1. How would you classify Alcoa’s ethical work climate? Which ethical criterion‚ as shown in Figure 5.1‚ was used by the company: egoism (self-centered)‚ benevolence (concern for others)‚ or principles (integrity approach)? Or‚ using Professor Paine’s two distinct ethics approaches‚ as discussed in this chapter‚ was Alcoa’s approach more compliance or integrity? Alcoa’s ethical work climate is diverse‚ encourages open communication and learning‚ and community outreach. The company’s strategy encourages
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and production problems and limitations that an own-brand manufacturer in CPG industry faces. Distribution: there are three types of distributions channels in Taiwan CPG industry: Wholesale and retail chain store‚ distributor and Pxmart. In Farcent case‚ wholesaler and retail chain stores generate highest sales revenue. However these hypermarkets and chain stores are booming with competitive advantage to ask manufacturer to pay more for distribution fee. Indeed‚ it is more difficult to raise operation
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suits Rendell Company plus some additional control system in attaining the company’s main objectives. We will be also tackling the roles‚ functions and responsibilities of a controller in an organization. This case takes us into Rendell Company which is currently having problems between the corporate controller and the divisional controller. We assessed the advantages and disadvantages of the organization structure of Martex whether it can be applied and be implemented to Rendell Company in order to
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INTRODUCTION The Tappoos Group was founded by my late father Mr.Tappoo Kanji on 23rd August 1941. Wonderful things have been happening since the opening of our Tappoo-City complex in the heart of Suva City. We are truly humbled by the overwhelming response we have received from people of all walks of life in regards to this iconic development. Sales management is a systematic process involving the formulation of sales strategy through development of account management policies‚ sales force compensation
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Established in 1967 as RTI‚ the Greatwide Company has become one of the best carriage and logistics company in the United States. Throughout the years‚ it has improved its services through the acquisition of Total Distribution‚ Nordstrom Freight Corporation‚ Dallas Mavis‚ Am-Can‚ Cargo-Master‚ Southpoint‚ and YGC logistics. With its fleet of more than 5‚000 trucks‚ Greatwide is always in the search for dedicated and reliable drivers. If you have what it takes to be part of the team‚ then try for
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Even if the company reports high profit it is always looking for areas of growth. Last year the Luxottica Group’s Oakley brand and Intel published their collaboration for the launch of Radar Pace to travel-retail‚ an innovative and smart eyewear which coach in real time all the types of athletes with training programs‚ track performances and authentic feedbacks. All this with a hands-free interface powered by Intel Real Speech. Being currently leader in the global market‚ today‚ the company’s main
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Medoc Company About Medoc: Company deals with milled flour and a variety of consumer products fromit Milling and Consumer Division were 2 of 15 Investment centres Top management of the Medoc Company was convinced that‚ some wayor the other‚ the profit performance of the Milling Division and the consumer products division should be measured separately. This was mainly for profit reporting purposes. Transfer of products from Milling to Consumer was done at actual cost 75% of Milling Division’s
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1. Draw a flow chart of the cookie-making process (you can hand-draw and scan). See the last page. 2. How long (the throughput time) will it take to fill a rush order of 1-dozen cookie? Assume no other cookies are currently in process. Use a Gantt chart to help with the analysis and attach the screen shot of the Gantt chart. 6+2+1+9+5+2+1=26 mins 3.What is the cycle time? How many orders can you fill in a night (4-hour period)? Does your answer depend on the size of the
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Case 19-3: Brisson Company Approach This problem takes the student through a complete cycle of transactions in a standard cost system in a simple setting. It shows how such a system works‚ including the development of variances‚ and ties cost accounting to the accounting cycle the student learned in Part 1 of the book. (Brisson’s system is the same as the one depicted in Illustration 19-2.) This seems to be a valuable exercise‚ especially in helping to minimize the omnipresent problems students
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1. According to the case‚ if using ABC‚ Wilkerson should pool overheads into five activities: machine-related expenses‚ setup labor cost‚ receiving and production control cost‚ engineering cost‚ and packaging and shipping cost. The cost pool/cost driver information for an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system for Wilkerson has already provided by table 1. Based on the information on table 1 and four exhibit in case‚ we can figure out that the total cost per unit of valves‚ pumps and flow controllers
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