Financial analysis report: Adidas vs. Puma
Essay - 20 pages - Business strategy
Europe will be hosting two major sports events in 2012: the UEFA European soccer championship in Poland and Ukraine as well as the Olympic Games in London. Consequently, with the end of 2011 approaching, there might be a current window of opportunity to invest in European manufacturers of...
The instability of the international financial system and the proposals for reform proposals
Dissertation - 193 pages - Economy general
In 1997, an earthquake hit Asian stock exchanges, the shock wave reached Russia a year later, and then Latin America, including Brazil in 1999. To the world, these crises have been a succession of real and financial shocks of exceptional magnitude. Far from having exogenous origins, this global...
Financial Analysis of Carrefour
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
This report is the financial analysis of a EU-listed consolidated group, the Carrefour group. This company, operating on the retail sector, seemed to be an interesting company for us to analyze. Majority of the companies in this industry are characterized by a negative working capital requirement...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
Marxist and Weberian lenses: GM layoffs
Essay - 6 pages - Management
DETROIT, MI - General Motors (GM) chief executives announced major restructuring plans aimed at reviving its corporate fortunes. The company's major difficulty has been its declining sales over the past year, which have racked up a total of two billion dollars of losses. Such a decline sharply...
Strategy Analysis on the gambling industry with the example of MGM Mirage
Thesis - 64 pages - Business strategy
We selected the gambling industry as a group because we thought it would be interesting, challenging and because the industry has recently felt a new impulse with the internet. The gambling industry is not one of the most recent industries though, and to understand it fully we decided to analyse...
Explain the role of conjectural variations within the context of quantity settings duopoly. Use this idea to explain the difference between Cournot and Stackelberg models of duopoly
Market study - 6 pages - Services marketing
In the context of oligopoly, firms do not have to worry about strategic behaviour as do monopolies, as far as consumers are concerned. Nonetheless, as they face competition from a few other firms, strategies in terms of price-setting and quantity-setting are of prime importance. What we want to...
Corporate finance: Financial analysis of Ford and BMW
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
This report will deal with the financial analisys of two main competitors of car market. Effectively, Ford and BMW (Bayerish Motoren Werke AG) are two important car manufacturers in the world. Even if they are competing on the same market, we can't say that these two manufacturers are...
The Cola War: Coca Cola versus Pepsi
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The soft drink industry is divided into two categories of product: the non carbonated soft drink and the carbonated soft drink (CSD). During the next 30 years, CSD consumption rose constantly and grew at an average of 3% per year. The consumption of CSD in USA is about 53 gallons per year! So the...
The 'OneWorld' health model and the prospects for future development of therapeutics for infectious disease of the developing world
Thesis - 15 pages - Medical studies
Despite the vast improvements in health care and prevention of infectious diseases in the developed world, six out of ten deaths in the developing world can still be directly attributed to infectious disease. Diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, measles, TB, and HIV/AIDS...
Capital budgeting tools and analysis of capital expenditures
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
Capital budgeting is a financial procedure to ensure that capital is allocated to value adding opportunities. A capital budgeting / investment proposal should be accepted /rejected depending on whether it generates, over the life of investment, returns more than its cost of capital. “Capital...
Working capital and ratio analysis: BHEL Hyderabad
Case study - 60 pages - Finance
GROWTH : To ensure a steady growth by enhancing the competitive edge of BHEL in existing business, new areas and international operation so as to fulfill national expectations from BHEL. PROFITABILITY: To provide a reasonable and adequate return on capital employed, primarily through...
Financial analysis
Thesis - 30 pages - Finance
One of the most important techniques of financial analysis is a preparation of funds flow statement. It is the statement which portrays the changes in the financial position of an enterprise. Balance sheet and income statement do not present a comparative picture, even if placed side by side in...
Commodities trading in India
Dissertation - 52 pages - Economy general
Commodity Futures trading in India has a long history. The first commodity futures market appeared in 1875. But the new standardized form of trading in the Indian capital market is an attractive package for all the people who earn money through speculation by trading into FUTURES. It is a...
