Financial Initiatives That Wal Mart's Essay

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This is one of the reasons the ROI is likely to remains partially unaffected by the crisis.

These considerations become clearer if one studies the figures that are presented in the Wal Mart annual report. In 2009, ROI was 19.3%, a very small decrease from the 19.6% in 2008, showing how well Wal Mart continued to efficiently operate its assets. The explanation of the reasonably stable values of the ROI was that the operating income increased in 2009 from 2008 by the similar amount as in the period from 2007 to 2008, consolidating the view according to which the company was relatively not affected by the economic crisis.

At the same time, the operating income also grew faster than the net sales, which shows the efficiency of current management in dealing with cost management and level of expenses.
This trend was especially clear on the U.S. market, mainly because the international market also needs to take into consideration additional variables, such as, notably, the foreign exchange fluctuations.

The focus on ROI will most likely continue in the next period of time and will contain similar elements, such as investing in technology in order to make the retail and supply chain management more efficient. This clearly translates in the ability of the company to provide cheap products for its clients, increasing thus the operating income because of controllable expenses. This will in turn also….....

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