Commerce Reports Samples For Students

Intercultural business communication is difficult even at the best of times, but when there are distinct differences in cultural realities, communication can be made even more difficult. Intercultural business communication and the difficulties associated with it can obviously also be made more complex by past conflicts between that nation and other nations. Vietnam, for instance, was embroiled in a bloody conflict with the United States for a number of years, and that conflict still influences Vietnamese-American relations today. Canada’s history with Vietnam is less problematic, but there are still issues that take place within cultural exchanges that cause problems for ...

Intellectual property: A Summary

Unlike tangible property, intellectual property is more complicated in terms of ownership and possession. With regard to such complexity, the legal frameworks in place have come up with various provisions aimed at protecting the ownership and exclusive rights of such property. For purposes of such protection, intellectual property is divided into: copyrights, patents, trademarks, and registered designs. Contrary to common misconception, a single product can be protected under all these types. For instance, an iPhone, a product of Apple Inc, can have the company control its distribution and enhancement by use of patents, copyrights, registered designs and trademarks. Typically, patents are ...

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Executive Summary

Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches is a restaurant chain based in the United States with more than 1,500 locations in 43 states. Jimmy John’s was founded in 1983 by Jimmy John Liautaud, and today the chain is the privately held company with headquarters in Champaign, Illinois. Most of the locations (98%) are franchise-owned with Jimmy John’s Franchise, LLC, as a parent company.
Today there are no Jimmy John’s foreign units, and all restaurants are located within the United States. According to the Franchise Times Estimate, the 2013 sales of Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches ...

Project Title: Selection Materials

Module Code:
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DCU Statement
Plagiarism means presenting another person’s words, ideas, designs as your own word. Plagiarism comes in a different form, like copying text, diagram, formulae, etc. Plagiarism is a serious offence. Plagiarism is referred to the disciplinary committee of the university. Committee will take the serious action on the plagiarized materials.

Aim and Objective

This project is being aimed to model the stress the board by considering a typical beam supported by the equal pressure on the bottom and it must withstand a point force.
1. Introduction
The material selection is the process of designing a ...

Solvency Ratios:

These ratios indicate the long term solvency of the company, i.e., if the company will be able to honor its long term obligation. Furthermore, it also helps in understanding the capital structure of the company. Below discussed are the solvency ratios of Debenhams Inc:
i) Debt to Equity: Debt/ Equity
(Debenhams, 2013)
ii) Interest Coverage Ratio: Operating Earnings/ Interest Expense
iii) Debt to Capital Employed Ratio: Debt/ Capital Employed (Mckeith, Collins, 2013)
*Debt= Total Debt
*Capital Employed: Total Assets- Current Liabilities

Analysis:

The above analysis of the company using Solvency Ratios indicates that, over a year, ...

Introduction

The Grand Formosa is a hotel that prides itself in providing the best atmosphere for its guests. The hotel is designed to provide the best relaxing environment so that guests enjoy their stay. The hotel’s business model looks very promising on paper. However, the previous management ran the hotel down through inefficiencies in its operations. The new management has been instituted and is in the process of turning the hotel’s business around. This paper will analyze the position of the hotel with the help of some performance measures. This is in an effort to determine whether there is ...

Analytical Framework

Section-A
There are two different companies which have been taken into consideration for the analysis and the names of the companies are Royal Dutch Shell and Endeavor International Corporation.

Net Present Value Analysis

Net present value (NPV) is a financial tool that is deemed as the difference between current value inflows and outflows. Generally, it is used for calculating budgeting to analyze the probability of an investment on any project that. It is required to analyze the NPV and IRR on the basis of two years like 2012 and 2013.
The NPV of Shell Plc. is -250,386 $ while it is, -1, ...

The prime mantra of this paper is to exploit both the concept of cost and revenue models on the given companies whose nature of business are identical. There are two hypothetical based companies that have been selected for the execution of the same analysis. The underline companies are denoted by Company X and Company Y. They both have dissimilar pricing policies with one another. The entire assignment is divided into different headings that are mainly based on the Introduction, Analytical Framework, and the Conclusion.

