1. What is Samsung ‘s Operating Leverage [OL] multiplier number?
2. Then, what is the firm’s safety margin ration [SMR]?
3. Then, the firm’s risk, the degree of operating loss exposure [DOLE]?
4. What is your ESTIMATE of the firm’s Break-Even [BE] point in $ revenue?
5. In your opinion, is this firm in extremely high risk, or overly low risk [risk averse]? And write your basis CONCISELY in a sentence or two. [Do NOT GO BEYOND the news contents [which is the “scope rule” of a case study like this], and preferably you’d also want to use some of the numbers that you have computed as your basis.]
6. Create Samsung’s What-If Analysis spreadsheet, and
7. Graph the data in the last three-to-four columns.