Executive Summary Sybil hospital is suffering from managerial problems. A lot of problems emanate from the historic management. The management and running of the organization appear to have been left in the hands of two people, leading to difficulties. Some of the problems occurring where lack of proper investment decisions,...
Introduction In an article published online at TechCrunch.com, Kelly Porter, an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners, proposed the acquisition of LinkedIn by Cisco as one of the top ten acquisition candidates for 2010 (Schonfeld, 2010). The rationale of such a choice was explained through the possibility of LinkedIn extending...
Introduction First, it should be stated that financial resource management is considered one of the most crucial aspects of the financial strategy of any company. Considering the necessity to analyze the company’s financial health, the FRM is often associated with the financial analysis and the matters of the financial strategy,...
Introduction I have chosen to analyze the financial performance of Ryanair holdings, which is listed in New York stock exchange and London stock exchange. It is one of the largest airline with low fair, low ticket fare and it has grown over years to be what it is today. The...
The businesses in the world today are under the constant watch of how well they are contributing towards the sustainability of the earth and its resources. While this was, enforced in the past through some environmental organizations, nowadays companies have come to embrace this challenge to come up with innovative...
The purpose of this assignment is to help CTY’s management team to find the solution to decrease spending on the most expensive categories. These include electricity bill and medical insurance benefits for employees. At the same time, employees should not feel the difference in their initial generous benefits package, so...
Introduction Background information Share repurchases has become a common practice in most of the financial markets. It is adopted when the intrinsic value is below the market value of a share. This report will focus on main mechanisms of share repurchase that is, how these programs are carried out. The...
Background This assessment will evaluate the Dutch conglomerate, ING. ING is a global financial institution “offering, banking, investment, life insurance and retirement services”. The group has over 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers spread across the globe. ING was founded in 1991 with the merger of Dutch insurer, Nationale-Nederland...
Abstract One of the most important aspects in the case of starting a business as well as making it run in a smooth as well as a profitable manner is to make investigations and analysis into the finances that are available and how they can be increased by making calculations...
Executive Summary After carrying out an audit of ratio analysis of Sun Microsystems, a number of inferences can be drawn. The firm is operating at losses as the profitability ratios does surpass the industrial average and the trend is declining. The company however is financially stable owing to its high...
Introduction Public companies have a variety of stakeholders, such as shareholders, bondholders, bankers, suppliers, employees, and management. All these stakeholders need to monitor the firm and ensure that their interests are being served. They rely on the company’s financial statements to provide the necessary information. Detailed analysis of the financial...
Traditional Activity-Based Costing (ABC) systems have been implemented at organizations since the middle of the 1980s when industrialization reached its peak. Such systems refer to accounting methods, which identify costs and assign them to overhead activities and then link them to product costs. Thus, an ABC system is used for...
Introduction In this report, two competitor firms have been selected for review and analysis of their financial performance in the last three years (2015, 2016, and 2017). These companies are Apple Inc. (Apple) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung). Both companies hold a significant share of the electronics market specializing...
Benefit/Cost Ratio The benefit/cost ratio analysis is a financial metric used to estimate the total value of money for a given project or acquisition (Burton & Jermakowicz, 2015). It is analyzed relative to the total cost of a business venture. In other words, it takes into account the amount of...
Introduction Corporate finance is an area of management that focuses on how corporations get access to funds they need and how they are budgeted to address both long-term and short-term goals. Bodmer (2015) defines corporate finance as “the area of finance dealing with sources of funding and the capital structure...
Introduction The profitability of business is subject to numerous factors related to the production and marketing of goods or services. The number of employees in an organization reflects the production capacity and has a direct relationship with profits. Comparatively, revenue is an indicator of financial performance because it has indirect...
Introduction Apple Inc. is a multinational technology entity that is based in California, the U.S. It has presence across the globe. The company employs about 115 thousand people. Besides, it has over 470 stores in about 17 countries. The company focuses on the production of both computer hardware and software...
SHRM theories To be competitive, the companies need to offer the best choice of products to their customers and be sure that employees are ready to follow the company’scompany’s agenda. The following main approaches are going to be examined in the paper: the Universalist (best-practice) approach, the Configurational approaches, and...
Introduction Financial statements are a valuable source of information about a company, regardless of its size and type. Financial statements provide data concerning the company’s business and financial health. Hence, a variety of stakeholders can use financial statements to gain more insight into the company’s performance. Whereas internal stakeholders, such...
Introduction A business organization should engage in practices that foster the realization of financial goals and objectives. The attainment of desirable financial performance is usually a depiction of competitiveness in the industry in which an organization operates. Thus, the effective management of the accounts and finances of a business organization...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is specific software that is used in organizations to manage all business processes as a system and with the help of applications. Organizations often choose ERP for optimizing and improving their operations regarding the integration of a complex automatic system in the work of all departments...
Cost Optimization Techniques & Strategies in Organizations Cost optimization techniques and strategies have become very critical components of management in the modern business environment. According to Collis and Hussey (2013), competition in the market has become very stiff and it forces firms to come up with unique ways of improving...
Executive Summary The modern organizational environment has many types of organizations. While some organizations exist to increase the welfare of the shareholders by maximizing profits, others emerge to address humanitarian and environmental issues devoid of profit-making motive. Both organizations apply financial and accounting standards and principles when revealing their financial...
