...Analysis BEST AVERAGE WORST Current Ratio 4.6 2.6 1.5 Average Collection Period 0 1 7 Day’s Inventory on Hand 36 107 136 Asset Analysis Fixed Asset Turnover 88.4 13.6 3.5 Total Asset Turnover 3.7 2.3 1.3 Debt Analysis Debt/Worth Ratio 0.4 1.4 3.9 TIE Ratio 8.3 3.1 1.3 Day’s Payable 8 31 42 Profitability Analysis PRE TAX Profit Margin NA 10.7 NA PRE TAX ROE 38.7 14.3 5.9 PRE TAX ROA 18.1 4.6 3.0 Introduction Macy’s, Inc. is a chain of department stores in the U.S. that has 800 locations along with online operations at macys.com. Established in 1858, they are proud to offer the best assortment of brands for a great value to each and every individual while providing engaging customer service. Macy’s wants shopping to be a whole new experience for people and that’s exactly the purpose of the American classics they have created, such as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Macy’s provides the magic to their customers by providing them with brands exclusive to the store, offering everyone the ability to be a trend-setter. Fashion has been brought to new levels thanks to this department store brand, through the web, stores, and mobile devices Macy’s is able to provide the best advice to their customers in need. More importantly, Macy’s tailors every store to fits its customer’s needs locally. Liquidity Analysis Current Ratio RMA ’11 ’10 % Change Best Average Worst 1.4 1.4...
Words: 2565 - Pages: 11
...21 Assignment Coversheet The Business School STUDENT INFORMATION 1 STUDENT NO. | | SURNAME | | PHONE NO. | | GIVEN NAMES | | E-MAIL | | Tutorial | | STUDENT NO. | | SURNAME | | PHONE NO. | | GIVEN NAMES | | E-MAIL | | Tutorial | | Signature | | Date | | ASSESSMENT INFORMATION COURSE NAME | BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS | COURSE CODE | ITECH 1005 | ASSIGNMENT DETAILS (title) | SALES TRACKING & CUSTOMER RELATIONS ANALYSIS | LECTURER / TUTOR’S NAME | | Campus / Provider | | DUE DATE | | SUBMITTED ON | | COURSE NAME | BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS | COURSE CODE | ITECH 1005 | ASSIGNMENT DETAILS (title) | SALES TRACKING & CUSTOMER RELATIONS ANALYSIS | LECTURER / TUTOR’S NAME | | Campus / Provider | | DUE DATE | | SUBMITTED ON | | C ABC Consultancy 80,mossfiel drive Hoppers crossing , VIC 3029 Ph:0434768596 Email:Abc.89@gmail.com Ms Geogie mrtyr Ballarat Trade Fair Consultancy 2 Trade Fair Rd Ballarat VIC 3352 Dear Ms martyr, Thank you for hiring me to conduct sales tracking and customer relations analysis on your business. The focus of my analysis was to offer advice to improve the sales strategy, internal efficiencies and effectiveness and to build strong lasting relationships with customers. Please find attached my report with recommendations on various key areas. If you have any queries, feel free to contact me so that we can discuss the...
Words: 2668 - Pages: 11
...Best case, Average case and Worst case will show the efficiency of algorithm of sorted array, unsorted array and array in descending order. 7. Summary will provide the result of overall testing. 6.3 COMPLEXITY 6.3.1 WORST CASE 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + N + N + 1 + N + N + 5N + N + N + 5N + N + N + 5N + N + N + 6N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + N + 1 Worst Case = 6 + 46N 6.3.2 BEST CASE 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + 0 + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + N + N + 0 + 1 Best Case = 3 + 17N 6.3.3 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS W.R.T. DISTINCTION There are three types of cases to represents the complexity of “Complexity Analyzer”. • Best Case • Worst Case • Average Case 6.3.3.1 BEST CASE There are inputs considered in which the maturities are minimal. The running time in worst case is a lower bound on the running time. Basically in the Best-case defines the lower bound on running time of an algorithm. We need to know about the case that causes smallest number of actions to be implemented. The best-case analysis is rarely performed. Best Case is equal to the first element in the array is searched Number of comparisons is V (n) = 1 FOR...
