Assignment: Wal-Mart Company and Amazon
The companies have followed their success to the goals emphasized in its image by coming up with an ideal vision which motivates them to be the best retailer in the minds and hearts of its clients and employee. Hence the company stands to achieve better goals and position in the world of business. Referring to their current stands the company has maintained the best retailer thus pointing out its mission to the people who are relevant to the company such as clients and employees. Due to this, the company has influenced the minds of the workers and customers by financial benefits while the employees earn salary the clients save some cash through Wal-Mart's low price through the center part of the company's vision that stands to be proven (Palepu, & Healy, 2013).
How the risks and the approaches to anticipate these risks differ for each company
Risk premium where the company attracts more investors to invest more funds into a precarious project. The returns from the investments are required to be greater in comparison to the profits from the low risky ventures, i.e. treasury bonds since the numerous investors avoid risks hence a premium risk to the is a discount which will be included to the free risk rate of financing.
Certainty equivalent: When evaluating ventures, future cash flows estimated with the aid of probability measures such as predicting methods and such techniques do not provide an actual view of future occurrences and to avoid uncertainty there is need to convert anticipated future cash flows into actual cash flows.
Responsiveness analysis: Factors like sales influence a venture's return on investment, tax rate, cost of sales and investments thus sensation analysis evaluates the extent at which the investor's cash flows vary about changes in one of these factors.
Payback period: The duration taken for a venture to pay back the amount of money invested in an issue of apprehension to the investor since an investor sets a time limit within which he/she expects to get the returns. More financial risks are involved in exporting: It requires much modification of products to fit into the diverse culture of the foreign countries, obtaining reliable information on international markets is unquestionably more difficult, leads to the diversification of exporting firms, and lowers per unit costs and Creates potential for company expansion (Kopp, Kaffenberger, & Jenkinson, 2017).
Protection: The company's security is tranquil a contentious matter in Mexico despite the fact that the North American Free Trade Agreement that has gone to the extent of rectifying some of the precedent issues that took place in this nation
Paying taxes: Actually, this is a laborious activity in Mexico since it involves taking approximately three hundred and thirty-seven hours of business time annually even though there are only six payments to be made and this may negatively impact a business.
Finally, Strategy formulation which involves putting all forces into its place before an action takes place in an organization strategy and strategy implementation which focuses on managing those forces formed during strategy formulation in the execution process.
References
Kopp, E., Kaffenberger, L. & Jenkinson, N. (2017). Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability. Washington, D.C: International Monetary Fund.
Palepu, K. & Healy, P. (2013). Business analysis & valuation: using financial statements. Mason, OH, USA: South-Western, Cencage Learning.
INSTRUCTORS RESPONSE:
Would you see the possibility of a merger between these two industry giants. Could Walmart become the storage and distribution channel for Amazon?