Analytical Framework

Brand Y “lit” pricing/sales history
There are a number of tools and models that have a ...

Introduction

Our supermarket chain sells “regular” and “lite” variety of two brands of soda X and Y. At any given time and at any store, each brand of soda can potentially have either no promotion whatsoever or a “price promotion” and/or an “in-store promotion”. We are to prepare a business report on our product’s current pricing structure and proposed pricing mechanism aimed at increasing profitability of your product line.

Discussion

In the pivot table, we can infer that when the Lite brand of X used in-store promotion, the Lite brand of Y chose not to have the in store promotion (83% compared ...

Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Big rivers Electric Corporation is a company that generates and transmits electricity. It is a partnership company that is a member –owned. The company is non-profit making company. It has three main cooperatives to which electric power and services are provided in wholesale. They include the Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation, Kenergy Corporation, and Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation. The three cooperatives distribute the electricity to 22 counties in western Kentucky.
According to financial statements for the year ended 31st, 2007, the Big Rivers Electric Corporation had a utility net of $ 911, 634. It had total utility net of $ 917, 668 in ...

Management Accounting for Business Decisions

Executive Summary
This report is very important from the management’s point of view because of the reason that it thoroughly focused on all the major organizational structure, system and the policies of the business. In this report, full analysis of the repair segment, conversion segment, administration department, existing services and inventory management procedures has been made. Moreover, weak areas have been identified, and full recommendations have been made at the ending part of this report in order to convert the weak sections into the stronger section. Overall, this report will provide a clear cut guideline regarding what is ...

Conrad. N. Hilton built the Hiltons chain of Hotels Magnate and worked as the chairman until when he died on 3rd of January 1979. The Hilton hotels were it was the leading hotel empire during his era. He was committed to developing an international chain of high end market hotels. On top of establishing hotels he set ideals of excellence for the whole hotels business in the supervision, organization and set-ups. Mr. Hilton had six offspring’s, all born to an American-German mother and Norwegian father who was an immigrant in the town of San Antonio in Mexico. He ...

Introduction

The report is a discussion on Egypt’s current political influences on my business of exporting gypsum boards from Canada to Egypt. As can be learnt from Central Intelligence Agency website, Egypt has a republican form of Government that is guided through a new constitution affirmed most recently through a nation-wide referendum. The interim head of the Republic is currently President Adly MANSOUR following the Republic’s military ousting of Mohammed MURSI from the presidential helm in the mid of July 2013. On the same note, Prime Minister Hazem el-BEBLAWI holds the interim Government leadership position as the next elections schedule falls on ...

The World Trade Organization is global international body that deals with regulations of carrying out trade between nations. It facilitates World Trade Organization agreements through negotiation that eventually lead to signing. The ratification of these regulations occurs in the parliaments of the nations. The main goal of World Trade Organization is to assist the producers of goods, services, exporters and importers carry out their business smoothly. The establishment of this organization was in January 1, 1995. It has 159 member states. The headquarters of this organization is in Geneva, Switzerland.
World Trade Organization assists in administering trade agreements ...

Ajax Mines is a project that was set up in the regional district of Thompson-Nicola. It is located in Ajax-Afton which is a site of mining and exploration. It is a mining site for the production of copper. Information available shows that it produces 109 million pounds of this resource per year. That translates to 60,000 tones per day.
This project is a consequence of the partnership between two international companies. ‘Abacus mining and Exploration Corporation’ acquired 51 percent stake in the project. However, it partnered with KGHM S.A in n2010 so as to effectively implement the project. KGHM S.A consequently ...

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE SAINSBURY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Sainsbury, one of the top retailers of UK, has been analyzed in this report. This report analyzes the business model of the company.
- The report analyzes the income statement of the company over the last five years. The financial statements of the company analyzed are from the years 2008 to 2012. These statements have revealed that the performance of the company has been improving and the sales of the company are growing at an average growth rate of 5.73%.
- Cash flow statements of the company of the last five years are ...

The addition of a new shareholder in farming solutions limited has taken a different change. It is so since Jed is now a minority shareholder who opens his own business just after being a shareholder. The objective is to understand about duties of directors like henry, the law on the protection of the minority shareholders, in this case Jed. The different types of meetings held once a company has been incorporated are also of interest. It also aims to establish the rights of shareholders and debenture holders and the effect of the liquidation process on employees, directors, creditors, and everyone else involved in the ...

