The workings of mergers and acquisitions
Case study - 7 pages - Finance
The fever of mergers and acquisitions reigns over the big, world companies (American, European etc.). Billions of dollars are exchanged every day from hand to hand. Oil, Hi-tech, pharmacy, banks, insurance, aeronautics, everywhere companies are merging. To be efficient a merger must bring some...
Gus Van Sant vs. Johnny Depp
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
I am the new Chief financial officer of a US film studio and i have to make recommendations on four projects in order to produce a profitable movie. Firstly, i am going to calculate Net Present Value for each scenario because i have to make a selection. Indeed, i must determine the negative and...
Reporting analysis: Daimler-Chrysler (1998-2006)
Case study - 32 pages - Finance
We assume for the analysis of the group that the impact of IFRS in year 2004 is insignificant given that IFRS and US GAAP are closed. Moreover a complete analysis was impossible given that we didn't have all the figures before 2004. From 1998 to 2006 we can see that inventories increased from...
LEGO Group vs. MATTEL Inc.
Case study - 19 pages - Finance
The gross profit margin ratio measures the profitability (or gross profit margin) that is generated from each dollar of sales. Profit margin is very useful when comparing companies in similar industries. A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control over its...
The ethical problems linked to hostile acquisitions ? Example of Mittal/Arcelor
Case study - 17 pages - Finance
Since 2004, I have been particularly interested in finance and more precisely in the 'stock market world'. This is why I wanted a topic related to finance. My topic can be summarized in this sentence, 'The ethical problems linked to hostile acquisitions'. Instead of acquisitions,...
Financial Advertising
Case study - 18 pages - Finance
Financial advertising generally refers to two different topics. Indeed, on one hand, it concerns the financial information published by big companies specialized in different branch industries,and, on the other hand, the advertising made by specific financial businesses such as banks, or...
Strategies of expansion at the time of deceleration: The case of LVMH
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
The year 2004 represented one of the best year that the world economy has experienced since the beginning of the millennium. Indeed the growth of the Gross World Product (GWP) has increased by 4 per cent in 2004 compared to only 2.8 per cent in 2003. However this high rate of growth in 2004 can...
The Kent-Smirnoff Project
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
In his big building of Metropolis, Clark KENT is working on the last reports of his latest foreign investments, when he receives a call from Igor Smirnoff, an old friend from HEC Paris. Igor owns a foodstuff distribution network in Russia, and offers Clark to enter into a new business. He is...
Virgin Mobil's proposed takeover by NTL
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
NTL proposed a £871 m takeover of Virgin mobile but was rejected, then a second proposition was made at £961 m. On the 3rd of April they announced a total of $1.66 billion for Virgin Mobile. The negotiation will be ready to receive both cash and NTL shares in a deal. Virgin Mobile will have a...
The case of H&M and inditex - publié le 14/09/2007
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) dates back its formation to 1973. It was however restructured in 2001 when the name was changed to ?The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)'. The IASB is an independent private sector body. The prime objective of the IASB is...
Business Model of comScore Inc.
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
• Providing information to clients that will help them to make more intelligent business decisions • Offering consumer behavioral information that can be strategically used to improve business effectiveness • Offering detailed and intimate information on consumers that allows...
France Telecom - Company analysis
Case study - 13 pages - Finance
France Telecom is a communications access provider offering customers access through multiple platforms: France Telecom has its presence in four business sectors. It is the first telecommunication service provider in France. (under the brand France Telecom). It is also the first mobile service...
Managerial accounting: Decathlon
Case study - 9 pages - Finance
Since 1976, Decathlon has been the largest trade name in the distribution of sport articles in France and today is one of largest in Europe. Decathlon also kept in-house control of its logistic and data-processing activities. Michel Leclercq started this company in the year 1976. In 1986,...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of the...
The tend offer on Marionnaud
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
Bernard Marionnaud is a family company. It is the history of Marcel Frydman (73 years old) who decided 20 years ago to buy a perfume shop for his wife with only 100 000 Francs. But he realised after a while that he was very interested in this shop and desired to buy some others to make more...
Study of the Eurotunnel Group combined accounts. For the year ended December 31st, 2001
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
The Combined Accounts consist of the combination of the accounts of the EPLC Group and of ESA and its subsidiaries as set out in the table below.( Eurotunnel PLC, Eurotunnel SA and their subsidiaries collectively make up the Eurotunnel Group ) These Combined Accounts have been prepared on the...
The Enron Affair
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
In just 15 years, Enron grew to become the 7th largest US Company, employing 21,000 people in more than 40 countries across the US, UK, Asia. Enron had transformed itself from a local natural gas company into a swashbuckling energy trader. Enron established new methods of trading in energy, using...