Analysis of the banking sector with respect to six banks: Public sector & private sector
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
In this project six banks are taken on the basis of highest profits after tax. Three Banks are from the Public Sector and three from the Private Sector. First comes an analysis of the banking system which tells you about the Basel II norms which are applicable in India in every bank from 31st...
Project finance and project evaluation: The Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Dissertation - 43 pages - Accounting
The use of non-recourse project financing has grown steadily in emerging markets, especially in basic infrastructure, natural resources and the energy sector. Because of its cost and complexity, project finance is aimed at large-scale investments. The key is in the precise estimation of cash...
HDFC and the mobilization of funds in the insurance sector
Tutorials/exercises - 63 pages - Finance
It has been established that village co-operatives insured against loss of profit in an industry in the early days of the Aryan Civilization. There were contacts safeguarding risks of transport by sea or land. Further these well renowned joint-family system rendered services similar to those of...
Working capital management at Britannia Industries Ltd
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
Finance function is a core function in any organization. I financial management is that managerial activity which is concerned with planning and counseling of firm's financial resources. One such area of financial management is "Working Capital" and management of this is known as "Working...
A look at the important concepts in finance
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
RAY G. JONES and DEAN DUDLEY observe that the word finance comes indirectly from the Latin word Finis. Finance is defined as the “Issuance of the distribution of and the purchase of liability and equity claim issued for the purpose of generating revenue-producing assets. These claims are...
Financial analysis of Nike and Adidas (2000): The big two in the footwear industry
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
Adidas is the biggest footwear company and after analyzing the ratios it has performed as well as Nike over the years, even though it is far behind Nike in terms of revenue and profits. The share price of Adidas is currently at 4877.0 compared to the opening price of 4864.0 that was a 44.0...
Unilever's strategy: Path to growth
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
A company that was founded in 1930 during the merger between Margarine Unie, a Dutch company and Lever Brothers, a British based soap and detergent company. Before the merger both the company were buying raw materials from same suppliers and similar distribution channels. Both the companies were...
A research study on corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Management
The aim of this research proposal is to gather information about the strategies and initiatives taken by ASDA with respect to corporate social responsibility towards workforce, community, environment which can be emulated by other retailers. The purpose of this research is to investigate the...
Postmodern American literature: Transformation and commodification within The Crying of Lot 49
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
A prominent theme among the writings of many postmodern analysts in characterizing postmodernism is the notion that the age of post-modernity is essentially the age of commercialism and commoditization. In his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean- François Lyotard contends...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of the...
Google vs Microsoft
Thesis - 13 pages - Finance
Since the launch of the Google Search engine, a paying version has been reserved for the enterprise, which allows firms' access to documents in the internal database of Google. Microsoft has now declared war on the famous search engine. It is a very profitable market and Gartner Group...
From a new organization, to sustainable development: case study of " Bounce of C2D "
Case study - 27 pages - Logistics
After the first case study of C2D, the second case study titled "Bounce of C2D? is presented. This first deliverable is an overview of the project that presents the new management of stock. Schemes and explications will show our final solution, which is based to a restocking set time and quantity...
Lego rebuilt
Case study - 46 pages - Business strategy
Since 1949, the LEGO Group has manufactured over 400 billion plastic bricks, tiny tires, mini-figures, and other inter-compatible play pieces, making it the world's fifth-largest toy manufacturer, and the largest in Europe. From 1932 to 2001, LEGO group achieved remarkable successes,...
Financial Analysis of Southwest Airlines and United Airlines
Case study - 14 pages - Finance
The airline industry has significantly changed over the last few years of this century. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the attacks on Madrid and London, the Iraq conflict and the increase in fuel prices have resulted in losses for airline companies since 2001. Some of them declared...
Business ethics Moral issues facing a company involved in the fast food industry
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Contrary to Friedman's theory which claims that corporations only aim at increasing profits and shareholders revenues, companies have moral responsibilities. Indeed, shareholders are not alone in a firm and have to compromise with the interests of the other stakeholders. According to Freeman...
Case study: Southwest Airlines and United Airlines
Case study - 13 pages - Finance
In 1998, the US airlines carried a record 551 million passengers . At that time, the whole industry was in pretty good shape. Unfortunately, many things have changed since then. The 2001 terrorist attack on the twin towers has marked a turnaround in the industry and especially in the United...
