knowledge about the movie‚ which allows them to predict how well the movie will perform financially. This would create an advantage for the movie company if negotiating with Arundel after production began or a movie was released‚ especially because Arundel would not have most of this information. If Arundel waited to purchase the sequel rights until t=1‚ they would be spending significantly more on the
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Case 1. Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? The principals at Arundel Partners believe that there is value that is not captured in a discounted cash flow when analyzing the launching of a film. They believe that by launching a new film‚ there is immediately an option to launch a sequel
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Case 1 Analysis of a Potential Audit Client Shea Galvin Review Comments Table of Contents Page 4: Discussion Questions Pages 5-6: Exercise Discussion Questions 1. An independent auditor would be needed so they can continue to be neutral. There is a possibility it could make the auditor not as self-governing if they are auditing Lakeside as well as the bank in which they are taking loans from. The auditing firm needs to stay free in mind
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Question 1: Comment on the terms and conditions placed by the corporation. Answer: Consider the corporation’s point of view: Take a look into a couple T&C individually‚ Where CORPORATION wanted the hardware and software ordered from a single supplier‚ and wanted the equipment on a long lease and not outright purchase The committee formed by CORPORATION didn’t want to take the responsibility of the each and every item that was being purchased because in that case they would have had to run
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EMBA Spring 2015 Superior Manufacturing Company Managerial Accounting DR.: Khalid Hegazy Assignment Presented by: Mona Abdallah Student ID : 131239 Superior Manufacturing Company Question1: Do You Agree with Water’s decision to keep product 103? As per below calculations‚ dropping Product 103 will result in more loss while they were making a profit in case of keeping all of the 3 products. Based on this‚ I agree
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Consulting Cover Letter by Victor Cheng As a former McKinsey resume screener‚ I’ve read a lot of consulting cover letters for consulting roles of all types. Most applicants severely under-estimate the importance of the cover letter and end up paying more attention to the consulting resume/CV than they do the cover letter. I would argue the effort allocation should be reversed — much more time put into the cover letter than the resume or CV. Here’s why. Without a good cover letter it
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Case 4-1 Vershire Company In 1996‚ Vershire Company was a diversified packaging company with several major divisions‚ including the Aluminum Can Division- one of the largest manufacturers of Aluminum beverage cans in the United States. The Aluminum Can division‘ s growth in sales slightly outpaced sales growth in the industry at large. The division had plants scattered throughout the United States. Each plant served customers in its own geographic region‚ often producing several sizes of cans
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Alexander Davis Period: 1 Group Partners: Jenny Case Blake Rebek Matthew Heigm
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BACKGROUND & PROPOSAL In April of 1992‚ a movie industry analyst name Mr. David Davis of Paul Kegan Associates‚ Inc. was approached with an interesting and fresh business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did
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55221 S T R AT E G I C P A R T N E R S H I P S Rewriting the Playbook for Corporate Partnerships In fast-changing markets‚ some companies are developing more flexible‚ adaptive strategic partnerships to leverage the resources and capabilities of both customers and suppliers. BY F. ASÍS MARTÍNEZ-JEREZ TODAY’S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT is unforgiving of companies that are slow to adapt. To extend their capabilities and facilitate change‚ many organizations have experimented with different types
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