2012年2月26日日曜日

Note: Talk with the Neuroscientist of UCSD

University system
: Rotation
: Recruit each department (including not only professors but also students)
: Refreshment of people is indispensable. ig) UCSF
: (master+phd) Salary, exempt from tuition, housing
: POV
    There is no creativity. Only input.=> seminars, networks, dissertations and then share with other people
    in Japan, it is difficult. Then, professors compel students to engage in massive laboring research. And it
    often leads to the futile result that is already discovered by other researchers.

理研 Bsi

Core Bio
=> cancer or ES
 cancer has reached an impasse.

Nature or Nurture
R2 =0.33
but fail to contain another DNA
(not only T,C,G,A but also inherit some protein and receiver)
and
Nurture includes too broad areas
needs to divide periods (language ~9 years old / Motor ~12years old)

New research Mouse
Orange light
Blue light
Red Light
=> turn on/off the switch related to every neuro systems.

Scent
depends on experience?
certain environment affects. without specific scent, it's gonna be possible to imitate?

2012年2月24日金曜日

Note: Morgan Stanley

Net Revenues: $ 31.6 bil (2010)
Total Non-interest revenues $30.7bil ()
Net income to c/s $3.59bil

Institutional Securities(mil)
Principal trading $8,154<=$6,591
Investment banking $4,295<= $4,455

2012年2月20日月曜日

Note:Apple

Cash, short-term and long-term security SUM $ 97.6 billion (Dec 31 2012)

Sales$108,249 mil Net income $25,922mil

<--!
Even if I follow the more or less far-fetched estimate of Facebook, the Internet advertising market
will be $ 120 billion in 2015. Manufacturing is not gonna be profitable compared with software development, but its size of market seems mesmerizing.
-->

Days sales of inventory 4.40 days (Sep 2011, )
Extraordinary(ref HP's DSI of cost of product equals 41.95 days)


Accrued expense
Deferred revenue
Vendor non-trade receivables <= just in time $6,348 mil (=> COGS $64,431?)

2012年2月19日日曜日

アメリカと日本のAnnual Report(有報)に対する姿勢の違い

AKQJ10さんからのコメントへの返信がてら記事を書いてみます。

公認会計士の試験科目と、UCLAでの科目の内容の違いはどんなものなのでしょう。
国内で手に入れられるもの、入れられないものなど日本と米国の会計、金融、経済のレベルについてブログで書いてもらえれば光栄です^^ 


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まずコメントありがとうございます。
会計士の勉強中とのことで、お疲れさまです。


米国公認会計士(USCPA)の試験科目は
FAR(財務会計)、BEC(内部統制と管理会計)、REG(会社法と税法)、AUD(監査)
なのでほぼ一緒です。UCLAではIntermediate Accounting がFARに相当しています。


ただ、受験資格上、UCSPAは大学でのビジネス専攻学士以上を前提にしている点は大きいです。
市販のテキストもWiley Reviewと、既に勉強済みの人を対象としています。
日本公認会計士試験合格がBig4就職の切符になるのとは違い、
USCPAはBig4に就職した人が受けるというケースの方が多いと聞きました。
少し科目というよりは、受験制度の違いになってしまいましたが、こんなところでしょうか。


会計の違いとしては幾つか面白い点があるのですが、
ここでは有価証券報告書/ Annual Report のフォーマットの違いを挙げたいと思います。
フォーマットといっても、恣意的な操作が無いように
有報/Annual Report(10K)の様式自体は似ているのですが、アメリカだと
Annual Reportの前に添付する形で、経営者からのメッセージなどを載せているケースが多くて
興味深いです。日本でも株主総会向けに飾り立てられたレポートが載せられることがありますが
経営者のビジョンがはっきりと分かるというケースは(私が見てきた中では)少なかったです。


たとえば、Buffettで有名なBerkshire HathawayのAnnual Reportにおける
株主へのメッセージはまとめが出版物になるくらいです。
GoogleのAnnual Reportもfounder's letterがアラブの春にまで話題が及び読み物として楽しめました。


さて、昔『四季報』の編集者によるセミナーに出たときに聞いた耳より情報で


「会社のホームページに社長の写真が出ていない企業は要注意」


というものがありました。
というのも、社長が写真を出さないのは、社長のリーダーシップが欠けていたり、自信が無い証拠とも
考えられるから、とのことです。


面白いのは、アメリカでも経営者がはっきりと出てくる所の方が勢いが良いことが多いです。
特に、最近倒産して(Chapter11を申請して)話題になったKodakですが、そのAnnual Reportを見ると
Year 2006では経営者がAnnual Reportに


