Nokia Financial Statement Analysis: Measuring the performance through data Billy Mckeown 29th April 2012 Review before submission TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Profile 3 Standing Against the Competition 4 The Cross Border Markets 5 The Financial Strategy 6 Building the Books – The Net of Sales 6 Charging the Revenue Lines – Analyzing the Costs 8 Building Assets Against Liabilities 11 Multiplying the Numerations 11 Managing the Liabilities 12 Understanding the Financials
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Innovate Or Die Ask a European about Nokia and a faraway look will come into their eye‚ a wistful tone creep into their voice. During the late 1990s and early 2000s the 147-year-old Finnish company became a global technology star: the world’s No. 1 mobile maker and the first brand of phone everyone owned. In some emerging markets‚ so the story goes‚ the word ‘Nokia’ became a generic term for ‘mobile phone.’ But becoming synonymous with phones is where it all went wrong. There can be little doubt
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Problems at Nokia Nokia‚ considered to be the pioneer in smartphones and a global leader in the mobile phones market‚ started to face severe challenges to its dominance in the smartphone market in 2007. The problems came mainly in the form of competition from the new mobile operating systems that entered the market like iOS and Android. Nokia had started the smartphone business and had been the leader since the release of its smartphone OS Symbian in 1997. But the release of Apple’s revolutionary
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT - NOKIA a. Describe the industry-level strategies adopted by Nokia. More specifically: i. Which positioning strategy does the company follow? Nokia has not been acting well. Its strategy is not well organized; it’s more like an “old-fashioned” strategy. That’s because they centralized in making esthetical mobile phones‚ but the problem was that the technology was not well at all. Another error is that Nokia has been making a lot of different mobile phones in a short period
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1. Does Nokia have a truly global strategy‚ rather than just a series of regional strategies? Explain. Yes‚ it does have a global strategy. The global strategy of Nokia is the foundation of all the regional strategies and that is based on overall consumer needs. They found out the main consumer needs is focused on selling products (phones) as lowest price all over the world with its simple‚ easy and basic models. Also beside that Nokia has series of regional strategies that use most advanced technologies
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Nokia can trace its roots back to 1865 and a pulp mill in south-west Finland. A century and a half later‚ Nokia’s handset business is being bought by Microsoft for €5.44bn after a troubled few years for the mobile phone giant. Here we track Nokia’s rise‚ and subsequent fall. 1865: Mining engineer Fredrik Idestam sets up a wood pulp mill at the Tammerkoski Rapids in south-western Finland. 1871: The Nokia name is born‚ inspired by the Nokianvirta river on the banks of which Idestam opens a second
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In 2007‚ Nokia combined its telecoms infrastructure operations with those of Siemens to form a joint venture named Nokia Siemens Networks. NSN has become a leading global provider of telecommunications infrastructure‚ with a focus on offering innovative mobile broadband technology and services. In 2011‚ Nokia joined forces with Microsoft to strengthen its position in the highly competitive smartphone market. Nokia adopted the Windows Phone operating system for smart devices and through their strategic
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vs Objective In stories‚ newspapers‚ and the spoken word‚ people all over the world are trying to convince you to think as they do. They are bombarding you with facts and figures‚ opinions and projections. It is up to you to create order within this chaos and find the patterns that will help you to understand what is true‚ what could be true‚ and what is outright false. In order to do all this‚ you need to have a firm grip on what is objective and what is subjective. Definition of Objective and
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followed by more specialized applications such as decision support systems (DSS)‚ the virtual office‚ and knowledge-based systems to describe all of these business applications of the computer. The objective of module 1 is to introduce the CBIS as an information management tool. Learning Objectives: After studying this module‚ the students should be able to: identify the main types of resources that are available to a firm. appreciate the information needs to be managed just as any other
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Identifying your research objectives In the previous section you have defined your research problem and research questions. In this section we build further on this by thinking about your research goals. We are going to help you to make your research objectives explicit and concrete so they are connected to your research problem. You will notice that these concrete goals will also help to demarcate your research area: What are you going to do and what are you not going to do? In this
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