the J. Peterman Company ‚ By: Peterman‚ John‚ Harvard Business Review‚ 00178012‚ Sep/Oct99‚ Vol. 77‚ Issue 5 Database: Business Source Premier Section: First Person The Rise and Fall of the J. Peterman Company With a keen eye and a flair for romantic copy‚ John Peterman created a successful catalog company. As an entrepreneur‚ he was in his element. As top manager of a fast-growing enterprise‚ he was ultimately much less successful. What happened? You create a company out of nothing
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REGINA COMPANY POINT OF VIEW: Regulator – National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting CASE CONTEXT: Regina Vacuum Cleaner Co. seemed to be doing excellent as manifested in its healthy 1988 annual Financial Statements. However‚ Regina Company ended up as a tragic story that served as cautionary epic to investors‚ creditors‚ auditors‚ the public and the government. The Company was acquired through a leveraged buyout by a group of Top Executives led by Donald Sheelen‚ former
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Case Study 2 -Internal Control LJB Company‚ a local distributor‚ has asked your accounting firm to evaluate their system of internal controls because they are planning to go public in the future. The President wants to be aware of any new regulations required of his company if they go public so he met with a colleague of yours at a local restaurant. The President of the company explained the current system of internal controls to your colleague. Your colleague has since been promoted to a tax
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Activity based costing (ABC) is a relative new way to allocate costs to specific processes and services. This system assures that the costs are accurately distributed to the products or services that generated them. ABC illustrates costs more accurately‚ giving management insight to the cost associated with certain business activities. ABC extends the decision-making skills of management by expanding on traditional costing (job order costing/process order costing) techniques. However‚ since ABC ’s
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Multinational Companies Multinational Companies Karen Mooney-Crouch Grantham University Abstract Multinational corporations are businesses that operate in more than one county. The typical multinational corporation normally functions with a headquarters that is based in one country‚ while other facilities are based in locations around the world. This model often allows the company to take advantage of benefits of incorporating in a given locality‚ while being able to produce goods and services
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Tucker Company In 1978 the Tucker Company underwent an extensive reorganization that divided the company into three major divisions. These new divisions represented Tucker’s three principal product lines. Mr. Harnett‚ Tucker’s president‚ explained the basis for the new organization in a memo to the board of directors as follows: The diversity of our products requires that we reorganize along our major product lines. Toward this end I have established three new divisions: commercial jet engines‚
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COMPANY APPLE COMPUTERS INC. An overview of Apple computer Inc. Some may not see it as necessary but I have included it so the reader can gain a better understanding of this project. Who are they? A Silicon Valley computer company Based in Cupertino‚ California and founded April 1st 1976 Famous for helping the personal computer revolution to commence Known worldwide for the success of their hardware including the iPod and the iMac. O ne of the main reasons that I have chosen
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Introduction to the Company: The industry that I chose is Hotel Industry and the company that I selected is Shangri La Hotel and resort. Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a Hong Kong-based company. Their website: http://www.shangri-la.com/. Shangri-La is a differentiated marketing hotel. The company offers different branding hotels to meet different niche groups of customer expectations with a unique Asian hospitality services model such as spa branding hotel and trader hotel. Target Market: Shangri-La
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SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY LGST201 COMPANY LAW Topic 1 - Introduction to the Company General Reading: Woon‚ chapters 1 and 2 (you may omit paras 1.73 – 1.1041). Note that Woon references below are to the Revised 3rd edition (2009) (corresponding references to the 3rd edition (2005) are footnoted). Legend - Very important. Must know! - Less important (but doesn’t mean can ignore!) 1. General Themes The company is essentially an artificial person created by law
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branch locations. Sony India also has a strong service presence across the country with 255 service outlets. Manned by customer friendly and informed sales persons‚ Sony’s exclusive stores ‘Sony Center’ are fast becoming the most visible face of the company in India. A distinctive feature of Sony’s service is its highly motivated and well-trained staff that provides the kind of attentive and sensitive service that is rare today. Sony is committed to ensuring that both the products and the marketing
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