Final Exam ACCT 6310 Spring 2012 Student Name: Instructions: 1. There are 8 pages and 6 questions in this exam. 2. Please insert your answers below each question. 3. For each question‚ please provide detailed explanations supporting your answers where appropriate. 4. The duration of the exam is 2 hours and 30 minutes (You should finish by 10 PM). 5. After finishing the exam‚ please email me back your answers through Blackboard messages. Question 1 (20
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the ratio used was the return of assets‚ and lastly from the solvency ratios were the debt to total assets ratio. The current ratio for the Pepsi Company in 2004 to 2005 were arrange from 1.11 percent and 4.14 percent. This ratio tells me that the Pepsi Company had increase in Assets and Liabilities in 2005. Next‚ I examined the Return of Assets ratio the Pepsi Company has had in 2004 to 2005. In 2004 the company had 23 percent in return of assets and in 2005 they had a 1.93 percent return in assets
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The Carbonated Soft Drink (CSD) industry is a profitable one despite the “Cola Wars” between the two largest players – Coke and Pepsi. Such profitability can be understood by analyzing the CSD’s industry structure in terms of “Porter’s five forces.” Threat of New Entry The existing players in the soft drink industry have much advantage relative to new entrants. First‚ supply-side economy discourages new entrants by forcing them to enter the market in large scale. CSD’s demand side benefits
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My Thoughts on Ethical Issues in Marketing Warfare Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota MBA 520 A: Marketing Principles Instructor: Pro. Robert McElrath April 10th‚ 2013 My Thoughts on Ethical Issues in Marketing Warfare The authors of Marketing Warfare‚ Al Ries and Jack Trout‚ argue that marketing is war and that the marketing concept customer-oriented philosophy is inadequate. Rather‚ firm would do better by becoming competitor-oriented
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Article 1: McDonald’s Plans Marketing Push as Profit Slides McDonald Corp. plans to push its breakfast menu in the competitive market. Currently‚ the company’s market sales of breakfast menu which has led the company for 35 years have been decreased because of its competitors such as Taco Bell. Chief Executive Don Thompson announced that the company will emphasize its fresh breakfast menu which means “No microwave deals” to be differentiated from the competitors in the key market which are
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Initial Situation / context Coca-Cola is one of the most well known brands around the world. One of the main reasons behind this is because of the brilliant marketing that the company does around the world. Coca-cola is an extremely successful company that has 500 different brands being sold in 206 countries around the world‚ making it a successful 67 billion dollar global business. Coca-cola does not only have a domestic marketing strategy‚ but also has a highly successful global marketing strategy
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issues quickly like the issue of environment and health and the development of Pepsi generation has made the company to remain as the leading consumer product company and have a greater market share and also its ability to penetrate the international market buy focusing more on the emerging market (Gitman J.L and McDaniel C‚ 2009). http://customwritingtips.com/component/k2/item/10725-pepsico.html Recomandations Pepsi Co is currently a strong worldwide leader in the food and beverage industry.Throughout
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with responsibilities and she has to do whatever it takes to ensure their health‚ security‚ and well-being. Beyonce is well known internationally. She lives sleeps‚ and breathes money. This causes her to be a major target for big companies such as Pepsi. By her supporting these brands‚ she is helping them sell their product. According to the Debate article‚ “A Harvard study found that attaching
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Market Challenger Strategies: A) Frontal Attack: In a frontal attack‚ the attacker matches its opponent’s price‚ advertising‚ price and distribution. The principle of force says that the side with greater resources wins. Examples: * Pepsi Vs Coke * Blackberry Vs Apple [ Blackberry’s frontal attack on Apple with the help of this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVO8o_PKvVg ] * HUL Vs P&G ( Rin Vs Tide ) [ HUL’s frontal attack on P&G by reducing its price and
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MKTS 7303 - PRINCIPLE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Cola Wars (Coke and Pepsi 2010) Case Study - Week 4 (S42166755) 1. Compare the competitive dynamics of the concentrate business to that of the bottling business? Why is the profitability so different? By using Five Forces Model by Michael Porter‚ it will shows competitive dynamics in the industry. Therefore‚ to define everything further this model will be used to do the comparison between concentrate business (CB) and bottling business (BB).
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