The Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (A) CASE 4 Group 3: Antonio Carlos Teles Caleia #1028 Federica Carcani #2258 Edoardo Covicchio #2259 Leandro José Pereira Domingues #1023 Francesca Romana Gambini #2260 Mergers‚ Acquisition and Restructuring (TB) Prof. Josè Neves de Almeida Q1. The rationale behind the intention of CSX to buy Conrail is mainly to anticipate a proposal from the other big player in the market Norfolk Southern. Both CSX and Norfolk Southern have basically the same
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position to carter to this increase in order in the future‚ they are in for a heavy loss and as a result they might even consider an employee redundancy plan also. After this meeting trade unions requested some conditions also. Problem Statement In this case we can identify several Management issues which influenced for the smooth functioning of the company. Those issues as follows; Issue 1 Organization decided to increase their production and implement an incentive program for employees who had produce
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is far greater than that of SKY’s. In 1990‚ BSB lost more money than SKY due to heavier cost structure and this loss continues for the next 6 years. 2-3. Would there still be a price war? What are the variables that we should check first. In this case we believe there would be a price war. BSB was known to have much deeper pockets than Sky‚ and was therefore much more optimistic about their losses compared to Sky‚ who were having trouble rolling over its sizeable short-run debt. During the entire
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Case #4 Jiawei Qi Principle of audit and control (43010) Professor Ben Hoffman February 23‚ 2015 TO: Charles ward‚ CPA Partner FROM: Jiawei Qi DATE: February 23‚ 2016 SUBJECT: Assess control risk and plan tests of controls and substantive tests of transactions Introduction: The purpose of the memo is to communicate to you the outcome of the company’s control risk‚ the test of controls and substantive tests of transactions. General procedure: First‚ we assess the
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Case #4 * From my point of view‚ I think that the example of Maktoob can be found again in the Arab world especially that we have the resources along with hard working and innovative developers. Investment from the western region also is important for the developers to reach new limits. Maktoob was very successful innovative story of excellence that aimed to bring Arabic used in the internet to new ages and make it available for more users. At that time‚ the number of the Arabic users was sharply
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Case 4: Aaron Jones‚ CPA‚ is auditing the current year’s financial statements of Low Company‚ a publicly traded company. Aaron notices some major fluctuations in Low’s fourth quarter of the previous year’s financial statement balances. He is aware that security holders of publicly traded company stock that does not separately report fourth quarter results often “impute” such results by subtracting data based on third quarter interim balances from the year-end balances. Thus‚ companies should report
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Questions for Jet Blue Case (Case #4) 1. Research on the history of Jet Blue (operational and performance highlights/lowlights/milestones from 2000 to present) a. Identify the “strategic service vision“ of Jet Blue‚ i.e.‚ target market‚ service concept‚ operating strategy‚ and service delivery system. Did their operating strategy and delivery system support the needs of their target market? b. From the research facts‚ did the owners/management of Jet Blue strictly adhere to their strategic service
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Using the information contained in the case‚ conduct a five-forces analysis of the U.S. Steel industry. What conclusion can you draw from this? 1. The risk of entry by potential competitors: High a. Capital Requirement: Steel industry is a capital intensive business. b. Economies of scale: Research and Development expenses and better bargaining power while sourcing raw materials. It may be noted that those steel companies‚ which are integrated‚ have their own mines for key
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1. What is Matav’s Strategy? Has it been successful? Matav used to be an inefficient government agency. Since being privatized‚ Matav went with the overlay strategy-first built the infrastructure backbone‚ then worked step by step; Matav began to match organization to customer and improved the quality of network by using fibre-optic cables and putting into expats. At that time‚ Matav had a monopoly in Hungary. In 2000‚ Matav expand its international market by buying share of MakTel which is Macedonia’s
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