Abstract

An ontology refers to a formal, common, shared description of significance concepts within a specific domain. Ontologies can be used to support various tasks in diverse areas of research such as information retrieval, knowledge management, databases, natural language processing, “geographic information systems”, digital libraries, “multi agent systems” or “visual information retrieval systems”. An ontology makes it possible to have shared knowledge as well as reuse where there can be communicating of information resources between software and human agents. However, ontologies have conceptually been in development since the 1970’s and in the late 1990s’-early 2000’s, we began seeing languages ...

Share capital is the amount of money that is raised by the company by issue of shares. Shares are indivisible units of the capital of the enterprise. On the other hand, capital maintenance is a combination of laws that are designed to ensure that a company can obtain the capital it claims to raise. Secondly, capital is maintained, focusing on the demands of the company for the protection and benefit of the creditors of the company and the release of its liabilities. The objective of this paper is to give a description of the types of capital, how dividends are paid to ...

The restaurant plans to introduce a new menu. Using menu-engineering principles, we are going to analyze the popularity and margins on each dish and beverage and come up with the new menu. The menu engineering principles are psychology, managerial accounting, marketing strategy, and graphic design. Psychology is the perception that people have towards the dish. It can also be described as the effect that the dish has on people(Walker, 2007). Managerial accounting is concerned with the pricing of the menu item. It looks at the cost of production of each menu item and the contribution margin from each item. ...

Introduction

EBay is one of the key players in the online shopping industry. According to Hudson, eBay host around 200million buyers or shoppers and various business transacting in the site (1). Originally, eBay started as an online garage-sale-style auction but currently eBay has evolved to be the world force in the retail industry. The marketplace has various frameworks for selling various products or items for both the small and large businesses. Hudson notes that, eBay is the place to go while one is looking for discount on items and unique collectibles (2).
Just like other forms of business, this ...

Buying behavior refers to the process of decision making to buy and use products. There are deviations in buying behavior of customers depending upon the level of involvement and price of product. Besides this a number of other factors may influence the purchasing decision (Peter, Olson and Grunert)

In the case of James Baxter’s bakery, customers will be diversified according to the following changes:

Cultural
These factors are embedded in a personality due to his upbringing in a specific society. These include the values, behaviors, attitudes, norms, beliefs, norms, perceptions and values. Customers will purchase in additional quantity if they have a cultural background for a specific product.

Social

These are due to the surroundings within the society. A consumer ...

BUSINESS

Over the recent years, there has been consistent fluctuation of residential values in Atlanta GA. Many theories and the assumption have been put forward in trying to discover the cause and remedy of these fluctuations. Often the conclusion has been narrowed that most of the fluctuations are because of residential owner’s ability to influence the values of the properties due to prevailing economic factors (Florida, 2009). This project aims to take a different view by focusing on the effect of the commercial properties that exist on the value of the residential properties in the proximity. The study contributes to ...

CDH520- Sharmeen Sultana

As complex as the world of accounting is, so is the various accounting statements. Hence, it is of extreme importance to understand as what each accounting statement means and what purpose does it serve. Some of the basic accounting statements are discussed for your convenience:
General Ledger: These are the central repository of all the accounting information of a company that summarizes all the transaction held by the company. In simple words, it is a complete summarized record of all the accounting transactions so posted under the double-entry accounting system under which each accounting transaction affects two financial items, one ...

Introduction

Game theory is the official study of engagement and cooperation. Game hypothetical perceptions apply whenever the engagements of several agents are codependent. These agents may be persons, groups, firms, or any amalgamation of these. The perceptions of game theory offer a language to express, structure, analyze, and comprehend strategic scenarios. The interior consistency and calculated fundamentals of game theory make it a key tool for modeling and scheming automated decision-making procedures in interactive environments. For instance, one might like to have well-organized request rules for an auction website or tamper-proof automatic discussions for purchasing statement bandwidth. Examination in these submissions of ...

