BuyGasCo Corporation: The Use of Alternative Costing Methods in a Predatory Pricing Lawsuit 1 BACKGROUND2 BuyGasCo Corporation (BuyGasCo) is a major national chain of retail motor fuel (gasoline) service centers. This privately held company is very successful and has been in existence for 35 years. The service centers‚ owned and operated by BuyGasCo‚ are straightforward and typical of those in the industry. The main function of these service centers is to sell gasoline. The company sells three types
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Case study 1 clearly was a case in which fraudulent activity had clearly taken place. If it was not for the internal audit conducted by the ABC company‚ Hank Duckworth would probably still be getting away embezzlement. The clues that led up to Hanks demise was that Jane discovered that some of the accounts payable checks lacked complete endorsement by the payees. When Jane dug a little deeper she found five more checks made out to different people but all of the endorsement’s had the same handwriting
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Case Study 1 Question 3 Can you map the different kinds of innovation in the case study? Which were incremental and which radical/discontinuous? Why? Give examples to support your answer. One kind of innovation is providing new ‘e-tailing’ channels through which you can obtain the latest CD of your preference. These innovations increase the choice and tailoring of the music purchasing service and demonstrate some of the ‘richness/reach’ economic shifts of the new Internet game. Also At the heart
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Chapter 4: Mini Case 1: Smith‚ Smith‚ Smith‚ and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. The building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). The company is very concerned with network errors. What advice would you give regarding the design of the building and network cable planning that would help reduce network errors? I have to make some assumptions regarding the network design for this new building. Since they
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Case 14-1: Solution to Global Oil a. Strengths and weaknesses of BSC Strengths of the BSC include: • 1. Helped articulate the new strategy M&R adopted to become a destination stop. • 2. Helped train managers to become more general managers‚ not narrow functional managers. • 3. Focuses managers more externally. • 4. Blends own-unit and divisional performance to reduce free-rider problems of divisional performance measures only. • 5. Links business
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Workshop 1 – Chapters 1-3 Exercise 2-2 (15 minutes) | | Product Cost | Period Cost | 1. | The cost of the memory chips used in a radar set | X | | 2. | Factory heating costs | X | | 3. | Factory equipment maintenance costs | X | | 4. | Training costs for new administrative employees | | X | 5. | The cost of the solder that is used in assembling the radar sets | X | | 6. | The travel costs of the company’s salespersons | | X | 7. | Wages and salaries
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Analysis: Secondary Problem Analysis Dealing with conflicts: Some conflicts may arise from taking on the responsibility of leader within the negotiations team. Such conflicts may include coming up with an agreed collective agreement. This may cause a conflict between the employees and management. Since we are in charge of negotiations we will have to use a collaborative management style and try to satisfy everyone’s needs so people do not become irate. Many things can be the cause of this such
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1. The earth consists of iron‚ oxygen‚ silicon and magnesium. This makes up about 90% of the earth’s elements. Jupiter and Saturn on the other hand consist mostly of volatile gases like water‚ methane and ammonia. These two planets retained their volatiles due to their greater gravitational force. 2. Scientist believe that the collision of earth with a smaller body caused the earth to tilt on it axis at 23 degrees. The blasting debris is said to have formed the moon. The period from the accretion
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Keaira Fitzpatrick Marketing Case 1: McDonalds’s "SENIORS" Restraurant-pg.607 Due Date: January 28‚ 2015 Discussion Questions 1. Do you believe any of the types marketing opportunies exist for Lisa Aham? If so‚ specify and explain all that apply. Yes‚ I think there is a marketing opportunies that exist for Lisa Aham it is called diversification. As stated in the book the word diversification is when someone is going into a total different line of business. The reason why because it will give the
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Lecture Topic No. 1 Statistics: Introduction to business statistics‚ Importance‚ Definition & classification 2 Collection of data: Primary & secondary data‚ Sources and Classification of data‚ Tabular presentation 3 Presentation of data: Frequency distribution tables‚ Graphical presentation 4 Measures of Central Tendency and Variability: Ungrouped data 5 Case-1 6 Measures of Central Tendency‚ Measures of variability : Grouped data Fundamentals of Probability‚ Laws of probability Case -2 Probability:
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