a restructuring plan for the secured debt of its main subsidiary “Bulong Operations Pty. Ltd. (BOP)”. The debt mainly consisted of $185 million in senior secured notes‚ Working capital loans and hedging contracts owed to Barclays. To avoid a liquidation of BOP‚ the plan had to be approved by the Supreme Court of Western Australian‚ the majority of the noteholders and the Preston shareholders. The Bulong Nickel Project The Nickel and Cobalt Industries The Nickel market is estimated to be 1
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a change in the depreciation methods on assets. The depreciation policy for financial reporting purposes was changed to a straight-line method from a principally accelerated method. There was a change in the use of last-in‚ first-out (LIFO) liquidation in inventory valuation. There was a change in the allowance for doubtful accounts. The company adjusted its allowance for doubtful accounts to 6.7% of sales for 1984 from 10% of sales in 1983. There was change in the R&D expenses. Harnischfeger
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MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP Bankruptcy and restructuring Introduction Marvel entertainment group was started by Martin Goodman in 1939. It originally was a comic book business‚ known as Marvel Comics now. We have no way to forget the images of X-men‚ Spider-Man‚ and Thor. Marvel Entertainment Group has had a glorious history‚ and a dominant position in the comic market. However‚ this glorious empire regretfully elapsed in the end. The historical rise and fall influences not only comic fans’
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CHAPTER 2 SOLUTIONS TO B EXERCISES EXERCISE 2-1B (15–20 minutes) (a) True. (b) False – General-purpose financial reports helps users who lack the ability to demand all the financial information they need from an entity and therefore must rely‚ at least partly‚ on the information in financial reports. (c) False – Standard-setting that is based on personal conceptual frameworks will lead to different conclusions about identical or similar issues. As a result‚ standards will not be consistent
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General Motor’s Strategic Analysis pressure from substitute or complementary products‚ (4) bargaining power of buyers‚ and (5) bargaining power of suppliers. 1. Rivalry between existing competitors With the rise of foreign competitors like Toyota‚ Honda and Nissan in the 1970’s and 80’s‚ rivalryin the American auto industry has become much more intense. Firms compete on both price andnon-price dimensions. The price competition erodes profits by drawing down price-cost marginswhile non-price competition
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Circuit City Circuit City Stores‚ Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol CC) was an American multinational consumer electronics corporation. It was founded in 1949 and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. By 2000‚ many Circuit City stores were out of date and in bad locations‚ unable to compete with the competition from newer Best Buy stores. In 2000‚ Circuit City abandoned the large appliance business and introduced a more self-serve format called "Horizon". This was controversial
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Historians have concluded‚ that the economic impact of the first World War caused the Great Depression in the1930s. Yet they disagree as to whether exogenous shocks or economic stagnation following the war lead to the depression. Peter Temin‚ Christina Romer and Michael Calamaris believe that a series of monetary shocks during the late 1920s‚ that had their origins during and after the great war‚ turned an economic downturn of 1929 into the depression of the 30s. Temin argues that the “collapse of
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being shipped to Australia. The fault could only have been detected if every television set was individually tested by X Ltd. X Ltd sold the television as one of a consignment to the SupaTV Discount Store‚ which has now gone into liquidation. Before it went into liquidation SupaTV sold the faulty television to the ABC Advertising Company. ABC used the television set for making presentations to its clients. Unfortunately‚ when ABC was presenting to one of its biggest clients‚ the fault in the television
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Week Five Problems December 14‚ 2013 ACC/455 C 11-31 Termination of the Election: Orlando Corporation‚ a calendar year taxpayer‚ has been an S corporation for several years. On July 10‚ 2009‚ Orlando authorizes a second class of nonvoting preferred stock that pays a 10% annual dividend. The corporation issues the stock to Sid on September 12‚ 2009‚ to raise additional equity capital. Sid owns no other Orlando stock. a. Does Orlando’s S election terminate
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Oskar Schindler was born 28th of April 1908‚ Oskar Schindler is a over all hero‚ he continually risked his life while trying to safe others at all cost‚ he made very courageous decisions without any second guessing about how much trouble he would be put in if he was caught doing this action‚ with Oskar being in the prior experiences also made his operation all the more ricky. With all Oskar went through he still reminds unknown to many people today. As Oskar Schindler grew up he worked in several
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