Mini Case Study-Bethesda Mining Mini-Case Study: Bethesda Mining Company Week 4 Application 2 Jo-Ann Savoie Walden University Finance: Fiscal Leadership in a Global Environment DDBA-8140-2 Dr. Guerman Kornilov March 24‚ 2011 The following Mini-Case on Bethesda Mining Company was taken from the text corporate finance (2010‚ P. 203-204). In order to determine if Bethesda Mine should open‚ a thorough analysis of the payback period‚ profitability
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Your company is thinking about acquiring another corporation. You have two choices; the cost of each choice is $250‚000. You cannot spend more than that‚ so acquiring both corporations is not an option. The following are your critical data: a. Corporation A: 1) Revenues = 100K in year one‚ increasing by 10% each year 2) Expenses = 20K in year one‚ increasing by 15% each year 3) Depreciation Expense = 5K each year 4) Tax Rate = 25%
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Why do you think you made these mistakes? Please start this case discussion from the point of view that you are the main character - that is you are the Vice President of Marketing. So you may start the discussion beginning with "I am to blame for the current state of affairs because I did not understand ... " (fill in why you are to blame‚ what did you not do and what did you do that helped create the current situation) I am to blame for the current state of affairs because I did not do
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• The training type I recommend that House Handy should provide to new members if they want the new salespeople to be successful is to start them out on the internet and with a CD-ROM. On page 348 in the book titled Relationship selling it states‚ “Most companies use a mix of training methods‚ including on-the-job training‚ classroom training‚ and role playing.” With that said I believe they will benefit more out of having a combination of all three. The training will differ from that of experienced
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Shuhao Chen Hongxin Zhao IB 2/16/2013 1. The characteristics are boldness‚ innovation‚ perfection‚ low power distance and opening. Furthermore‚ in order to develop globally‚ the Asian leadership also should know how to combine the Western and the Eastern advantages of doing business together. These characteristics can efficiently help all the leaders do their job well‚ no matter them are Western or Eastern leaders. For instance‚ innovation is one of the most important characteristics. In today’s
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Newell Co. is considered to be a conglomerate with multiple business focusing on the home and office industry. What’s special about Newell is that they specialize in producing goods that are timeless and are in demand year-round‚ low cost‚ and low technology. This combination allows Newell to be successful across its corporate level operations and business. Some examples of this includes how Newell can sell their multiple products in packages from various businesses under their name‚ specialize
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Case 2 questions-Costco 1. What is Costco’s business model? Is the company’s business model appealing? Why or why not? Generating high sales volume and rapid inventory turnover by offering fee-paying members low prices on nationally branded and private-label products. Yes‚ it is appealing because the fees paid by members allowed for sufficient supplemental revenues while the turnover rates allowed Costco to receive cash for inventory before it had to pay many of its merchandise vendors. 2.
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BMW strategy to achieve the continuity of the Mini Coopers brand was to maintain its original legacy as one of the world’s iconic vehicles ever made. Mini was first developed in the 1950’s by a gentleman named Alex Issigonis. Its original design was develop to be fuel efficient due to the global fuel shortage (Horatiu‚ 2012). In the early 1960’s‚ a guy by the name of John Cooper vision the Mini as sports car and created the very first Mini Cooper. Mini Coopers legacy since its creation in the 50’s
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MINI Cooper Countryman Marketing Plan P2K Communications Allyn Proffitt Kailie Kirven Elizabeth Knifley Table of Contents Executive Summary Situation Analysis SWOT Analysis Positioning Statement Audience Analysis Focus Group Discussion Guide Communications Objectives Strategies & Tactics Public Relations Traditional Advertising Sales Promotion Direct Response Paid Online Advertising Online Social Media Nontraditional Media Creative Brief Creative Executions Print Advertisements L.L.Bean
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regulations are strongly affecting the automotive sector; increasing restriction aimed to the environment preservation and pollution abatement are being applied‚ especially in the European countries‚ with a major impact on automobile manufacturers‚ and MINI (Bmwgroup‚ 2010) Economical Economic growth on certain countries and a strong economical crises of others are the two variables which strongly affect the automotive sector; as mentioned before BRIC countries are experiencing growth with a resulting
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