Caterpillar and It's Subsidiaries

Net Sales – totaled $4,485,000.00 for year 6, and grew +33.3% or $1,495,000.00 between years 6 to 7.

Regions’ is a member of Forbes and Fortune 500 (Morgan, 1/23/04, para. 17). Regions revenues also declined 8.44% from 2002 to 2003. Their net income increase 5.15% between 2003 and 2004. Regions three year compounded annual growth for net income was .09% and .04% for five years (Thompson, 12/2003-5/2004). Regions also does not have a good track record of integrating their mergers (Goldberg, Jason, 1/26/2004, para. 20). Profit growth for Regions lagged behind the industry average in 2003 (1/24/2004, para. 1).

Revenue: Net sales between years 6 and 7 demonstrate a 33.3% increase or an increase in approximately $1.5 million.

In the result of operations’ report, the sales are entered according to regions namely the United States, Canada and others. The division of the sales reports into regions further allows for more specialised scrutiny of the company’s performance and enables the directors to identify any regions that may be weak points and slowing down the company’s performance. It is also consistent with the accounting principle of full disclosure. Financial accountants should aim to disclose as much information on a company’s financial performance in order to ensure that all interested parties can access the performance of any company with ease. The accountants at Costco definitely do their best to ensure that the principle of full disclosure has been met in the preparation of the company’s financial

A vertical and horizontal analysis of each company's balance sheet and income statement in this particular case will be enlightening. A vertical analysis will for instance shed some light on how revenue is being used. In this case, each component of the companies' financial statements will be converted into a percentage of a key component of either the balance sheet or the income statement. A special common size balance sheet and income statement will be utilized to ease comparison. The

Financial reporting in the recent years through the SEC mandates has become one of the most important aspects to corporate management. Stamford International's problem is inherent in the discrepancy in reporting system and accounting irregularities from the various aspects of the business. Not only has this but Stamford, due to rapid growth not been able to accommodate for the expansionary activities like acquisitions of units and international transactions. The result has been the experience of loss in earnings-per-share. In the following analysis, the researcher thus will outline some of the problems that Stamford should address and resolve accordingly to be able to post a positive quarterly report and remain compliant with the

In the Case of the Unknown Industries, we matched several industries with their corresponding balance sheets. We used several different methods to come up with our conclusion. An important factor we had to remember was the economic state industries were in their respective year.

The Fortune 500 was established in 1955. Fortune 500 is a list of the 500 largest companies in the United States as compiled by FORTUNE Magazine. This list is compiled by using recent figures for revenue and includes both public and private companies with publicly available revenue data. (investopia.com) The Fortune 500 companies are ranked by the amount of revenue that they are bringing in on a yearly basis. While many feel that many of those businesses are operated by men, the Fortune 500 currently released and let it be known that there are 21 women CEO’s in the Fortune 500 category. (Management.Fortune)

The overall 8 percent growth in sales and revenues were accomplished in a year when end markets in the United States were weak. Considering that North American dealers took machine inventories down $1.1 billion in 2007, the sales story is even more impressive. For the year, sales and revenues increased $3.441 billion —$1.271 billion from higher sales volume including $775 million from the acquisition of Progress Rail, $932 million from improved price realization, $890 million

In Macau the company’s revenue increased from $392.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 to $508.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Caterpillar Incorporated is the world’s largest producer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Caterpillar's headquarters are located in Peoria, Illinois, United States. The company operates in three principal lines of business: machinery, engines, and financial products. The machinery segment includes the design, manufacture, marketing, and selling of all kinds of machinery such as; tractors, forestry and mining machinery, off-highway trucks, and paving products. The machinery segment also includes logistics services for other companies. The second business segment that Caterpillar operates in is engines. This includes the design, manufacture, marketing, and

Walmart is a multinational retail company that runs a network of more than 11,000 discount retail stores as well as warehouse stores distributed in more than 27 countries. Its headquarters are located in Bentonville, United. It ranks as the world’s leading private employer with over 2.2 million employees serving in different countries’ retail stores. Walmart operates as a family owned organization that is managed by the Walton family. The Walton siblings own more than 50% of this company through managing the Walton Enterprises as well as through individual holdings (Charles, 2014).

Caterpillar and Komatsu are two of the largest heavy equipment manufacturers in the world with total revenue of over $29.1 billion dollars for fiscal year 2001 between the two companies. Caterpillar was established in 1925 after Benjamin Holt and Daniel Best merged their two companies, both of which had been in business for over 35 years each. Komatsu was founded in 1921 when Komatsu Iron Works was spun off as an independent corporation from Takeuchi Mining Industry, Ltd. Both companies, Caterpillar and Komatsu, have since established themselves in the market as leaders of heavy equipment manufacturing.

Caterpillar is a publicly traded corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s SIC codes indicate their main areas of enterprise are construction machinery, internal combustion engines, and short term business credit and insurance. But this dynamic company has many

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