Department of Industrial Engineering http://ie.bilgi.edu.tr IE 370 - ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT Homework #1 Thursday 26 February 2015 Due date: 5 March 2015 (return to Burak Tekin before 5:00 pm or during the lecture hour) Question 1: You want to buy a new car and need to make a decision. Use a weighted scoring approach to make the selection. Your criteria are style, reliability and fuel economy. Your car alternatives are Honda, Fiat, Ford, Mazda. You value reliability more than style
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Money and Currency Market Assessment Working Capital Management Report #3 Faculty of Business Field of Study: Money and Currency Market Kozminski University, Warsaw Handed in by: Ewa Dembska, Jennifer March, Sarah Steinberger Course: WIB-bi 13 Academic tutor: Prof. Dr. Mieczysław Grudziński Warsaw, 25th March 2015 | Introduction to the problem You are the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BP. This afternoon you played golf with a member of the company’s board of directors. Somewhere during
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it is extremely important to have available cash for contingencies because anything can happen in the health care field. For example, the changes in laws and procedures such as the Affordable Health Care Act, has caused some major changes for health care facilities, physicians, and insurance companies and the changes have put some hospitals at a standstill but they still must operate and cash on hand would help in this situation. “Good cash management should focus not only on the acceleration of
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Objectives The Confederation bank is requesting an assessment of financial needs to maintain the bank’s support. Some critical issues that the company is facing are that the company is deviating from its core competencies. They are experiencing Cash flow problems. They are in a high debt right now. They are having a hard time collecting what is owed to them due to the market. The Confederation bank is asking the Palmer brothers to create a financial statement for the year of 1999, which will be the
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the study of the flow of money * Borrowing and lending * Financial institutions-the middle man * Financial instruments and markets 2. Fields and jobs in finance * Money and capital market * Markets and institutions that provide short and long term capital: investment banks, banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, stockbrokers * Regulators: Fed, SEC (security and exchange commission) * Investments * Security analysis * Portfolio management * Market analysis
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CASE DISCUSSION Strategy High volume Low Margin (low prices) Wide selection Sales assistance Advertising Problems of high growth Cash flow, both operating and investing Chaos Assimilation Growth Sales 1985 1984 1983 1982 61.9% 68.9% 117.8% 128.3% Yes, this is pretty high Assets 1985 1984 1983 1982 52.5% 137.0% 218.7% 95.3% Yes, this is also pretty high; but it appears HD is a little less efficient at using assets to generate sales. Growth Long-term debt 1985 1984 1983 1982
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Partnership | 4 | | The Corporation | 5 | | A Corporation by Another Name . . . | 7 | 1.3 | The Importance of Cash Flows | 7 | 1.4 | The Goal of Financial Management | 10 | | Possible Goals | 11 | | The Goal of Financial Management | 11 | | A More General Goal | 12 | 1.5 | The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation | 13 | | Agency Relationships | 13 | | Management Goals | 14 | | Do Managers Act in the Stockholders' Interests? | 14 | | Stakeholders | 15 | 1.6 | Regulation
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Cash flow problems mean a business spends more money than it earns. For example, if you spend £5,000 on rent, supplies and payroll this month, but only take in £4,500 in sales you have a cash flow of negative £500. Most businesses that have cash flow problems do so because they fail to look at their financial statements until problems become too much to handle. Even a company that makes a profit can have a negative cash flow because of the lag time shipping out products or when the customer pays
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then Company Management. Find the composition of the Management Team and the Board and check the backgrounds of the Chair as well as the top 3 longest serving board members. (a) How many of these three board members appear to be independent? (b) What are their compensations? (c) What other board memberships or executive positions do they hold? (d) Do you think having these positions help increase or reduce agency cost and help better align the interest of shareholders with management? Answer:
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Structure 2 Description of the Business 2 Products or Services 3 Location 3 Management 3 Personnel 3 Methods of Record Keeping 3 Insurance 4 Security 4 Summary 5 MARKETING Target Market 5 Competition 5 2 Methods of Distribution 5 Advertising 7 Pricing 7 Product Design 7 Timing of Market Entry Location 8 Industry Trends 8 7 FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS Summary of Financial Needs 8 Sources and Uses of Funds Statement Cash Flow Statement (Budget) 9 Three-year Income Projection 10 Break-even Analysis Graph
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