Eastman Kodak

Financial Analysis Report Name: Course: Professor Name: (August 10, 2012) Evaluation The current quarterly report for Eastman Kodak is a reflection of the business activities that Kodak and her subsidiary companies are involved from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011. Previous reports have not been dealing on a worldwide performance data basis report unlike the recent report (Avery, 2012). However, even though at times this was not possible, there were no exceptions that were noticed in the previous reports for Kodak. A closer look at this report shows that the data for leased facilities were indicated but there was the exclusion of the data from the outsourced operations (Anderson, 2012). The cash burn has been a cause of concern for Kodak Company in the last couple of years as seen by the financial statements. The internal cash flows are negative indicating that this company has a financial problem. The internal cash flow includes the operating costs, the investing sources of the company and the way this company uses the cash (Arnold, 2012). The strategies that the company aimed at included the funding of various operations so that the licensing strategy of the IP would be successful. This would be possible through sale of the company’s assets. Thus in order to be successful in the IP portfolio strategy the company aimed at raising over $200million and have intellectual licensing transactions raising about $250 million and $350million (Anderson, 2012). Consequently, a closer look at the report it can be realized that the company focused on clearing their work on the goals of sustainability they had in place prior to the 2011 quarterly report. In order to compete in the business sector they had to come up with new programs would help in boosting its business in the regions where it operates. Thus after the quarterly report on 2011, Kodak was more sustainable and looked to take advantage of their customer’s preference of the economic, environmental...