Financial Analysis

International Financial Markets Assignment 1

Kimberly Parks

Strayer University

Dr William James

July 20, 2012

Provide a detailed overview of a U. S. publicly traded company

Dell, Inc. is a renowned corporation in Information and Technology industry. It is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas in the United States (Van Horne, 2010). It is involved in developing and selling of computers and other computer related products and services. The company bears the name of its founder, Michael Saul Dell. It is one of the largest technological firms in the world. It has a workforce of over 100,000 employees worldwide.

Before Dell moved to Round rock it had its main offices in the Arboretum complex in northern Austin, Texas. In 1989 Dell occupied 127,000 square feet in the Arboretum complex. As at 1990 Dell had more than 1,200 employees in its headquarters (Gomez, 2009). In 1993 Dell submitted a document to Round Rock officials, titled "Dell Computer Corporate Headquarters, Round Rock, Texas, May 1993 Schematic Design." Despite the filing, during that year the company said that it was not going to move its headquarters.

In 1994 Dell made a move of switching its employees out of the Arboretum to its new acquired offices though it still maintained that it was going to continue to occupy the top floor of the Arboretum and that the company's official headquarters address would continue to be the Arboretum. The upper floor still played a greater role of holding Dell's board room meetings; also it was used as a center for its demonstrations and visitor meeting room. For less than one month prior to 29 August, 1994, Dell moved most of its customer support and telephone sales employees to Round Rock.

It was later on in 1996 that Dell decided to move to Round Rock, this was due to its high rate of growth which created the need of finding a new place that could allow it to carry out its activities in the best manner possible and also be able to...