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Have you noticed differences in gender representation among the leadership in your institution? How would you account for this? Discuss.
Explain the importance of core values in establishing vision and mission statements.
How often do you think a firm’s vision and mission statement should be changed?
What is your college or university’s distinctive competence?How would you state that in a mission statement?
When someone or some company is “on a mission” to achieve something, many times the person or company cannot be stopped. List three things in prioritized order that you are on a mission to achieve in life.
Distinguish between the “distinctive competence” and the “philosophy” components in a mission statement.Give an example of each for your university.
Drucker says the most important time to seriously reexamine the firm’s vision or mission is when the firm is successful. Why is this?
For a university, students are the customer. Write a single sentence that could be included in your university’s mission statement to reveal the institution’s market components written from a customer perspective.
Which mission statement component most closely reveals the firm’s competitive advantage? Give an example.
Discuss the relative importance of vision and mission documents for managers compared with employees, customers, and shareholders.
Explain the 5-out-of-5 test associated with vision statements.
Regarding the “survival, growth, and profitability component, for publicly held firms, shareholders oftentimes expect at least a 4 percent annual growth in revenues.”Explain why is this statement true.
This chapter’s ethics capsule is about Facebook changing its mission to become more ethical. How closely aligned do you think Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg’s personal mission statement would be or should be with his corporate mission statement?
This chapter’s exemplary strategist is CEO and founder of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith. How closely aligned do you think Smith’s personal vision statement would be or should be with his corporate vision statement?
Is it a conflict of interest for companies to encourage employee whistle-blowing because the firm could be fined heavily or incur worse penalties?Explain.
List six desired results of “ethics training programs”in terms of recommended business ethics policies and procedures in the firm.
What do whales, sharks, songbirds, and coral reefs have in common? What are the implications for companies?
As a part of its Global Coalition Against Corruption, Transparency International publishes annual corruption perception indices that rank countries according to their relative corruption levels. Name 3 countries in the top 20 (least corrupt). Name three countries in the bottom 20 (most corrupt).
Identify and discuss four reasons to be closed (secret) in regard to the strategic-planning process and outcomes.
Identify and discuss four reasons to be open (visible)in regard to the strategic-planning process and outcomes.
As executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce, in what way and how frequently would you evaluate the organization’s strategies?
As owner of a local, independent barbecue restaurant, explain how you would evaluate the firm’s strategy.
Do a Google search using the terms balanced scorecard adopters. Review the many different organizations currently using the balanced scorecard as part of their strategic planning. Select three different companies or organizations. Compare and contrast their use of the balanced scorecard technique.
Do a Google search using the terms balanced scorecard images. Review the many different formats of the balanced scorecard currently being used by organizations.Decide on three formats that you believe are particularly effective.
Based on the financial statements provided for Coca-Cola (p. 292), how much dividends in dollars did Coca-Cola pay in 2016? In 2017?
Complete the following EPS/EBIT analysis for a company whose stock price is $20, interest rate on funds is 5 percent, tax rate is 20 percent, number of shares outstanding is 500 million, and EBIT range is$100 million to $300 million. The firm needs to raise$200 million in capital. Use the following
Identify and discuss the limitations of EPS/EBIT analysis.
Show algebraically that the price-earnings ratio formula is identical to the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price formula. Why are the values obtained from these two methods sometimes different?
In performing an EPS/EBIT analysis, where do the first-row (EBIT) numbers come from?
How could or would dividends affect an EPS/EBIT analysis? Would it be correct to refer to “earnings after taxes, interest, and dividends” as retained earnings for a given year?
Generally speaking, how large should a firm be to justify having an IPO? Explain the IPO process.
What is an IPO? When is an IPO good for a company?Why did Dropbox in 2018 use an IPO? Was that a wise strategic move? Why?
Give a hypothetical example where Company A buys Company B for a 15 percent discount.
Give a hypothetical example where Company A buys Company B for a 15 percent premium.
