Dell working capital case Dell’s build to order system created a very different balance sheet. We want to assess their competitive advantage in working capital at the time of the case‚ evaluate how they funded growth at the time (1996) and evaluate potential ways to fund projected sales growth of 50% in 1997 through use of internal funds. 1. Calculate their working capital advantage. To do this calculate days sales of inventory‚ payable days and receivables days to find their cash conversion
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cutlery manufacturing company Cost = $10-15 million a. Advantage: Gain additional plant capacity required for growth expansion b. Disadvantage: The acquisition would divert attention away from the company’s primary activities. 2. Expansion of Internet recruiting and new Internet technologies Cost = $5-10 million c. Advantage: Improving recruiting procedures and gaining knowledge of new internet technologies d. Disadvantage: Cost of hiring and training additional
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Case Analysis: Capital Magazine Problem Identification: Should Prisma Presse release the new magazine Capital in September‚ or postpone until the economic situation improves? If they go ahead with the launch‚ should they go with a subscription or a newsstand strategy? Alternatives: 1) Pospone the launch until the economy recovers and advertising rates start growing again. If the economic situation doesn’t get better withdraw the new magazine. +Inexperience in business magazines.
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Audit Quality and Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The
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Case 1.1 - Enron Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast
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Franc Ouedraogo Case Assignment: CUTCO Corporation 1) Direct selling is defined as any kind of selling that is made outside a fixed business location. Therefore‚ most of the company that use direct selling are not well-known‚ are small‚ privately owned or do not have physical stores. Direct selling is essentially a push marketing strategy‚ and the firms that use it do very little traditional advertising. Most of the direct sales take place in a residence and on a one-to-one basis. 2)
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situation‚ their estimated per unit total cost‚ evaluation as well as a sourcing risk management plan for the supplier selected. Terms of reference To prepare sourcing strategies for key purchased items for Pacific Systems Corporation (PSC)‚ starting with selecting the most appropriate supplier for potentially the next few years Recommendations After carefully considering the estimated per unit total cost‚ SureTech did come out with the lowest cost at $162.5 per unit for year one of PSC needs
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Executive Summary Biopure Corporation was established in 1984 and is a privately owned pharmaceutical firm. They are trying to launch two new products: Hemopure (human market) and Oxyglobin (veterinary market). They are the only company aggressively engaged in the development of blood substitutes for the vet market. Biopure has invested $200M in the development of said blood substitutes. They currently don’t have any revenues with little to no debt and financing of $50M to support these operations
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you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing (ABC) in the Chicago plant as it is allocating its entire manufacturing overhead on the basis of just one cost driver: production run direct labor cost. Since overhead at the Chicago plant is high‚ accurate cost accounting system is required. Different types of
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Information Security Program Governance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) CSIA 413 February 8‚ 2015 Celida M Bruss Information policy and the protection of high value digital assets used to be the responsibility of a select group of practitioners. However‚ the ubiquity of information technology (IT) security policies and governance have been a long-standing part of many industries with far more “average-consumer” impact since the inception of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
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