...25743 Corporate Financial Analysis – Assignment 1 Recommendation Report: JB Hi-FI (JBH.AX) – Consumer Discretionary Name | Student ID | Lecturer Name | Lecture Time | Question | Nathan (Fortunato) Foti | 11049614 | Lorenzo Casavecchia | 6PM | 1 | Agnes Ho | 10427514 | Lorenzo Casavecchia | 6PM | 2 | Carrie (Shuhan) Chen | 11624261 | Lorenzo Casavecchia | 6PM | 3 | Nhan Doan Chi | 11814668 | Lorenzo Casavecchia | 12PM | 4 | Han Han | 11862618 | Lorenzo Casavecchia | 6PM | 5 | Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Industry Analysis 4 2.1. Competitive Forces 4 2.2. Industry Life Cycle 5 2.3. Potential Investment Risks 5 3. Ratio Analysis 6 3.1. Profitability 6 3.2. Liquidity 6 4. Earnings Management 7 5. Relative Valuation Analysis 8 6. References 9 7. Appendix 10 7.1. Profitability Ratios 10 1. Executive Summary This report aims to provide insight into JB Hi-Fi and covers an analysis of the Industry, Ratios, Earnings Management and Market Pricing. JB Hi-Fi Pty Ltd (JB Hi-Fi) can be classified to operate in various industries including online video games, video game and recorded music retailing, domestic appliance retailing, computer software retailing, online camera and camcorders. Their main competitors are Harvey Norman, Good Guys, and EB Games. From the report, the key competitive forces are highlighted and the potential risks of investing in the company are listed. The ratios covered in this report...
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...income emerge from house ware, appliance, and furniture retailing in the Australian industry. The company employs a diverse and integrated business model. Basically, Harvey Norman operates an array of Harvey Norman franchised functions (Australia), company-owned stores (primarily overseas), and store under Joyce Mayne and Domayne brands (Australia) on top of supplementary business interests within the retail sector. The principal activities of Harvey Norman are that of an integrated franchise, property, and retail entity including retail, property investment, media placement, lessor of premises to franchisees as well as other third party, and provision of consumer finance. 2.0 PESTEL Analysis A PESTEL analysis assists an organization to evaluate external environment. A PESTEL analysis for Harvey Norman as below: 2.1 Political Firstly, Harvey Norman has benefits from an economic stimulus program by Australia federal government to encourage customer purchasing during a strong economic recession during 2009 (Leigh, 2012). However, the government has increased the tax rate from 23.13% in 2013 to 29.50% in 2014, this will have negative impact on the company’s net profit after tax ("Harvey Holdings Limited: Annual Report," 2014). The Omni channel strategy will be continue executed...
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...Introduction This report will first analyze the rational behind ABC’s decision to close ABC shops (Battersby 2015) on the basis of strategic evaluation of both external and internal environment by applying analytical tools. The possible outcomes of this action will be critically assessed. Analysis 1. External As reported by Owens (2015), the main consideration of management is the disappointing profitability of ABC shop. Macro environment is evaluated by applying PEST and Porter’s Five Forces framework introduced by Jones (2015). PEST Political: Compared with industry-level, ABC group is facing more significant political impact at company specific level. On the one hand, the state-owned ABC benefits from large government funding as it enables ABC to carry out robust long-term strategy with clear income forecast. As discussed by McNair and Swift (2014), ABC has been acknowledged as producing good-quality news to serve public interest. On the other hand, being public means ABC suffers more political tension than private media. Especially when the Australia government announced to cut ABC funding by $ 254 million despite promising not to before the election (Hutchinson 2015), currently ABC is confronted with big challenge of delivering consistent service with less budget, keeping good relationship with successive government while remaining political-neutral in broadcasting, reminding people of its achievements and promoting public image to weather the storm. Overall...