Introduction

Ebay is an established brand in the area of electronic commerce and is recognized as the global marketplace for the buying and selling of any goods. The current paper provides a strategic analysis of Ebay.

Vision and Mission of Ebay

The mission of Ebay is to provide a global online marketplace that allows anybody to buy or sell anything and thus enables economic opportunity around the world . The company provides an online trading platform that connects buyers and sellers across the different parts of the world. The mission of the company is to ensure a safe platform for the users and protects their interests such as copyrights.
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Purpose Statement

Many people who are released from prison are often put back in within 5 years. This study examines the variables of the type of crimes committed, and how they affect the variable of being but back in prison after being released. The dependent variable, percentage of people put back in prison within 5 years of being released, is determined by independent variable of violent crimes, property crimes, drug crimes and public crimes. The most important independent variable in this relationship is drug crimes because people who commit these crimes often have problems with addiction and have extreme difficulty stopping ...

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Introduction

E-commerce is a growing industry worldwide, with volumes and turnover increasing at an average rate of 20 % for 2014 according to eMarketer (2014 a) of this, Asia Pacific region is likely to show the strongest growth, with a jump of over 40 per cent from $384 Billion in 2013 to $585 Billion in 2014. By 2018, the Asia Pacific region will be the leading driver of e-commerce, accounting for 33.4 per cent of the total ecommerce trade of $2.356 trillion in 2018 (eMarketer, 2014b). The key drivers for growth in the Asia pacific region have been the increasing access to ...

Business Report on Amazon

Introduction
Amazon is one of the most renowned and distinguished online retailer. It is an American run e-commerce firm. They have their headquarter in Seattle, Washington. It is known as the leading company which is operating electronically through the internet. Since more than ten years, they have managed to sustain their position. They have been comparatively unaffected by the changes in the external environment.
Initially Amazon was an online website which was involved in selling books online. Later, when they started being successful, they diversified their operations to sell videos, mp3 songs, video games, apparel, jewelry, packaged ...

India’s Answer to Amazon

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Summary

Flipkart has grown to become India’s largest ecommerce retailer, with sales of over $2.4 billion and valuation of $7 billion in a period of seven years. The company is a replica of amazon, and has been expanding from books into other segments gradually, thanks to growing internet penetration in the country through mobile. By offering unique solutions such as cash on delivery to its clientele, the company has seen phenomenal growth. However, it now faces competition from Amazon which has entered India in 2013. The paper outlines the functioning of Flipkart and how it has ...

Introduction

In order to understand the role of unions in workplace health and safety, the workplace health and safety incidents need to be studied. In spite of the fact that colossal efforts have been made to improve the work place safety for employees still the number of casualties have been currently reported to be around 2 million and 330 million accidents had taken place at work stations. Among all other divisions BWI are the most unsafe ones. Construction sector has the highest number of casualties compared to other large industrial sectors and reportedly 100,000 fatalities take place per year ...

2. C. The calculations is done based on many assumptions given in the case instruction. The analysis begins with the development of labor cost. In the case information, it is said that Mary will be the instructor, and she will be hiring her friend as a part-time receptionist. The salary of Mary is $900 per month, and it is increased in next year i.e. 2016. Similarly, her friend Jamie earns $90 ($10/hr.) in a month, and she gets pay rise in next 6 months by $10 per week. Accordingly, with her increasing experience and expertise in the related job as well ...

Oscorp Limited, a Chinese Company, and Quazi Designs, a United Kingdom based company, entered an agreement that provided for their collaboration in widget designing. The joint venture arose due to both companies recognition of the benefits arising from such cooperation. Due to its long experience in the designing of widgets, Quazi will undertake all the design work and review Oscorp projects to provide suggestions for their improvements. Oscorp in its part would undertake the fabrication of widgets per designs provided by Quazi. While the designs will remain the intellectual property of Quazi, both parties have to agree on the commercial exploitation ...

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Introduction

The trading game is one of the things that sustains and enhances the gap between rich and poor within the international trading system that guides strong, well organize countries in comparison to more than poor ones. While, the Chicago board options exchange is the exchange market utilized for trading standardized options contracts, which include stock options, leaps, interest rate options, foreign currency options and index options . Several CBOE options are traded in the open protest system in which exchanging members perform as market makers where the Chicago board options exchange ...

