Case: McDonald’s The Hamburger Price Wars 1. How serious is McDonald’s U.S. situation? Why is the company having problems? McDonald’s U.S. situation is rather bad as the sales declined in the first three quarters of 2002 with strong competitive pressure and low consumer satisfaction. Looking at its financial performance in 2002 (Table A)‚ it can be observed that McDonald’s SG&A had increase disproportionately in Q3 which resulted in lower operating income. Even though McDonald prides its success
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The Effect of SOX Section 404: Costs‚ Earnings Quality‚ and Stock Prices Introduction The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Responsible for the application of the law THE SARBANES–OXLEY ACT (SOX) was passed in 2002 after a string of high profile corporate scandals. The law’s main goal was to improve the quality of financial reporting and to increase investor confidence‚ which requires companies to put in place and periodically test procedures that monitor the internal systems ensuring accurate
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market) and the market for advertising (secondary market). Since supplements in print media also generate additional costs and require additional prices‚ a differentiated consideration of advertisements and supplements would probably be appropriate. Therefore‚ at least two or three different prices have to be considered by the 2 publisher‚ neglecting price and product differentiation. Moreover‚ a number of additional parameters are subject of the optimisation process as‚ for example‚ the quality
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Ratio decidendi and obiter dicta Learning objectives At the end of this module‚ you will be able to: * distinguish between ratio decidendi and obiter dicta. * apply well-established rules to identify the ratio decidendi in a decision. This module is intended as a useful exercise in revision. If you are certain that you understand how to discover the ratio in an opinion‚ you should skim lightly over this material. What is the ratio decidendi? As you probably recall from your studies
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1. What is earnings management? The companies use earnings management as a strategy by which they can easily control and manipulate their earnings to reach their pre-determined earning target. 2. Why do companies employ earnings management techniques? Accountants cannot predict every business structure‚ every new and innovative transaction. Therefore‚ they build up principles that allow for flexibility so that they can adapt to changing circumstances. However‚ people make use of that flexibility
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directly or indirectly helped me in completing this project. First of all I am extremely grateful to Mr. Anant Bhave‚ Vice President (Accounts and Finance Project)‚ Kalyani Steels Ltd‚ for providing me integrating project in finance for sixty days. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my company guide Mr. Rajiv Toye‚ Associate Vice President (Accounts and Finance)‚ Kalyani Steels Ltd for his invaluable guidance during the project period which helped me in completing the project successfully
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What is Price Elasticity of Demand? What is it? Today’s market focuses on a chain of supply and demand. The products which are in demand are the products which are produced and supplied in the market. This process is vice-versa. The demand of also increases with an increase in the production of the goods and the production also increases when there is demand for the product created in the market. This fundamental concept is fairly easy to understand. Now there are several factors which shape
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EPS Accounting Report: Development and Problems Earnings per share is the portion of a company’s profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. The computation of earnings per share is income minus preferred stock dividends divided by weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding at the end of the period. Earning per share is considered to be the single most important metric to determine a company’s profitability which is crucial to the decision making of potential
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information gathered in “The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings‚” there are five generalizations in how to manage short term earnings. They are how managers manipulate records to benefit themselves or the company. It seems that there is no true uniformity in short term earnings and each felt that rules could be bent by manipulating operating procedures‚ accounting methods‚ deferring expenditures‚ budget target‚ or by changing the short term earnings in sales and expense was justifiable. Although
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Current Ratio 2012 (‘000) 2013 (‘000) (Current Asset)/(Current Liabilities) (Current Asset )/( Current Liabilities) = (RM 308‚510)/RM161‚786 = RM337‚728/(RM 222‚768) = 1.91 : 1 = 1.52 : 1 The table above shows that Dutch Lady has a decreased
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