「どーん!」




と出ていたのに
Year2008には
だけとなりました。
まさに会社の状態を反映している、と(笑




財務諸表で収益等数字だけではなく、
こういった経営者の姿勢まで見通して読めると楽しいですよ。

Note: Coca Cola

Sales 35 bil dollars
days sales inventories 75 days
ROS 34%, OIOS 24% GP 64%

Mega deal CCE $2,511  mil

the plight of Coke
 customer need shifts from soda to still beverage
 less profitable, inventories

2012年2月11日土曜日

note: P & G

P&G 2011 June

sales $ 82 billion
Income from operating $ 15.8 bil
Net income       $11.7 bil

Weak Cash flows from operating activities
Surge in Inventories
=> manipulate?
COGS reverse effect
=> SG&A 25,973 / 82,559 = 31.4%

Fabric Care 22%
Beauty 20%
Baby Care & Family Care 18%

Accruals to Total Assets 1.35%
Operating accruals to CA 5.33%

2012年2月10日金曜日

Note: Facebook Form S-1 Registration Statement

Facebook is ready for IPO
S-1 Registration Statement

Facebook
$3 billion sales =>$2 billion income from operation=> $1 billion net income

Google
$37.9 bil sales => 11.7 bil income from operation => $9.7 bil net income

Facebook
845 mil MAU from 608 mil, 100 bil   (google+ 90mil)
65 mil per day compared with American idol 29 mil watchers
P&G 9% 27 consecutive months ad

588 bil Advertising
     363 bil off the internet 62%
     on the Internet 68 bil => 120 bil

Google
Foreign exchange rate
  129 mil Google Britain 3.2% lower, 834mil the rest of the world 5.1% lower
 Sales & Marketing 9.5% => 12.1% labor cost

The number of employee (from this site)
Google : 26k
Facebook:  2.25k

Executive compensation
Zuckerberg 1,487k  57.1% voting power (Stock B's voting power is ten times as Stock A)
Sandberg 30,873k
Ebersman  18,676k

2012年2月7日火曜日

Why do excellent managers fail if they listen to consultants and bankers?

Last week,  I read "The Innovator's Dilemma."
It's about why successful companies cannot catch up with new innovation.
The main thesis is that a company always needs to create new customers from new technology.
It is unique that he uses a lot of actual examples of the hard disk industry, the excavator industry,
the steel industry and so on to reveal how successful companies lost their outstanding ranking.



According to the author, the better management executives are, the more probable their companies fail
to catch up with the new technology.

He refers to such a new technology as "disruptive technology", because it creates new customers and new markets. It consists of three elements: cheep, plain, and the function not for mainstream customers.
When it comes to disruptive technology, it is fetal to enter the market of this technology. It is too late to
wait for this emerging market to enlarge enough.

However, excellent firms tend to overlook this opportunity though they have sufficient or much better
technology compared with start-ups.

Why?
Mainly, there are two reasons.
They're said from the point of view of consultants and of investment bankers.

Firstly, successful companies are inclined to listen to their main customers too carefully.
It is widely believed thought especially in terms of marketing consultants,
but it makes managers blind about step out to create new customers.
They keep inventing additional functions just for their mainstream customers.
The author calls this kind of network as Value Network.

Secondly, the pressure from investors forces managers to concentrate on only big and profitable markets.
This is because they need to retain their growth rate of sales or income to satisfy investors.
However, it makes it hard for them to try new market even if sometimes followed by failure.
At first, the market of disruptive technology is unknown to anybody and it is usually small.

Then, what do they do to keep up with disruptive innovation?
The author introduced RPV model.

RPV represents Resource, Process and Value.
Resource: Human resource, funding resource
Process: How to make a decision
Value: New value network

Then the author says it is appropriate to make suitable organization whose RPV is fitted to the disruptive technology market.

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It is paradoxical and interesting.
Especially, I think it is objective that the author just observes a lot of cases of HD companies
and analyze it in a scientific way.
However, in terms of actual strategy, it seems far-fetched because he thinks just in his mind and
he does not introduce other point of view such as engineers, sales person or usual office workers.
Maybe he could not push his boundaries of top-down management of the US.