Cool Moose Creamery Case Study Situational Analysis: External Analysis Competition: The competition for Cool Moose Creamery consists of the popular Dairy Queen ice cream parlor. Dairy Queen was made popular for their soft-serve ice cream and backs up that product with multiple other ice cream products along with lunch and dinner options. The company focuses on customer service and their pricing model is higher than industry. The quality of their product and service has allowed then to keep their
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Case Name: Boston Creamery‚ Inc. Short Cycle Process: Who: Frank Roberts‚ VP Sales & Marketing‚ Boston Creamery‚ Inc. When: December 31‚ 1973 Where: Case facts not given Issues: 1. The current variance analysis used for the 1973 fiscal years shows an overall favorable net variance of $71‚700. This is an aggregate net figure based upon the favorable variance due to sales and the unfavorable variance due to operations. This net variance figure fails to highlight areas of deficiency to help identify
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Partnership Rona O’Brien (Sheffield Hallam University) with Jayne Ducken‚ Antony Head and Susan Richardson This case study is taken from Ducker‚ J.‚ Head‚ A.‚ McDonnell‚ B.‚ O’Brien‚ R. and Richardson‚ S. (1998)‚ A Creative Approach to Management Accounting: Case Studies in Management Accounting and Control‚ Sheffield Hallam University Press‚ ISBN 086339 791 3. Introduction This case study is set in the British Isles‚ which has experienced major changes in its agricultural sector since the late
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outley NWC Investment Recovery Equipment Salvage NWC (full recovery) Sales Cost of Goods Sold (-) SG&A Expense (-) Opperating Savings (+) Depreciation (-) Operating Profit before tax (16‚000‚000) Year 1 2008 (2‚000‚000) 400‚000 (400‚000) Year 2 2009 Year 3 2010 1‚000‚000 (600‚000) 1‚000‚000 4‚000‚000 3‚000‚000 200‚000 2‚000‚000 3‚000‚000 (200‚000) 10‚000‚000 7‚500‚000 500‚000 3‚500‚000 3‚000‚000 2‚500‚000 10‚000‚000 7‚500‚000 500‚000 3‚500‚000 3‚000‚000 2‚500‚000 Tax Expense
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Read the HurryDate case. Assume you are a venture capital (VC) fund manager‚ considering an investment in HurryDate. Consider the following: (1) How does HurryDate create value? What are the key success and risk factors associated with this firm and industry? Host dating events in major cities throughout the US that allow single adults to meet one another. Additionally‚ presents an opportunity for interested companies to sponsor events with specific and unique demographic angle. Success
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1. Yes‚ Cold Stone Creamery does represent a high performance approach to planning. They have a fun and positive approach to their franchise; however they have great expectations to achieve success. Cold Stone started with a mission: “We will make people happy around the world by selling the highest quality‚ most creative ice cream experience with passion‚ excellence‚ and innovation.” From the company-wide goal to the organizational goals‚ each one is numerically defined and measurable. So the
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Case 2. Healthy Foods‚ Inc. Healthy Foods‚ Inc. situation is a tough one. Profits‚ along with morale‚ are down. They have just recently broken off from their parent company and gotten a new president. Some of the policies and business practices they have in place aren’t working for them anymore. Healthy Foods has a line-forcing policy‚ which requires that any store wanting to carry its brand name must be willing to carry most of the 65 items in the Healthy Foods line. This policy‚ along
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Memo To: California Choppers Advisory Board From: Date: Re: Operations Review The California Chopper’s financial position is in fairly good standing. Although‚ there are some concerns in certain areas‚ which will be discussed below. Attached to the memo is an excel spreadsheet that can be used for referencing. Liquidity California Choppers (CC) appears to be acceptable in terms of their liquidity. Their current ratio seems to be right around the industry average for the past
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Case 2-1 Absenteeism at ONO Inc. ONO is a large auto-supply company that does a large volume of business with only eleven employees. Absenteeism seems to have increased over the last two years and has had a significant effect on ONO. The information in the text shows that ONO had lost 539 employee labor-hours or 67.375 days to employee absenteeism last year. Because there are only eleven employees‚ this equals out to 6.125 missed days per employee. This is actually less than the United States
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California DMV In 1987‚ the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) embarked on a major project to revitalize their driver’s license and registration application process. DMV’s project was supposed to deliver everything that the department was looking for: ability to track of the state’s 31 million drivers’ licenses and 38 million vehicle registrations. By 1993‚ after $45 million dollars had already been spent‚ the project was canceled. The San Francisco Chronicle described the situation as
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