Words: 1300 - Pages: 6
...During times of conflict we are tested, conflict can evoke the best and worst out of individuals based on how they react and cope with it, without conflict we can never know what we are truly capable of. Many figures throughout history have shown how conflict brings out the best and the worst in them; this is also shown in the film Paradise road which is directed by Bruce Beresford. The My Lai massacre is an example of how conflict brings out the best and the worst and people, the My Lai massacre was when a group of American soldiers couldn’t cope with the stress of Guerrilla Warfare against the Vietcong troops, and under their lieutenants command they fired upon the village of My Lai decimating all inhabitants which included women and children. This is a clear example of how conflict brought out the worst in these individuals, they war in a foreign land and the constant stress of being killed finally tore them up internally so they open fired and killed innocent civilians. Although it seems that only the worst arose from the conflict in My Lai, some of the best did come from it, an example is the brave chopper pilot Hugh Laury so put himself and his men on the line to save the civilians. Laury even went as far as ordering his men to fire on the American troops if they didn’t stop shooting at the Vietnamese village; this is a clear cut example of how the best of a person can arise from conflict, his morality didn’t waver , even in the face of the evil around and amongst him...
Words: 823 - Pages: 4
...Candide: The Worst of All Possible Worlds In Voltaire’s book, Candide, the main character undergoes numerous hardships and grueling tasks that help support the fact that Candide does not live in the best of all possible worlds. A perfect example is that throughout the whole book, Candide is forced to kill multiple people. In the best of all possible worlds, Candide would have never needed to kill anyone. Also Candide was searching for Cunegonde almost the whole book, only to be disappointed with an ugly Cunegonde. Pangloss believes that they live in the best of all possible worlds. This statement is false. With all the events that have gone against this belief, there is no way Candide could possibly live in the best of all possible worlds. In order to argue that Candide lives in the worst of all possible worlds, one must define what the best of all possible worlds is like. In a best of all possible worlds, Candide would have not encountered any of the negative and bad events along his journey. He wouldn’t have had to kill numerous people and to begin with the journey wouldn't have existed. This is because...
Words: 831 - Pages: 4
...The Super Bowl Asia McCann Eng/147 September 29th, 2014 Annie Oakes Sports is a big part of the entertainment world. The National Football League is one of the biggest sports franchises in the world. Every year the NFL hosts a championship game called the Super Bowl. 32 teams compete in 16 games, and the best move on into the playoffs. For the last 48 years two teams battle it out for bragging right as the best team in the NFL. The Super Bowl has gone down in history as the best championship game ever assembled in the history of any sport. Did you know that the Super Bowl started 49 years ago? On January 15th, 1967 was the debut of the first ever Super Bowl in Los Angeles, CA. The Green Bay Packers took on the Kansas City Chiefs. During this time the NFL had a rival league called the American Football League. The Chiefs were a part of the AFL and the Packers were a part of the NFL. This is the first and only Super Bowl where it was the AFL vs. NFL before both leagues merged into one. The Packers beat the Chiefs 35-10 and were the fans favorite. NBC and CBS both televised the game collectively racking in 51.18 million viewers (Unknown, 2014). This was the first and last time that two networks televised a Super Bowl game at the...
Words: 779 - Pages: 4
...CSEC630 CSEC630 - Individual Assignment Objective: Assess the security vulnerabilities of an organization's computer/network operating systems along with the techniques used to protect them. Competencies: Critical thinking Instructions: In 10-12 double-spaced pages discuss the following: 1. The relative advantages and disadvantages of at least three different measures used to protect operating systems. 2. The ease of implementation of the measures. 3. The associated security management issues related to measures discussed above. 4. The ranking of the measures from best to worst with supporting rationale. Prepare your paper in Word. Include a minimum of 5 sources. The citations and the reference list in the paper should be formatted in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines. The assignment is due at the end of the session week 7. Before you submit your paper, you will need to run your assignment through Turnitin.com and receive an originality report. DO NOT WAIT TO THE LAST MINUTE TO DO THIS. It might take several hours to do this. Resubmissions can take a day or more. For instructions, go to " Basic Turnitin Instructions" in the General Information module. After it meets all of the stated criteria, submit the paper AND the originality report in your Assignments Folder. * DUE DATE: End of Week 7 (Two Week assignment – Week 6 and Week 7). CSEC630 Individual Assignment Grading Criteria This assignment is worth 10 percent...
