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purchase products seamlessly in stores, online, or through mobile devices. Most of its opera- Target Corporation operates in a single business segment that is designed to enable guests to tions are in the United States. Walmart is engaged in the operation of retail, wholesale, and other units located throughout the United States, Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. The Company's operations are conducted in three reportable segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club. CASES C11-1 Target Corporation and Walmart Stores, Inc.: Identifying depreciation dif- ferences and performing financial statement analysis (LO 11-8)

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is one of the largest Internet retailers in the world. Target Corporation (TGT) is one of the largest value-priced general merchandisers operating in the L'nited States. Target sells through nearly 1,800 brick-and-mortar stores and through the Internet. Amazon and Target compete for customers across a wide variety of products, including media, general merchandise, apparel, and consumer electronics. Cost of goods sold and inventory information from a recent annual report are provided for both companies as follows (in millions): a. Compute the inventory turnover far both companies. Round all calculations to one decimal place.b. Compute the number of days' sales in inventory for both companies. Use 365 days and round all calculations to one decimal place.c. - Which company has the better inventory efficiency?d. What might explain the difference in inventory efficiency between the two companies?

GREEN POND NURSERY (STAND ALONE PC-BASED ACCOUNTINGSYSTEM)Green Pond Nursery Supply (GPNS) is a garden center wholesaler in eastern Pennsylvania that sells and distributes a wide range of garden products and equipment including organic fertilizers, premium flower and grass seeds, organic pesticides, and gar den spreaders. GPNS's customers are primarily small garden centers and landscape companies in the Mid-Atlantic states. Sales are on credit.GPNS's current information system includes manual procedures supported by independent (non networked) PCs in each department. Communications between departments are entirely through hard-copy documents. Recently, GPNS has been receiving complaints from suppliers regarding payment errors. Management believes that these com plaints stem, in part, from their antiquated computer system. You have been hired to assess GPNS's procedures and internal controls. The following is a description of GPNS's expenditure cycle.Purchasing ProcessThe purchasing…

Banking, Strategy; Skills A large U.S.-based commercial bank with global operations recentlyinitiated a new program for recruiting recent college graduates into the financial function of the bank.These new hires will initially be involved in a variety of financial functions, including transactionsprocessing, control, risk management, business performance reporting, new business analysis, andfinancial analysis. Recognizing that they are competing with many other banks for the relativelysmall number of qualified graduates, the bank has assigned you to develop a skills statement to beused in college recruiting as well as an in-house training program for new hires. You have some oldtraining manuals and recruiting guides to assist you, but your boss advises you not to use them andto instead start with a fresh page. The reason for developing new materials is that the bank recentlyreorganized based on new management methods.Required1. Briefly explain 8 to 10 critical success factors for this…

1. Anna Financial Services Inc., located in Araneta Center, Cubao City, is a company that provides financial advice to individuals and small to mid-sized businesses. Its primary operations are in wealth management and financial advice. Each client has an account where basic personal information is stored on a server within the main office in Cubao City. The company also keeps the information about the amount of investment of each client on a separate server at its data center in Ayala, Makati City. This information includes the total value of the portfolio, type of investments made, the income structure of each client, and associated tax liabilities. In the last few years, larger commercial banks have started providing such services and are competing for the same set of customers. Anna, which prides itself in personal consumer relations, is now trying to set up additional services to keep its current customers. It has recently upgraded its Website, which formerly only allowed clients…

Aubree Multinational Corporation is a large manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceuticalsupplies. It is based in the United States (New York-Headquarters), Trinidad, Jamaica and theUnited Kingdom. It sends supplies to various companies throughout the four countries. It marketsits supplies through periodic mass mailings of catalogues to those companies. Its clients can alsomake orders over the phone and they ship the supplies upon demand.The main competition for Aubree Multinational Corporation in the United States comes from oneU.S. firm and one Canadian firm. A British firm has a small share of the U.S. market but is at adisadvantage because of its distance. The British firm’s marketing and transportation costs in theU.S. market are relatively high. In Jamaica and Trinidad, they have approximately 80% of themarket share.a) Aubree Multinational Corporation plans to penetrate either the Canadian market or two otherCaribbean Countries (Haiti and Guyana). What factors deserve to be…