|day. More than 70% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local men and women. | |McDonald's is one of the world's most well-known and valuable brands and holds a leading share in the globally branded quick service restaurant segment of | |the informal eating-out market in virtually every country in which we do business. | |
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When taking in consideration the future selling strategy of Minnesota Motors we decided to choose between the two aspects we considered to be the more important ones: Price or Quality. In a general way we observed that the segments that preferred quality over price (less price-sensitive) were segment A, B and C and the ones that preferred price over quality (very price-sensitive) were segment D and small-Volume customers. We decided to go for a business perspective focused on a quality premium product
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and “predict” accounting practice. • “Explanation” means providing reasons for observed practice. For example, positive accounting theory seeks to explain why firms continue to use historical cost accounting and why certain firms switch between a numbers of accounting techniques. • “Prediction” of accounting practice means that the theory predicts “unobserved phenomena”. “Unobserved phenomena” are not necessarily future phenomena; they include phenomena that have occurred, but on which
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company at the Dallas Love Field airport and the theme of the cordial relationship created and maintained between Southwest employees and its customer. On Jan 22nd 2014, CEO and chairman of the board announced a record annual income of $1.1 billion or $1.64 per diluted share which is 20 cent higher than the industry average return per share during the same period. This performance is an increase of 45% compared to the performance in 2013 of $754 million. The company has been running profit consistently
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Natureview Farm Founded in 1989, Natureview Farm is the leading manufacturer of refrigerated cup yogurt in the natural foods channel with 24% market share. In the last 10 years, Natureview was able to grow its revenues from less than $100,000 to $13 million in 1999 by selling only 8 Oz and 32 Oz cups. In 1997 an equity infusion from a venture capital firm was needed in order to fund strategic investments. The deal was arranged and completed by Natureview’s CFO, Mr. Wagner. However the VC firm now
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company at the Dallas Love Field airport and the theme of the cordial relationship created and maintained between Southwest employees and its customer. On Jan 22nd 2014, CEO and chairman of the board announced a record annual income of $1.1 billion or $1.64 per diluted share which is 20 cent higher than the industry average return per share during the same period. This performance is an increase of 45% compared to the performance in 2013 of $754 million. The company has been running profit consistently
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the investors need to predict the stock prices based on the macro factors to get an abnormal return from stock market There were a lot of researches to study the relationship between macroeconomics variables and stock returns. It is important to study the interaction of macroeconomics factor and stock return. Based on the study, the public can identify which factors can influence the stock market and use the knowledge to predict movement of stock price. According to Wongbangpo & Sharma (2002)
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Drake OUTLINE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Introduction Liquidity ratios Profitability ratios and activity ratios Financial leverage ratios Shareholder ratios Introduction As a manager, you may want to reward employees based on their performance. How do you know how well they have done? How can you determine what departments or divisions have performed well? As a lender, how do decide the borrower will be able to pay back as promised? As a manager of a corporation how do you know when
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Contribution Margin 4 Unit Contribution 4 Total Contribution 4 Profit 4 Channel Margins 5 Margins (in %) – Based on Price 5 Mark-Ups (in %) – Based on Costs 5 Example: 5 Moving Up & Down the Value Chain 6 Move “Up” Chain 6 Move “Down” Chain 6 Breakeven Analysis 6 BE (units) 6 BE (dollars of sales) 7 Market Share 7 Dollar Share 7 Unit Share 7 BE MS (Dollars) 7 BE MS (Units) 7 Cannibalization 7 Total Contribution (NP) 7 Net Present Value: Today’s $ v. Next
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reference: Lipe, M and Salterio, S. (2000). The balanced scorecard: Judgemental effects of common and unique performance measures The Accounting Review, 75 (3), 283-389. (on CMD) Overview: Lectures 6 & 7 explore the use of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategic performance measurement and evaluation method. Lecture 6 introduces the BSC by providing the performance measurement context, defining financial and non-financial and lead and lag indicators, and providing an overview
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