4 3. Background 5 4. Singapore Airline’s Macro Environment (PESTEL Analysis) 6 5.1 Political Factors 6 5.2 Economic Factors 7 5.3 Socio-cultural Factors 7 5.4 Technological Factors 8 5.5 Environmental Factors 8 5.6 Legal Factors 9 5. Competitive forces and firm strategy (Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis) 10 6.7 Threat of new entrants 10 6.8 Threat of substitutes 10
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Balance Of Trade Difference in value over a period of time between a nation's imports and exports of goods and services. The balance of trade is part of a larger economic unit, the balance of payments, which includes all economic transactions between residents of one country and those of other countries. If a nation's exports exceed its imports, the nation has a favourable balance of trade, or a trade surplus. If imports exceed exports, an unfavourable balance of trade, or a trade deficit, exists
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told another story. Despite its extraordinary hold on the imagination of children around the world, the Billund, Denmark, company was in trouble. The Lego Group had lost money four out of the seven years from 1998 through 2004. Sales dropped 30 percent in 2003 and 10 percent more in 2004, when profit margins stood at –30 percent. Lego Group executives estimated that the company was destroying €250,000 ($337,000) in value every day. How could such a seemingly successful toymaker lose that much money
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2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Analysis 6 Conclusion 16 References 17 Introduction When the typical consumer hears the name Procter and Gamble they might think of Ivory Soap, Tide, Pantene, Pampers, or possibly Swiffer. The reason being is that these are a just a few of the everyday household products that have been contributors to the huge success of Procter and Gamble. But when another consumer product company hears the name Procter and Gamble – they think of innovation
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the "application of the economic concepts and economic analysis to the problems of formulating rational managerial decisions".[1]It is sometimes referred to as business economics and is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic analysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such, it bridges economic theory and economics in practice.[2] It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis, correlation and calculus.[3] If there is a unifying theme
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from stakeholders for more extensive information about the operations and financial standing of businesses is encouraging some companies to including information on sustainability. The recognition that there are finite resources to be utilized by today’s businesses, as well as future generations, is a driving force behind incorporating additional reporting by companies on sustainability factors. This paper attempts to summarize the primary advantages and drawbacks of shifting from a strictly financial
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different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity. In the most simplest way, Merger can be defined as how a "Marriage" is whereas an Acquisition is referred to as an "Adoption" of a child Acquisition An acquisition, also known as a takeover or a buyout, is the buying of one company (the ‘target’) by another. Consolidation is when two companies combine together to form a new company altogether
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| 2) Decision Analysis * Buy or lease decision * Aircraft configuration decision * Pricing decision | 4-7 | 3) Cost AnalysisVariable cost * Commission expense * Fuel cost * Employee costFixed cost * Aircraft leasing cost and depreciation * Landing and navigation cost * Interest expense | 7-9 | 4) Other Recommendation * Transform into low fixed cost structure * Lowering the currency related cost * Practice divisional profitability analysis * Join alliance
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INTRODUCTION Business environment is very important and plays significant roles for sustainability of airline business. In the global and modern world, business environment also become more complicated and more challenging to the airlines. It is important for airline manager to know because it will help the airline to plan and prepare for any changes that threatens the survival of airline business. The 21st century comes with so many changes, new technologies invented, circular of income of
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Introduction Traditionally, managers in manufacturing companies have sought to maximize production so as to spread the costs of investments in equipment and other assets over as many units as possible. In addition, managers have traditionally felt that an important part of their job is to keep everyone busy on the theory that idleness waste money. These traditional views often aided and abetted by traditional management practices. Just-in-time (JIT) is an inventory strategy that strives to
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