Hewlett-Packard has more goodwill ($) than the book value ($) of the firm. Explain what this means, how it could occur, and what can be done about this situation.
Many companies are aggressively buying their own stock. What are situations when this practice is recommended or especially beneficial? What are the pros and cons of increasing treasury stock on the balance sheet?
To raise capital, what are the pros and cons of selling bonds compared to issuing stock or borrowing money from a bank?
True or False? In the United States, no federal laws prevent businesses from using GPS devices to monitor employees, nor does federal law require businesses to disclose to employees whether they are using such techniques.What are the implications for employees and companies?
Some analysts say that huge New York Stock Exchange IPOs from companies such as Alibaba, headquartered in China, should be illegal in the United States because under communist governments there are not sufficient safeguards in place for financial transactions. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Do you agree or disagree with the resource-based view theorists that internal resources are more important for a firm than external factors in achieving and sustaining competitive advantage? Explain your and their position.
What are 10 activities that comprise human resource management?
Define, compare, and contrast weights versus ratings in an EFE Matrix versus an IFE Matrix.
Give two examples of human resource management(HRM) strengths and two examples of HRM weaknesses of an organization with which you are familiar.
Why do you think production and operations managers often are not directly involved in strategy-formulation activities? Why can this be a major organizational weakness?
Why do many firms consistently pay out dividends?
In an IFE Matrix, a critic may say there is no significant difference between a “weight” of 0.08 and 0.06.How would you respond? What is the mathematical difference?
In an IFE Matrix, would it be advantageous to list your strengths, and then your weaknesses, in order of decreasing “weight”? Why?
List the three ways that financial ratios should be compared or used. Which of the three comparisons do you feel is most important? Why?
Think of an organization with which you are familiar.Rate that entity’s organizational culture on the 15 example dimensions listed in Table 4-4.
Think of an organization with which you are familiar.List three resources of that entity that are empirical indicators.
Why may it be easier in performing an internal assessment to develop a list of 80 strengths and weaknesses than to decide on the top 20 to use in formulating strategies?
Give some key reasons why it is essential to prioritize strengths and weaknesses.
Discuss how the nature of marketing has changed in the last few years.
How might elements of the marketing mix, particularly“price” and “place” vary for common household goods versus luxury products?
True or False: Personal selling is typically more useful for industrial-goods companies, whereas advertising is typically more effective for consumer-goods companies. Explain.
Does RBV theory determine diversification targets?Explain and discuss.
In analyzing big data, there is a shift from focusing largely on aggregates or averages to also focusing on outliers because outliers oftentimes reveal (predict)critical innovations, trends, disruptions, and revolutions on the horizon. Explain and discuss this statement.
Should assignment of weights down an IFE Matrix weight column be contingent on “intensity of industry rivalry”? Discuss.
Do strengths always receive higher ratings than weaknesses? Explain why.
Do strengths always receive higher weights than weaknesses? Explain why.
What is bitcoin? Explain how to use bitcoin.
