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The Horizontal Analysis

In the horizontal analysis of the company, one considers the various line items in the income statements and the balance sheet with similar items in the previous years. Looking at the year 2008, the company did not perform well. In terms of sales, there was a decrease in the sales compared to the year 2007. There was a decrease of $ 897,000 which is 15% of the sales revenue.
As a result of the low sales, the company suffered a loss in the gross profit. The profit reduced from $1.6M to $1.4M. When analysing the expenses, the website creation and maintenance is a ...

Executive Summary

This report is intended to give a critical overview of the strategic position of Essar Energy by making an analysis of the current position of the company by the use the balanced score card. An analysis is made on the three non financial aspects; the customer perspectives, the internal process perspectives and the learning and growth perspectives in relation to the financial performance and position of the company to draw a conclusion on the strategic direction that the company ought to make so as to successfully achieve its stated strategic vision. Essar Energy’s financial performance in the financial period ending ...

- Business Summary: Meggitt PLC is one of the foremost companies which engage in the design and manufacture of components and sub-systems for various sectors like aerospace, defense, medical, energy, industrial, automotive and other specialist industries and markets.

- History of the company: The Company was founded in the 1850s in the United Kingdom. It started operations as a machine tool business. The company went public 1947. Over the years the company has expanded its base of operations by acquiring various other businesses and companies. By using this strategy Meggitt has not only been able to increase its presence in ...

The product that I have chosen is Oil. Oil is a natural product that is found in oil wells in large quantities. The nature of oil found in these wells is crude and it has to pass through several refining processes, before the final product is obtained. Crude oil is used to create Jet Fuels, Motor Lubes, Petrol, Diesel, and other important products that are used by both the household consumers, as well as the industrial consumers. According to Economicsonline (2014), the use of Oil by the industrial organizations dates back to 18th century.

Source: Infomine, 2014

The graph above shows the trend ...

Goal setting will have benefits for Nike. It is a very important managerial role for this incorporation. One of the benefits of setting the objectives is that it will improve the profitability of Nike. According to the Chief Financial Officer, the incorporation is looking forward to achieving a high single digit growth in revenue. The growth in EPS is expected to be in the range of 15% to 17%. In addition, the incorporation aims at having a 25% return on investments. The incorporation has divided its goals in terms of quarters in a financial year. The goals in this case are maintaining the ...

Financial Analysis: Amazon Inc.

The primary source of revenue for the company is the sale of wide range of products it offers on its consumer facing website. Apart from revenue earned from the sale of merchandise, the company also earns revenue from services like AWS, advertising, publishing etc.
In terms of trend in sales of the company, the same have consistently increased over the years. As the graph indicates, Amazon has been successful in increasing its revenue, courtesy, increasing online demand from its customers. With increasing time spent by adults surfing online, the sales revenue of the company has shown a steady growth. ...

Financial Analysis: Amazon Inc.

The primary source of revenue for the company is the sale of wide range of products it offers on its consumer facing website. Apart from revenue earned from the sale of merchandise, the company also earns revenue from services like AWS, advertising, publishing etc.

In terms of trend in sales of the company, the same have consistently increased over the years. As the graph indicates, Amazon has been successful in increasing its revenue, courtesy, increasing online demand from its customers. With increasing time spent by adults surfing online, the sales revenue of the company has shown a steady growth. ...

Question one

Many firms’ prefers using cost-plus pricing for most of their supply contracts because it gives an opportunity to develop a large project whose capital or start up amount is hard to determine or predict. It simply means that using the cost-plus pricing assist the firms in doing the estimates of the amount of task that is required to be completed with a stipulated period of time. It is also a convenient way to price their products by determining the break-even – point of the goods in question. The entire process takes place through the calculation of the production, distribution along with the ...

Executive Summary

The strategic plan of Pepsi aims at establishing a clear vision and defined goals of how to maintain market leadership of Pepsi and how it has been able to be the best employer in the recent past. Pepsi Co majority of the times had a dominant position in the market, however, at the same time, it has also faced intense competition from its rival, Coca- Cola. The one type of change that it has experience in the last five years is its Diversity Inclusion Project which is now being led by CEO, Indra Nooyi, who has also been a major transformation in ...

