Answer:
1. What amounts did Target report for the following items for the year ended January 30, 2016?
b) Income from current operations
$2,669 million
c) Net income or net loss
$2,737 million
d) Total assets
$37,431 million
e) Total equity
$10,953
2) What was Target’s basic earnings per share for the year ended January 30, 2016?
$4.74 per share
Why do you think Target has chosen to have its fiscal year end on January 30, as opposed to December 31?
I guess that Christmas Holiday season is very important for them and a large percentage of their revenue is generated during November and December. It reports at the end of January to have time to consolidate its financial statements.
3) Regarding Target’s audit report:
Who is Target’s auditor?
Ernst & Young
Did Target receive a "clean" (unmodified) audit opinion?
yes, it did
Answer:
11%
Explanation:
To address this exercise, we need to recall the formula for dividend discounted model (DDM). The DDM is stated as below:
Stock intrinsic value = Next year dividend/(Required rate of return - Long term growth)
Rearrange a bit this formula, we have:
Next year dividend/Stock intrinsic value = Required rate of return - Long term growth, or
Dividend yield = Required rate of return - Long term growth
Putting all the number together, we have:
6.4% = Required rate of return - 4.6% or Required rate of return = 11%
Answer: 4. a consumer electronics company popular among price-conscious customers.
Explanation: Companies who thread a cost-leadership strategy or path could be said to be 'price-centric', that is gives price huge cognizance and will strive to be a market or industry leader when it comes to giving best and most affordable prices on products.
Thus, since Airbase follows a cost leadership strategy and also popular among consumers for its affordable devices, it should also weigh or compare it's strategy to other consumer electronics company which is popular among consumers which gives cognizance to price of products they purchase.
Answer:
c. A magazine ad that asks you to call a toll-free number for more information
Explanation:
The direct response print advertising is the advertising in which the customer get the immediate response from the advertiser about the advertisement in which the customer has an interest
Since in the given situation, the third options reflects the direct response print advertising in which the customer called the toll free information and immediately he or she get the response from the advertiser
