Prestige Telephone Company I. Case Background Prestige Data Services (PDS)‚ a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company (PTC)‚ has been experiencing bottom line losses for the two years it has been operating since 1995. The subsidiary has been performing all the data processing for the telephone company and selling computer services to other companies and organizations. Susan Bradley‚ the subsidiary manager was preparing for a meeting with Daniel Rowe‚ president of Prestige Telephone
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Case Analysis: Prestige Telephone Company Liam Hennessy‚ Xinyi Zhang‚ Yuan Chai‚ and Anthony Saba 1. Reasons for Continuing Losses Prestige Data Services’ main problem is that they have too many available hours that are not generating any revenue. In the first quarter of 2003‚ they have an average of 176 available hours per month of available hours. Its operations exact a huge amount of fixed costs to cover. If they could find more commercial customers for the available capacity‚ they could
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A New DME Production Technology and Operation Results A New DME Production Technology and Operation Results Yotaro Ohno Committee member‚ Japan DME Forum General Manager‚ NKK Corporation Japan Abstract Dimethyl Ether(DME) is a clean and economical alternative fuel which can be produced from various resources as natural gas‚ coal or biomass through synthesis gas. The properties of DME are similar to those of LPG and it can be used for various fields; power generation fuel‚ transportation fuel
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1. Prestige Data Services apparently has not lived up to its parent company’s expectation. However‚ based on the numbers‚ the Prestige Data Services appears to be rather potential after just two years of performance. Its revenue hours sold to outside firms have being growing‚ and the majority of Prestige Data Services’ costs are fixed costs‚ e.g.‚ rent‚ custodial services‚ computer lease‚ maintenance‚ etc. In order to determine whether or not the subsidiary is indeed “too good to give up‚” two
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Prestige Case Study Accounting Currently there are only two variable costs of the company‚ but as Anthony RN (2011 p476)) states when products have different unit contributions and when the product mix changes one approach to the C-V-P analysis is to treat each product separate entity and to construct a profit graph for that entity. A prestige data service provides a service and so the variable costs are only Power and labour rather then products who would have materials included. The variable
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1. Prestige Data Services apparently has not lived up to its parent company’s expectation. However‚ based on the numbers‚ the Prestige Data Services appears to be rather potential after just two years of performance. Its revenue hours sold to outside firms have being growing‚ and the majority of Prestige Data Services’ costs are fixed costs‚ e.g.‚ rent‚ custodial services‚ computer lease‚ maintenance‚ etc. In order to determine whether or not the subsidiary is indeed “too good to give up
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Sacrifice The two main characters of The Prestige‚ Robert Angier and Alfred Borden‚ have a history that goes back to when they were just audience shills. An intense rivalry sparked between them after Angier suspected Borden of being responsible for the accidental death of his wife‚ Julia‚ during a live show. Though the two men stopped working together‚ they began competing for the title of “the greatest magician.” Throughout the movie‚ we see their obsession over beating each other’s magical performances
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The Prestige Telephone Company 2- Assume that the total expenses are around the average of $ 231‚000. (By observing first three months’ results) If the total expenses are $ 231‚000 than the total revenue should be $ 231‚000 at the Break-Even Point. On the other hand if the company demand for service will be 205 hours ‚ which means company sales revenue will be $ 82‚000 (as the Public Service Commission’s restrictions says)‚ and the other revenues in the commercial sales assume that around
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Taylor Skoglund Mrs. Knudson Writing 102 27 September‚ 2010 The Prestige Do you like movies? If so‚ do you like movies in the drama/mystery genre? Well there is one movie in particular that I would like to talk to you about. This movie is full of drama‚ suspense and mystery. It is titled The Prestige. This is my favorite movie of all-time and is based on the Christopher Priest novel with the same title. This film is engaging and keeps the audience guessing throughout just like a magician
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THE PRESTIGE: Reaction Paper Ma. Rosalie P. Bolea IV- BSA (Tues 12-1pm class) Submitted to: Pastor Parian Reaction: Contentment. This is one thing that the two lead characters in the movie do not contain over themselves. They both made sacrifices just to be able to have the title of the one who has the greatest magic trick. They sacrificed their friendship‚ their families‚ even their lives. Before they started their rivalry‚ they both have good relationship with each other‚ good family‚ a
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