Apple vs Samsung

In the latest quarter, TGT improved gross margin to 30.2%, improved 80 bps over the prior year period. Its EBITDA margin rate enlarged 130 bps to 9.9%.

Question 4 What do you see as the key trends in the industry in 2004? How do you think these trends will affect profitability over time? Selected Answer:

a few percent, in 2012 the gross profit margin is the highest it has ever been

4.      Determine whether or not you believe that Apple’s customers would be willing to pay more for its products if Apple had to increase selling prices in order to provide better wages

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd which trades as Foxconn Technology group or as the media calls it Foxconn has been in media limelight recently due to labor problems that have surfaced from the organization. Foxconn is a major equipment manufacturer supplier to electronics giants like Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Wii. The internet has several articles and controversies regarding the deplorable worker conditions and cases of suicides by the workers.

Despite lower sales, gross profit for FY2017 increased $162k to $2.3M or 35.9% of sales compared with 2.2M or 32.2% of sales in FY2016. Material cost savings throughout the year, increased revenues stemming from improved scrap pricing and lower labor costs due to reduced production levels and headcount contributed to the improved gross margin.

Apple has many suppliers in their large supplier network, which Foxconn is one of them. Foxconn is a Taiwanese manufacturer of electronic, which has many different factories in different countries. Foxconn is notorious for making iPhone in China and being brutal with their employees. This included poor working conditions, illegal overtime, and treating their employees like robots with no respect. Apple states that they had no idea this was going on in Foxconn, but that’s up to you if you truly believe them. Apple took some precautionary actions against Foxconn stating that Apple will join the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in order to run external audits once a year, and they developed a global supplier code of conduct. Apple released a statement

The Gross profit margin stays relatively constant at around 36 %. However, there is a slight rise from 2000 to 2004.

The Net Profit Margin in 2012 was 10.5% while in 2013 it was 66.6%. This increase in the Net Profit Margin can be attributed to the increase in net profits after taxes despite the fact that there was a slight decrease in revenues.

Operating profit margin figures in the table above show the return from net sales[13]. However profit margin ratios are high enough for the 3 years, there is a fall from 12.86% to 11.26% during 2011-12. Sales revenue increases with a higher rate than gross profit so there is a poor

In 2017, the firm had a higher percentage of cost of sales in term of revenue than 2016, the cost of sales was 30.11% which was higher than 2016 for 0.21%, that means the firm’s gross margin in 2017 (69.89%) will also lower than the gross margin in 2016 for 0.21%. Burberry had a higher net operating expenses in 2017. The net operating expenses was 55.63% which was higher than 2016 for 1.56%, that also lower the operating margin, therefore the operating margin for the firm has decreased from 16.02% to 14.26% (-1.76%).

3. The retail consumer electronics industry was undergoing rapid and dramatic changes during the 1980s. Discuss how changes in an audit client’s industry should affect

1 Gross Margin%: the gross margin of Kusmi was 68.5% in 2011. With the increasing sales tendency, we assume the Gross Margin of 2013 could be 70%

1. Analyze the marketing environment and the forces shaping eBay’s business over the years. What conclusions can you draw?

The reason why Foxconn become famous is that it helps Apple to assemble iPhones. In recent