Introduction

There have been a significant number of organizations in the world, both profit and non-profit, that has made a significant impact on society either as a core business activity or through corporate social responsibility (CSR). This report focuses on one such organization, and in this case, the Home industries.

Findings

The Homeboy Industries primarily helps former gang involved, as well as previously incarcerated people by offering them training, hope, and different job skills (Boyle 19). The notion applies to the Armenian community. The organization’s objective is to redirect the lives of former criminals by making them useful members of society. The notion ...

Introduction

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of 89.71 million people in 2013. Vietnam is a member of the regional economic organizations, namely ASEAN, APEC, ASEM, and since 2007 it is the member of the WTO. Momentous political event of the year was the adoption on 6 session of the National Assembly of XIII convocation in November 2013 the new Constitution of Vietnam, which fixed the state guarantees in respect of the private sector as an equal participant in the economic market of Vietnam. Among other important events of the political life of Vietnam in ...

- Investment analysis of the Emirate Airline
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- Table of Contents
- Financial highlights analyses, 2010-2014 .. 02
- Horizontal analyses 02
- Vertical analyses 04
- SWOT analysis .. 04
- Cash flow analyses, 2010-2014 . 06
- Cash flow statements analyses 06
- Profitability position 08
- Liquidity position 08

Horizontal analyses
The four-year revenue growth of Emirates Airlines was 90.4 percent, or an average annual growth of 22.5 percent. This growth performance is moderately high and impressive ...

The video, Paper Because, Black Market and the other videos in the power point video where designed to point out the fallacies inherent in extreme environmental activism. This video attempted to point out how excessive control creates an ineffective reality where paper becomes a black market commodity. Other videos in the series portray different over dramatized situations where paper rationing, a paperless office, and a totally paperless life are not practical.
My initial reaction was to agree that this paperless thing has gone too far. Then I realized that it had not gone too far; the video did not reflect reality. ...

Value chain analysis of fair-trade hand made products:

Value chain can be defined as a series of activities of an organization, operating in a particular type of industry, that help in delivering a product or service of value to the customers. Michael Porter classified value chain as decision support tools. The primary activities in Porter’s value chains are Inbound Logistics, Operations, Outbound Logistics, Marketing, and Sales. The secondary activities are Research, Human Resources and Technological Development. (valuebasedmanagement, 2014)
In the given case, the company is a fair trade company. A fair trade company can be defined as an organization whose aim is to promote sustainability and greater equity for ...

RECOMMENDATIONS

The Fair Trade a term that refers to the entire Fair Trade Movement and all organizations that abide by the ten Fair Trade principles. Fair trade describes the labeling and certification systems governed by the Fair-trade International. (Miller, 2010, p. 19). The Agro Water Barrel Company promotes principles of fair trade. The company should continually advocate the adoption of more practices of fair trade. The following are recommendations for the organization are proficient to help solve the wicked problem.
The business and concept of fair trade should be elemental by responding to all failures related to conventional trade (Renard, ...

6) Fair Trade Products Private Limited Products Private Ltd is a company that is based on the model to provide the maximum benefits of the trade activities to the original farmer or producer such as Coffee growers in Africa, Wheat grower in Asia and Cocoa growers in Middle East. It aims to reduce the role of brands and middle men in the process. Usually, these brands and middlemen get away with the bulk of the profits leaving very little profits and margin for the original farmers and producers of the goods and services who have contributed to the production process. ...

Based on the research conducted on the various models of organization available to the company and in light of the current position the company stands in, it is the suggestion of this memorandum to change the company type to an S-Corporation. The foremost reason for suggesting a change to an S-Corporation is tax rebates. The company currently expects to make 600,000 dollars this year, in which case a tax of 35% on profits would need to be paid before the money came into the hands of shareholders who would then have to pay income tax on money earned through dividends.
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Summary of selected Shadow Experience

For the record, I was not expecting to learn a lot of things about sales, marketing, and merchandising strategies in this shadow experience. The opposite of what I was expecting happened because I, in fact learned a lot, particularly in the field of economics, marketing, and merchandising. In this sales call strategy report, I will discuss the different things that I learned from a real-life sales person working for the Ocean Marine Yacht Club in Hallandale. The line of product and or service being offered is directly related to properties and real estate. The first time I came into the venue of ...