Is Globalization a Peace Producer?

Globalization is defined as upspring of a global society in which political, cultural, economic, and environmental circumstances in one part of the globe have particular significance for people in other parts of the world. (Globalization; Salzman, 2008). The globalization refers to rapidly growing connections between nations, economies, and societies (Barbieri and Schneider, 1999:387). Several literatures or studies have evaluated globalization in the context of international politics and social security to ascertain whether it is a peace producer or not (Blanton and Apodaca, 2007).Of course, most of the literatures have different views on the subject matter. This paper examines globalization in ...

Introduction

The AS-AD framework is a very useful economy tool, which reduces the economy into a simple model of supply and demand. The aggregate demand curve (AD) is given by the summation of consumption (C), investments (I), government purchases (G) and net exports (X-M). On the other hand, the supply curve is a function of the expected price levels. This paper uses the AS-AD model to analyse the economy at various levels of employment, and the adjustments that accompany movement various policy actions. It begins with a depiction of an economy operating at less than full employment, showing that economies often tend towards the ...

John Maynard Keynes (5th June 1883-21st April 1946) was one of the founders of modern macroeconomics. He was a British Economist, and he was in the Keynesian economics school of thought. His main contribution towards macro economics was the formulation of the Theory of Employment. His theory of employment opposed what the Classical Economists proposed.

In the theory of Employment, Keynes argues that the main cause for unemployment was insufficient expenditure in investment. Keynes argues that unemployment is as a result of rigidity in wages. The low demand for output and workers to perform a job causes involuntary unemployment. The classical economist ...

Price increase can spell the success or failure of any given business. It is one procedure that should be taken with caution. Nanaimo is faced with the challenge of price increase with the competition being one of the factors that need to be considered. Starbucks and Serious Coffee have been our main competitors. An uncalculated price increase can result in loss of customers.

With the 25% increase in cost, there are many options that will have to be considered when undertaking price adjustments. One of the strategies that will be considered in determining the price increase is using cost ...

In the recent years, there has been a need to increase advertisements on blood donation. These advertisements have been done through posters, radio stations and even the television stations. The aim is to reach as many people as possible so that the problem of blood shortage in hospitals can be addressed once and for all. Blood shortage has been caused by various factors that will be addressed by this research. In addition, these advertisements have some impacts on society. The aim of this research paper is to evaluate the causes of advertisements encouraging blood donations. The paper will also evaluate ...

Cookbooks are products that are thought to create health problems to many people. As a result, the government has resulted in taxing the product as a way of reducing the consumption of the cookbooks. This type of tax is called sin tax. It is a tax that is usually imposed on products that are thought to be harmful to the people. Similar tax is levied on cigarettes and alcohol. When sin tax is levied, the supply of the cookbooks reduces. This is because the price increases hence the demand reduces because the consumers shift to other similar products. Therefore the producers are ...

Arguably, no country is ready to stand the effects of inflation, recession and rising rate of unemployment. Monetary policy is a method used by monetary authority of a country to regulate the supply of money in the economy. In most cases they use rate of interest in order to promote stability, growth, stabilization of prices and regulating the level of unemployment. Fiscal policy on the hand entails use of taxation and government spending to control the economy.

According to my colleagues, they recommend the president to lower rate of interest. In this case the president doesn’t have any power to ...

Financial Data Analysis. Patton Fuller Hospital.

Total expenses, on the other hand, increased only by 5.9% to $463.3 million in 2012, compared to $437.4 million in 2011. Overall, the increase in expenses was primary driven by increase in Depreciation & Amortization expense (44% increase) and increase in provision for doubtful accounts (10.6% increase). Other expenses increased by %3.1 on average. Significant increase in D&A expenses happened due to serious investments in fixed assets, as vendors started offering discounts. Provision for doubtful accounts increased together with accounts receivable, as more patients started buying services on credit.

