Problem: Review the Heinz Company income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to determine the financial health of the company. Be sure to compare Heinz to at least two other companies in the industry. Be sure to answer the following:
- What have you learned about the company by reviewing each statement?
- Is there information in any of these statements that concerns you? If so describe what it is and what it concerns.
- How can management use this information moving forward?
Summarize the company's financial health. How does it compare to other companies in the industry?
Include a summary of the company's technological advantages, or lack thereof, in comparison to at least two other companies in the same industry.
Describe how globalization has affected the company's business strategies.
Conduct a benchmarking analysis. Be sure your analysis includes the following in comparison with other companies in the same industry:
- Best practices
- Operational processes and procedures
- Products or services