Ford is 120 percent while the current ratio of GM is 89 percent. The current ratio measures the company’s ability to pay short term and long term obligations. As Ford has the higher current ratio over GM‚ it depicts that Ford is more capable of paying its obligations to the creditors. The quick ratio of Ford is 110 percent while GM has 73 percent. Quick ratio is an indicator of company’s short-term liquidity. As Ford has the higher quick ratio over GM‚ it shows that Ford has more abilities to meet
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Article Reaction: Worried about strategy implementation? Don’t overlook marketing’s role Strategy implementation is at least as important as strategy development; indeed‚ most times strategies fail because they are not well-executed. According to Porter‚ all the elements of an organization’s architecture need to fit together in order to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage. In fact‚ competitors face stronger difficulties in imitating an array of interconnected activities rather than a single
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com/article_display.cfm?article_id=81 Glassdoor. “Ford Motor Reviews”. http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Ford-Motor-Reviews-E263.htm (2012). GM Historical Pamphlets. General Motors. http://www.gmheritagecenter.com/gm-heritage-archive/historical-brochures.html (2012). Sabatini‚ Jeff. “GM now tying all employee bonuses customer Loyalty”. Automotive News. http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/05/gm-now-tying-all-employee-bonuses-to-customer-loyalty/. (2012). Sustainablity Report: “Employee Satisfaction”. http://ophelia.sdsu
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GM food producers should voluntarily label their GM foods. Do you agree or disagree? Thesis statement + logical division of ideas scope line within it. With the rapid development of the agricultural biotechnology in recent decade‚its safety for use in human and animal diet has become a generated worldwide debate‚especially in GM(genetically modified) food safety.more and more people started to care about the impact the GM food to human healthy.Thus‚some government have put forward policies to stipulate
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is home to 1.3 billion people or 20% of the world ’s total population and is likely to exceed 1.4 billion by 2050 (Population Reference Bureau‚ 2002). China ’s gross domestic product (GDP) is growing about 8 times as fast as the population. With inflation currently under control (projected to be about 5% in 1997)‚ real income per capita is increasing rapidly. In addition the official policy of the Chinese government has been to promote biotechnology as one of the national priorities in technology
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CHALLENGES 7 INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES 8 III-RATIO & STOCKS ANALYSIS GM TREND ANALYSIS 9 GM‚ FORD & TOYOTA BENCHMARK ANALYSIS 10 STOCK PERFORMANCES 12 IV-CONCLUSION CONCLUSION 14 V-APPENDIX COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 16 RATIO CALCULATIONS 21 WORKS CITED 27 I- company information General Motors (GM) is one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in the world‚ and the largest in the U.S. It’s headquarter is located in Detroit‚ MI. GM has total of 396 facilities in 6 continents and supplies more
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Definition In this case‚ GM took the strategy called "shotgun" that implements a high information technology and had spent a lot of money on information technology‚ but it was not centralized and standardized to reach every department and employee of the company. In other words‚ the information system was not linked together and standardized‚ which kept information from the employeesso they were unable to make efficient and effective decisions. One of the symptoms that GM faced in the process of producing
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for 100 years‚ has produced nearly 450 million vehicles globally‚ and operates in virtually every country in the world. While GM has recently enjoyed rapidly growing sales and revenues outside the United States‚ the U.S. remains the company‘s largest single market. The auto industry today remains one of America’s top employers with 1 in 10 Americans working in the industry. GM is also one of the largest purchasers of U.S. steel‚ aluminum‚ iron‚ copper‚ plastics‚ rubber‚ and electronic and computer chips
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Priscilla Hatch Personal Values and Organizational Ethics Case: The GM Bailout Stephen Jackson – Instructor January 22‚ 2013 1. How would Locke‚ Smith‚ and Marx evaluate the various events in this case? They would evaluate this case by claiming that the government ownership of companies is the kind of government ownership of the “means of production”. (Smith – the “father of modern economics” who is the originator of utilitarian argument for the free market. According to Smith‚ when
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Is GM food a good idea? In this case study I shall be considering whether GM foods are a good idea and will also be weighing up the pros and cons of the matter. I shall explain and comment on such questions as: what does GM stand for? What is GM food? How is GM food made? Why do we need it? Is there an alternative? And explain the scientific ideas behind it. My evidence shall be supplemented by diagrams and data to support various views. Finally I shall provide my own opinion. GM stands
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