Business Essays

Over the years, more enhancements were made to the cash registers until the early 1970s, when the first computer-driven cash registers were introduced. The first computer-driven cash registers were basically a mainframe computer packaged as a store controller that could control certain registers. These point of sale systems were the …

Sunset Boards is a small company that manufactures and sells surfboards in Malibu. Tad Marks, the founder of the company, is in charge of the design and sale of the surfboards, but his background is in surfing, not business. As a result, the company’s financial records are not well maintained. …

1. Introduction Thirty years ago, most financial accounting was done manually, leading to a great deal of paperwork. Currently, most accounting information is recorded via computers and wide area networks (Journal of Accountancy, 1994a). Technology has certainly changed the face of accounting over the years. While it is unclear whether …

Facebook is the most popular and widely used social networking site in today’s society. Social networking sites have increasingly become popular over the last few years, with new sites emerging every day. Facebook meets the three criteria needed in order to be coined a social networking site. According to class …

The ideas of IDEO and Handspring were different from one another in terms of development and time frame. Additionally, IDEO was working on products directly competitive to one another with the projects assigned by 3com and Handspring. The primary issue in the IDEO Product Development case is the question of …

COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS  BMW being a premium car manufacturing company has its major competitors drawn from the high end manufacturers in the Automobile manufacturing industry. Among the major direct competitors that BMW and the new car (Z3) faces in the market include: Mercedes C-class range, Porsche boxsters, Acura RL, Lexus, Volvo, …

A strategic architecture and strategic planning are crucial elements of successful company’s performance and development. They involve deciding upon the major goals of an organiza­tion and what policies will be used to achieve them. It involves a longer time period and relies on more unreliable long-term forecasts and occurs at …

Executive Summary The Brita Products Company (Brita) operates in high dynamic environment which requires continuous optimization of a product mix and new ways to attract customers. Price competition, backed by improved efficiency, is the main feature of this home water filtration industry today. Pitcher and faucet systems retailers fight for …

Abstract This paper describes the methods used by the Toyota and Daewoo car industry during the Asian crisis of the year 1997. Toyota and Daewoo are the names of two renowned major firms in the car industry. They have accomplished years of successful business, which was interrupted by the Asian …

Several years ago, the Philippine automotive industry was quite small in terms of share in value added in manufactuing, the number of players and its production if compared to countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. But this did not end there, from then on the automotive industry started to continuing …