The combination of the abovementioned factors allowed company to ...

The organic industry is amongst the fastest ever growing sectors in the United States. Organics have increased at a rate of almost twenty percent in the last couple of years and it is expected to maintain a steady growth. The following aspects constitute the trends of organic farming in detailed perspective.

Production

The amount of organic production has increased over the previous years. The Organic Production Survey of 2008 points that 4.1 million acres in the United States are used for organic production. This acreage divided into 1.8 million acres for organic pasture and 1.6 million acres for organic crops. In 2008, ...

Labor cost

Effect of the World Economy as China commodity increases
Chinese has employed wide use of the mass production as a manufacturing strategy. This has lowered the price of commodities compared to other markets in the world. The Chinese product has been more competitive in the entire market and contributing largely to the economy of the country.
The exported products to the international market from china have a competitive advantage due to the low cost. In comparison to other markets the Chinese products such as DVD player and sweater among others, are cheap and hence attracting consumers. United States has ...

Introduction

The airline industry mainly focuses on extensive planning, strategy and decision-making towards sustaining profitability and viability in operations. Through the inculcation of plausible operational policies, organizations manage to position themselves within an individual profitable niche. As such, various players within the airline sector inculcate diverse and individualized approach in operations that lead to differentiated outcomes. Thus, Allegiant Air is a performing company within US airline industry that has sustained its operations through specialized approach in operations. As such, the company has incorporated a low-cost approach that is driven by effective policies and performance approach. As a leisure and travel based carrier, its ...

In the present era of Corporate Modernization, unlike the traditional activities, it is not the owners which runs the company, infact they hire competent management to work on their behalf. Moreover, every owner(shareholder) consider that the managers so appointed to work on their behalf will act in the best interest of their owners and will assure shareholder’s wealth maximization. Infact, in present complex corporate era, the performance of the company depends upon, how competent the management is adapting the dynamic business environment and related circumstances. Thus, the ability to properly adapt and implement the changes in the ...

Question A

According to Gregory Mankiw (2011), trade balance reflects the difference between net worth of exports and imports in a given country. Consequently, positive trade balance suggests in monetary value country exports more than it imports, while negative trading balance (trade deficit) is associated with dominance of imports over exports. Economists argue that trade deficit is not always considered to have a negative impact on the national economy, however it often creates potential risks which may result in harsh economic consequences if they are not addressed properly. For example, if net exports are negative it is assumed that proceedings from exports are ...

Introduction

The economy is never steady and it never follows a predetermined course. There are various factors that influence the functioning of an economy and thereby force it to experience period of boom or recession. The various securities that are traded in these markets, whether government or private, also get influenced by these factors and experience fluctuations in their stock prices, in the case of shares, and in their yield, in the case of government bonds and securities. In most cases, it is easy to analyze and understand the cause behind the trend that emerge when one studies minutely the ups ...

1.A. An increase in electric bill will likely to contribute to the utility expenses of the restaurant. The effect of such is a reduction in sales. For example if the restaurant is making $100,000 in last month and the same with the current month, but an increase in electric bill added $2,000 on expenses. The results will be a reduction in sales of $2,000 or 2% out of the total sales.

1.B. If the increase was due to the increase in kilowatt/hour the same effect of sales reduction will likely to occur. For instance, if the restaurant consumed ...

What is a quality-adjusted life year?

A quality-adjusted life year is a year of life that is free of any problems, symptoms or health related disabilities. It is a concept or a measure of determining the performance of medical treatments and interventions. For instance, calculations are made based on the cost per life gained by different treatment options. The quality-adjusted life year makes it possible to compare different programs directly.
How can it be used to compare differences in health status between someone who is healthy and someone who is not? Can it be used to compare health outcomes of someone who is ill with someone who ...

Question One

- You should then summarize, in a short paragraph, which parts of the business you need to strengthen.

The business needs to strengthen its use of the website. They should try to make it an easy method of selling directly to customers. This will enable it to compete with their competitors in a better way. People love to visit the business -a business heritage-, however, it is costly to maintain and thus they need to break away from it. In addition, the business needs to uses technologically advanced production methods since, it still uses labour intensive methods of production. The business ...

