Application of the Model as a Management Tool

Abstract

In this chapter we proceed to apply the model and ideas presented in Chapter 3 to data for actual companies. We consider a range of companies in the following major sectors; chemicals, pharmaceuticals and electronics. All of the data are derived from annual company accounts and come from publicly accessible internet sites.1 We present a simple application of the model, the details of the calibration of the model are described in Appendices 3.1 and 3.2 (pp. 39-50).