Case Overview: Weymouth Steel Corporation in September‚ 1990 is having a critical time in finding out the ways to communicate the bad and good news to its salaried employees. An erroneous selection of time and communication channel selection may demoralize the workforce completely resulting in a disaster for the company. The good news is that the company management has decided to increase the salary and benefits of almost all the salaried employees regardless of their grades while on the other
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Case 1.1 - Enron Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast
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Kim Electronics (Kimtron). Product. Kim Electronics (Kimtron) is the wholly owned Korean affiliate of Fairtel‚ a U.S. electronic component manufacturer. Fairtel manufactures customized integrated circuits (Ics) for use in computers ‚ automobiles‚ and robots. Kimtron has been Fairtel’s distribution affiliate in Korea‚ but consideration is now being given to making Kimtron a manufacturing affiliate. Kimtron’s products would be sold primarily in Korea‚ and all sales would be denominated in Korean
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GROUP SUBMISSION: Due 27 June 2011 Midnight American Chemical Corporation CASE QUESTIONS Read the American Chemical Corporation case that was handed to you. The underlying question to be answered is should Dixon acquire the Collinsville plant. In your case write-up‚ you can discuss the questions given below. Please note that the given questions are to be used only as a guide for your discussion. You do not need to answer the questions in the sequence they are presented. You can use the spreadsheet
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(NCC) filed a case against the CIR for the recovery of sum of money it paid on protest as specific tax on 24‚089 tons of coals claiming exemption to tax pursuant to Sec. 14 and 15 of Act 2719. Issue: Whether or not NCC is a private corporation? Held: Plaintiff is a private corporation. The mere fact that the government is a majority stockholder of the corporation does not make the corporation. Act 2705 as amended by Act 2822 makes it subject to all the provision of the corporation law. As a private
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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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2010-2011 MASSEY UNIVERSITY Honesty Declaration School of Management (Albany) |Lecturer’s Name |Paper Name |Paper Number | |David Tappin |Project Management |152.752 | Honesty Declaration |I/we declare that this is an original assignment and is entirely my/our own work.
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Merrill Lynch Financial Statements Guide Balance sheet – what company owns and owes at report date; assets = liabilities/equity Income statement – shows whether a company’s operation over a period of time (i.e. a year) was profitable or lost $$ Statement of changes in shareholders’ equity – reconciles activity in shareholders’ equity section of balance sheet from period to period; typically changes are due to company profits/losses‚ dividends‚ and/or stock issuance Cash flow statement – cash
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Case: AMERICAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Dixon‚ an American specialty chemical producer‚ wants to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation‚ another typical chemical company in 1979. Dixon wants to diversify its product line buy acquiring the aforesaid plant‚ which produces sodium-chlorate to supply to paper producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency
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it is more relevant to programmed decisions because your decision is already clear that you already know what to do about it. For Kimwa Corporation‚ Daft (2010) each employee and executive in the corporation has the mentality of straight forward thinking because they are being taught on how to make programmed decisions. Your decisions are clear that you could present a visual presentation to your presentation and many more techniques to make the presentation interesting and smart at the same time
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