Professor Elam

We study horizontal analysis in managerial accounting. Here is a good example. One can readily see the fall in sales of specific lines.  Flint argues that eliminating choices will eliminate sales, less offerings is well less sales. He suggests Chrysler wil go from 13 % to 8% of the market, I imagine he is right. Chrysler seems more like Subaru than Honda.

My point is that the merge and blur strategy will result in lower overall market share for US carmakers.  GM is down ti 74,000 and Ford 54,000 UAW members and offering more buyouts.  Perhaps the last worker leaving Detroit wil turn out the lights.

Here is a run down on globalization.  I suspect that one could graph the increase in car sales by country as a measure of economic improvement. That would be a way of creating an economic indicator. For example, Poland and Estonia sales are up 20%. US Sales are down from last year. Where would you be expanding?