Qualitative Analysis 3 1. Company Profile 3 2. Analysis of the Company’s Accounting Policies 10 Part 2: Quantitative Analysis of Financial Statements 17 1. Scope of the Analysis 17 2. Examining Credit Worthiness of IBM 17 2.1.1. Short Term Paying Ability 17 2.1.2. Long Term Solvency 22 3. Examining IBM Stock as a Investment Opportunity 23 Part 3: Conclusion 25 References 27 Appendix 1: Calculations for Financial Analysis 28 Part 1: Qualitative Analysis 1
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Business Culture and Strategy IBM Contents Introduction 1 Section 1: External environment 2 a. How four forces for change may impact upon IBM. 2 b. SWOT analysis 3 c. Guidelines 5 Section 2: Organizational culture 6 a. Organizational Culture and shared Values 6 b. Identify and justify the organizational culture of IBM 7 c. A possible organizational culture for IBM 7 d. Organizational culture and organizational behavior 8 Section 3: Business Strategy 9 a.
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1. IBM: A Systematic Financial Analysis. 1.1 Introduction In order to make informed investment decisions‚ potential investors should carefully analyze all available information about the company (or companies) that they are planning to add to their portfolios. One such way is by performing a systematic financial analysis for each of the companies in question (Giroux 2003). The results of this analysis can then be used to determine whether or not the company presents a sound investment
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Relative Size in the Industry IBM is part of the technology sectors in the diversified computer systems industry (IBM: Summary for International Business Machines- Yahoo! Finance). The market cap is 254 billion with IBM making up 218.6 billion. IBM is the largest company relative to the diversified computer systems industry. In a less specific industry of computers IBM only trails Microsoft Corporation by 12 billion dollars ("International Business Machines Corp."). Because of IBM’s large size
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Module Name: Emerging Business Themes Contents: A- QUESTION 1 page 1- Definition ………………………………….......................................... 2 2- Ethical Dimension to Corporate Decision Making………………….…. 3 3- Five Barriers to an Ethical Organization…………………………....….. 4-5 B- QUESTION 2 1- Climate Change- Ford Motor Company..…..................................... 6 2- Ford’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions…………………………
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industry. It facilitates economic growth‚ world trade‚ international investment and tourism and is therefore central to the globalization taking place in many other industries. In the past decade‚ air travel has grown by 7% per year. Travel for both business and leisure purposes grew strongly worldwide. Scheduled airlines carried 1.5 billion passengers last year. In the leisure market‚ the availability of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747 made it convenient and affordable for people to travel further
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April 22‚ 2013 International Business Machines Corp. SUMMARY Current Recommendation Prior Recommendation Date of Last Change Current Price (04/19/13) Target Price (IBM-NYSE) NEUTRAL Outperform 10/08/2009 $190.00 $200.00 IBM reported a dismal first quarter missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both lines. Revenue growth was particularly weak‚ due to execution problem and lackluster demand. We believe that sluggish IT spending remains the major headwind in the near term. Additionally
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) 2 IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY IN MANAGEMENT 3 THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4 JOHN AKERS WAS A PRACTITIONER OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 5 HOW BUREAUCRACY IN IBM RESULTED TO INEFFICIENCY 7 HENRI FAYOL’S PHILOSOPHY 10 THE MAIN LEADERSHIP PROBLEMS IN IBM 13 OTHER MANAGEMENT ISSUES/LESSONS IN THE CASE 15 SIMILAR CASE – UCHUMI SUPERMARKET 16 SUMMARY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) In the
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EMERGING TRENDS – BUSINESS ANALYTICS By 2018 US alone would have a shortage of 1.4 lacs to 1.8 lacs people with analytical skills. Data Scientist‚ Business Analyst‚ Business Intelligence are all alternate nomenclature for a similar skill set. The Need: The amount of data being generated globally increases by 40 percent a year‚ according to the McKinsey Global Institute‚ the consulting firm’s research arm. Gartner predicts that data will grow 800 percent over the next five years and 80 percent
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I. Current Situation (1991-1993) 1. History of IBM: IBM is a multinational corporation that started its activities in 1911. But its origins can be traced back to 1890‚ during the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company‚ and then in 1924‚ it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays‚ this multinational company is known as the ¡§Big Blue¡¨ 2. Mission statement IBM main activity is to find solutions to its wide range of clients
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