APPEX CORPORATION Background Appex Corporation’s business is supplying management information systems and intercarrier network services to various cellular phone companies. In 1986‚ Appex entered this fast-growing market as a very small organization. Between 1986 and 1990‚ revenues grew 1600%. Similar growth was also seen inside the company as the number of employees rose from 26 to 180 between 1988 and 1990. Due to the relative youth of both cellular phone technology and Appex‚ the company
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Solution to the Case Study: “Levi Strauss’s Goes Global” Book: Organizational Theory‚ Design‚ and Change Fifth Edition Page 235 Gareth R. Jones Discussion Question 1 and 2 1. How does Levi Strauss take advantage of the global environment? 2. What structure does Levi Strauss use to implement its strategy? This case demonstrates how a company can pursue a transnational strategy and which organizational structure supports this strategy. “Levi Strauss”‚ the company under discussion
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strategic operations. In order to do this‚ the company can look at economic indices to help with forecasting. "There are four direct general economic indices that are used to forecast the sales of the PEPT (Portable Electric Power Tools) Industry in which Able Corporation operates. These are housing starts‚ expenditures for residential construction‚ expenditures for commercial construction‚ and expenditures for home repairs and improvement." (Task List‚ n.d.) These indices are in direct correlation
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AN INTRODUCTION TO PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE Second Edition AN INTRODUCTION TO PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE Second Edition R. Keith Mobley Amsterdam London New York Oxford Paris Tokyo Boston San Diego San Francisco Singapore Sydney Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Science. Copyright © 2002‚ Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical
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1) Estimate the WACC that is appropriate for discounting the Collinsville plant’s incremental cash flows. You should estimate and present each component of the WACC separately‚ explaining briefly but clearly what assumptions you are making for each of them. In the same spirit‚ estimate the appropriate all-equity cost of capital for the APV-based valuation. WACC calculation. WACC = RD*(1-t)*D/(D+E)+RE* E/(D+E) Cost of equity We assume that risk free rate (Rf) equals rate of long-term Treasury
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Kanthal Case Study Solutions INTRODUCTION: Kanthal is company that specializes in the production and sales of electrical resistance heating elements. Kanthal has about 10‚000 customers and they produce about 15‚000 items. The company consists of three divisions and these three divisions are as follows: 1)Kanthal Heating Technology - 25% global market share 2)Kanthal Furnace Products - 40% global market share 3)Kanthal Bimetals - Manufacturer of one of the few fully integrated temperature control
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hardened tool steels (such as AISI H11‚ H13‚ and D2‚ up to 56 HRC) by commercial Ø 0.5 mm square endmills‚ it is observed that the tested micro endmills showed severe wear at an early stage of the process due to chipping off around cutting edge corners‚ resulting in unsatisfactory tool life and product appearance (burr formation). Detailed examination of current tool geometry shows that it is mainly inherited from that of macro endmills‚ making the cutting edge corners the weakest part on the tool. As
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1. Case Name‚ Citation‚ and Court Internet Solutions Corp. v. Marshall LEXIS 2826I (2008) The District Court for the Middle District of Florida 2. Key Facts A. Internet Solutions Corp. (ISC)‚ which operates employment recruiting and Internet advertising websites‚ has its principal place of business in Florida. B. Tabatha Marshall‚ a resident of the State of Washington‚ was sued by ISC for making false and defamatory statements on her website. C. Marshall filed a motion to dismiss asserting
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Variations should not be acted upon unless the change has been authorized by the recognized authority. An authorized change becomes a change order‚ which will affect the cost of the project. In the case of Millennium Erectors Corporation‚ regarding the R Square Residences project‚ there have been at least four variation orders issued in the past few months by the project engineer. Two of them will be studied for the sake of this report. The first example is the front
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Chapter 5 Case -- Stem Corporation (A)* On December 31‚ 2006‚ before the yearly financial statements were prepared‚ the controller of the Stem Corporation reviewed certain transactions that affected accounts receivable and the allowance for doubtful accounts. The controller first examined the December 31‚ 2005‚ balance sheet (Exhibit 1). A subsequent review of the year’s transactions applicable to accounts receivable revealed the items listed below: 1. Sales on account during 2006 amounted to $9
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