The Coca-Cola Company and Home Depot have been very profitable companies, typically trading at high multiples of earnings, book values, and sales. This case asks you to value the two companies using discounted cash flow analysis, and to appreciate the difficulties involved. Exhibit 4.1 in the text
E4.13. Accrual Accounting Relations (Medium) 2. A firm reported $405 million in revenue and an increase in net receivables of $32 mil- lion. What was the cash generated by the revenues?b. A firm reported wages expense of $335 million and cash paid for wages of $290 mil- lion. What was the change in
E4.12 Accruals and Investments for PepsiCo (Easy) PepsiCo, the beverage and food conglomerate, reported net income of $4,212 million for 2004 and $5,054 million in (levered) cash flow from operations. How much of the net income reported was accruals? PepsiCo reported the following in the investment
E4.11. Cash Flows for Wal-Mart Stores (Easy) Wal-Mart has been the most successful retailer in history. The panel below reports cash flows and earnings for the firm from 1988 to 1996 (in millices of dollars, except per-share numbers): Cash from operations Cash investments Free cash flow Net income
E4.10. Free Cash Flow for General Motors (Medium) For the first nine months of 2005, General Motors Corporation reported the following in its cash flow statement. GM runs an automobile operation supported by a financing arm, and both activities are reflected in these statements. Condensed
E4.9. A Discounted Cash Flow Valuation: General Mills, Inc. (Medium) At the beginning of its fiscal year 2006, an analyst made the following forecast for General Mills, Inc., the consumer foods company, for 2006-2009 (in millions of dollars): 2006 2007 2008 Cash flow from operations Cash investment
E4.8. Cash Flow and Earnings: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (Easy) Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) manufactures and markets consumer paper products under brand names that include Kleenex, Scott, Cottonnelle, Viva, Kotex, and WypAll. For fiscal year 2004, the firm reported the following numbers (in
E4.7. Converting Forecasts of Free Cash Flow to a Valuation: Coca-Cola Company (Medium) After reviewing the discounted cash flow valuation of Coca-Cola in Exhibit 4.1, consider the free cash flows below that were reported by Coke for 2004-2007. They are based on the achial reported cash flows but
E4.6. Identifying Accruals for Coca-Cola (Easy) The Coca-Cola Company reported "Net cash provided by operating activities" of $7,150 million in its 2007 cash flow statement. Coke also reported $5,981 million in net income for the period. How much of net income was in the form of accruals?
E4.5. Calculating Cash Flow from Operations and Cash Investment for Coca-Cola (Easy) The Coca-Cola Company reported "Net cash provided by operating activities" of $7,150 million in its 2007 cash flow statement. It also reported interest paid of $405 million and interest income of $236 million. Coke
E4.2. A Simple DCF Valuation (Easy) At the end of 2009, you forecast that a firm's free cash flow for 2010 will be $430 million. If you forecast that free cash flow will grow at 5% per year thereafter, what is the enterprise value? Use a required return of 10%
4.1. A Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (Easy) At the end of 2009, you forecast the following cash flows (in millions) for a firm with net debt of $759 million: 2010 2011 2012 Cash flow from operations $1,450 $1,576 $1,718 Cash investment 1,020 1,124 1,200 You forecast that free cash flow will grow
C4.10. Whymust the interest component of cash flow or earnings be calculated on an after-tax basis?
C4.9. Explainthe difference between levered cashflow and unlevered cashflow.
C4.8. Whyis an investment ina Tbill notan investment in operations?
C4.7. Whatexplains the difference between freecashflow andearnings?
C4.6. Whatexplains the difference between cashflow fromoperations andearnings?
C4.5. Whichof the following two measures gives a betterindication of the valueadded from selling inventory; (a) cash received from customers minus cash paid for inventory, or (b) accrual revenue minuscostof goodssold?Why?
C4.4. After years of negative free cash flow, General Electric reported a positive free cash flow of $7,386 million in 2003. Look back at GE's cash flows displayed in Exhibit 4.2. Would you interpret the 2003 free cash flow as good news?
C4.3. Shoulda firmthathas higherfree cashflows havea highervalue?
C4.2. Some analysts trumpet the saying "Cash is King." They mean that cash is the primaryfundamental that theequityanalyst shouldfocuson. Is cashking?
C4.1. Investors receive dividends as payoffs for investing in equity shares. Thus the value of a shareshouldbe calculated by discounting expected dividends. True or false?
Lucent Technologies, Inc., was formed from AT&T's Bell Laboratories research organiza- tion after the breakup of AT&T into the Baby Bells. Lucent designs, develops, and man- factures communication systems, supplying these systems to most of the world's telecom operators for both wired and wireless
Xerox Corporation is a long-established company whose very name has been lent to the process of copying documents. The firm develops copying technology through an extensive research program and manufactures and markets a large range of document processing products. Many of its sales are made with
E17.15. Stock Market Reactions to Earnings Announcements: Eastman Kodak and Intel (Medium) For its September quarter of 1998, Eastman Kodak, the imaging products manufacturer, re- portada net profit of $398 million, up 72 percent from one year earlier and in line with an- alysts' expectations.
