Strategic management accounting
ACC3AMA
Coles supermarket
Submit date: 13/10/2010
Group number: 17
Tables of content
Recommendations - 2 -
Executive summary - 3 -
Introduction - 4 -
External and Internal environment - 5 -
Current competitive strategies - 8 -
Recommendations and practice - 10 -
Conclusion - 14 -
Reference - 14 -
Recommendations
In this assignment, it analyse the current competitive strtegies of Coles Company through four aspects: cut price, quality control and product, cut down expenditure on operation and market innovation. It also find the strtegic management accounting techniques which suits the company’s operation can help the company be in the dominant position. It get the
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It will also analyse the current competitive strategies through the cut price, quality control and product, cut down expenditure on operation and market innovation and value chain. Taking all these analyses into consideration, this assignment will find and recommend the reasonable strategies and the strategies management accounting techniques that fit for the Coles Company.
External and Internal environment
In the diversity Australian environment, business finds that itself experiences a rapidly change and the awareness of putting environmental factors into management is becoming necessary. Thus, for Coles supermarket, when planning strategically, it is important to take the interaction of organization and it environment into management. In so doing, long- term planning becomes geared toward future events and it brings planning more systematic and integrated (Gideon Nieman, Alf Bennett, 2006, pp.27). The business environment includes all the internal and external variables which exert affect on the operation of the business. In addition, the management cannot be carried out effectively and efficiently without taking external factor into consideration. And the internal environment, on another hand, which encompass many areas such as the strategy, business function, management task, setting goals, resource abilities and expectations of interest group must be taken into account.
In the external environment analysis, the perspective will lay
The external environment of an organization represents factors outside the company that affect the company's ability to function. The business cannot control these aspects but can answer to these changes if it needed. Of course the main problem for business managers is to manage to respond early to these changes in the external environment, but this depends on how soon any change is identified. Most of external environmental factors for example, economic conditions, are reported daily in the media; managers have a wealth of information with the help of which they can develop strategic plans. Nevertheless, some external factors are difficult to identify, especially when they are changing very slowly or hidden from
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When manipulating a business’s strategy, it is important to focus on the external factors in the environment. An external analysis is where a business conducts environmental scanning that present a company with the key external forces influencing the organization. The facets of external forces examined are the business environment, remote environment, or the competitive environment. A business environment is all of the external factors in the general environment that a firm cannot control, but can affect their strategy. The remote environment is the forces that affect most firms. Lastly, a competitive environment is the firm’s specific industry and its entirety. The external analysis is pertinent to a company called Dick’s Drive- In; without it, Dick’s would not be a thriving popular business today.
Internal environmental scanning refers to a process whereas an organization evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. This information can then be utilized by leaders to design new objectives and strategies or even modify the existing objectives and strategies. Although The Venice Golf and Country Club (VGCC) have unique features which add valuable strength to the business strategy, it is not immune to weakness. Internal environmental scanning is important to any organization when planning the future and is a crucial part of strategy development. It is through this scanning that the organization can assess its strengths and weaknesses. Understanding these is the first step in be able to plan, adapt, evolve as well as identify exact
Tesco is one of the largest food and grocery retailer in the world operating around 4,400 stores (Tesco, 2010). The business environment in which company operates is a highly turbulent competitive segment, which according to political, social events, performance of global economy and technology developments is constantly changing. Pestel, SWOT, Porter 's Five Forces are frameworks that can be used to discuss and evaluate recent changes in Tesco external environment.
Thus, managers need to identify particular capacity to defeat their opponent or get the leading position in their competition, in other words, to define their competitive advantage. A study by Passemard and Calantone (2000, p.18) shows that accomplishing strategies successfully would enhance the company’s performance by surpassing other current and potential rivals with the method of competitive advantage. And the result indicates the importance to define one’s competitive advantage. For instance, Virgin and easyJet, two of British major airline corporations, the former represents flair and the latter represents value. These are their great definition and competitive advantages in which differing from other English airline companies, and fits one of Porter’s theory very well-three generic competitive strategies, one is differentiation (Porter, 1985a). In addition, cheaper or higher quality products and service prefer to advertise on customers. As most big brands do, their unique products or services will be recognized from target markets, with their global brand awareness. A simple approach to achieve this objective is to build differentiation from others in the same sector, to help customers distinguish products or companies from unique brand feature. Therefore, competitive advantage plays a crucial role in companies long-term planning.