Task 1

Explain the nature and role of accounts. You need to also explain why James and Rebecca need to produce accounting information in order to make financial decisions.

Answer

Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and reporting economic information to the owners of business and all interested parties (Joel, 2008). Business transactions have financial implication on a business in both short term and long term (Frank & Allan, 2005). Some of the transactions are sale or purchases of fixed assets or current assets, paying of business expenses, and settling current liabilities among other business transactions. Accounting involves identifying, measuring and reporting ...

Directions:

- Save your report often as you fill it out, so as not to lose information.
- Use the report form as a single document, do not turn in separate reports for each lab
- Use the ‘Save As’ option to save your file as a Word 97 .doc file
- Save your lab report with this name: Last name, First initial, underscore V1. Thus Charles Darwin would save his Unit 1 Virtual Lab Report as DarwinC_V1.
- Submit this report as a single ...

INTRODUCTION

Coca Cola Company (CCCL) was established in the year 1892 in the Atlanta state of USA. The company offers a range of beverages as the world’s largest beverage provider having around 500 variants being served to its customers. Coca Cola is a global company with its foot prints across 200 countries of the world in given below proportion:
(Coca Cola)

Some prominent players of the Coca Cola portfolio are as follows:

The share of Minute Maid in the revenue of the Coca Cola was 7.27% in 2009 which grew to 7.88% in the year 2013 (Trefis, a). According to the Report Linker’s analysis, Minute Maid is one of the leading ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

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SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR PLAYSTATION 4
Sony’s Playstation 4 (PS4), sold at $400 during its launch in 2013, was a massive hit with its 4.2 million units sold at the end of the year (Forbes, 2014). Sony’s PS4 outsold its closest competitor, Microsoft’s Xbox which also launched that year by a margin of about 1.2 million units at a higher retail price of $500 () .In this exercise, we look at this product and analyze the demand and supply dynamics revolving it.

Demand and Supply Schedule

We draw a hypothetic schedule and demand for the PS4, as follows. Then we map ...

When a muscle is stimulated, do all motor units fire? Why, or why not?

Not all motor units fire when a muscle is activated. This is because in the reflex, not all motor units are activated (Brown et al, 2006).

1b). Explain how the force of contraction changes with recruitment.

The force of contraction depends on the activation of muscle fibers. When more motor fibers are recruited, a greater contraction force results (Zatsiorsky & Kraemer, 2006). The stimulation of the smallest muscles such as the slow twitch fibers result from the recruitment of the smallest motor nerves which, occurs first (Zatsiorsky & Kraemer, 2006).

1c). with continues recruitment, is there a point at which there is ...

Below are several different crime scenarios. Working with your group members, suggest three ways to reduce the following types of crimes: one way that focuses on the motivate offender, one way that focuses on the suitable target, and one way that focuses on the capable guardian.

Then, for each scenario, develop a public policy to help reduce the particular type of crime based on one of the criminological theories we have studied this semester. Be sure to state which theory your group is basing this policy on.

A) A university has become concerned due to an increase in violent crimes ...

In case, real GDP is lower than potential GPD expansionary policies are implemented in correcting contraction of business cycle. Expansionary Fiscal policy leads to increases in purchases by government, tax rate decrease and transfer payment increase to overcome contracting business cycle. Expansionary fiscal policy closes gap of recession, stimulates economy and decreases rate of unemployment.

Fiscal policy tools to stimulate economy are:

Government Purchases
Expenditures done by government sector for services and final goods come under Government purchases. Government purchases are part of GDP bought by the government. Government purchases include heavy cost expenses like highway construction and aircraft clips carriers to smaller expenses like ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the scenarios A1, A2, B1, and B2 in the year 2000. They estimate the impact of future population growths on the environment especially concerning harmful emissions. They represent different circumstances involving population, social, economic, technical, and environmental development in the 21 century. They apply two groups of differing trends. The first set is between strong economic values versus strong economic values. The second set is between globalization and regionalization.

