Birch Paper Company Birch Paper company is a medium-sized‚ partly integrated paper company‚ producing white and kraft papers and paperboard. The company has four producing divisions and a timberland division. The responsibility structure of the Birch Paper Company and all of its divisions is a Profit or Investment Centre‚ which is stated in the case: For several years‚ each division had been judged independently on the basis of its profit and return on investment. Top management had been working
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Birch Paper Company Relevant Information & Equations 1) Birch Paper Company is a producer of paper‚ paperboard‚ and corrugated boxes. The company is integrated‚ consisting of four separate production divisions. One of its divisions‚ Northern Division‚ asked for bids on a special corrugated box. It requested bids from one of its sister division (Thompson Division) and from two outside companies. The issue at hand is whether Northern should accept a bid from its sister division or from one
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Mendel Paper Company Mendel Paper Company has been doing relatively well with the sales of computer paper‚ napkins‚ place mats‚ and poster board. With more people eating out‚ the demand for napkins and place mats have increased. Computer paper and poster boards have slowly increased in demand as well. However‚ there is concern at the company with the fixed cost of operations. Marlene Herbert‚ the plant superintendent‚ said‚ “As we have automated our operation‚ we have experienced increases in fixed
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of goods and services from one profit center to another in companies that have a significant number of these transactions. The objectives of this case is whether the Northern Division of Birch Paper Company should buy corrugated boxes for a new product internally from the Thompson Division at a transfer price higher than the market price‚ or from one of their external suppliers. Also‚ should the vice president of Birch Paper Company take any action on the bidding price or final purchase decision
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| SENECA PAPER COMPANY Price Competition on Gummed Tape | | Marketing Plan | October 9‚ 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Seneca Paper Company (SPC) is a gummed paper company operating in Niles‚ Michigan. SPC offered 3 types of tape; a 3rd grade tape named Durable‚ a standard grade called Sealite and a super standard grade called Imperial. Within the same industry
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"Life is like a box of chocolates‚ you never know what you’re gonna get." Forrest Gump is the portrayal of a man that has been alienated from society‚ not because he is unintelligent or dimwitted‚ but rather because he is not restricted by the conventional ideals which are embedded within his culture; thus‚ challenging the conformities and principals that most people are accustomed to. The contrast that Robert Zemeckis‚ director of the film‚ is attempting to convey through the character of Forrest
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Birch Paper Company Information given (All costs are for quantity of 1000) 1. If Northern accepts the bid from Thompson Thompson companies Out of Pocket costs for 1000 boxes = $400 70% of Thompson Out of Pocket costs = Selling price of Southern division (line and corrugating medium) Hence‚ selling price of Southern = 70% * 400 = $280 Hence‚ Out of Pocket costs for Southern = 60% 280 = $168 2. If Northern accepts the bid from West No out of pocket costs Thompson and Southern 3. If Northern accepts
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Disaster in the Forest* In 1755‚ General Edward Braddock famously led a British army to a costly and humiliating defeat about eight miles from the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers (the site of modern Pittsburgh.) In a passage from his autobiography‚ Benjamin Franklin offers his one explanation of what happened. This general was‚ I think‚ a brave man‚ and might probably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self-confidence‚ too high an opinion
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Dragana Dokic Lessons From a Walk in a Rain Forest According to David Suzuki‚ the Choco Rainforest is a stable cosmos of complexity that mustn’t be destroyed in order to sustain communities and ecosystems indefinitely. Although deforestation can be positively utilized in the society‚ it has undeniable flaws. In our modern-day societies‚ profit is the main objective‚ desire and ambition; through the deforestation of such magnificent terrains‚ profit is easily gained. Suzuki stated‚ “…one can’t
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W. CARL KESTER CRAIG STEPHENSON Hill Country Snack Foods Co. The Chief Executive Officer of Hill Country Snack Foods had never enjoyed analyst conference calls‚ but in late January of 2012‚ Howard Keener was yet again asked about the company’s cash balances‚ capital structure‚ and performance measures. One analyst complained that Hill Country’s growing cash position‚ absence of debt finance‚ and large equity balance made it difficult for a company in a mature industry to earn a high rate
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