Case 5.3 The North Face‚ Inc 1 Auditors should not insist that their clients accept all proposed audit adjustments even those that have an “immaterial” effect on the given set of financial statements. Because “immaterial” effect on the financial statements will not affect the users’ decisions. Therefore‚ auditors have to confirm if the effects on the financial statements are really “immaterial”. If there are really “immaterial”‚ sometimes the auditor would be forced by the clients to ignore it
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Dell‚ Inc. Case Study First: Problem Diagnosis: Over the years‚ Dell has devised very successful strategies to increase customer loyalty and reduce costs. However with the passage of time‚ the company has failed to have a proactive approach to capitalize the opportunities provided by the environment and sustained its competitive advantage. 1. Use of the direct selling approach: This approach has been the main competitive advantage of Dell over the years‚ which enabled the company to create strong
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FORECASTING Managers are always trying to reduce uncertainty and make better estimates of what will happen in the future; this is the main purpose of forecasting. Some firms use subjective methods‚ seat-of-the pants methods‚ intuition‚ and experience. There are also several quantitative techniques‚ moving averages‚ exponential smoothing‚ trend projections‚ and least squares regression analysis. Eight steps to forecasting: * Determine the use of the forecast—what objective are we trying to
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•What happened to the price of beef as a result? The price of beef went up. Matter of fact‚ it hit record highs. Resulting in better sales for substitute items. •What was the impact of mad cow disease on the supply and demand for substitute items? It seems to me that once the issue of mad cow disease became bigger‚ the demand for substitute items went up. The article says that Americans will act in one of two ways. We will either “run from beef” like the Europeans did in the nineties‚ or “rally
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Sean Russi The Case of Phar-Mor Inc ACCT-525 October 31‚ 2012 Case Summary The case of Phar-Mor Inc was one of the biggest pre-Enron frauds that have been uncovered. Phar-Mor Inc established in 1982 Phar-Mor was a small little known discount drugstore. Phar-Mor became well known for offering medications at a 25-40% discount rate compared to your normal pharmacy store prices. Phar-Mor’s first six years of existence seemingly were
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1. INTRODUCTION TO THE TERM PAPER 1.2 BACKGROUND Forecasting relates to the management functions of planning‚ organizing and controlling. It is one of the key elements of operations management. Companies serve their customers and the society at large by producing various goods and services. The market need is continuously changing. In order to cope up with the changing demand companies must develop a good forecasting technique to determine the demand level For this term paper‚ five different products
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To: Hu Feng From: Date: September 18‚ 2014 Subject: Explanations of the differences between inventory accounting between IFRS and US GAAP. Facts: Tarheel Farm‚ Inc. (TFI) is a corporation involved in agricultural production and has a June 30 financial year-end. It is not publicly traded‚ but is required to prepare annual financial statements for its bank. Historically‚ the bank has required that these statements comply with US GAAP rules. Recently‚ TFI was purchased by OSI China‚ a Chinese
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Study Inventory is basically the total amount of goods and materials held in stock by a factory‚ store and other business. An inventory system is a process whereby a business keeps track of the goods and material it has available. In its simplest sense it can be done manually by a count at the end of each day. In this way it is possible to keep a record of the goods coming in to the business and goods being sold. The same case applies in Kuya’s Lumpiang Sariwa and as a result‚ the inventory system
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had suffered significant loses in the first quarter of 1991 and expected even worse in the second quarter. Casey (vice president of marketing) and Trott (vice president of corporate planning) were asked to reexamine the company’s procedures for forecasting sales‚ which was considered as one of the several underlying problems contributing to the firm’s poor performance by Aston‚ the CEO and chairman of the board. Bacon was asked to form a task force to do the task‚ and after some discussion with
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Strategy Recommendation STR/581 November 6‚ 2011 Strategy Recommendation for L.L.Bean Founded in 1912‚ L.L.Bean‚ located in Freeport Maine‚ is a global company with annual sales of $1.5 billion. In order for L.L.Bean to remain a profitable private retailer of men’s‚ women’s and children’s clothing‚ indoor furnishings‚ and outdoor gear for the avid outdoorsman‚ the company needs to continually reinvent themselves to stay ahead of the competition. L.L.Bean has remained profitable with only one
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