- What do the four storylines predict about how the world’s population might change over the 110 years from 1990 to 2100?

A1 refers to a situation where there is a lot of economic growth and introduction of better technologies. A1 emphasizes the coming together of the four ...

The cost which the organization incurs the production and acquisition of products and services which it intends to sell is very important. The pricing strategy of the organization is significantly affected by costs. Therefore, costs designed to tackle the challenges of the economic and the noneconomic factors very efficiently. The objective of the costing models is to categorize the factors of the marketing objectives of the company and the mission of the company (Gitman, 2003).

Accurately determination of cost is important in organization to remain profitable. Costing does not only require including direct and indirect cost associated with business ...

- How did Gardner's actions match the description that Murray Rothbard gives to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship?

Gardner is truly an entrepreneur. Professor Murray Rothbard describes an entrepreneur or a “capitalist-entrepreneur” as the person that invests in land and/or capital goods and uses these factors of production in the present for producing goods and services that will be sold in the future. The entrepreneur makes a profit if the rate of return he gets from this economic activity is greater than the prevailing general interest rates. This is brought about by his realization that capital or capital goods is “ ...

Minimum Wage

Perhaps, the issue of minimum wage legislation is among the most controversial issues surrounding the labor market. In many a country, minimum wage is determined through collective bargaining rather than through the determination of the law. Instead of using statutory regulation in the determination of minimum wage, governments intervene by following an arbitration procedure. Minimum wage often covers employees engaged under private contract and employees in public enterprises. Categories of workers covered under the minimum wage include full-time workers, part-time workers, piece workers, casual workers, freelance workers, and agency workers. Minimum wage regulations gives exceptions to workers such as the ...

Abstract

This paper has identified articles in www.munKNEE.com by, Lorimer Wilson. It has analyzed the same and presented out the findings. First it presents the general economic principles associated with the article; this is followed by identification of the macroeconomic indices which are also examined into details. A discussion of the indices is followed by possible decisions or forecast that could done under each scenarios.

According to www.munKNEE.com by Loimer, some of the general economic that would relate to the article include but not limited to;
a) The Phillips curve; the higher the rate of unemployment the higher is the ...

Introduction

There is a price war in the industries of the mobile phone and the supermarket, which is advantageous for the consumers and the respective industries. This price war is advantageous for the consumers and the industries from the demand, supply, and opportunity cost point of view. The cost of the mobile phone has declined; the continuation of this trend will make the mobile telephony affordable for huge population of the emerging markets. It also facilitates the consumers by providing more employment opportunities, increase the growth of the economy by increasing the GDP, allow the consumers not to become the victim ...

Introduction

The objective of any firm is to maximise profits and increase shareholders’ wealth. This objective can only be attained if the market structure is favourable for the operations of the firm. The market for low-calorie microwavable food has changed from perfect to imperfect competition. This paper discusses the effectiveness of the new market structure to the operations of the company. It also assesses the profitability of the firm based on the cost functions and the demand function from assignment. In addition, the paper explores was in which the company can improve its profitability as well as the circumstances under ...

Explain Spot Market?

Markets are crucial in every energy sector. Spot market is one of the markets in the business marketplace. It is worth noting that spot market is a physical market where various assets are sold and delivered immediately. The transaction that takes placed is in terms of cash. The spot market incorporates the sale of securities or commodities in cash basis. One of the major features of spot market is that the contracts that are carried out in the market are effected immediately. In most cases, spot market are confused with futures market. The difference is that the commodities and financial ...

Question

Assume that the country is in a period of high unemployment, interest rates are at almost zero, inflation is about 2% per year, and GDP growth is less than 2% per year. Suggest how fiscal and monetary policy can move those numbers to an acceptable level keeping inflation the same. What is the first action you would take as the president? As the chairman of the Fed? Why? What would be your subsequent steps?

Answer

Analyzing the given data indicates us that this economy is suffering from the deflation. In another word, we see high unemployment, very low inflation and very ...

