utilities, what is the range of possible values for PacifiCorp? What questions might you have about this range? Explain. The range of possible values for PacifiCorp can be found in Exhibit 10 and are as follows: A. The revenue median is $6,252 million and the revenue mean is $6,584 million B. The Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) median is $8,755 million and the EBIT mean is $9,289 million C. The Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) median is
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Thai customer renews its commitment for another 3 years? Changes in exchange rates expose an MNC to currency risk. Inflation has a direct relation to exchange rates and these changes affect a firm’s competitiveness, increases or decreases sales revenue, affects the cost of goods sold, input prices, operating profits, market share, stock price, etc. all these are referred to as a firm’s economic exposure. According to the contract, Blades, Inc. USA sells 180,000 pairs of Blades speedos annually
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delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, and beat revenue expectation. They quoted a statement from CEO Kevin Plank saying: “We closed 2012 strongly, delivering net revenue growth of at least 20% for the eleventh consecutive quarter in Q4 by building upon key apparel technology platforms like Storm Fleece and Charged. Our ability to bring practical innovation to our consumer across a broad range of product drove our 25% net revenue growth in 2012 and positions us well for 2013 and beyond
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Verizon Wireless 4 year Financial Statement ending on Dec 31. Currency in Millions of US Dollars | As of: | Dec 31 2009 Restated | Dec 31 2010 | Dec 31 2011 | Dec 31 2012 | Revenues | 107,808.0 | 106,565.0 | 110,875.0 | 115,846.0 | | TOTAL REVENUES | 107,808.0 | 106,565.0 | 110,875.0 | 115,846.0 | | Cost Of Goods Sold | 42,903.0 | 43,731.0 | 45,875.0 | 46,275.0 | | GROSS PROFIT | 64,905.0 | 62,834.0 | 65,000.0 | 69,571.0 | | Selling General & Admin Expenses, Total | 29,863
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grants and no direct services; most of the revenue from Column 4 has been classified as non-operating… this is consistent with the narrative for the Ford Foundation d. CONCLUSION: i. The best match for the Ford Foundation is Column 4; Boston Symphony Orchestra: 9 The BSO is a charitable organization that provides live musical performances. The BSO owns its performance facilities, and a large portion of total revenue come from ticket sales account; operating
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A. What are the deficiencies of the direct write-off method? The deficiency of the direct write-off method is that it fails to match the costs with the revenues in a specific period. It also does not show the net realizable value of receivables in the balance sheet. The only time that the direct write-off method is appropriate is when the amount that is uncollectible is deemed immaterial. B. What are the two basic allowance methods used to estimate bad debts, and what is the theoretical
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PAGE 3 4,5 6,7 7,8 9 9 10-16 17 18 19 2 Executive Summery The Problem Natureviews main problem is that they have to make strategic marketing decisions to grow revenues to $20,000,000 from their current $13,000,000 before the end of the 2001 fiscal year. Channel Analyses Supermarket channel offers more potential for sales and revenue but also is very costly due to technology and slotting fee requirements and is also risk filled due to many unknown variables. However despite the risk, this channel
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MRC #2: Nordstrom Inc. a. Return on equity measures a company’s profitability by calculating how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested from the shareholder’s perspective in terms of Net Profit for each dollar of equity. It is important to consider ROE and not just net income in dollar terms because it helps for making comparisons among different investment amounts. For example, if you had a net income of $5M you wouldn’t know if that’s good or bad unless you
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to see how they were doing and would eliminate or add fights according to the market. By reducing spending by reducing staff and asking for voluntary retirement they were able to reduce their overhead. They implemented did ticketless systems and a revenue accounting system to improve customer service. In-order to reduce spending and lower fuel costs, they used swaps, collars, and call options and call spreads. (Landahl, 1999-2013) This ended up being a very good strategy for Southwest to use and helped
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stock options instead of the payable bonuses would be good for both the company that will have more cash flow and the executives will have options with a value of $780 000 and on the bonuses balance we have $700 000, they would be increasing their revenues on a long term basis. They would accept the valuation made by the professor cause the Black-Scholes model is widely accepted for valuing options if they don’t understand it I would explain the principles of the model. VP of marketing The decision
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