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Essays 181 - 210

Overview of Merck and Company

In ten pages this report examines a pharmaceutical corporate giant in a discussion of sales, financial performance, change, opport...

Financial Analysis of SBC Communications Inc.

In eight pages a financial assessment of this telecommunications corporation that includes its past and present performance is pre...

A Strategic Approach to HRM

It is concerned with the management of employee learning for the long term keeping in mind the explicit corporate business strateg...

Financial Analysis of WalMart

banners internationally. The main market is the US WalMart operation, which accounted for 62.1% of the net sales, international st...

Financial Analysis of Coca Cola

company has been performing well, but has also seen a slow down in growth in recent years. Looking at the revenue over the past fi...

Consieration of Eastman Kodak

the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. The current gross profit margin is 39.4% (Morning Star, 2003), this compa...

Overview of Itron Inc.

of the lifecycle of this industry this is still a growth industry, Many meters nationally and internationally are still managed in...

A Performance Examination of Alcoa Inc.

(Alcoa, 2003). The two main types of product are flat rolled which made up $4.6 billion of sales in 2002 and engineered products w...

Hospitality Industry and Hilton Hotel Group

2002; p. 41). Smith and Lesure (1999) present a much different view of the industry in their 1999 overview, reporting that ...

Analysis of SWA

near downtown Dallas (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Because the airline operated from capital of Field, Southwest adopte...

A Business Overview of the AOL Time Warner Entertainment Conglomerate

average of 15.11 (Yahoo Finance, 2003). However there are some more favourable points, the revenue per employee is higher than ave...

History and SWOT Analysis of Starbucks

coffee (Starbucks, 2003). By 1987 the Il Giornale company, that was the company founded by Schultz is so successful it is able to ...

Company Performance Measurements

(Clark and Demirag, 2002), and WorldCom (Stern, 2002) it becomes apparent that in many ways it does have certain merits. It can al...

3 British Retailers' Financial Comparison

Table 1 lists several ratios useful for comparing the three companies. Table 1. Selected Financial Ratios for Each Retailer Item...

Company Report on Formosa Plastics Group

industry. With this information any reader should then be able to assess the compnay for their own purposes with a good understand...

Examination of DCDW Corp.

buying direct from the manufacturers. The company operates with two main sectors, the corporate sectors, any consumer sales will b...

Nike Strategic Analysis

In eleven pages Nike is examines in an analysis of its strategies and financial performance with IFE, EFE matrices and a SWOT anal...

Student Supplied Case Study on Royal Express Inc.

the assessment that they are doing well in these summer months. We may also argue that with this high level of business in the sum...

Comparing WalMart and Carrefour

notable that the results may not be directly comparable due to the different accounting regulations in which the annual reports ar...

Managing Employee Performance

processes, data need to be gathered to measure the performance that is being achieved which will then be measured against some typ...

Implementing Performance Management within an Organization

definition is given in Dransfield (2000), which states that performance management "is a process which is designed to improve orga...

Research Design for a Financial Project

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

Implementing Performance Management

process needs to be identified which incorporates individual as well as group and organisational performance management. 2. Perf...

An Analysis of the Performance and Strategies of the 3i Company

shareholder funds of -?142 million (3i, 2005). The profit that was made included a realised profit form sales of investments of ?9...

Financial Analysis of Starbucks Corporation

This indicates the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. Gross profit 2001 2002 2003 2004 Revenue (a) 2,649.0 3,28...

Oxfam America Financial Analysis

use to achieve the aims of the organizations. However, on the accounts the good causes are all shown as expenses as they take up t...

Student Submitted Case Study on Monsanto

effectively. 2. Analysis and Critical Strategic Issues A. External Analysis for Opportunities and Threats There is a trend in t...

Performance and Strategy of Hasbro Inc.

and then absorbing them into the Hasbro portfolio, this is a strategy that has been actively pursued for over the last ten years a...

Research Proposal on Cost Accounting

on the type of business that will be using the full cost accounting system. Certainly every business needs to know the true...

The Decision-Making Process Involved in Using or Changing Internet Vendors

is the responsibility of the project manager to ensure that everyone involved is on the same page. All project team members shoul...