Business Essays

Banks all over the world are struggling to create suitable margins from their conventional business come into investment banking. With new activities augmenting in the banking sector, commercial banks tend to invite new risks. For the reason that limitations amongst the sub-industries are deteriorating, banks, similar to all other financial service sectors.

Skillful investment decisions alone cannot make you an instant millionaire or enormously rich overnight. For that, you need to be a speculator or a gambler with an inborn flair and instinctive feel for the market, combined with a willingness to take great risks. You must also have -a run of consistent good luck.

The author states that the short term objective is to ensure that fiscal policies support monetary policies and also to apply fiscal policies in order to allow the economies to self adjust. The medium-term objective is to ensure that fiscal policies have a fair impact across generation.

The author states that Starbucks was also able to enter into strategic alliances with other companies and make the fullest use of the opportunities to widen its customer base. Sun Tzu says, “Divide your soldiers and give them the prize for booty and do not fight in the unimportant area, fight for fatal places.”

There are four possible buyers of that product – governments, foreign purchasers, businesses, and household consumers. These buyer groups make up what is known as “aggregate demand’ which is what drives economic growth. The rate of such growth is in turn determined by the capacity of the four groups to increase their purchasing power over current levels. 

Despite long-standing legislation worldwide, women and minority groups are still under-represented within many public and private sector organisations at managerial level. One way of making a difference in this issue is through providing positive action initiatives at the workplace, that are not legally obligatory in the United Kingdom.

The merger would fill holes in each company's shoe portfolio. Reebok is strong in tennis, fitness and basketball, while Adidas has a grip on soccer and team sports (Petrecca, and Howard) Thus the merger will help both the companies to diversify their portfolios and to expand their market to other territories.

The Morrisons value chain can be broken down into the following sets of processes and activities:  Inbound logistics, Operations, Outbound Logistics, Marketing & Sales, and Services. The efficient management of these processes has made Morrisons achieve a competitive advantage that other supermarket chains are only struggling to trail. The diagram below shows these processes and activities.  

This essay analyzes the view, in which business have social responsibility seems justified as the operations and the business of an organization is affecting the environment at large. An example could be of a chemical industry that is responsible for manufacturing pesticides but has to dispose of its toxic waste materials in the river nearby.

The fifth power works is not the efficient output because of the fact that the marginal benefit resulting from the fifth cracker is great than the marginal cost. The marginal benefit sum equals to $25, whereas the cost of a cracker is only $20. As a result, the value delivered by the fifth cracker is great.  

We will audit the Corporation's balance sheet as of December 31, and the related Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended. The financial statements are the responsibility of management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audit.

The vision statement of Real Chocolate is to become the premier chocolatier in the United States. Its mission would be to become the leader in retail sales through providing chocolate candy products that will give its customers an experience of best taste. The company wishes to achieve this through a process of expanding its business.

Other additional supporting facilities may include a mini-library, book shop, cafeteria, sport and leisure facilities which are managed by university employees. A university can also provide first-class laboratories for university researchers so that they may undertake collaborative research with other scholars.

Advanced Driving School's strategic direction, particularly in the aspect of sales and marketing, is analysed using the "Rapid Market Penetration" model. This model is depicted as a three-phase process which involves the integration of marketing elements to come up with an effective marketing mix that takes into account the 4Ps - product, price, place and promotion.

The author states that in case of a merger, both the two entities cease to exist and a new, third entity emerges that owns all the assets, liabilities, and business operations of both the two pre-merger business entities. A merger is one of the most important corporate growth strategies and is adopted by a large number of companies worldwide.

Market cultures became fashionable in the 1960s and focus on competitors and market share. Many of the functions of these organizations are transaction-based with third parties such as customers, suppliers, contractors, regulators, and unions. The primary objectives of market organizations are productivity increases.

Fiat was affected by a microscopic strategy orientation. Fiat’s current problems can be basically attributed to its inability to identify growth drivers such as technology-driven productivity gains and capturing niche markets. This study has particularly identified Fiat’s inability to reorganize its internal and external strategic value chain.

