Performance Management - Deloitte
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Deloitte is a multinational company, specialized in audit & assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory and tax. It is a UK private company, one of the fourth most important in the sector. It counts 244,000 employees worldwide and has a revenue of 1,275 billion euros. Deloitte...
Financial Statement Analysis
Course material - 2 pages - Management control
Financial statements are accounting reports that firm issues periodically to describe its past performance. Investors, financial analysts, managers and other interested parties such as creditors rely on financial statements to obtain reliable information about a...
Managing financial resources and decisions
Case study - 3 pages - Finance
Financial resource management is a process through which the management maximizes resources available through implementing controls and managing cost. This is made boosted by the use of financial statements that reflect the real position of the firm. In essence, financial...
The Impact of Reinforcement Learning on Financial Trading
Case study - 9 pages - Finance
Reinforcement learning has established itself in recent years as an essential topic in artificial intelligence research. Like other machine learning methods, the reinforcement techniques used are not new (the Q-learning algorithm was introduced in 1989), but have been revealed in the eyes of the...
The Impact of the Demand Planning Process on the Company's Performance
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
All manufacturing organizations across all industries face a common problem of balancing supply and demand. This problem is further accentuated in the context of fast-moving consumer goods organizations due to the high demand for product availability. With much research on solving this problem,...
Financial Analysis - Airbus
Financial analysis - 24 pages - Finance
Airbus Group is the European leader in aeronautics, space and defense. The group was founded in 2000 following the merger of three companies of German, French and Spanish origin. It is present throughout the world and, along with the American Boeing, is positioned as one of the two leaders of...
Financial markets transfer resources across time and space
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
Financial markets comprise a collection of formal and informal institutions whose functions stretches to facilitate movement of financial resources. Firstly, financial institutions provide mechanisms for where economic agents clear and settle their obligations. This arises...
Financial Partners Capital Management LLC
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
Financial Partners Capital Management is an employee-owned Investment Company. The firm is listed as an Investment consultant and aims at providing discretionary investment management services to a different group of customers in the United States and other international individuals,...
Tesco Plc Financial analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The first requires an identification of Tesco's capital structure. Other than that, it requires the type of finance raised by the company from one of Tesco's balance sheet and comment on the balance sheet using the financial ratio based on Tesco's capital structure. Tesco is well...
Financial anomalies and behavioral finance
Presentation - 25 pages - Finance
A market in which prices of all securities quickly and fully reflects all available information. OR The market operating on the hypothesis known as Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) that states the securities markets are efficient with the prices of securities reflecting their economic value.
Performance Management Systems
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Over the years, globalization has rapidly leveled the playing field for business operators, blurring the previously existing lines characterized by distinct operations attributed to the acquired comparative advantage. Additionally, with competitors bridging such features of differentiation, it...
Written Company Report: Performance of Abercrombie & Fitch
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
Over the years, the retail industry has seen remarkable changes arising from the need to withstand the pace of the dynamic customer preferences, tastes and awareness in the wake of global interconnectdness. A definite revelation of the trend is that of the success story of Abercrombie & Fitch...
Performance Project in the Nursing profession
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
When dealing in paediatrics, the majority of the health care professionals often face a number of challenges due to their delicate nature. This is because this category of patients is composed of children, infants and adolescents who are quite sensitive to handle and thus deserve high quality and...
Financial analysis report: Adidas vs. Puma
Essay - 20 pages - Business strategy
Europe will be hosting two major sports events in 2012: the UEFA European soccer championship in Poland and Ukraine as well as the Olympic Games in London. Consequently, with the end of 2011 approaching, there might be a current window of opportunity to invest in European manufacturers of...
What kind of information would be found on the financial statements?
Case study - 1 pages - Management
Financial statement presents the information about the financial performance of a company in a specific period of time. Financial Statements can be divided into 3 sections. The first one if Balance sheet; second one is profit & loss statement; third one is cash flow...
A study of capital structure performance using EBIT-EPS analysis
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
This study is born out of the need to establish the presence of the responsiveness of capital structure performances through EBIT-EPS analysis as performances indicators to turnovers the company's performances, which is measure of leverage, ratios with respect to the...
Sample resume for financial analyst
Sample resume - 2 pages - Finance
An innovative, energetic, goal-oriented professional with solid financial and pricing experience. Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing cost estimates, defining requirements for cost models and defining consistent methods for establishing cost estimates. Exceptional...
Introduction to defining and measuring performance
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
The management should identify and implement approaches depending on the goals that it sets. The steering and monitoring of performance is the subject of management control. In the context of management control, one can analyze the overall performance of the business,...
Responsibility accounting and evaluation of divisional performance
Presentation - 36 pages - Management
This presentation will start with a comparison between centralization and decentralization. From there it will go into a look at the benefits and costs of a decentralized organization before moving onto responsibility accounting along with control and performance evaluations. it will then...
Performance of NBFC's in Indiabulls
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
Non-banking Financial Institutions carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt. Instead, these Institutions mobilize the public savings for rendering other financial services including investment. All such Institutions are...
A study on the balanced scorecard as an effective performance management system
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system used to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization. In other words, it translates the vague statements and undefined aspirations of a company's vision or mission statement into practical...
Need for financial statement analysis in a computer hardware industry
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Finance
Financial management, as an integral part of overall management is not totally an independent area. It draws heavily on related disciplines and fields of study such as economics, accounting, marketing, production and quantitative methods. The scope of finance function was treated by the...
Toyota Motors Corporation: A plan for organizational performance Improvement
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Change is pervasive not only in people's individual lives but also in business organizations. Change is inevitable; it is also one of the constants in this world. Change will happen. Management theories emerged as a result of change - from the scientific management to centralized...
Financial ratios: Meaning, calculation and application
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
A financial statement generally refers to the basis statements, which are as follows i) The income statement ii) The balance sheet iii) Statement of retained earnings iv) Statement of charge in financial position in addition to the above two statements. Financial statement...
Financial analysis of Nike and Adidas (2000): The big two in the footwear industry
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
Adidas is the biggest footwear company and after analyzing the ratios it has performed as well as Nike over the years, even though it is far behind Nike in terms of revenue and profits. The share price of Adidas is currently at 4877.0 compared to the opening price of 4864.0 that was a 44.0...
The impact of alignment between supply chain strategy and is strategy on SCM performance
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
Supply chain (SC) strategy and information system (IS) strategy to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes have been individually regarded as the vital and imperative ways to improve SCM performance. Yet what kinds of IS strategies to be implemented under what condition of...
HRM systems and organization's performance - Case Siemens
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
Rather than playing a basic administrative role, HRM is becoming more and more a strategic partner responsible to increase the organization competitiveness. “Employees are valued assets of the company, that there should be interplay between a strategy for human resources and the main...
The subprime crisis in the United States and its impact on the European financial markets
Thesis - 91 pages - Economy general
It was in February 2007 that the current financial market crisis was revealed to the United States. Institutions specializing in subprime loans announced their first losses and provisions. The financial experts compiled several scenarios. Was this a temporary crisis that would...
Extra-financial analysis of the LVMH Group
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
This presentation offers an extra-financial analysis of a group with a global footprint: LVMH.
Does IFRS enhance the presentation of financial statements?
Essay - 14 pages - Finance
The international financial environment is constantly changing ever since the International Financial Reporting Standards [International Financial Reporting Standards] (IFRS) have been implemented. Moreover, the unprecedented financial scandals of recent years have...
