H & R Block Executive Summary

Target Corporation is an evolving company. Target has great expectations for its future. For the year 2015, Target aims to expand its experience in order to effectively alter their customer’s expectations and shopping behavior. Target’s industry outlook starts with opening fifteen new stores for the year. The strategic store growth plans focus on localization and customer experience. Target will establish new store formats such as TargetExpress and CityTarget, while also offering new experiences, merchandising layouts and innovations in its general merchandising stores. (Target.com) The retailer’s TargetExpress is the smallest store format at approximately 20,000 square feet and aims to provide customers with effective quick trip shopping experience.

CVS is a company that has been around for over fifty years and focuses on filling the needs of an older population looking to get their medication and other essentials all in a one-stop shop. A very similar business in this niche is Walgreens. Through evaluation of both sets of financial statements from each company, the investor can make a better educated decision on whether or not to invest in stock at CVS.

HRSA – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of HRSA is “to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative programs” (About HRSA, 2017). HRSA programs provide high-quality primary healthcare to pregnant women, people with HIV/AIDS and to those who are geographically isolated or medically vulnerable. Also, it provides training to the healthcare professionals and maintains databases that protect against healthcare malpractice, waste and fraud. In addition, to assist an organization with its quality improvement (QI) efforts, HRSA apprehends the need for a toolkit of objective educational tools and resources” (“HRSA Clinical…”, n.d.). This toolkit consists of practical and convenient tools which support an organization’s new or existing QI program by implementing proven strategies and performance measurement techniques. The major goals of HRSA include “improving access to quality care and services, strengthening the health workforce, building

REI carries a wide assortment of camping and hiking gear and equipment. Products include, amongst other, tents, sleeping bags, hammocks, and coolers. REI launched their ‘REI Co-op’ private label brand in 2014. It was an extremely successful launch with sales exceeding $1 million in less than 20 days (“NewsRoom”, 2015). REI also have private partnerships with several U.S. and overseas manufacturers through which they offer exclusive brands, like Novara and evrgrn. REI also carries several other well-known brands, including The North Face and Marmot, with which it competes with other retailers. Overall, the company offers buyers a selection of over 25,000 products from 1,300 different vendors (“REI Case Study”, n.d.).

A publicly traded company is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in several shares of stock which are liberally traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets. In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. H&R Block is a tax preparation company in North America, Australia, Brazil and India. The Kansas City-based company also offers banking, payroll, personal finance, and business consulting services; founded in 1955 by two brothers Henry W. Bloch and Richard Bloch. The Bloch’s are a very fine old Kansas City family and they’ve been quite generous to the community. In 1956, the Bloch’s decided to expand and picked New York City. The move was profitable, but neither brother wanted to move to New York, so they agreed to sell that regional operation to two local accountants. However, since the would-be buyers could not meet the asking price, the parties agreed the Bloch brothers would get $10,000, plus royalties from the tax operation, creating the first H&R Block franchise tax office. The Bloch brothers chose to spell the name "Block" with a K to guarantee the name is not mispronounced “blotch.” In the following years, H&R Block grew quickly and went public in 1962, then opened its first tax training school in 1965 to meet the demand for skillful tax professionals at its franchise offices. H& R Block today operates approximately 12,000 retail tax offices worldwide. H&R Block offers its own

I found H&R Block’s mission statement online. I never used H&R Block’s services. My parents would go there each year to file their taxes. My parents always seemed satisfied with the Block’s service and to this day they return to H&R Block each year. So, I think H&R Block holds to their mission statement.

Harrison & Moberly, LLC is a full service law firm that is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Their diverse range of legal practice groups include alternative dispute resolution and mediation, environmental, litigation services, real estate, insurance services, estate planning, wealth transfer, and tax, plus more. Harrison & Moberly, LLC is an Indianapolis Bar Association Green Legal member. They are also a member of the International Lawyers Network.

In the summer of 2015, I interned with Bank of America. At Bank of America I was given the title Student Leader and was positioned to work in conjunction with a local non-profit partner, the YWCA of the Central Carolinas. Within the YWCA I helped to maintain the organization's day-to-day operations in order to ensure a successful implementation of their not for profit services within the Charlotte community. Throughout my time at the YWCA, my duties included, operating philanthropy initiatives, managing off-site youth learning centers, and organizing meetings for the board of directors.

The market is a very fluid situation and this is becoming more and more apparent in the past ten years with the Great Recession from 2007-2009. Therefore, businesses are operating in an economy where the competition is high and the potential for failure has become significant. Those two aspects have been and should be on the forefront of every organizations mind. Companies should have a strong focus on examining and evaluating not only their financial standings, but the other competitors in their market in order to boost sales and continue on the path to maturity. If a company is successful in reaching this goal they will have the ability to hold the competitive edge on their rivals. Major organizations such as Home Depot and Lowes are placing more focus on increasing that edge, while contending with others in their pool, overall to increase, gain, and retain a piece of the devoted consumer.

JP Morgan Chase & Company has been in business for over 215 years. It is one of the first, leading and widely recognized financial establishments in the world. Initial banking bequest has been noted as early as 1799 in New York City.

Jereh has a large and complex internal organization structure. It’s headquarters now have over 20 departments including five sales department—oilfield business division, which now is the best sales sector accounting for almost over 70% of its business revenue; natural gas business division, which is the second large sector accounting for 15% of the business revenue; mine & industry business division, which is Jereh’s oldest sales sector which has been paid less attention to; international trade division, which is the newest one and set up this year. For the functional departments, there are infrastructure engineering department responsible for internal engineering and property management; finance department, capital management and investment

Commonwealth Bank has become one of biggest bank of Australia; one of the reasons is ERP implementation. The ERP system helps the financial institution to communicate worldwide, talking about its various management department, for them it’s really effective. Such as using customer relation management software it helps in keeping the records of consumers in data warehouse, which can be used at the time when information needed by the bank. For Human resource management it provides 24/7 hours services to customers and also helping employees due to real time processing. Financial resource management, it gives the relevant data of clients like whether this consumer has positive records or not and provides credit on the basis of their history. Manufacturing resource planning, ERP supports the firm to know about happenings during production process. Supply chain management, to select the best suppliers for the cards, the bank needs Enterprise resource planning. However this software got some weaknesses like it may be expensive and chances of security issues are always.

A good example is a children?s clothing store. They must be able to understand what has made their competitors like Carter?s and

Competitive rivalry exists between companies with the same or similar products/services and similar markets. Factors to be considered include:

Offer the services that have already been introduced by competing company, and also work on providing customers with innovative applications