2. Zara’s product cycle was much better than its competitors. Zara was able to originate a design and have finished goods in stores in 4-5 weeks for entirely new designs. The industry model was 6 months for design and 3 months for manufacturing. Zara produces 11‚000 items a year as compared to 2‚000-4‚000 by competitors. 3. Zara’s quick product cycle created a sense of scarcity and a “buy now or miss it” mentality among customers. Zara shoppers visited the chain 17 times a year‚ compared with an
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data) | February 1‚ 2008 | February 2‚ 2007 | February 3‚ 2006 | January 28‚ 2005 | January 30‚ 2004 | February 1‚ 2002 | January 28‚ 2000 | Results of Operations | | | | | | | | Net Revenue | 61‚133 | 57‚420 | 55‚788 | 49‚121 | 41‚327 | 31‚168 | 25‚265 | Cost of Revenue | 49‚462 | 47‚904 | 45‚897 | 40‚103 | 33‚764 | 25‚661 | 20‚047 | Gross Margin | 11‚671 | 9‚516 | 9‚891 | 9‚018 | 7‚563 | 5‚507 | 5‚218 | Gross Profit Margin | 19.1% | 16.6% | 17.7% | 18.4% | 18.3% | 17
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BERGERAC CASE STUDY Summary The purpose of this report is to analyze the opportunity to produce plastic components for cartridge production and choose the best alternative. It is predicted that the annual demand growth is a triangular distribution with a minimum of 5%‚ most likely of 17% and a maximum of 25%. Due to the continuous growth in the demand‚ the alternatives cannot be compared using just the data for 2010. An analysis is carried out for the time period 2011 to 2015 and the present worth
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By Wendy –Zara exericse 1 Q5. Who are the customer ? The target market is broad‚ women‚ men‚ children that likes fashion and is sensitive to fashion. Q6 .Who are the customers‚ and what product/ service attributes do they consider important? The target market is very broad‚ Zara do not define their target by segmenting ages and lifestyles like what traditional retailers are doing. Its target market is working in big cities‚ with mid range income‚ a young‚ educated person that likes
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automates some of the comparisons‚ you will probably want to dig further into them. Background: Inditex is an international fashion retailer that designed‚ manufactured and sold apparel‚ footwear‚ and accessories for women‚ men‚ and children through Zara and other five chains around the world. The six retailing chains were organized as separate business units within an overall structure that also included six business support areas and nine corporate departments or areas of responsibility. They are
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TEST OF CONTROLS – REVENUE TRANSACTIONS |Audit Objective |Audit procedure |Findings | |General | | | |Validity |Observe
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Statement Four Revenue recognition issues top the list of reasons for financial reporting restatements and one of the methods for creative accounting practices. Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 Literature Review 4 Revenue recognition 4 Sale of goods 4 Rendering of services 5 Interest‚ royalties‚ and dividends 5 Creative Accounting 5 To meet internal targets 6 Meet external expectations. 6 Provide income smoothing. 6 Taxation 6 Change in management
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3. The Revenue Cycle The revenue cycle is a set of four business activities: Sales order entry‚ shipping‚ billing and cash collections. To each of these activities there are related administrative organisational activities. It is all associated with providing the goods and services of a company to their customers and collecting the payments for these sales. Information about the revenue cycle activities also flows to the other accounting cycles which are: the expenditure cycle‚ the production
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driven and more expensive Differences: H&M mainly outsources its production (outsources 50% of its production in Europe as well‚ but has slightly longer lead times) H&M spends more on advertising H&M is more price-oriented However‚ the operating revenues of H&M are more similar to those of Inditex compared to Benetton and Gaps Question 1.2 – Operating Economics Comparisons indicate that: Inditex is less liquid than H&M‚ as it has more fixed assets and quick turnover Inditex is more efficient
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CASE 3.4 Continued Growth for Zara and Inditex CIRCA 2008 ARTEIXO‚ Spain¡ªZara stores have set the pace for retailers around the world in making and shipping trendy clothing. Now Pablo Isla‚ chief executive of parent company Inditex SA‚ says Zara needs to speed up. As rivals catch up‚ Mr. Isla is attempting one of the fastest global expansions the fashion world has ever seen‚ opening hundreds of new stores and entering new markets. To do that‚ as an economic downturn threatens
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