According to Hamilton & Webster (2015), in today’s world of substantial competition the business environment has become more complicated, difficult, and vigorous in nature as well as puts on influential effect on the endurance and progression of the business. In order to clear it completely, it can be said that appropriate consideration of the social, political, legal as well as economic environment supports businesses succeed in its overall objectives. In this paper the internal as well as external environment of Sainsbury is evaluated and strategic options along with recommendations for future strategic direction is provided.
In addition, a company’s strategy also influences the financial analysis and forecasting process. Currently, corporate strategy is concerned with reach, competitive contact, managing activities, interrelationships and management practices. The important concepts of company strategy such as cost cutting, if a company does not have a good plan for competitive efficiency, it may lag behind other companies with stronger financial planning designed to maximize profit. And financial analysis is a process of evaluating business operation, projects, budgets and other financial activities. Furthermore, financial analysis is always used to analyze whether a company is stable, and profitable enough to be invested in for investors. Typically, company’s strategy always affects financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, cash-flow reports and
External environmental changes greatly determine the nature of business today. In response, the MCS design in an organisation is expected to consider various external factors, or business risks of an external nature, in order to be more adaptive to the current business environment. These external factors may lead to consequences on the company’s capability to achieve its targets (Bosa Italinana S.p.A. 2003). For this point, the MCS practices within Wal-Mart are intimately aligned with its external environment, in terms of political, economic, socio-cultural and technological
The changes in the external environment affect the strategic planning, strategic targets of an organization, management abilities, expectations of stakeholders (Vrontis, 2008). Management has to make changes in strategy according to the changes in external environment, raw material prices gets higher, change in micro-economic environment, market structure, demand, competition, and change in macroeconomic environment like inflation, unemployment, changes in interest rate, new taxes, news rules and regulations , competitors strategies drive the management to form alternative
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the internal and external environment of Atlas Copco AB Company and understand how the internal strategic plan works for the organization, following the analysis of external and internal business environments. I will study what is currently working or what could be done different; I will discuss the various strategies in details including management level. The Internal environmental scan helps identifying various opportunities and threats that exist in the environment. It is important to take a step back regularly to reflect on how your organization behaves internally and in the relationships with external stakeholders.
Brand’s strategy. General speaking, company performs as well as its industry is performing, and understanding the industry and its competitors helps executors assess their business strategies for their products or services, and better to improve the companies’ business culture. And in financial analysis, first two steps are “Identify Economic Characteristics and Competitive Dynamics in the Industry” and Identify Company Strategies”. Moreover, according to Jessica Oman, a professional writer, editor and business consultant with a background in public education, she said, “Business owners must understand the industries in which they operate to ensure continued success. The financial health of a business is usually a reflection of the health of the industry; therefore, by conducting an industry analysis, business owners can create a strategy that 's more likely to help the business grow and succeed” (ehow.com). It can be seen that a well business analysis is an important part for a completed financial statement analysis.
The companies need changes to grow and compete and the changes give leaders an opportunity to make a sound decision and sustain the company business for a long term growth. The complex consumer purchase pattern in the dynamic market forces a change in business behavior and the known the forces impacting business are the internal and external environments. The factors such as people, systems, and structures are internal to any organization and well within its control. The mission, vision, culture and leadership of any organization associated with the internal environment of a
There are three critical ingredients are important to a successful strategy. First of all, the conditions have to be including in the strategy in the competitive environment. Explicitly, the strategy need to get benefits from exiting or projected advantages and reduce the influences of main threats. Secondly, the strategy has to consider about the realistic situations of the business’s resources. In order words, the strategy have to considered about the existing external opportunities, and the benefits from the result from the firm’s main resources in order to chase the market opportunities. Finally, the strategy should be suspiciously achieved.
Business organisations do operate in the environment that has a strong influence on the way business operate and conduct their business transactions. The environment that business organisations face is both internal and external and both needs strategy and policy to dealt with. Thus, business organisation must find a way to deal with it. External environment is the macro environment that business organisations interact with daily bases. To operate successful business must be able to respond effectively to factors that have influence on them. Therefore, the success depends on the ability to adopt with the environment in which business operates.