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Introduction

The trading game is one of the things that sustains and enhances the gap between rich and poor within the international trading system that guides strong, well organize countries in comparison to more than poor ones. While, the Chicago board options exchange is the exchange market utilized for trading standardized options contracts, which include stock options, leaps, interest rate options, foreign currency options and index options . Several CBOE options are traded in the open protest system in which exchanging members perform as market makers where the Chicago board options exchange ...

Consumers are rational decision makers who are only concerned about their personal preferences and interests say Zumpfe and Schiffman (2007). There are a number of factors that influence their preferences; some of which include their needs, knowledge, alternatives, and purpose.
In order to maintain a strong relationship with consumers, companies such as Fetch TV, need to focus more on relationship marketing. Relationship marketing involves the creation of a strong, lasting relationship, by which, consumers feel respected and important. Today, consumers are very conscious of their needs and what and where to buy them. Because of the large number of options they have to ...

Introduction

Demand for Mexican food is probably the fastest growing in the restaurant industry in Canada. Steve Grill realized this and founded Quesada Burrito in Toronto in 2004. Although Burritos were doing well in United States and other parts in North America, none was in existence in Toronto by then. Despite having no experience in restaurant industry, Steve decided to take the risk of starting up a Burrito restaurant. His brother Greg, who was an information technology consultant joined the business later which was a major boost to the business. This led to expansion as the two opened up four other Quesada ...

- Introduction
Meetings are the only solutions for the shareholders of the corporations for interaction with the board in respect of matters of their concern as they are not entitled to take part in the internal affairs of the corporations. With is backdrop, increased shareholder activism has resulted in their calling for special meetings with board in addition to the annual general meetings which are traditional means of interaction with the board for the shareholders. Shareholders are able to speak with the managers and the board members in regard to the company results and its long-range plans only ...

Profitability ratios

Gross profit margin =Gross profit/Net sales
The formulae used in the calculations are listed in the appendix. ("Growth, Profitability, and Financial Ratios for Myer Holdings Ltd (MYR) from Morningstar.com," n.d.)

Commentary

- Profitability

Generally, profitability ratios give someone an idea on how the company is utilizing resources to make the profit.

Myer has a lower gross profit margin compared to David Jones. The gross profit, net profit margins for Myer decline over the two-year period, 2012 and 2013. During the same time, David Jones improves marginally on the margins. This is an indication of changing fortunes in the industry, where one company gains as the other declines.
The two companies have a similar tax environment as tax expense ...

- Difference between cash balance and profit
Lily runs a flower arranging business but is unaware of the accounting and finance aspects of it. Her friend has prepared the financial statements for her, and she would like to know it in detail. From the information given, it is seen that Lily has enough cash on hand. Hence she supplies the services on credit and makes payment in cash. She is also planning to purchase a vehicle and make the payments in cash. The source of additional cash is given which is an inheritance of money. Hence, she has decided to ...

PART I: MAJOR RISK FACTORS

- Interest rates: The economy is experiencing fluctuation in interest rates on mortgages. ABC produces cedar roofing and siding shingles hence it is in the housing industry. The demand for housing is largely influenced by interest rates since most people buy and construct houses using mortgages. High interest rates increase the cost of mortgages and lower the demand for housing (Smart & Megginson, 2008). With low demand for the company’s products, the planned expansion may result in losses.
- High competition: There is intense competition in the industry as the number of firms has grown considerably. This leads ...

Brand Personality of Subway

SUBWAY® brand is the world’s major submarine sandwich chain possessing more than 42,000 locations around the world. Each year about 1,000 new restaurants are opened. Subway was recognized as the best franchising system in the world for 15 times. As the franchising company, it has low start-up costs and is based on a proven idea. Customer feedback stays outstanding, and the company’s obvious intention is to speed up the strong growth in customer statistics.
Subway products are essentially consumer driven because it mostly sells sandwiches and salads, which are made according to the consumers’ tastes. The ...

