Dakota Office Products Background • Regional distributor of office supplies to institutions sand commercial businesses • Comprehensive product line • Excellent reputation • Several distribution centers Process • Old: • After customer orders received‚ orders were accumulated within the warehouses and prepared for shipment • Used commercial truckers to deliver • New Option: • “Desk Top Deliveries” • Delivered products directly to locations • Small fleet of trucks • 2% upcharge on products Pricing
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Dakota Office Products Case Analysis BUSA 5061: Accounting For Managerial Decision-Making November 4‚ 2010 The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In our analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate the company’s current pricing structure‚ ordering methods
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Case Study Dakota Office Supply Shadi Wadi-Ramahi Instructor: Roger Waibel MBA 510 Financial and Managerial Accounting Master of Business Administration School of Adult and Extended Learning Oakland City University September 30th‚2010 * Contents 1 Background Information 3 1.1 People / Key Players 3 1.2 Chronology of Key Relevant Events 3 1.3 Key Facts 4 1.4 Concepts 4 1.5 Assumptions 4 1.6 Point of View 5 2 Problem Statement 5 3 Problem Causal Analysis 5 4 Management
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company
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Question 1 Activity Based Service Cost for the TFC business Activity | Total Activity Cost (’000) | Activity Driver | Usage | Actual Cost | Storage | $ 1‚550 | Number of Cartons | 350‚000 | $ 4.43 | Requisition Handling | $ 1‚801 | Number of Requisition | 310‚000 | $ 5.81 | Basic Warehouse stock selection | $ 761 | Number of Requisition × 2.5 lines | 775‚000 | $
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Jesus Barajas Professor Schander Standing Rock Vs. Dakota Access The U.S government has always had a tense and colorful past in regards to environmental and native rights. This issue has again become a source of tension between native/environmental activists and corporate advancement and policy in the form of a pipeline. The source of tension comes from the fact that this pipeline stems from the fact that the pipe runs near a vital water source and also cultural heritage sites that
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company B
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Allied Office Products Case Objective: This case provides practice in Activity-Based- Analysis (ABC) calculations for a service company. It also highlights the important considerations in moving from ABC to Activity-Based Management (ABM) and further into Strategic Cost Management (SCM) so as to influence customer behavior and profitability. Q1. Using the information in Exhibit 2 calculate ABC based service costs for the TFC distribution/warehouse services. These are some broad steps that
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This week for PLN I read Dakota Access Pipeline: What’s at stake? by Holly Yang. Why this topic is blowing up is because where Native American tribes live the government approved a pipeline to be built and where the pipeline is going to be constructed invades the native American’s land. Some background of the Dakota Pipeline is it is a 1‚172-mile pipeline would stretch from the oil-rich Bakken Formation to the southeast into South Dakota‚ Iowa‚ and Illinois. The Army Corps of Engineers approved the
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Leadership 372 Trumpy Ultimate Office Products Successfully implementing a large system change in an organization can be very challenging. It also requires a unique set of leadership qualities to do it well. Richard Kelley‚ the newly hired Director of Information Systems for Ultimate Office Products‚ was called to this challenge. Richard needed to replace the obsolete order processing system company-wide to improve their customer service and deliver products more quickly. This would allow them
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