Free Cash Flow and Terminal Value In the five years forecast period, explicit forecasts of free cash flow have been developed which has incorporated the economic costs and benefits of the transaction. The free cash flows for every year have been computed as below: Financial year | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | EBIT (1-t) | 3,493,872,000 | 3,817,923,716 | 3,893,347,321 | 3,973,492,338 | 3,717,433,629 | (+) Depreciation &Amortization | 677,400,000 | 722,491,029 | 767,829
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MOHAMMED NAFAISE QUESTIONS 1. Define the term cost. Explain various types with relevant examples? 2. Methods and techniques of with relevant industrial examples? COST The cost is defined as the amount which is paid or given up to get something or to achieve the objective of the business. In business the objective may be to make a product, to provide a particular service and so on. Cost is usually a monetary valuation of effort, material, resources, time and utilities consumed risks incurred
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Rs 4 for 25 years now -- the price was last raised in 1994 by 25 paise. So, it's not for nothing that Parle-G is the world's largest-selling biscuit by volumes. [pic] Not that the company didn't try to raise prices to offset the overall hike in costs. Three years ago it did so, but quickly rolled it back after volumes fell sharply and consumers wrote to lodge their protest. "We want to cater to the masses and have consciously tried not to increase the price. Parle-G is available for Rs 50 a kg
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improve their overall profitability. When they lost a major account in 1994 the company hurried to find new customers. This caused them to expand the sales force, increase advertising, and hire additional designers. Due to an increase in all of these costs Sloan Styles has been experiencing low margins. The company tried introducing a line of branded apparel in 1997 to increase profits. However, this was unsuccessful. Sloan ended up with significant overstock which they had to liquidate to discount
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of product/service quality, brand recognition, customer and employee loyalty, profitability and cost structure (Nyheim, McFadden, & Connolly, 2005). Internet technology greatly has impacted the hospitality industry. Software solutions for inventory management substantially improved quality and decreased manual time and cost. Online reservations, done in a matter of minutes via the Internet, cut costs of having a large staff. IT has helped in security management, protecting businesses and clients
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more traditional means of communication. True Cost of Ownership The true cost of technology to communicate when you compare it with much slower means of communication such as mail delivery is relatively low. As technology continues to be standardized and made more efficient, the cost of using it in communication continues to decline. While the actual cost of a traditional communication method such as mailing a letter may be very small, the actual cost in lost efficiency and misplaced letters should
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aggressively upgrade its old stores. Lowe’s has a store layout strategy that focuses on women customers. They see women as a decision maker of a renovation of the houses. Hence, Home Depot has to modify their strategy to customer responsiveness rather than cost leadership. As a market leader, they are forced to shift their competitive strategy by their main competitor. The pressure from Lowe’s has also caused the company to replace the CEO in 2007. Do international Opportunities exist for Home Depot beyond
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decisions in an organization. Activity-based costing establishes relationships between overhead costs and activities so that overhead costs can be more precisely allocated to products, services, or customer segments. Activity-based management focuses on managing activities to reduce costs and improve customer value. Kaplan and Cooper (in Kaplan, R. S., & Cooper, R. (1998). Cost and effect: Using integrated cost systems to drive profitability and performance. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.) divide
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evaluates who gains and who loses?What is price discrimination?Price discrimination or yield management occurs when a firm charges a different price to different groups of consumers for an identical good or service, for reasons not associated with costs. It is important to stress that charging different prices for similar goods is not pure price discrimination. We must be careful to distinguish between price discrimination and product differentiation – differentiation of the product gives the supplier
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Table of contentS Introduction 3 GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN 4 EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT AND BENEFITS 5 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 5 SOURCING DECISIONS 6 SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS 7 FORECASTING 8 PURCHASING SYSTEM: CENTRALIZED/DECENTRALIZED 9 CONTINUES IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITY AND CULTURE (KAIZEN) 10 FACILITY LOCATION 12 ERP systems 14 RFID tagging 15 Juran’s way 16 Appendices 19 References 21 Introduction Lipman Produce is a leading producer and distributor of fresh vegetables and fruits
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