thing to do and a key factor to exceptional value to shareholders. 2. What role did top management commitment play in developing the ethical work climate and organizational performance seen at Alcoa? What other ethical safeguards are mentioned in the case to support the company’s efforts at developing a strong ethical culture? Top management commitment to their values played in important role in their transformation. The leader of Alcoa‚ Paul O’Neill‚ began with reducing the amount of products sold
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SMPR Case Questions PG. 35-37 1. What are SMPR’S data communications needs? SMPR needs to be able to communicate between offices in a more efficient manner. A WAN (VPN) needs to be set up for SMPR to improve the communications between branch offices. This WAN can be set up and managed by the network technologist. A Windows server should be run on this network. This server will provide access based resources for each office from one central location. (Admin) 2. Based on the information provided
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American Connector Company (A) Assignment Questions: 1.How serious is the threat of DJC to American Connector Company? 2.How bug are the cost differences between DJC’s plant and American Connector’s Sunnyvale plant? Consider both DJC’s performance in Kawasaki and its potential in the United States. 3.What accounts for these differences? How much of the differences is inherent in the way each of the two companies compete? How much is due strictly to differences in the efficiency of hte operations
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CASE QUESTIONS Cash Flows and Value. Cost of Capital Case 1: Hop-In Food Stores‚ Inc. 1. Determine the correct price for this particular IPO. Use several methods to do this and compare them. 2. What extra information would you try to acquire in a real life situation? Case 2: Chem-Cal Corporation 1. How do you calculate the WACC for this firm? 2. What is the cost of capital of the debt‚ preferred stock‚ and common stock (assume the equity beta is 1.22)? 3. Calculate the WACC. How can a WACC be used
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CasesHelp Week 1. Google Inc. Case Questions 1. Review Google’s corporate webpage and annual report. How would you describe Google’s strategy? 2. Prepare a competitor analysis. How would you define Google’s industry? Who are Google’s competitors? 3. Prepare an environmental analysis. What are the major trends impacting Google’s industry? What are the growth prospects for Google’s core business? 4. Do you think Google’s industry is a competitive market‚ in the technical sense? Does Google have
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Term Case: Palm Oil Piracy ACC 4291 INTEGRATED CASE STUDY TERM CASE THE PIRATES OF THE SILVERLAND (PALM OIL PIRACY) NAME: RAJA SITI AFIQAH BINTI RAJA AZMI MATRIC NO: 0826174 LECTURER: PROF. SHAMSUL NAHAR SECTION: 2 DATE SUBMITTED: 26th NOVEMBER 2012 SUMMARY OF THE CASE Established in 2002 in Taiping‚ Perak‚ Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB) was a small and medium sized enterprise in the Crude Palm Oil (CPO) transportation business. PHSB was managed by En. Rossly‚ the Chief Executive Officer
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Wen-hsin Hsu Questions of Cases Case 1: Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Presentation date: Oct 22 (Authors: Brochet‚ Francois;Palepu‚ Krishna G.;Barley‚ Lauren) 1. In your opinion‚ are GAAP or non-GAAP numbers most reflect the economic reality in Apple? 2. Discuss the impact on financial statements for GAAP and non-GAAP numbers. 3. Should APPLE lobby for their non-GAAP numbers to be sanctioned by FASB? 4. Does it matter if the revenue recognition rule for smartphone changes? Case 2: Bausch& Lomb
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Q1) What is an Application Service Provider? What factors drive their emergence? An Application Service Provider (ASP) delivers software functionality to its customers over the Internet. The software executes from a remote location and data is stored remotely (cloud/grid computing). Basically‚ it is a business that provides the computer based services over a network. It is also sometimes called as On-demand Software or software as a service (SaaS). The most limited sense of this business is that
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Case Questions 1. What is meant by the statement that training is extremely "faddish"? In an effort to remain on the "cutting edge" of a particular industry‚ organizations often shop for the most recent gimmick in training programs in hopes that it will provide them a competitive advantage over other firms. As a result‚ training entrepreneurs spring up around whatever is new in training approaches (e.g.‚ sensitivity training‚ OD‚ behavior modeling) without much attention to evaluation of results
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Citibank Case Questions: 1) Should Citibank launch the card product? Why or why not? 2) Given its upscale customer base‚ how should Citibank position its card‚ if it decides to launch it? 3) Which countries should Citibank enter first? Which countries should it avoid? 4) If you choose not to introduce the card‚ what would you do to achieve the $100 million earnings target by 1990? What kind of branch banking products should the bank offer? L’OReal Case Questions: 1) What is Beauty Product
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