LIVENT‚ INC.: An Instructional Case Michael C. Knapp Professor University of Oklahoma Price College of Business 307 W. Brooks Norman‚ Oklahoma 73019 Office phone: 405-325-5784 mknapp@ou.edu Carol A. Knapp Visiting Associate Professor University of Oklahoma Price College of Business 307 W. Brooks Norman‚ Oklahoma 73019 ABSTRACT: Like many financial frauds‚ the Livent‚ Inc. fraud was masterminded by a few individuals‚ primarily Garth Drabinsky‚ a Broadway “impresario” who had received
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TJX Companies‚ Inc TJX‚ an international company‚ operates off-price retail stores offering apparel and home furnishings. The company‚ which employed about 179‚000 people as of 2013‚ has four segments: Marmaxx‚ HomeGoods‚ TJX Europe‚ and TJX Canada. The revenue was recorded of $26‚123.8 million dollars in 2013‚ an increase of 12.1% over 2012. The operating profit of the company was an increase of 25.9% over 2012. The net profit was an increase of 27.4% over 2012. TJX operates the business under
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fails to interpret that an article is written about cars‚ and serves ads about entrepreneurs. Money is only made if a user clicks on the advertisements. This is an interesting dilemma. On the positive side‚ Yahoo has a brilliant banner serving system. Since Yahoo still sees itself as portal‚ it still leverages Yahoo Money‚ Cars‚ Email‚ etc. Each of those sites has products or services that provide value to the user. A user shopping for cars is later targeted with the banner ads reflecting the
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APPLE INC CASE ANALYSIS Clint A. Persaud University of Ontario Institute of Technology October 2014 Question 1 Industry From the beginning of time apple has operated in quite a few industries‚ the first being the Personal Computer in in 1976 (pg1) and then with the leadership of John Sculley they entered the Desktop Publishing industry from 1985 to 1993 where John Sculley also attempted to implement a low cost strategy (pg2). Scully didn’t stop there he also tried
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Posing to be a successful division of the organization‚ the Big Eats Deli sandwiches at 7-Eleven‚ Inc. were pleased with the continued progress this sector offered (Bell & Hagan‚ 2012). Utilizing a strategy determined in a cross-cultural market‚ 7-Eleven CEO James Keyes found it to be intriguing and challenging to implement such a plan in the United States. However due to strong competition amongst convenience stores in the United States and different eating habits of consumers‚ this proved to
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Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 8‚ No. 4‚ 2011 ERP Project Implementation: Evidence from the Oil and Gas Sector Alok Mishra‚ Deepti Mishra Department of Computer Engineering‚ Atilim University Incek 06836‚ Ankara Turkey alok@atilim.edu.tr‚ deepti@atilim.edu.tr Abstract. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide integration and optimization of various business processes‚ which can lead to improved planning and decision quality‚ and a smoother coordination between business units
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but the burden is grouped into a single cost pool that includes all costs and divided by direct labor dollars to obtain the burden rate. (Q2) ETO’s manager picked up 5 components to evaluate the impact of different accounting system. The reported costs from existing system can be computed as follows‚ given the burden rate 145%: Product Direct Labor Burden Total Costs ICA 917 1‚330 2‚247 ICB 2‚051 2‚974 5‚025 Capacitor 1‚094 1‚586 2‚680 Amplifier 525 761 1‚286 Diode 519 753 1‚272 Based on
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PGA TOUR‚ INC v. MARTIN Facts of the Case In 2001‚ a case called PGA Tour‚ Inc v. Martin was opened due to a disabled golfer‚ Casey Martin (respondent)‚ who proclaimed that the PGA Tour (petitioner) could not legally deny him the choice to ride in a golf cart in between shots. Preceding this case‚ the PGA Tour required that all golfers should walk in between shots after the third stage‚ and reasoned that this policy represented an important characteristic of the game of golf. The case was presented
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Tran Thi Luong Binh Lecturer of Banking & Finance Faculty Foreign Trade University Telephone number: (+84) 948 034 777 Email: binhtranha@yahoo.com Dear Sirs‚ I am writing a recommendation letter as the request of Nguyen Thu Huong‚ who is applying for the Undergraduate Exchange Program. She was one of my students who had taken my class for two semesters at Foreign Trade University (FTU). Huong was the most outstanding students in my class for her intelligence‚ creativity and hard-working
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Recommendation of Noor Adleen to the Art Major Asian(AMA) Scholarship 2014 Programme. I am writing this reference at the request of Noor Adleen binti Anuar who is applying for Art Major Asian (AMA) Scholarship for 2014 in undergraduate architecture studies. I have known Noor Adleen for two years in my capacity as a teacher at Science Johore Secondary School. Noor Adleen took Engineering Drawing which is a basic drawing for entering architecture studies from me and earned superior grades in those
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