Case Study

The facts in this case are that Harvey Pierce ambushed and shot Robin Kerl and her fiancé David Jones in the parking lot of a Madison Wal-Mart where Kerl and Jones worked. Kerl was seriously injured in the shooting, and Jones was killed. Pierce, who was Kerl’s former boyfriend, then shot and killed himself. At the time of the shooting, Pierce was a work-release inmate at the Dane County jail who was employed at a nearby Arby’s restaurant operated by Dennis Rasmussen, INC. Pierce had left work without permission at the time of the attempted murder and murder/suicide. Kerl and Jones’ estate sued DRI and Arby’s, INC. As in pertinent to this appeal, the plaintiffs alleged

The Data that has been collected, read, and analysis was to determine Miguel’s strengths and challenges (weaknesses). According to Miguel’s Data his strengths are Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Vocabulary. In the phonemic awareness: The student is scoring very well in phonemic awareness/oral language. He was able to get 10 out of 10 in sounding out words. He was also able to

* Return on assets (ROA) – ROA shows how successful a company is in generating profits on the amount of assets they own. Since assets consist of debt and equity, ROA is a measure of how well a company converts investment dollars into profit. The higher the percentage, the more profit a company is generating per dollar of investment. Similar to ROS, this ratio needs to be looked at compared to the industry as different industries have different requirements that can affect ROA. For example, companies in the airline and mining industries need expensive assets to operate so will have lower ROA’s compared to companies in the pharmaceutical or advertising industries.

J. Rate of return on common stockholder’s equity: The ratio of return on common stockholder’s equity measures rate of return on the interest of ownership for the common stock owners. Company G’s rate of return ratio diminished (20.20% down to 18.46%). Although percentage decreased does not represents a negative, compared to quartile benchmarks of 12.80% and 16.30%. Rate of Return on Common Stockholder’s Equity

Question #1: Evaluate the conduct of Peter Lewiston against the EEOC’s definition of sexual harassment.

1. Analyze the economic rationale of the Carborundum acquisition. Under what conditions an acquisition would be expected to add to shareholder value in general? Do any of these reasons apply to Carborundum acquisition?

Historically, the Du Pont innovation of (ROI) calculations represents one of the most significant turning points in the history of modern accounting and management, (Hounshell, 1998 ). The 1920’s began the Du Pont system company with methods and calculations from leaders, owners, executives, etc. Furthermore, it was the beginning of the integration of financial accounting, capital accounting, and cost accounting. When it comes to return on assets (ROA), they are a (ROI) measure that evaluates the organization’s return or net income relative to the asset base need to generate the income, (Finkler, Ward, & Calabrese, 2013). The Du Pont Company has been the leader of industrial research. Throughout the years with companies emerging, Du Pont’s method was becoming more prominent with owners and executives needing a method for

This tells us what the company can do with what it has, i.e. how many dollars of earnings they derive from each dollar of assets they control. Return on assets gives an indication of the capital intensity of the company, which will depend on the industry; As Star River requires large initial investments it generally has lower return on assets.

Krispy Kreme has experienced dramatic growth over the past 5 years based on their income statement. Every line on the income statement has grown rather impressively. Revenues have grown from $220M to $666M and net income has grown from $6M to $57M. Based on the income statement, Krispy Kreme is doing very well.

The ratios returns on investment (ROI) and return on equity (ROE) are two of the most popular measure of profitability of a company and, along

(5) the return of equity is equal to the return on debt of a project/firm

Through indicating the profit margin, return on assets and return on equity to measure sales, assets and other factors, shareholders also can know the global profit performance of the firm and indicate that how the condition of company is.

Following that, the expected values for decision nodes 6 and 7 should also be calculated. The following results were obtained:

Return on Capital Employed is a profit measurement tool that demonstrates the profit generated by the company from its gross assets. Although Tesco could not performed as planned in UK but still the ROCE is increased, discontinuing its operations in Japan helped getting better result (TESCO, 2012 http://www.tescoplc.com/files/reports/ar2012/index.asp?pageid=20 ).

Return on investment (ROI) measures the rate of return generated by an investment center’s assets (Jackson, Sawyers, Sweeney, & Anderson, 2008). ROI is broken down into two components margin and asset turnover. Margin is a measure of operating performance and asset turnover is a measure of how effectively assets are used during a period (et. al. 2008).