Barnes and Noble Strategies
Ethics and Compliance / Strategic Planning - Barnes and Noble Inc.
Gary Myerscough, Donna Williams, Lilly Sirju, Shelae Watkins, Garry Frazier
Fin 370
March 6, 2013
Kristina Kopec
Ethics and Compliance/ Strategic Planning - Barnes and Noble Inc.
Barnes & Noble Inc. is the world’s largest bookstore and a publicly traded company listed on the NYSE under the symbol "BKS." Barnes & Noble.com leverages the power of the Barnes & Noble brand to offer online customers the Web 's premier destination for books, eBooks, magazines, toys & games, music, DVD and Blu-ray, video games, and related products and services” (Barnes & Noble’s, 2012). NOOK is one of the premier products that have been introduced that has increased sales to almost half a billion dollars and more than doubled over the past year. NOOK device unit sales increased approximately 45% over the previous year. The NOOK has quickly become the highest rated e-Reader in the market. The combined strength of the retail and digital businesses has given the company a unique competitive advantage that will generate more opportunities to extend their leadership as the e-content provider of choice going forward.
In this paper Team B will study the ethics and compliance of Barnes & Noble Inc. After we obtain the company’s annual report and SEC filings for the past two years Team B will focus on the following: study the data provided in the report and address the ethical issues by reviewing the role of ethics and compliance in Barnes & Noble’s financial environment, explain the companies procedures that are in place to ensure ethical behavior is specified, give an explanation on financial markets and how it works in the United States, identify the processes that the company uses to abide by SEC regulations, evaluate the organizations financial performance for the past two years will be displayed by using financial ratios for each year, and provide a discussion of the two year
Gary Myerscough, Donna Williams, Lilly Sirju, Shelae Watkins, Garry Frazier
Fin 370
March 6, 2013
Kristina Kopec
Ethics and Compliance/ Strategic Planning - Barnes and Noble Inc.
Barnes & Noble Inc. is the world’s largest bookstore and a publicly traded company listed on the NYSE under the symbol "BKS." Barnes & Noble.com leverages the power of the Barnes & Noble brand to offer online customers the Web 's premier destination for books, eBooks, magazines, toys & games, music, DVD and Blu-ray, video games, and related products and services” (Barnes & Noble’s, 2012). NOOK is one of the premier products that have been introduced that has increased sales to almost half a billion dollars and more than doubled over the past year. NOOK device unit sales increased approximately 45% over the previous year. The NOOK has quickly become the highest rated e-Reader in the market. The combined strength of the retail and digital businesses has given the company a unique competitive advantage that will generate more opportunities to extend their leadership as the e-content provider of choice going forward.
In this paper Team B will study the ethics and compliance of Barnes & Noble Inc. After we obtain the company’s annual report and SEC filings for the past two years Team B will focus on the following: study the data provided in the report and address the ethical issues by reviewing the role of ethics and compliance in Barnes & Noble’s financial environment, explain the companies procedures that are in place to ensure ethical behavior is specified, give an explanation on financial markets and how it works in the United States, identify the processes that the company uses to abide by SEC regulations, evaluate the organizations financial performance for the past two years will be displayed by using financial ratios for each year, and provide a discussion of the two year
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