Introduction

Financial statements are documents that public companies or corporations create and publish for the benefit of current investors and shareholders, and also for the benefit of people who may want to invest in that particular public company in the future. There are a lot of things that can be obtain and or analyze in a financial statement. For instance, a fund manager looking for a company that has a high level of and consistent growth rate may be able to determine whether any particular company listed in the New York Stock Exchange has had this feature by simply looking at any one company’s ...

Target Company

Target Corporation is a retailing corporation in America. It is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1902 and is ranked second after Wal-Mart as the biggest retailer in the United States. The company has stretched out its operations to Canada through a subsidiary, and it now operates in close to 100 locations in Canada. The corporation boasts of a large customer base of nearly over 110 million. The company operates stores in Canada, and United States that deal with general merchandise. These include pharmacy, baby care, beauty, cleaning products, personal care among others. Jewelry and clothing accessories for both sexes ...

Executive Summary 2

Introduction 2
1.) Research and Data Analysis 3
2.) Information Technology 5
3.) Customer Relationship Management 9
4.) Financial Analysis and Accounting 13
5.) Marketing in Addition to PPC 15

Executive Summary

The report aims to assess the technologies in business necessary in building an online store. There are several options that a starting entrepreneur can choose from, but the approaches used and technologies applied in the process makes the difference in assuming success. The business objective is to create an online store website and a retail store that will carry designer headphones. The main sales channel would ...

Company Overview

Sony Corporation is among the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics products in the world. The company engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of various types of electronic instruments, equipment, and devices for consumer, industrial, and professional markets. Primarily, the company operates in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and America. The company also distributes gaming software and hardware ('Sony Corporation SWOT Analysis' 2013, p. 3). The company does the distribution, manufacture, and broadcasting of image-based software such as motion picture, television products, and recorded music. The company’s manufacturing facilities are mainly located in Asia, but the company ...

The search and seizure rule is premised on the Fourth Amendment rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America. The main intention of the provisions is to provide privacy which applies to persons and their property. In that vein, in every investigation, an officer must approach searches and seizures from a premise of observation of the right to privacy. Such rights may only be overridden by probable causes and or existence of reasonable circumstances. This shall be discussed in the following section in relation to the legal guidelines.
The legal guidelines in searches and seizures are ...

The Trend

The trend that will affect the most with regards to having a positive effect on Target Corporation is the fact that in the UAE markets ‘cash is no longer the king.’ Being in the retail market sector the primary target is to be the preferred shopping destination in a highly competitive UAE market.
In a new market, it is imperative that Target Corporation scan the environment for the feasibility of their operations success and most important will be the acceptability as a retail unit in the eyes of the potential consumers.
The UAE market is full of competition, and it is ...

Over the years, trade unions have been charged with the duty and responsibility of representing the interests and the general welfare of a worker or the employees. The term employee benefits include appropriate wages and human working conditions that the employer should provide while the worker if on duty. At the very minimum, all companies and firms have worker unions and trade unions, which are supposed to articulate the issues and matters of the works to the employers (Clegg, Fox &Thompson, 1985, P. 1919). It is regrettable to note and record that the work conditions and remuneration levels have deteriorated ...

Survey of Mick Brumby’s property / positive findings

In conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture, through its local offices, a soil survey of Mick Brumby’s property was carried out. The soil survey was carried out with respect to the soil profile. The parameters considered were mineralogical make up, thickness of soil particles, arrangement and the physical and chemical properties. This analysis was important in order to determine the water retention capacity of the soil. From the survey, your land is predominantly made of loam soil. The piece of land is situated on a slope, hence some concern with regards to mass wasting. There is bedrock deeper ...

You are the Business development manager of the company and are in favor of entering all three markets since they all seem to be highly profitable. However, the CEO of the company is skeptical and doesn’t want to risk entering three markets at the same time. The directors are also of the view that they have to pay duty and other taxes which can take a major hit on the bottom line. You have been asked to recommend one market that the company should enter first. Give your in-depth analysis for choosing that particular market.
As I have ...