Words: 666 - Pages: 3
...Product Innovation Best Practices Series Best Practices in the Idea-to-Launch Process and Its Governance Reference Paper #45 Robert G. Cooper and Scott J. Edgett Compliments of: Stage-Gate International and Product Development Institute Inc. This article appeared in Research Technology Management March-April, pp 43-54 For information call +1-905-304-8797 www.stage-gate.com © Product Development Institute Inc. 2000-2014 Product Development Institute Inc. and Stage-Gate are registered trademarks. Logo for Product Development Institute Inc. used under license by Stage-Gate International Logo for Stage-Gate used under license where appropriate. Best Practices in the Idea-to-Launch Process and Its Governance A study of new-product development practices at 211 businesses provides insights into best practices in both the idea-to-launch process and its governance. Robert G. Cooper and Scott J. Edgett OVERVIEW: Most firms now use some form of idea-to-launch process such as a Stage-Gate® system. The question is: Do these processes really work? And what are the elements of a best-in-class idea-to-launch system that really make a difference? A second and related question concerns the governance of the idea-to-launch model. Sadly there is a lack of hard evidence as to what governance structure works best and just what its impact is, if any. This article reports the results of an American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) and Product Development Institute (PDI)...
Words: 6677 - Pages: 27
...Swinging Weights paper Swing weights are assigned through the supposed increase of each criterion's performance from the worst to the best value. The criterion which represent the highest boost to the total options' performance is assigned a value of 100, all the other criteria are compared respective to this criterion. As put by Belton and Stewart (2002) put it, "if a swing from worst to best on the most highly weighted criterion is assigned a value of 100, what is the relative value of a swing from worst to best on the second ranked criterion"? Trade-off means that a very low score in one criterion may not be compensated with a very high score in another one. The SAW decision rule described in chapter 2.6.1 allows full tradeoff. The MAXIMAX decision rule, in which the decision maker selects the option with the maximal scores in the best criterion, and the MAXIMIN rule, by which the option with the best scores in the worst criterion is selected, don’t allow any tradeoff as the decision is made according only to one criterion. Belton, V. and Stewart, J. (2002). Multiple criteria decision analysis: An integrated approach. Kluwer, Boston, Dodrecht and London. 366pp MAKING TRADE-OFFS This complexity may be resolved by making trade-offs between objectives, which entails determining a trade-off or substitution ratio; how much of one can be surrendered in order to achieve another. In practice, this is usually done intuitively when a choice is...
Words: 381 - Pages: 2
...CSEC630 CSEC630 - Individual Assignment Objective: Assess the security vulnerabilities of an organization's computer/network operating systems along with the techniques used to protect them. Competencies: Critical thinking Instructions: In 10-12 double-spaced pages discuss the following: 1. The relative advantages and disadvantages of at least three different measures used to protect operating systems. 2. The ease of implementation of the measures. 3. The associated security management issues related to measures discussed above. 4. The ranking of the measures from best to worst with supporting rationale. Prepare your paper in Word. Include a minimum of 5 sources. The citations and the reference list in the paper should be formatted in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines. The assignment is due at the end of the session week 7. Before you submit your paper, you will need to run your assignment through Turnitin.com and receive an originality report. DO NOT WAIT TO THE LAST MINUTE TO DO THIS. It might take several hours to do this. Resubmissions can take a day or more. For instructions, go to " Basic Turnitin Instructions" in the General Information module. After it meets all of the stated criteria, submit the paper AND the originality report in your Assignments Folder. * DUE DATE: End of Week 7 (Two Week assignment – Week 6 and Week 7). CSEC630 Individual Assignment Grading Criteria This assignment is worth 10 percent...
