduction to CanGo……………………………………………………….. Page 3 Issues and Recommendations….………………………………………………Page 3 References……………………………………………………………………...Page 11 Appenix A………………………………………………………………………Page 12 Appendix B……………………………………………………………………..Page 12 CanGo Analysis Introduction CanGo is a cutting edge company that was founded in 2006 by Elizabeth. CanGo is an online company that offers a variety of products ranging from books and videos to online gaming. CanGo is known for having the best service in terms of product and support. Although CanGo is a break-out company, there are some issues that have been identified when it comes to the company having a complete vision for what the company wants to accomplish as well as where the company sees itself in the future. During the course of six weeks, there have been many issues identified regarding the structure and function of the company. Along with these issues that have been identified and the recommendations that were made, if CanGo puts these ideas into practice, this company can go above and beyond original company and market expectations. Issues and Recommendations The first issue was brought to our attention was the fact that the organization had no vision for the future. Due to the fact that there was no initial vision for CanGo, the company likely missed out on a lot of opportunities over the years. Any opportunity can be an opportunity for growth and achievement...
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