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A 4 page paper comparing the state of business at these two companies in late 2004, for the purpose of determining whether the companies’ management teams are enhancing shareholder value. Outback continues its steady growth and healthy increases attributable to pioneering takeout service in its segment of the restaurant industry. In contrast, GM has just announced the latest round of recalls, bringing the YTD total for 2004 in early November to 10.5 million vehicles. The paper compares selected financial ratios to conclude that Outback management is enhancing shareholder value; GM is not. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSmgmtGMoutB.rtf
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There is a decidedly non-technical term that physicians use for dying patients, those who have no single obvious reason for entering and remaining in a downward spiral,
but who are moving inexorably closer to death with each passing day. The term that physicians collectively use for those varying contributors to physical decline is "the dwindles," meaning
that the patient simply "dwindles" away. American icon General Motors is far from death, but it does appear to have entered an early "dwindle" phase. It will need
to take active measures to extricate itself. General Motors Once the worlds largest company, GM has been replaced in that distinction by Wal-Mart.
It remains the worlds largest auto maker (Smith, 2004), but it seems bound to throw off that title as well. On November 4, 2004, GM announced its latest
round of recalls, affecting "950,000 Chevy, GMC, Oldsmobile, and Buick SUVs from model years 2002-2004, as well as nearly 550,000 Chevy, Pontiac and Oldsmobile sedans and a relative handful (about
6,000) Cadillacs and Corvettes" (Smith, 2004). Recalls in the auto industry is nothing new, and the word "recall" itself offers little explanation about the breadth of the problems that
have spurred the manufacturer to bring them all back in for additional - factory paid - work. The problem with this particular recall is that it is only the
latest in a long line of recalls. It brings to 10.5 million the number of vehicles that GM has recalled to date in 2004 alone (Smith, 2004).
The latest recall of 1.5 million vehicles totals more than three months total sales for GM. By extension, the concept of 10.5 million reduces
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