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Essay Instructions: FedEx Corporation

Complete the following exercise (Research and Application 11-30) and submit to your instructor.

The questions in this exercise are based on FedEx Corporation. To answer the questions you will need to download FedEx?s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2005 (file date July 14, 2005). You do not need to print this document to answer the questions.

Required:

What is FedEx?s strategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely primarily on a customer intimacy, operations excellence, or product leadership customer value proposition? What evidence supports your conclusion?
What are FedEx?s four main business segments? Provide two examples of traceable fixed costs for each of FedEx?s four business segments. Provide two examples of common costs that are not traceable to the four business segments.
Identify one example of a cost center, a profit center, and an investment center for FedEx.
Provide three examples of fixed costs that can be traceable or common depending on how FedEx defines its business segments.
Compute the margin, turnover, and return on investment (ROI) in 2005 for each of FedEx?s four business segments (Hint: page 99 reports total segment assets for each business segment.)
Assume that FedEx established a minimum required rate of return of 15% for each of its business segments. Compute the residual income earned in 2005 in each of FedEx?s four segments.
Assume that the senior managers of FedEx Express and FedEx Ground each have an investment opportunity that would require $20 million of additional operating assets and that would increase operating income by $4 million. If FedEx evaluates all of its senior managers using ROI, would the managers of both segments pursue the investment opportunity? If FedEx evaluates all of its senior managers using residual income, would the managers of both segments pursue the investment opportunity?

Book we are using; Noreen, E., Brewer, P. and Garrison, R. (2011). Managerial Accounting for Managers. McGraw Hill Irwin. New York.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Essay Instructions: FedEx Corporation

Complete the following exercise (Research and Application 11-30) and submit to your instructor.
The questions in this exercise are based on FedEx Corporation. To answer the questions you will need to download FedEx?s Form 10-K (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048911//a05-11806_110k.htm) for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2005 (file date July 14, 2005). You do not need to print this document to answer the questions.
Required:
? What is FedEx?s strategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely primarily on a customer intimacy, operations excellence, or product leadership customer value proposition? What evidence supports your conclusion?
? What are FedEx?s four main business segments? Provide two examples of traceable fixed costs for each of FedEx?s four business segments. Provide two examples of common costs that are not traceable to the four business segments.
? Identify one example of a cost center, a profit center, and an investment center for FedEx.
? Provide three examples of fixed costs that can be traceable or common depending on how FedEx defines its business segments.
? Compute the margin, turnover, and return on investment (ROI) in 2005 for each of FedEx?s four business segments (Hint: page 99 reports total segment assets for each business segment.)
? Assume that FedEx established a minimum required rate of return of 15% for each of its business segments. Compute the residual income earned in 2005 in each of FedEx?s four segments.
? Assume that the senior managers of FedEx Express and FedEx Ground each have an investment opportunity that would require $20 million of additional operating assets and that would increase operating income by $4 million. If FedEx evaluates all of its senior managers using ROI, would the managers of both segments pursue the investment opportunity? If FedEx evaluates all of its senior managers using residual income, would the managers of both segments pursue the investment opportunity?

Essay Instructions: The paper should detail how FEDEX uses Information Technology (IT) to affect the bottom line. Make sure you cover what the company is doing to keep their systems secure. The ultimate goal of this paper is to detail how FEDEX is using Information Technology to become faster, more efficient, and in general, gain a competitive advantage over their competition.

Essay Instructions: I need a paper on FedEx Corp. and their affect on globalization over the last five years.

Resources should be reliable and current and be based on facts. I will provide resources including FEDEx website FedEx History About FedEx 3.mht and Wikileak thttp://www.wikinvest.com/stock/FedEx_(FDX)/Topich which may be of some use. Any other that you may find, can serve as resources. Please make sure to cite resources appropriately and please NO PLAGERISM!

The paper should focus on Fed EXPRESS and their full Service Shipment industry and should contain the following headings.

An introduction with information on current CEO and what FedEx is currently doing, Fed Ex Express industry, current major competitors, a ompany overview of all products and services, and strategic Challenges, competitive advantages, and compentencies.

Should include graphs, market shares, and financial data that relates to their success as compared to their competitors.