Statement Analysis Case Exxon vs. Shell: Understanding the effect of inventory valuation on Financial Statements Designed by: Valeri Nikolaev Objective: Understanding the effect of inventory valuation assumptions on financial statements. Assignment summary: You are taking the role of a security analyst who recently started following the Oil and Gas industry. The analyst has a task to draw a comparison of several financial indicators for two industry leaders: Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell‚ based
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Brooke Longo and Emily Kirslis Human Resources Management – MGMT 140 - 005 April 24 2013 Case 9 – Employee Selection and Training at Meadowbrook Golf and Golf Ventures West Summary Meadowbrook Golf is headquartered in Championsgate‚ Florida and is a leader in golf course management‚ maintenance‚ and supplies in the United States. The company is made up of four companies: Meadowbrook Golf provides the management‚ International Golf Maintenance provides the maintenance‚ and Golf Ventures East
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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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1. What are the problems? Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air’s participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products‚ which are less effective than Sealed Air’s but similar in appearance and cheaper. The company must determine its response to this new competition. The company is faced with a difficult choice of choosing from a range of feasible options ranging from doing nothing to introducing a new product
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Banc One Case Analysis Case Summary Banc One has a problem with the alignment of two of its important strategies: (1) rapidly acquiring profitable banks and (2) sustaining high returns while mitigating interest rate risk. Banc One has been very successful in acquiring banks‚ and much of this is done through the sale/transfer of Banc One’s stock. This strategy relies heavily on Banc One’s ability to maintain a high stock price. The second
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Executive summary The Ford Ka cannot be marketed to a specific demographic segment‚ as defined by traditional variables such as income‚ age‚ or marital status. Willingness to purchase the Ka was for the most part not dependent on membership in these traditional segments. Alternatively‚ we propose Ford develop a campaign toward a certain segment defined by attitudinal and psychographic variables. We plan to target this segment with tailored advertising campaigns addressing their unique worldview‚
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$168 million of Restructuring and special charges in 1992 Stakeholders •Absolute vs Relative priority •Secured claims ($159 million) prefer a low a value •Senior unsecured claims ($88 million) •12.5% junior debtholders‚ 9% debtholders •Junior Debt: 12.5% & 9% Debt ($40 & 16 million) •vultures purchased $16 million at 80-85% off face value •equity: likely wiped out including ESOP •management •cramdown
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the ground running‚ it seems as higher management at the time‚ namely Lay‚ did not have the foresight to control
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CASE STUDY Shell Oil Company and the Brent Spar Shell Oil Company and the Brent Spar 1. The company failed to consider public reaction to their proposal of sinking the Brent Spar in June 1995 in Northern Scotland. They failed to look at how others would react and feel and neglected to take into consideration others’ point of views. They did research impacts and found this would be the best option and assumed everyone would agree and didn’t stop to think about how environmental
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