首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Yet with economies in free fall, managers also need up-to-date information about what is happening to their businesses, so that
Yet with economies in free fall, managers also need up-to-date information about what is happening to their businesses, so that
admin
2014-06-30
30
问题
Yet with economies in free fall, managers also need up-to-date information about what is happening to their businesses, so that they can change course rapidly if necessary. Cisco, an American network-equipment giant, has invested over many years in the technology needed to generate such data.
Frank Calderoni, the firm’s CFO, says that every day its senior executives can track exactly what orders are coming in from sales teams around the world, and identify emerging trends in each region and market segment. And at the end of each month, the firm can get reliable financial results within four hours of closing its books. Most firms have to wait days or even weeks for such certainty.
Admittedly, Cisco’s financial results have not made happy reading recently because, in common with many other large technology companies, it has seen demand for its products decline in the downturn. In early February it announced that its fiscal second-quarter revenues of $9.1 billion were 7. 5% lower than the same period in 2008 and that its profit had fallen by 27% , to $1.5 billion.
In response to hard times, Cisco plans to cut $ 1 billion of costs this year by, among other things, making use of its own video-conferencing and other communications technologies to reduce the amount its executives travel. It is also using these facilities to relay information from employees on the ground to its senior managers, and to get instructions from Cisco’s leaders back out to its 67, 000 staff. A rapid exchange of information and instructions is especially valuable if the company wants to alter course in stormy times.
If everybody in a company can rapidly grasp what they have to do and how it is changing, they are more likely to get the job done. But some firms are reluctant to share their goals with the wider world. Unilever, a big Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods group, has decided against issuing a 2009 financial forecast to investors, arguing that it is difficult to predict what is going to happen, given the dangerous state of the world economy. " We’re not just going to provide numbers for the sake of it," explains James Allison, the company’s head of investor relations. Other companies that have decided not to provide annual earnings estimates for 2009 include Costco, a big American retailer, and Union Pacific, an American railway company.
Some firms, such as Intel, seem to have chosen to take things quarter by quarter. The giant chipmaker(芯片制造商)said in January that it would not issue an official forecast for the first quarter of 2009 after its fourth-quarter 2008 profit decreased by 90% . Several retail chains have also stopped providing monthly sales estimates because they cannot see what the future holds. Retailers, chipmakers and firms in many other industries may have a long wait before the economic fog finally lifts.
The reason Unilever plans not to issue financial forecast in 2009 lies in______.
选项
A、its reluctance to share its goal with others
B、its rapid grasp of changes in the markets
C、the unstable economic situation
D、its reduction in the cost of prediction
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。由定位句可知,联合利华不计划发布其2009年的财务预测的原因是:面临世界经济动荡的不安局势,一切事情都很难预测。可见他们不发布预测就是因为世界经济不稳定(unstable economicsituation),C)符合题意。第四段第二句提到But some firms are reluctant to share their goals with thewider world,然后举出了联合利华的例子,可见后者只是前者的补充说明,不是因果关系,故排除A);由定位句可知,目前很难预测将要发生的事情,因此该公司不能很快掌握市场的变化形势,故排除B);D)在文中未提及。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/od17777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
RecessionFuelsShiftfromPrivatetoPublicSchoolsWhenthefamilybudgetstartedfeelingtherecession’spinchlastyear,
A、Hispoormemory.B、Hisfatigue.C、Hislackofdiligence.D、Hismethod.D女士说“练习的方法比练习的次数更重要”,故选D。
A、Africansarenotverybraveandresourceful.B、Thereisnotreatmentorhealthcarecenteratall.C、Therewerenoeffectivepr
ThinkorSwim:CanWeHoldBacktheOceans?Astheworldgetswarmer,sealevelsarerising.Ithasbeenhappeningatasnai
BoththeSenateandHousehealthcarebillsproposeincentivestoboostcorporatewellnessprogramsthataimtohelpemployeess
A、Administrativenews.B、Generalsocialconcerns.C、Financialnews.D、Localnews.C男士说,他喜欢写文章,并且想根据自己所知的商业知识撰写金融新闻。选C。
中国新的老年人保护法规定,成年子女必须看望他们年迈的父母。年迈的父母如果感觉被忽视了。可以把他们已成年的孩子告上法庭。法律没有说明子女必须看望父母的频率。法律中也没有说如何执行这项法律,忽略长辈如何惩罚。中国的老年人口增长迅速,由于独生子女政策(theo
A、Itincreasedthestudents’whitebloodcell.B、Itincreasedsomestudents’energylevel.C、Itimprovedthestudents’abilityt
Welcome,Freshmen.HaveaniPod.Takingastepthatmanyprofessorsmayviewasabitcounterproductive,somecollegesandu
A、Thinkingaboutsomethingelse.B、Talkingaboutitwithfriends.C、Tellingsomeoneatworkyoutrust.D、Writingdownthefeelin
随机试题
2013年11月,A省金融机构存款余额(人民币)环比增长约为()。
举例说明哪些复句不能直接变换成句群,哪些句群不能直接变换成复句。
西周的礼治建立的基础是()
A.氢键B.肽键C.次级键D.肽键平面E.氨基酸残基蛋白质分子构象的结构单元是
中国药典规定“室温”系指
下列哪一情形不能引起必要共同诉讼?
关于交通肇事罪,下列论述正确的是()。
下列有关格式条款的表述中,错误的有()。
村民委员会主任、副主任和委员,由本村党员直接选举产生。()
Ofallthecomponentsofagoodnight’ssleep,dreamsseemtobeleastwithinourcontrol.Indreams,awindowopensintoaworl
最新回复
(
0
)