Question

Select and examine one public listed company and answer the questions below, you will need
to conduct extensive research.
 You will also need to combine the findings from your research with your knowledge from the
course. Use an essay format for the written paper.

 Be sure that you have clearly answered all parts of all questions.
 Both content and writing style are important in this assignment.

Question 1
a. What are the names of the company and what product(s) or service(s) do they provide?
b. Who are the owners of the businesses (an individual, a family, partners, stockholders, etc.)?
c. How do the key financial ratios for the companies look like? (Liquidity, Asset Management,
Debt Management, Profitability, Market Value)

Question 2
a. What inputs do the companies use to produce their product(s) or service(s)? (While your
companies’ input usage may differ from that discussed in class, a review of your course notes
on fixed and variable inputs may be helpful here.)
b. Which of the companies’ inputs are variable inputs? In other words, suppose the companies
wanted to produce more or less than they had been. For which inputs could the quantity used
be easily changed in a relatively short amount of time, such as a month?
c. Which of the companies’ inputs are fixed inputs? That is, for which inputs, can the quantity
used not be changed in a relatively short amount of time?

Question 3
a. What is the businesses’ largest expense per month? (Be specific; “operations” and “sales and
administration” are not satisfactory answers.)
b. How many employees do the companies have?

Question 4
a. With whom do the companies compete? Be specific.
b. Does the companies’ product(s)/service(s) differ from that of their competitors and, if so,
how?

Question 5
a. What do the companies do well?
b. What do the companies not do well? (Even in well-run organizations, there is room for
improvement.)

Answer 1

(1a) A non- specific and briad name provides company with a flexibility to turn towards new product or markets in the future.Besides it even leaves space for the company to change the definition or its rangevof oroducts or services A business name should to be unique with a catchy, creative and destrictive name for our business.

(1b) A share holders are the joint owbers if the company because ,he/she acceot the businesd risk in real sense they are the reak iwners of the businese.

(1c)6basic financual ratio

1. Working caoital ratio

2Quick ratio

3 Earning ratio

4 Price earning ratio

5 Return on equity

6 Bottm line ratio

(2a) Fuxed inputs are thise that credit can't easily be increased or decreased un a short period of time in the pizza exa- the building is fixed input.Fixed input di not change ad output changes variable inputs are those that can easily be uncreased or decreased in a short period of time.

(2b) An input whose quantity can be changed in the time period under consideration .The most common example of variable input is a labour .labour varuable inputs provide the means used by a firm to control shirt run production (2c) The most common example of fixed input us capital. The alternative to fixed input is a variable input.A fixed input such as capital provides the capicity constraint fir the short run oroduction of a firm.