IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) DIPLOMA OF BUSINESS Candidate ’s Name : | M. Turab Hussain | Assessor ’s Name : | | Student ID : | | | | | | Submission Date: | | Table of Content History KFC (formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a trademark franchise of Yum! Brands‚ Inc.‚ headquartered in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ United States .Founded by Col. Harland Sanders‚ KFC is known mainly for his fried chicken‚ which is usually
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CASE STUDY NO. 1 The Wilshire Public library has received funding from the Wilshire country commissionaires to upgrade its desktop computers and servers. Currently‚ they are using an old Windows NT server to catalogue library holdings. Also there are Windows 98 computers that the librarians use in their offices. Library patrons use Windows 95 and Windows 98 computers within the library to access the catalogue of holdings electronically (or they use the old card catalogue‚ which is cards
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Transaction‚ Operating‚ & Accounting (Translation) Exposures Foreign Exchange Exposure – measures the potential for a firm’s profitability‚ net cash flow‚ and market value to alter because of a change in exchange rates. Q: What are the three main foreign exchange exposures? A: 1) Transaction Exposure 2) Operating Exposure 3) Accounting Exposure Transaction Exposure – measures changes in the value of outstanding financial obligations incurred prior to a change in exchange rates.
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dominate the personal computeroperating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s‚ followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. The company’s 1986 initial public offering‚ and subsequent rise in its share price‚ created an estimated three billionaires and 12‚000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s‚ it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011‚ Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8
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Toyota’s European Operating Exposure 1. Why do you think Toyota had waited so long to move much of its manufacturing for European sales to Europe? By 2001‚ Toyota’s operating losses in Europe had reached 9.9 billion Yen. Much of this loss was due to Toyota’s operating exposure which was a result of the sliding value of the euro with respect to the Japanese Yen. Between early 1999 and early 2001 (2 year ~ medium-run time horizon)‚ the euro had fallen by approximately 28% with respect to
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One historian has remarked that Bacon’s Rebellion was “a rebellion with abundant causes but without a cause.” Do you agree? What were the causes of Bacon’s Rebellion? Did Nathaniel Bacon have a cause? Did William Berkeley? In 1676‚ Nathaniel Bacon marched into Jamestown‚ Virginia alongside 600 men ready to fight‚ demanding a military commission. After threatening William Berkeley‚ the Governor of Virginia and Nathaniel’s own cousin‚ Bacon was given a military commission. “In the following months
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demonstrates how broad changes in broad environmental factors (i.e. demographics‚ technology‚ culture‚ etc.) have an impact on industry competition. The case is not especially complex‚ so it is not overwhelming as a first case. Study and Discussion Questions 1. Why has the pharmaceutical industry been so successful historically? 2. What is your assessment of the pharmaceutical industry at the time of the case? How is competition changing? What factors are driving the changes? 3. What will competition
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Southwest Airlines. Southwest leases some of its planes. Suppose the leases can be structured either as operating leases or as capital leases. Which type of lease would you prefer for Southwest? Why? Consider what would happen to Southwest s debt ratio if its operating leases in footnote 8 were capitalized‚ and the related liabilities recognized. Computing Southwests debt ratio two ways (operating leases versus reclassifying them as capital leases) will make your decision clear (using Southwest s actual
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U02a1 Operating Model Definition I have chosen the unification operating model for Ralph’s Ribs. The unification operating model would be the best choice for this franchise as it will assist in the integration of processes throughout franchises 200 locations. The main location will have the ability to make changes to expectations or processes and make them available to all of the 200 locations from the main location without having to go to each location individually.
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all the operating systems‚ schedulers are a critical component of the CPU to getting processes done. Allowing fairness between processes that need to be completed and give over all optimal efficiency to the end user. User perceived performance is a critical part of the scheduler‚ this how efficient the systems seems to the human user. All processes deserve fairness in which they receive access to systems resources. This is exemplified by the round robin scheduling algorithm. Figure 1: Simple
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