The 3 percent decline in sales causing a 21 percent decline in profits can be attributed to the identification of the accounting concept of operating leverage. Operating leverage is what business managers apply to boost small changes in revenue into sizable changes in profitability. Fixed cost is the force managers use to attain disproportionate changes between revenue and profitability. Therefore, when all costs are fixed every sales dollar contributes one dollar toward the potential profitability of a project. Once sales dollars cover fixed costs, each additional sales dollar represents pure profit. A small change in sales volume can significantly affect profitability (Edmonds, Tsay, & Olds, 2011). So, therefore, if sales volume increases, …show more content…
The concept is useful when a significant proportion of sales are at risk of a decreasing, which may be the case when a sales contract is coming to an end. Therefore, a small margin of safety might prompt measures in which to reduce expenses. Margin of safety is especially useful in situations where huge segments of a company 's sales are at risk, such as when they are tied up in a single customer contract that may be canceled. In the case of Home Depot’s situation, as its revenue fell during the first six months of 2007, some of its costs probably fell as well; an example would be cost of goods sold. So for instance, if Home Depot was selling fewer goods, than it was purchasing hardly any goods as well. A prime example of how the decline in sales affected Home Depot’s margin of safety is with the depreciation charge for its stores and warehouses would probably not decrease as revenue fell, since these costs are fixed in connection to sales volume. Furthermore, not all costs are decreasing as sales decline, total expenses as a percentage of sales are rising, causing the percentage change in net earnings to decline faster than the percentage decline in sales. Unless there is some major change in a company’s fixed cost structure, a decrease in a company’s sales means that its net earnings will be closer to its break-even point, effectively lowering its margin of safety. LIkewise, margin of safety is the difference between budgeted sales and the break-even point, not actual sales and break-even sales. Thus, if Home Depot did not change its budgeted sales, one might contend that its margin of safety did not change, but realistically it has a lower margin of safety due to the lower
Sales growth after 2000 were only 9%, which the average annual sale growth rates range from 10% to 30% in their industry. The lack of cash is explained by the current liquidity ratio
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The company I have chosen to research for my final paper is Home Depot. Home Depot’s principal assets, debt and stock information as of January 30, 2001 are as follows: (amounts in millions, except stock)
Masters Home Improvement is an Australian home improvement chain that started the market in 2011, and it is managed by the joint venture between Woolworths Limited and Lowe’s, USA in order to create an opportunity for Woolworths Limited to expand its market. Bunnings is the market leader in this industry who gains 64% of total market share, followed by Mitre 10 with 13.0%, and Masters with 8.0% of market share (The Australian, 2016). The company’s revenue continuous increased since they started the business in 2011 to 2014, they gained total revenue around $1527 million in 2014 (Woolworths, 2015) but the company still got loss from their operation expenses. Moreover, the sales dropped
For this analysis we have chosen Home Depot Incorporated a home improvement retailer. It primary clients are professional “professional remodelers, general contractors, repairmen, small business owners, and tradesmen” (Yahoo Finance, 2015). In addition Home Depot sub contracts installations to third parties (Yahoo Finance, 2015). Home Depot has 2,270 stores in the US and international stores located in Mexico and Canada (Yahoo Finance 2015).
Home Depot Management and Leadership. Management is defined as the act or manner of managing, handling, direction, or control (dictionary.com). Leadership is defined as an act or instance of leading; guidance; direction (dictionary.com). They do not mean the same thing; however, it is thought that a manager should have leadership skills to be able to manage an organization. Not all managers have great leadership skills, and just because a manager does not have these skills does not mean he or she is a bad manager.
Home Depot is the brainchild of Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank and came about after both men lost their job in the home improvement industry in 1978 (Parnell, 2014). Home Depot has acquired several smaller home improvement stores in both the U.S. and abroad through the years which enabled it to position itself as the world’s largest home improvement chain (Parnell, 2014). Home Depot focuses on the do-it-yourself segment of the market and sells sells tools, construction products and services. Marketing is a strong point for the company. They are able to maintain a competitive advantage by keeping themselves available to their customers at all times. Home Depot has been using both online and offline marketing efforts. The internet has become a very useful tool for the company and part of the reason that they are leading the market in DIY stores. Home Depot currently provides DIY videos on YouTube and Vine that cover current topics that consumers are likely to be interested in. They also have social media pages on Facebook and Twitter, where they have a huge following. They provide online communities where actual employees answer consumer’s questions and provide assistance on
When I worked for The Home Depot we had a lot of walk and talk meetings. Most of are communication with managers or department head were done on the way to do something else. These meetings where limited to only a handful of participants and there should still be a purpose for the meetings to not waste people’s time. The most unique meetings I have ever attended were The Home Depot’s store meetings. We would take the main lumber aisle, uses upside down Home Depot buckets and 6”x8’ pieces of lumber to make benches, for the stage we would use a medium sized store ladder. This was a great work out because we had to set up the benches before the meeting and put it all back after. I found these meetings to have great team building benefits as well.
The Home Depot learned the hard way that you must hire a leader that will stay true to the core values. The leader’s ethics and values will play a huge role in determining if the company will succeed or fail. The founders of The Home Depot built a culture on the foundation of respect, integrity, and compassion. The culture and customer service under the influence of the admired founders prospered.
A1: Dollar General's main business strategy is to focus on being the leading distributors of consumable basics, with 30% of the merchandise at $1.00 or less. Dollar General believes in maintaining an assortment of consumable merchandise and making shopping for everyday items hassle free and simplistic.
From a P&L standpoint, a dollar saved in vendor cost is reflected as a dollar increase in profit (and cash on hand) where as a dollar increase in sales is only marginally reflected in profit once you subtract operating cost:
The purpose of this essay is analyze the case of IKEA, which has involved in the HR management. Meanwhile, choose two topics to identify the IKEA current situation, including training and development and cross-cultural management. From those two points, give some forward suggestions on the IKEA HR management practice.
The benefits of these assumptions are that while maintaining the current growth rate of 13%; we can maintain our COGS. One of the major factors contributing to the firm’s poor profit margin is operating expenses.
Once Home Depot’s marketing plan contains a thorough description of the scissor lift, it will then focus on the branding, pricing, and distribution of the lift. The plan will also need to include a product branding and pricing strategy, as well as examine how the pricing strategy supports the branding strategy. In addition, Home Depot will prepare a distribution channel analysis from which it will create a distribution strategy, determine whether the company is going to use a push or a pull strategy, and how the distribution strategy fits the product.
Every company has some kind of Revenue and they all have costs that are associated with running the company. It is also true that if a company wants to increase their Revenue, their costs will increase too. It is every company’s goal to maximize revenue and either through Production or Services, and minimize cost. These things are easy to figure out, but actually identifying the production and figuring out how it will increase or decrease with change is very difficult.