Although there was demand, the customers were not satisfied since the company lacked the major parts in the system. The sales team was blamed for this disaster but it was the lack of a good supply chain practice that led to this. The company then realized this and adopted a better supply chain management (SCM) policy.

The recommendations advise that the Danone Group should refrain from significant investments in Brasseries Kronenbourg, and monitor the performance, to see if there are any improvements in closing the gap on their financial weaknesses and being able to move out of debt over a period of time.  

The overall activities may include the creation of the product, its development, the production and distribution as well but the management of production may be regarded as one or the more closely in relation to such product and the management of operations may even regard as the operations that are absolutely within the organization.

According to BusinessBalls, “It's better, therefore, to focus on 'good' interview questions rather than 'tough' ones. Good interview questions encourage interviewees to think about themselves and to give the interviewer clear and revealing information as to the interviewee's needs, capabilities, experience, personality, and suitability for the job.

The author states that for Dell, this process is becoming imperative if the company wants to re-secure its position of dominance which is held during the early 21st century. As the company considers porter’s five forces, the Force of Buyers exerts less pressure on the company than the other four.

During the post World War II years (1945-1960), the United States cornered the market for new foreign direct investments, responsible for seventy-five percent. (Wikipedia, 2006). After the 1960s, foreign direct investments (FDI) have increased at a steady rate, with FDI stocks making up twenty percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The author states that the project or an event could be a retail outlet or a wholesale dealer to the manufacturer. The amount of funding provided by the organization depends on many parameters like whether the person or the firm is filling the tax returns or not. If yes it again depends on how much amount the company is filing returns.

An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a new enterprise or venture and assumes full accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities.

Corporate scandals such as the collapse of Enron invariably turn the attention of the public to the ethical stance of accountants and the ethical values of financial analysts and evaluators as also their claim to professionalism. Professionalism is clearly associated with ethical integrity and this is especially true on the case of financial reporting and accounting.

In business, environmental analysis is an appreciation of an organizations activities vis-à-vis its environment (Lin& Lee 2006).  Such analysis has become imperatively necessary in the light of increasing competition as a present, subsequent operations and strategies direction will be dependent on the result (Lin& Lee 2006).

The general ledger is a book of final entries that contains a summary of all the transactions of a company in terms of cash or its equivalent. The transactions are recorded by offsetting debit and credit accounts. Income Tax Act and the Companies Act have laid down certain requirements on business organizations to put forward annual financial statements

As the paper outlines, corporate-level strategies are about the choice of direction that a firm adopts in order to achieve its objectives. Strategic alternatives revolve around the question of whether to continue or change the business the enterprises are currently in or improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which the firm achieves its corporate objectives in its chosen business sector.

The author states that markets vary from country to county depending on culture, living conditions, and the needs of its citizens. The model of supply and demand predicts that in a competitive market, prices will fluctuate depending on the demand of consumers and the quantity supplied by producers.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) is underutilized. Few managers are trained in the fine points of the ICT systems and don’t realize that it can be used for remote decision-making and storing/capturing information. Training is a course of study in which employees are trained to identify and work safely with hazardous materials.

The author states that the stakeholder theory is most closely associated with R. Edward Freeman, Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia's Darden School. The theory holds that managers ought to serve the interests of all those who have a "stake" in the firm. Stakeholders include shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers.

Researchers studying Target Costing (TC) often consider a link to firm strategy to be an important factor of this cost management tool (e.g, Lowson, 2002, p. 34; Kim et al., 2004, p. 19). Kim et al. state that TC is closely connected to an organization's competitive strategy. However, the nature of the link between TC and firm strategy has not been empirically researched.

The author states that it has made a dent into the consumer markets segment by the use of innovative advertising concepts such as making the audience go through the range of emotions intrigue, foreboding, excitement, panic, relief, and achievement that they experience as they conceptualize, develop and release their innovations into the market.