Introduction

In a classic financial world as predicted by Modigliani and Miller (M&M), the risk management should be irrelevant. When there are no information asymmetries, taxes or transaction cost involved, hedging will not add any value to a firm because shareholders or companies can diversify their portfolio in such a way that their overall risk will be totally hedged (Lin and Chang 2006). However, the real world is far from the Modigliani and Miller model. In practice, we see imperfections in the financial market. This imperfection may actually create a rationale to reduce the volatility of earnings for a firm through hedging.

Many empirical ...

The concepts learned in this week were both challenging and fascinating. One of the concepts that I found rather interesting is the law of diminishing marginal productivity. According to this law, the additional of extra units of a variable such as labor to fixed inputs may increase the total marginal utility up to a certain level when the output becomes constant and further addition of the units leads to a reduction in the marginal productivity (Colander, 2010). This is interesting due to how the increase in marginal units of an input affects both the average fixed cost and total variable fixed cost ...

Recent statistics have reported the increasing prevalence rate of obesity and other lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in both developed and developing countries (De Onis et al., 2010). Albeit, considered to be lifestyle-associated in etiology, the occurrence of these diseases is solely evident among adults but alarmingly also among children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide. In 2010, 43 million children were diagnosed to be overweight or obese. A significant number (35 million) of these children lived in developing countries. The worldwide prevalence rate of obesity among children ...

According to Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, there has been a prediction by the federal government claiming that there is to be an expected increase in the number of hospital nursing vacancies by nearly 29% which is approximately 800,000 by the year 2020, this will not be filled by slow increase in the number of nurses as their rate of increase will only be a mere 6%.

As it had been noted that higher level of nursing staff will increase both nurse satisfaction and higher quality health care, this cannot be achieved ...

The capital is the lifeblood of any company and the major constraint for the entrepreneurs because of the limitation of the sources through which they can raise capital. Raising equity and debt is believed to be the life of the economy. Raising money from the local citizens is a remarkable act but it seems to be miracle to raise money from the foreigners and this is what the globalization aims at. During the recent decades, the cross-border financial flows have been steadily increasing around the world. With the tight integration of the world’s economy, there has been an increase ...

Question 1

The American economy is just making a comeback from the 2008 economic recession. The recession took the economy to its lowest point in 25 years. The recession arose from the housing bubble, which led to the eventual disintegration of the financial markets. The housing market caused the disintegration of the markets due to irresponsible activities by investors and financial institutions. The housing market is quite different from the stocks market hence; the circumstances that led to the recession involved a series of unique events. The housing industry involves risks that is quite complex to understand because people view houses as assets ...

Living in an age where technology governs humans in almost every aspect of life, concern over the gap in internet usage in relation to economic and racial differences have consumed policymakers. This is merely because of the conspicuous digital divide where despite the universal benefit resulting from advancement in technology, there are several sectors that are still at a distance from this blessing. One such example is the public schools which is a place reflecting equality, learning and education without disparity on the basis of sex, race and status. In this regard, in order to serve every student, the government started ...

- It takes 1,000 hours of labor to complete one batch of sandals
- Production reaches a cost effective level of 283.83 hours per batch, this highlights the fact that the greater the number of units produced, the lower the overall production cost becomes
I used the excel spreadsheet module in POM for windows to calculate all the data for this particular product. I extended the production timeline by another four months to determine projected levels of revenue and profitability. Using this tool is highly credible since the accuracy of the method, as reflected in the calculations, ...

The Maastricht Treaty launched the European Monetary Union in the year 1992. The union comprised of two parts, which included the creation of euro the common currency and creation of the European Central Bank, which coordinates all monetary policies in the Eurozone. The treaty also created the rules for countries willing to join the union. The other element of the treaty was the national central banks of the 16 member countries. European Monetary Union creation has led to price stability and proper management of public finances (McKay Volz & Wolfinger 2011).The final phase of the single currency introduction ...