Words: 666 - Pages: 3
...price of the company was $56.37 with 232.44 million shares outstanding and a market value of 13.103 billion. After taking the debt of 3 billion, the market value increase by the amount of tax shield provided by debt i.e. $1.2 billion and the share price increases to $61.53. Impact on WACC The pre-capitalization WACC is 10.90% using beta= 0.75, Rf=5.65%, Risk Premium=7% The post capitalization WACC is 10.908% using Levered Beta = 0.87, Re= 11.74%, Rd=13% Impact on Voting Control Share repurchases results in less number of shares outstanding which increases the voting power of the Wrigley Family from 47% to 51%. Impact on EPS Before Recapitalization | Worst Case | Most Likely | Best Case | EPS | 1.24 | 1.36 | 1.49 | | Worst Case | Most Likely | Best Case | After Recapitalization (Share Repurchase) | | EPS | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.61 | | Worst Case | Most Likely | Best Case | After Recapitalization (Dividend Payout) | | EPS | 0.23 | 0.36 | 0.48 | The earnings per share EPS decreases by taking on debt as shown above. The EPS as...
Words: 668 - Pages: 3
...The Best and Worst of Spending Barbara Cook-Snider ECO203: Principles of Macroeconomics Instructor: Marlo Chavarria February 20, 2012 The Best and Worst of Spending I am writing a paper in response to my class, Principles of Macroeconomics, in which we are to speak about the government deficit and what our thoughts are based on research. It’s easy to speak of what and why our deficit is so high, but there are many different opinions of how to fix it. Maybe there is no one certain way this can be done, I, mean to balance the budget without cutting many well deserved programs is a tough nut to crack. Let’s first look at why the budget is so high and what part does all this play in our growth rate that is affecting our economy today. “Sources for economic growth occurs when (1) society acquires more resources or (2) society discovers way of using available resources more efficiently. For economic growth to increase living standards, the rate of growth must exceed the rate of population increase. The economic growth is generally defined as an increase in real GDP per capita” (Case, Fair, Oster, 2009) “The current economic situation in the United States and most of the world is as precarious as it has been in decades. Despite the current, welcome feeling that we seem to have pulled back from the precipice of out-and-out global economic depression, the trends are negative in far too many areas -- most obviously, in the continued loss of jobs. I should...
Words: 2126 - Pages: 9
...| | IMI International Medical Innovations | | | | TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2 Problem Statement...........................................................................................................................3 Methodology....................................................................................................................................3 General Assumptions.......................................................................................................................3 Qualitative Analysis.........................................................................................................................4 Quantitative Analysis.......................................................................................................................5 Option 1 - Complete further Testing Alone.....................................................................................6 Option 2 - Complete Studies with Government...............................................................................6 Option 3 - Co-Develop with Another Company..............................................................................7 Option 4 - Fully Out-License...........................................................................................................8 Option 5 - Seek "Home Brew" Status..........
Words: 5282 - Pages: 22
...Laurentian Bakeries Capital Allocation Policy Recommendation Capital Allocation Policy purpose Strategic plan Reinforce the management philosophies by achieving certain objective that all projects be consistent with business strategies, support continuous improvement, consider the human resource and environmental impact, and provide a sufficient return on investment. company background and case summary identify and quantify inefficient or lost opportunities and establish targets for their elimination Capital Allocation Policy Operating Plan identify major continuous improvement initiatives and budget for the associated benefits Capital Allocation Policy Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) present the project's linkage to the business strategies. include specific details of economic and engineering, involvement and empowerment, human resource, environment. Cost of Capital (WACC) Net Present Value Questions? Thank you! Laurentian Bakeries Inc established in 1984 manufactured a variety of frozen baked food products at plants in Winnipeg (Pizzas), Toronto (Cakes) and Montreal (Pies) In late May, 1995, Danielle Knowles, vice president of operations for Laurentian Bakeries Inc prepared a capital expenditure proposal to increase capacity in the company's frozen pizza plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in order to expand in the US market three year plan of capital requirements The first year of this Strategic Plan becomes the annual Operating Plan. identify major continuous improvement ...
Words: 1221 - Pages: 5
...and no shareholders are there. It passes over both firm and shareholders’ diversification and it is computed by Sigma or CV of NPV, IRR or MIRR. The second risk (that is Corporate Risk) concerns the project’s effect on corporate earnings stability. It also considers other activities of the firm (better knows as diversification within firm) and it depends on project’s sigma and the correlation (ρ) with performance on firm’s other assets. The last one (Market Risk) considers project’s effect on a diversified stock portfolio, it takes into account about other shareholders’ activities. It depends on the project’s sigma and its correlation with stock market and it is calculated by project’s market beta. About Market risk, it is probably the best one in many fields but just in theory. Anyway...
Words: 1749 - Pages: 7
