1.What is the organization trying to achieve?Forefront Wood Products would like to become China’s leader for wood doors manufacturing‚ goal which will be induced by increases in profitability - necessary both for the financial survival in the immediate term and for the viability of an IPO planned for 2007. 2.What seems to be the immediate problem?Forefront Holdings consists in two different companies: Forefront Manufacturing and Forefront Contracting. For the last 15 year the financial situation
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Introduction Forefront Wood Products is a producer of high quality wooden door-sets based in China. The company faces significant operations issues resulting from its processes and culture. As a consequence‚ the company struggles to be profitable. Forefront’s parent company‚ The Forefront Holding plans an initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. To solve all the problems and to prepare the company for the upcoming IPO‚ Forefront hired a new operations manager with the task to turn the factory around
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Superior Manufacturing Company Analysis Key Points: Superior Manufacturing Company faced a huge risk from declining prices for its most successful product. The prices would most likely cause that product to become unprofitable. The two other products sold by Superior were already unprofitable‚ even at their current prices. The manufacturing strategy and cost system used by Superior does not clearly differentiate indirect costs associated with each factory. Indirect costs make up a significant
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Maintain the same volume of production. 2. Increase the volume of production. 3. Lower the volume of production. 4. Substitute 102 production capacity with 103 if the 103 facility has not sufficient capacity to exploit economies of scale Analysis of the P&L statement of 31 December 2004 If we have a look at the P&L statement for the 2004 it is obvious that product 103 is bringing substantial losses. The calculations show that there is a loss of 2.16$ per unit sold which overall totals
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Project Risk and Cost Management Case Study Sleep More Mattress Manufacturing: Plant Consolidation Group Members: Divya Yadav‚ Lamia Nafees‚ Ashwin Chadaga‚ Deeshanu Sharma EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Sleepmore mattress is one of the leading manufacturers of mattresses and has recently acquired its competitor. This acquisition has brought in a unique proposition wherein the company has to decide if it wants to consolidate the existing plants with the acquired plants or let them both
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The Case of Littleton Manufacturing Executive Summary Littleton Manufacturing is …. For years‚ they have been able to capitalize on synergy between the Information Technology group and other departments and look to continue that trend with the deployment of a new paperless job posting system. A similar transition to paperless in their purchasing group has saved the company millions of dollars‚ so digitizing another manual paper process seemed like a sure bet. However‚ a recent change at top executive
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Original Work please INTEGRATED CASE APPLICATION –PINNACLE MANUFACTURING: PART II 9-37 (Objectives 9-7‚ 9-8) In Part I of the case‚ you performed preliminary analytical procedures for Pinnacle (pp. 245–247). The purpose of Part II is to identify factors influencing risks and the relationship of risks to audit evidence. During the planning phase of the audit‚ you met with Pinnacle’s management team and performed other planning activities. You encounter the following situations that you believe
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John Knotwell ACCT 6350 10/10/2014 Case Hilton Manufacturing 1) If the company had dropped product 103 as of January 1‚ 2004‚ what effect would that action have had on the $158‚000 profit for the first six months of 2004? The impact on the profit would have been to decrease the profit by about $2.5M. This would mean that this would now trend to an unprofitable move. It was wise NOT to divest the product in the first half. 2) In January 2005‚ should the company reduce the price of product 101 from $9
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Starburst Report Analysis of Manufacturing in Bangladesh The Purpose of the Report Thank you for your confidence and trust in me regarding your current concerns about Starburst’s manufacturing options for the future. I understand you are looking for a way for Starburst to gain and sustain success in the fashion clothing market. I also understand you are considering outsourcing production overseas to Bangladesh‚ but you want to make sure to satisfy your joint priorities of making the enterprise
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3. Why did Superior improve profitability during the period January 1 to June 30‚ 2005? How useful was the data in Exhibit 4 for the purpose of this analysis? As we know from the case‚ the Superior is implementing the standard cost system which was introduced in early 2005---“Next year’s standard costs were last year’s actual per unit costs adjusted for anticipated cost changes”. By looking at Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 4‚ we could compare the level of all the costs under the items. The applicable
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