Introduction

Currently, coal-fired power plants account for more than 80% of carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power industry of the United States and 33% of all the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Consequently, reducing carbon dioxide emissions that come from the coal plants is the focus of most proposals that intend to cut on the greenhouse gas emission. The options to do this include capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide that emitted by the coal power plants, replacing the coal power plants with the low or zero carbon dioxide sources of power like the nuclear and wind energy.

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Strategic and Competitive Analysis

1. Using Internet resources identify the product attributes customers seek when buying hot coffee. (10 marks)
A product is something, which can satisfy a need or want that can be offered to the market. Attributes are properties of a given product, service, brand, advertisement or anything of interest. Attributes are inherent in the product and can be either concrete or abstract. They can also be referred to as product features that attract buyers. They are the characteristics by which a product or service is identified or differentiated. They consist of features, benefits, uses and functions of the product (Espresso Business Solutions). ...

1.  Executive summary

Sysco Corp (SYY) is the leading foodservice distributor in the world, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company has achieved gradual growth since it was founded in 1969. Some of Sysco’s growth strategies include acquisitions and developing a wide product line. The company generates its revenues through its four major segments; the Broadline, Specialty companies, International, and SYGMA segments. However, the company is in a dynamic and highly competitive foodservice distribution industry. It is therefore fundamental for Sysco to evaluate the external and industry factors that could affect the growth of the company and constantly come up with ...

The Gross Domestic Product has been used as an index of economic progress since the dawn of the nineteenth century. The use of GDP as an index of economic growth and development was inspired by the works of Simon Kuznets who stressed the importance of this measure of the total economic production in a nation in a year as an index to compare the economic improvement a country makes over time as well as for a cross-country comparison. But Kuznets himself later on expressed his view on the inability of GDP to take into account a number of important aspects of growth.

It ...

1. Critically evaluate the following suggestion: “If the price elasticity of demand for food is low, therefore if you own a restaurant, you can charge higher price to increase revenue”.

Consumers’ sensitivity to price is known as the price elasticity of demand. Simply put, it measures the degree of responsiveness of consumers to a given change in price. A good with an elastic demand will have a value greater than 1 and will experience that people are very sensitive to a given change in price. Products with an inelastic demand will find that even if price increases by a small amount, the quantity ...

In this report, I have not been able to meet my target for fruit food group. This implies that there is deficiency with regard to certain nutrients that come from fruit. Vitamin C that comes from fruits is lacking. This requires a high intake of fruits in order to cover for this deficiency. As such, it is necessary to take fruits such as apples or banana after every meal in order to meet my target. It is necessary to plan for the fruit intake so that I can take fruits after every of the three daily meals . This will ensure ...

Objective 1:

i) Aggregate demand shows demand for real GDP by all the people in an economy, which they are willing and able to buy at different possible prices at a given point of time, holding other factors constant. The aggregate demand curve is downward sloping and shows an inverse relationship between price level and real GDP.
Following is the explanation for downward sloping demand curve, which is very much different from income and substitution effects of demand of a single product:

1) Interest Rate Effects:
When price levels increases in the economy, businesses and industries, have to borrow additional funds to ...

Question 1: What is (are) the principal activity(ies) of this business?

Serving both the United States and United kingdom, Established in Ireland, the Green core group is one of the leading convenience food business’s in the world . The convenience food divisions provides a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail, manufacturing and food service companies. Specifically in the UK, Greencore provides sandwiches, Italian chilled meals, branded chilled meals, chilled non-dairy desserts, chilled sauces, cooking sauces and pickles and Christmas cakes.( See Greencore Food to go UK) In the US Greencore is best known for providing “grab and go” packaged food options (sandwiches, salads, sushi, entrees ...

The Prevalence of Co-Occurring Disorders

Individuals with substance abuse disorders as defined by the DSM-V can present with symptoms of many other mental health disorders. It can be difficult to separate the symptoms of these two categories of illness without treatment to determine what the precipitating event was. In some instances, the existence of a mental health disorder can be the cause and the substance abuse disorder can be one of the symptoms that has progressed to the point of meeting diagnostic criteria on its own. In other instances, the substance abuse disorder can be creating symptoms of mental health disorders that would not ...