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Apple INC.: MANAGING A GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN. Case Study

1. Financial analysis. Conduct a thorough financial analysis.

Objectives

The objectives of the financial analysis of a company in the case analysis are:

1. To establish the current financial health of the company using data provided in the case.

2. To use conclusions from the financial analysis as one of the metrics to establish whether the company's strategy has been a success.

3. To draw conclusions from the financial analysis about whether the financials rate a constraint on future strategic growth or whether the financials are a facilitator for enhancing future growth.

Ratio Analysis

Profitability, Liquidity, Leverage, and Activity ratios are important, especially the Current Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio. Different industries have different activity ratios that are important, for example, Retail - inventory turnover, sales/square foot; Airlines - cost/seat mile. Identify the activity ratio for the industry covered by the case. Other ratios that may be important: Dividend payout; P/E Some ratios are more relevant if you have the industry ratios

A Y = Ar 4 By 4 0x 1 - Applying the state space theories to determine the transition matrix & this system. show steps in detail.State-space equation of a linear autonomous system are given below -5/3 4/3 a x ( t ) = - 1/ 3 0 7/3 O - 2 a ) find the eat state transition matrix of system by the Lapalace transform b ) find the At state transition matrix of system with the Cayley - Hamilton Theorem ( ) find the efit state transition matrix of system using eigenvectorsWith the advent of analytics, we are seeing a "paradigm shift" in decision making, moving from 2. data-driven to intuition-driven decision making 4. intuition-driven to data-driven decision making 6. computer-assisted to human-driven decision making 8. intuition-driven to experience-driven decision making