Apple Project - Paper

Apple’s Inc.’s graphs clearly shows how the stock price has been increasing in instances of Open, High, Low, Close, Average and Volume rate between the period. As it was depicted in the descriptive statistics table, the stock price has been inclining constantly within two months. Benefiting from the great increases in the sales of IPHONE and IPAD and the record surge of Mac sales, the apple stock price has kept rising since last October.

Refer to the financial reports of Apple, Inc. for the year ended September 25, 2010

Apple’s invention have absolutely changed the progress of technology and have left important benefits in industry’s history. Before the invention of Apple, devices were extremely hard to understand and to work with it. With the development of Apple products; the industry in computers have rapidly improve locating Apple as one of the best worldwide computer and cellphone seller. With the time, Apple have had many changes in the company itself, such as; the invention of new products, the finances of the advices and, last but not least the competition between other the products. Some people believe that as the time pass by, the products begin to improve and growth faster than before.

Apple wants to expand sales to clients who do not own products. Produce hassles free products for the enjoyment for customers. Become the leader in the mobile market. Strategy: Expanding the company’s distribution network to hit more consumers. Continue to invest prudently in Research and Development. Become the mobile leader.

Our group decided to analyse the company Apple Inc., listed on Nasdaq Market as AAPL. The analysis was mainly based on the annual financial report of the company for the fiscal year ended on September 29th 2007. Apple Inc. is today one of the most

Our analysis of Apple Inc. will incorporate the general overview of the company and how it records it revenues. We will observe how they make an honest effort to be within compliance of all accounting standards according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board for recording and disclosure of its income. Apple’s leading competitor, Google Inc., will also be examined to see whether they are comparable to Apple and still within compliance of the Securities and Exchange Commission and FASB for revenue recognition. Apple takes on design, development and marketing of personal computers, portable digital music players, and media devices that exceed the reach of everyday needs. The company also

We chose to research Apple Incorporated, one of the most innovative companies of our generation. It is safe to say that nearly every one in the US and many foreign countries have used or at least heard of Apple products. We will be looking at the macroeconomic variables that impact Apple’s business as well as how the current developments in the industry have impacted Apple’s financials and we will also look at how Apple competes with other firms in the same industry.

Because of the continuously expanding horizons of Apple, its list of competitors seems to grow more and more as the company moves forward. For example, other companies in the business of selling personal computers based on different operating systems have aggressively cut prices and lowered their product margins to gain or maintain market share. It is widely known that Apple’s market share in the digital music industry is far more dominant compared to any other competitor in that market, hence that shouldn’t even be considered a market where Apple faces fierce competition. We must mention Apple’s step into the mobile communications market with their revolutionary product, the iPhone. Apple faces many well established competitors, but despite the appeal of their product, they cannot win over the whole market because of its price, and because of the imitations other competitors make of the iPhone. This essentially reduces Apple’s chance to completely take over the mobile communications market.

Apple’s root problem is the ability for competitors to drive product prices down through the creation of comparable devices or software. Apple is known for aspiring to bring innovative products to market at a premium quality and accompanying high price. Gaining high profit margins on the sales of their products has counteracted the lesser global market share percentage Apple has compared to other leading PC vendors. Exhibit 3b in the case study shows HP and Dell with more than double the market share in the year 2002-2014 in the United States alone. Apple did not make the top list of market share percentage on the worldwide market comparisons. In the more recent years of 2012-2014 Android became a top competitor with Apple by competing with comparable devices and operating systems. Apple cannot afford to let competitors have the opportunity to control their pricing strategies and affectively decrease customer perceived value.

Table 1 reports the selected financial data concerning business operation, and related growth rates from the annual report of Apple Inc. (2015). Notably, net sales rose 28% during 2015, with increase of net sales $50.9 billion. The growth of net sales over 2014-2015 was the second biggest rate during the recent five years. Note that the sales of Apple are determined by launching of new products

This essay is intended to provide a financial breakdown and evaluation of Apple Inc. from the fiscal year 2008 to 2009. The performance assessment is based on the ratio calculated by the data from balance sheet, cash flow statement and income statement of Apple Inc. This essay contains three parts. The first part is a historical record and position in the market of Apple Inc. The second part is the assessment of Apple 's performance and the key drivers for Apple 's performance. Finally, a conclusion and recommendation for Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. has been noted as one of the most positive growing companies in the technology field today. The question is, How do we know this and how do we measure this? The answer is through three major financial business statements; The Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. All of these statements may seem to be redundant in what they portray but all of them are necessary in bringing to light the actual financial standing of any company. These statements are how a financial analyst can put together an honest analysis of the how the company is doing financially.

Although Apple is creating miracles by constantly innovating and vigorously following its state-of-the-art marketing strategy, but there are always chances of improvement. Apple must provide value for the customers because competitors and market trends keep on changing. Apple has to stay alert because if it misses any single minute opportunity within the market, the rivals may take advantage of it. Today, the markets evolve on a daily basis because a tiny aspect of a product, service or technology could revamp the brand and transform the market. In such a case, providing extra value to the existing customers, who are loyal and the new potential customers

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I undersigned ………………………a student of T.Y.B.B.A., here by declare that the project work presented in this report is my own work and has been carried out under the supervision of prof. Kuldeep Jobanputra of R.P.Bhalodia College, Rajkot. This work has not been previously report submitted to any other university for any other examination.