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...1003MKT Introduction to Marketing Ethan Low – S2801767 Kevin Abraham – S2806106 Scott Zheng – S2824947 Janith Mahaliyanage-s2806100 anne ASSESSMENT 2: MARKETING PLAN Contents Executive Summary 3 Company Analysis 4 PESTL Analysis 5 Political 5 Economic 5 Socio-cultural 5 Technology 5 SWOT Analysis 7 Strengths 7 Weakness’s 7 Opportunities 7 Threats 7 Objectives Mission Statement 8 Market Objectives 8 Sales objectives 8 Communication objectives 9 Competition 9 Competitive Advantage 10 Customer Analysis 10 Target market Segmentation and Positioning 10 Geographic segmentation 10 Demographic segmentation 10 Psychographic segmentation 11 Targeting 11 Tweens (11 - 12) 11 Young Adults (16 – 25) 11 Other 26+ 12 Select Target Segments 12 Positioning 12 Marketing Mix 13 Product 13 Place 14 Price 14 Promotion 15 Television 15 Printed Media 15 Public Transport 16 Official website and Forums 16 Evaluation and Control 16 Implementation/ Action Plan/ Schedule 18 Conclusion 19 Recommendation 20 References 21 Executive Summary The following report is a marketing plan for Sony Ericsson Mobile in Australia for the 2012-2013 financial years. The purpose of this report is to present a study of the opportunities for Sony Ericsson to expand its business and to become a dominant player. Sony Ericsson has focused on its resources on the young adult market for its mobile phone the Xperia play...
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...2.41 | Phone: | 9564 1555 | Teacher Email Contact | Miles.warmuth@holmesglen.edu.au | Course Name | Bachelor of Business (Marketing) | Course Code | V14332 &V14333 | Unit Name | Interactive and Online Marketing | Unit Code | TIS356 | Semester/Term/Year | Semester 2 2013 | Elements / Outcomes | 1 & 2 | Time Allowed/Due Date | Tuesday 8th October 2013 | Assessment Type | Website audit part B | Value of Assessment | 20% | Assessment Conditions | Short Report format with a 1,500 word limit. | Special Requirements | Follow the requirements as listed in the Unit Outline. Also, academic referencing is essential eg Harvard (Textual) method. Submit via turnitin.com | DECLARATION 1. I am aware that penalties exist for cheating, plagiarism (copying) and unauthorised collusion with other students, or external consultants. 2. I am aware of the requirements covering style and layout standards as designated by my teacher/tutor. 3. For assessments other than those conducted in-class, I have retained a copy. I understand that uncollected assessments will be destroyed. Student’s signature: Jack Date: Questions | Teacher’s Comments | Possible Marks | Actual Marks | Refer marking guide | Total | | 10 | | Trung Phat Lam LAM09310251 Interactive and Online Marketing Website Audit Contents 1. Introduction 4 2. Website purposes and Web business model 4 3. Target Market...
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...ACCOUNTING IN CONTEXT POTTER I LIBBY I LIBBY I SHORT ACCOUNTING IN CONTEXT BRADLEY N. POTTER University of Melbourne ROBERT LIBBY Cornell University PATRICIA A. LIBBY Ithaca college DANIEL G. SHORT Texas Christian University Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco St. Louis Bangkok Bogotá Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto Copyright © 2009 McGraw Hill Australia Pty Limited Additional owners of copyright are acknowledged in page credits. Every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge copyrighted material. The authors and publishers tender their apologies should any infringement have occurred. Reproduction and communication for educational purposes The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10% of the pages of this work, whichever is the greater, to be reproduced and/or communicated by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the institution (or the body that administers it) has sent a Statutory Educational notice to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and been granted a licence. For details of statutory educational and other copyright licences contact: Copyright Agency Limited, Level 15, 233 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Telephone: (02) 9394 7600. Website: www.copyright.com.au Reproduction and communication for other purposes Apart from any fair dealing for the...
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...Dash Board Camera Marketing Plan 2013 Parrot SA Table of Contents 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 History........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Location ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Number of employees ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Revenue and profitability ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Parrot Group's key appointments chart ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Company Analysis .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Positioning ............
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...Analysis of the grocery industry Coles Supermarkets Australia October 2012 Analysis of the grocery industry Contents Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... i Executive Summary.................................................................................................................. iii 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 Project approach and objectives........................................................................................ 1 Report structure ............................................................................................................... 2 2 3 Coles – an overview ........................................................................................................ 3 Economic contribution of Coles ....................................................................................... 5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Modelling approach .......................................................................................................... 5 Direct economic contribution ............................................................................................ 6 Indirect economic contribution ......................................................................................... 6 Total economic contribution .......
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