Reflecting the priority that safety must take in the sector's operations, industry leaders gave an undertaking in 2002 to ensure, "that UK is the safest place to work in the worldwide oil and gas industry". Safety is the very foundation of world-class drilling. Working safely is a condition of employment for everyone who works in the oil industry.

The example of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Regulation 6A's impact on the casino’s financial reporting well illustrates this combination of general and specific regulations. As the casinos in Nevada are public companies they are obliged to follow all the guidelines established for the public companies operating in various sectors.

To start a small business, I required several office types of equipment such as computers, photocopier and several other costly facilities that could present difficulties in terms of finances since they were all needed at the same time. They were core to the performance of the business and therefore it was necessary to acquire them before starting.

Car-free Motel Company with 47 branches. Carefree would like to replace a mixture of the legacy of non-integrated systems presently causing inefficiency and errors in bookings, payments in the company operation. It wants the Information Technology consultant to devise ways to improve online booking and reservation.

Furthermore, the company even takes this concept one step further by also applying Return-On-Investment tools to analyze business projects as well (Obrien and Marakas). As such, the company is able to use tools in order to take an at risk analysis on every investment it makes.

The author states that the audit quality, as well as the investor confidence, was greatly affected when the audit firm Arthur Andersen seriously failed to truly represent the shareholders. One of the major causes behind the occurrence of that incidence was the uncompetitive nature of the audit market.

Singapore is classified as an industrialized nation and categorized as one with a rapidly growing economy. Kenya, on the other hand, is a developing nation still faced with immense problems of poverty, huge national debt, slow economic growth, and a faulty social welfare system. The irony is that hardly fifty years ago in the sixties, both countries, having just been declared independent, faced the same challenges.

Working women аre а diverse group (e.g., White women, minorities, women with children, immigrаnts, older workers) with widely vаrying needs, vаlues, experiences, аnd expectаtions. However, working women shаre а common bond in thаt, until recently, the world of work wаs primаrily oriented towаrd men.

If culture is regarded as embedded in social interaction, that is socially produced and reproduced over time, influencing people’s behavior in relation to the use of language, technology, rules and law, and know/edge and ideas (including ideas about legitimate authority and leadership) then it cannot be discovered or mechanically manipulated: it can only be described and interpreted".

Gurit, the company is one of the leading contenders in the composite materials and solutions industry. The customer base of the company is spread all over the world. The company has a three decades history of providing innovative composite materials, engineering solutions, and technical support to its customers all over the world. 

The rate of failure for the introduction of new products in the retail grocery industry is very high; it falls within the 70 to 80 percent range. Linton Matysiak and Wilkes is a product development and market research firm specializing in perishable foods. The firm reviewed 1935 new products introductions by top food companies in the US.

The basic idea of the online portal www.ClothesForShows.com is an attempt to create a common platform for the clothing industry. For most people to buy or rent any clothes is a cumbersome job. This is especially difficult when it comes to costume items. It can be an individual or a group who wants the costume urgently and also the exact type for the theatrical portion.

The brewery industry is one of the largest international selling drinks, globally. A brewery produces beer or a business (brewing company) whose trade is the production and sale of beer. Since its inception, it has grown leaps and bound and has acquired a name for producing quality Brewery industry though in the initial periods it had to face a lot of difficulties to make an entry in the export sector. 

Mаrketing аnаlysis includes a review of Wаl-Mаrt’s contemporаry development in business emphаsis on cаpturing new mаrkets in the world аnd pаrticulаrly the mаrket in Chinа followed by externаl аnd internаl аnаlysis of the compаny. Internаl fаctors of orgаnizаtionаl environment аre considered by emphаsizing Strengths аnd Weаknesses.

The author states that Gore has consistently cited its unique corporate culture as one of the primary elements of its success. Based upon the case study and company data available, it would be fair to say the Gore has found a winning combination of employee empowerment and operational profitability.

Whistleblower. Forgeries, scams and scandals are ever increasing in the corporate and non-corporate world. Whistleblowers have been instrumental in exposing these scams to the media and regulatory bodies. Whistleblower reports wrongdoing either within an organization or to some outside party such as regulator or media.