VISION – MISSION ANALYSIS 6 2.1. Importance (Benefits) of Vision and Mission Statements 6 2.2. Characteristic of a Mission Statement 7 2.3. Mission Statement Components 8 2.4. Vision and Mission Relation: Is It Achievable? 10 Chapter 3 11 EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT 11 3.1 Michael Porter’s Five-Forces Model 11 3.2 External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix 13 3.3 Competitive Profile Matrix 15 Chapter 4 19 INTERNAL ASSESSMENT 19 4.1 Resource-Based View Analysis 19 4.2 The Internal
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A1a. Horizontal Analysis Income Statements The Horizontal analysis for Competition Bikes Inc. reveals that the company was very successful upon start up. From year 6 to 7 the company had a large increase in gross profit with a 37.5% increase displaying a strength in the area. Following gross profit the company had an increase in advertising costs resulting in a 37.5% increase. Despite the increase in operating expenses from year 6 to 7 the company had an explosive growth in operating income with
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Organization to accomplish its goals Functions of Management ➢ Planning ➢ Organizing ➢ Leading ➢ Controlling ➢ Coordination Characteristics of the term Productivity ➢ A ratio of Output to Input ➢ It can be improved by o Increasing output with same inputs o Decreasing inputs, but maintaining the same output Characteristics of the term Effectiveness: ➢ Accomplishing of Objectives of the Organization Characteristics of the term Efficiency
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Key Concepts Understand the environment of financial reporting in the United States and explain the importance of generally accepted accounting principles. Explain the meaning and purpose of a balance sheet and the items that appear in the balance sheet. Determine the interrelationship among the basic financial statements. Analyze the relationship between certain items in the balance sheet and the income statement with the help of ratio analysis. Evaluate the way that different assets, liabilities
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ACCA P3 – PROFESSIONAL LEVEL Business Analysis SMART Notes Prepared by Darren Sparkes Email: darrensparkesnotes@sky.com ACCA P3 - Business analysis These notes are not intended to cover the whole of the ACCA P3 syllabus ©Darren Sparkes, 2010 1 Contents Page no. Paper 3 Examiners Approach…………….….... 3 Extracts from the Examiners report ……….…...4 Examination Technique……………….…..……..7 Background and examination format..…............9 Syllabus Overview………………………...........10 Strategic
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fraud perpetrated by senior management. There were warning signs to investors and creditors that things may not be as good as they seem. Accounting process and techniques could have detected the fraud and prevented Rite-Aid from having the largest financial restatement in history. In 1995 Martin Grass took over as chief executive officer (“CEO”) and chairman of the board of Rite-Aid Pharmacy, which is the third largest pharmacy in the nation. Under Grass, Rite-Aid started to acquire other pharmacy
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Objectives. Internal Appraisal – The internal environment, organisational capabilities in various functional areas and Strategic Advantage Profile. Methods and techniques used for organisational appraisal (Value chain analysis, Financial and non financial analysis, historical analysis, Industry standards and benchmarking, Balanced scorecard and key factor rating). Identification of Critical Success Factors (CSF). Section II Environmental Appraisal—Concept of environment, components of environment (Economic
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• Statistical Analysis: helps extract information from data and provides an indication of the quality of that information • Data mining: combines statistical methods with computer science & optimization in order to help businesses make the best use of the information contained in large data sets • Probability: helps you understand risky and random events and provides a way of evaluating the likelihood of various potential outcomes 1.1 - Why should you learn statistics? o Advertising.
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Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit, and Communications about Control Deficiencies in Financial Statements, which includes nine rules that deal with identifying and reporting deficiencies found in financial statements. In the second part of our report, we prepared basic ARP’s and identified some key red flags for the Chevron Company. To access client viability, we used vertical and horizontal analysis, where we found information to create concern about their financial strength. We also
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Industry Overview…………………………………………………………………………………40 Organization Structure …………………………………………………………………………48 Financials …………………………………………………………………………………………49 Financial Ratios …………………………………………………………………………………58 Altman’s Z-Score …………………………………………………………………………………71 Tobin’s Q……………………………………………………………………………………………72 DuPont Analysis …………………………………………………………………………………73 SWOT Analysis ……………………………………………………………………………………77 Market Share ………………………………………………………………………………………80 Focal Points for Action
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