Anna Amphlett, financial analyst at Textron Corporation, was proposed by the controller to compare the company's recent financial performance compared to competitors in the aerospace and defense industry. Top management plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the company's supply chain and its future working capital requirements. Textron impressive growth in stock prices over the last five years, but top management is particularly interested in understanding the company's significant investment in net working capital for the same period. In conducting tests Textron, in Amphlett also necessary to consider what to do with the method of accounting for the differences between the companies in the aerospace and defense industry, as they can have a significant impact on the interpretation of the differences in performance were reported.
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by Graeme Rankine Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management 15 pages. Publication Date: 09 Sep 2008. Prod. #: TB0043-PDF-ENG
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