E17.14. A Financial Statement Restatement: Sunbeam (Hard) By the mid-1990s, Sunbeam Corporation, the once celebrated household appliance manu- facturer, was reporting lackluster sales and losses. New management, engaged in 1996 to turn the company around, implemented a major restructuring and
E17.13. Quality Diagnostics: Gateway, Inc. (Medium) Gateway, the computer manufacturer, was a fast-growing company during the 1990s, with continual revenue and earnings growth, bringing admiration from analysts. However, in 2000 revenue growth slowed, from $8,965 million in 1999 to only $9,601
E17.12. Tracking Changes in Net Operating Assets and the Asset Turnover: Regina Company (Medium) (Based on an analysis by Patricia Fairfield, Georgetown University.) The Regina Company once marketed a successful line of vacuum cleaners, but then ran into trouble and failed. As you can see from the
E17.11. Spot the Red Flags in a Cash Flow Statement: EDS and Cerner Corporation (Medium) Below are portions of the cash flow statements for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Cerner Corporation. Spot the red flags.ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS AND SUBSIDIARIES (in millions) Years Ended December 31, 2001
E17.10. The SEC and Microsoft (Easy)a. In 1999, Microsoft Corporation announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was investigating some of its accounting practices. Exhibit 17.1 presents the current liability section of Microsoft's comparative balance sheet at the end of the first
E17.9. The Quality of Gross Margins: Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (Easy) Vitesse Semiconductor reported the following revenues and cost of goods sold for 2001-2003 (in thousands): 2003 2002 2001 Revenues $156,371 $151,738 $383,905 Cost of revenues 73,163 110,155 201,536 Calculate the gross margin
E17.8. The Quality of Revenues: Bausch & Lomb (Easy) Bausch and Lomb, Inc., the optical products company, reported the following sales and receivables from 1990 to 1993 (in millions of dollars): 1990 1991 1992 1993 Net sales 1,368.6 1,520.1 1,709.1 1,872.2 Trade receivables, less allowances 203.0
E17.7. Red Flags in the Cash Flow Statement (Medium) Identify the quality red flags for 2009 in the following portion of a cash flow statement. Revenues for 2009 declined from $456 million in 2008 to 5401 million. In Millions 2009 2008 Net income $35.5 $28.3 Depreciation 46.0 63.0 Change in
E17.6. Change in Asset Turnover and Earnings Quality (Medium) An analyst finds that, for a firm reporting a return on net operating assets of 19 percent, the asset turnover had declined from 2.2 to 1.9.a. Calculate the profit margin for thb. What does the decrease in the asset turnover tell you
E17.5. Normalized Asset Turnover (Medium) A firm reported after-tax operating income of $136 million, up from $120 million the year before, on a sales increase from $5,106 million to $5,751 million. Net operating assets in- creased from $2,321 million to $2,614 million. The firm's average asset
E17.4. Interpretation of Diagnostics (Easy) The following lists a number of ratios against the average for the ratio over the prior three years. For each, indicate whether the ratio suggests that return on net operating assets will be higher or lower in the following year. Ratio Bad debt
E17.3. Following the Trail to the Balance Sheet (Medium) Indicate which items in the balance sheet can be altered to implement the following carn- ings managementa. Increase gross revenues (before allowances).b. Reduce bad debt expense.c. Reduce depreciation.d. Lower selling expenses.e. Reduce
E17.2. Income Shifting and Net Operating Assets (Easy) The chief financial officer of a firm presented the CEO with a set of financial statements showing $2,234 million in after-tax operating income. This number yielded a return on beginning-of-period net operating assets of 9 percent. The CEO
E17.1. Following the Trail: Identifying Hard and Soft Components of Income (Easy) firm reported after-tax operating income of $1,298 million. Free cash flow of $234 mil- Fon was calcuated from the cash flow statement, Aa. Identify the "hard" and "soft" components of the income.b. The free cash flow

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