Caterpillar Inc. Analysis FIN400 – Analyzing Financial Statements June 23‚ 2013 Caterpillar Inc. Analysis Caterpillar Inc. is a global company headquartered Peoria‚ Illinois. They specialize in the manufacturing and selling of construction‚ mining‚ and farm equipment. Caterpillar Financial Services is a subsidiary company that offers financing options to their customers. I currently work of a construction company and I specialize in the accounting management of the company’s assets. Approximately
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Caterpillar presentation Last night I had the pleasure to hear Julie Lagacy speak for Northern Illinois University BELIEF Week. Julie is the Vice-President of Finance Services Division at Caterpillar. She is married and has two children. I am very sure her family is proud of her. Julie talked about how Caterpillar employs about 125‚000 workers. They have a code of conduct that they started back in 1925 which is a value based system. They motto in this area is be present‚ seek‚ share‚ listen
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From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation did not provide the U.S. with an effective government because of the weakness of the Articles. The Constitution is stronger and much more effective than the Articles. Under the Articles congress could not collect money‚ we couldn’t pay our bills‚ and the government had no good way to stop rebellion. The constitution improved on this in many ways. I don’t think the Articles would be so bad if we did not have to compare them to the much greater Constitution
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company. That is exactly what happened during the late 1980s and early 1990s at Caterpillar Inc.‚ a $30 billion global manufacturer of large construction and earth-moving equipment‚ engines‚ and power systems. “Cat‚” as people call it‚ is a company that had enjoyed a long-standing record of profitability and market leadership until 1982‚ when it was almost put out of business by an unanticipated surge of competition. Caterpillar rebounded reasonably quickly and successfully at that time; it returned from
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DBQ 1985 The colonists were living in a brand new country that had no track record. Considering that the articles of confederation had no precedent to follow‚ and no other government to imitate; the articles were fairly good. However‚ the Articles of Confederation could have been more effective than they were. Effective does not necessarily mean that the government was strong. It does mean that the government was able to provide the people with the kind of government they wanted and
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Answer: A. Sustainable edge: Proper and careful strategic planning and foresight. B. Distinguishable edge: Its focus on excellence and quality for their product and services as well as their customer service. C. Competitive edge: Caterpillar dominated almost all market segments supported by a large geographic base and many product lines. Supporting Case Observations: A) * “In our business‚ the lead times are long. It takes ten years or more to develop and introduce a new
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had been hampered to some extent by the company’s goal of catching Caterpillar. Whereas this strategy had worked remarkably well in expanding the company while the global market was growing‚ now that worldwide demand for construction equipment was down‚ Komatsu did not have the flexibility to adapt. Katada believed that the creativity of Komatsu’s middle managers had been sacrificed while everyone was concentrating on Caterpillar‚ and that managers had grown afraid to question the direction of the
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History of Caterpillar Inc. The Caterpillar Company was formed in 1925‚ when Holt Manufacturing Company and C.L. Best Tractor Co. merged and formed the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Both of these companies were formed by Benjamin Holt and Daniel Best‚ also known as the founders of Caterpillar. In 1931‚ the first Diesel Sixty Tractor rolled of an assembly line in Illinois‚ thus offering a newer more efficient source of power for the track-type tractors. Later in the 1940s‚ the Caterpillar product line
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Caterpillar Tony Keller MBL 524: Financial Management for Business Leaders Catherine Frost May 29‚ 2013 Caterpillar In the 1890s and early 1900s‚ Benjamin Holt created wooden tracks that were chained together that he fastened to a steam tractor. This created an easier maneuverable tractor across the soft dirt of San Joaquin Valley Delta‚ California therefore causing easier and faster farming as well as construction. His photographer‚ Charles Clements‚ who
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and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. Caterpillar is the world ’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment‚ diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. With more thanUS$7 billion in assets‚ traces its origins to the 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company‚ the inventor of the crawler tractor‚ and the C. L. Best Tractor Company‚ creating a new entity‚ the California based Caterpillar Tractor Company In 1986‚ the company re-organized itself
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