The rise and fall of ABC Learning Q1: The aspects of the business strategy of ABC Learning resulted in increased business risk for the company including: the rapid expansion of market share‚ over-indebt‚ and blinding overseas investment. Rapid expansion of market share: ABC‚ which at its peak had almost 2200 centres in four countries‚ also had a flawed strategy to handle significant and rapid growth. When A.B.C. Learning Centers listed on the stock exchange in March 2001‚ it was a tiny operation
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report. The management projection is used for the pro-forma financial statements for the year 1998 to 2001 to portray the management’s viewpoint on Accuflow’s business in the future. An extended projection is made to year 2003 with values shown under “Company Specific Assumptions” in order to look into the effects of the Mezzanine debt‚ which cannot be prepaid until the year 5. Following a base case scenario where the company required return is 13% and long term growth rate of 3%‚ the derived EV
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Internal cash control is very important to any business. Without effective methods in place to ensure that funds and resources are being used in an ethical and efficient way‚ a company may lose money or run into many other problems. Through proper establishment of responsibly‚ segregation of duties‚ document procedures‚ and security measures‚ any company should be able to maintain their funds and feel confident that their employees are producing accurate and ethical results. In the exercise detailing
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Companies often list their vision and their mission statements on their sites. The difference between a mission statement and a vision statement is that a mission statement focuses on a company’s present state while a vision statement focuses on a company’s future. However‚ some companies tend to blend these statements. The following are some of the top technology-based company mission statements: Amazon: Amazon’s vision is to be earth’s most customer centric company; to build a place where
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REPORT ON ‘CASH MANAGEMENT’ In NATIONAL FERTILIZERS LIMITED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The methodology used for carrying out this project is as follows: ➢ Studying the annual accounts of the company for obtaining related financial data. ➢ Studying the accounting records and arrangements with the consortium of banks‚ Commercial paper‚ working capital demand loan (WCDL)‚ FDRs and short term
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Chopra/Process Flows 1 How can operations help a company compete? The changing sources of competitive advantage • Low Cost & Scale Economies (< 1960s) – You can have any color you want as long as it is black Focused Factories (mid 1960s) Flexible Factories and Product variety (1970s) – A car for every taste and purse. Quality (1980s) – Quality is free. Time (late 1980s-1990s) – We love your product but where is it? – Don’t sell what you produce. Produce what sells. S. Chopra/Process Flows • •
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Application Exercise # 1 (Common to session1 to 5) (50 marks) A. Draw a flow chart of any one function/process in your organization. (Marketing‚ Operations‚ Finance‚ Accounting‚ Human Resources and Information Systems) Use special symbols to draw the flow process chart for the above question Analyze the flow chart drawn above using the basic question. (How‚ What‚ When‚ Where & Who) Suggest improvements for increasing the efficiency or effectiveness of the above chosen function.
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ABC‚ Inc. Case Study Charles Ramsey Comm/215 Sept. 29‚ 2014 Margaret Mehl ABC‚ Inc. Case Study Introduction Hiring 15 new employees in early April as part of his first recruitment effort‚ Carl Robins is the new campus recruiter for ABC‚ Inc. Hired to work for Monica Carrolls‚ Operations Supervisor‚ these new potential employees require training on company policy‚ being oriented to the organization‚ and screened for drugs. Carl himself is behind on their training‚ has not completed all the
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Activity-based Costing (ABC) An activity-based approach refines a costing system by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost objects. It uses the cost of these activities as the basis for assigning costs to other cost objects such as products or services. There are four levels of a cost hierarchy: 1- Output unit-level costs: costs of activities performed on each individual unit of a product or service. 2- Batch-level costs: costs of activities related to a group of
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Cash account and accrual accounting are two separate methods that are similar in many aspects except when it comes to debits and credits. Cash accounting is also known to be called cash basis accounting. This approach allows for the recognition of income at the time it is received. That means that invoiced income is not counted as an asset until payment for the invoice has been received and vice versa for debits and expenses. Accrual accounting does not recognize any income until it is actually earned
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