Management Accounting and Business Textbook/Reading Reference Lecture Illustration Text Questions Notes Tutorial 1: Topic 1 (Introduction)Week 1 Introduction to management accounting: Value Chain Analysis (VCA) (Ch.1) Chalice Wines Intro (discuss assessment tasks) Group Task 1 Management accounting and value chain analysis (10%) (due in week 5’s class) Tutorial 2: Topic 2 (Profit Planning) Week2 Building a Profit Plan (Additional Reading‚ Simons‚ 2000‚ Ch.5 pp77-109) Boston
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determine who was leaking information to the press. The issue of the legality of the use of pretexting by HP was eventually ruled to be a non-issue‚ meaning that it was not illegal. However‚ this does not mean that the use of pretexting by HP was a good business decision. This activity did have negative impact for the many members of the board‚ e.g. many resigned and had their professional reputations tarnished. * Do laws take any action towards the company? Unethical behaviour hurt the company
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Nokia rises to the challenge of the changing mobile phones market. Finland’s best known company has long been a global leader in the mobile phones market. Perhaps improbably‚ from its beginnings as a paper mill in 1865‚ this nowvenerable company whose culture and management remain rooted in Finnish values‚ has become one of the most resilient‚ globalized MNEs in an era dominated by globalization of markets. Indeed‚ the company attributes its staying power in markets largely to Finnish values
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Competitive situation facing Zynga Let us first analyze the competitive situation facing Zynga by asking the question: Does Zynga really have any competitors right now? Taken in the narrowest possible sense of social gaming on Facebook‚ the answer is no. Zynga has more users than all of their nearest competitors‚ and more users than the rest of the top 10 developers on Facebook combined. Barring any massive systemic disruptions to the platform‚ Zynga’s dominant position and the accompanying
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1. The one time dividend will not affect the stock price. The value of the company will decline by the amount of the dividend. Ignoring taxes‚ shareholders wealth will not be affected because the stock price will drop by the amount of the dividend payment. 2. The value of the company could increase or decrease. If the company is overlevered‚ paying off debt can lower the interest rate on debt‚ and decrease financial distress costs. If there are no financial distress costs‚ capital structure
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(they are NOT recorded in the books of the parent or The consolidation process (2) Acquisition analysis • Consolidation involves adding the financial statements of a parent and its subsidiaries and making a number of adjustment entries: • business combination valuation reserve (BCVR) • An acquisition analysis compares the cost of acquisition with the fair value of the identifiable net
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accumulated in an inventory account instead of being expensed on the income statement? 7. How do product costs affect the financial statements? How does the classification of product cost (as an asset vs. an expense) affect net income? ATC 1-1 | Business Applications Case | Financial versus managerial accounting | The following information was taken from the 2008 and 2009 Form 10-Ks for Dell‚ Inc.Required a. Explain whether each line of information in the table above would best be described as
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forever‚ making MP one of the greatest athletes of all time. Immediately after the event‚ The Wall Street Journal reported that Phelps would be likely to turn the eight gold medals into a cash-flow stream of more than $100 million through a variety of business activities.1 The more obvious ones were product and service endorsements: His official sponsors included AT&T Wireless‚ Kellogg’s‚ Omega‚ PowerBar‚ Rosetta Stone‚ Speedo‚ Visa‚ and PureSport. Other offers included the exotic and the mundane: books
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1. Shaw and Barry distinguish two different forms of utilitarianism. What are these two forms? Briefly describe each and use examples. Two forms of utilitarianism are act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of individual actions and how those involved will be affected. The right course of action to take is the action that will produce the most overall happiness. An example of act utilitarianism would be whether or not to tell a patient they have
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CASE STUDY: HELPING PATIENTS AT PLAINFIELD HEALTHCARE CENTER Question 1 Is it unethical for the managers of Plainfield Healthcare Centre to honour their white patients’ requests to be helped only by members of their own race? Was Brenda Chaney subjected to a ‘hostile workplace’ on the basis of her race? Did the managers of Plainfield Healthcare Centre unethically discriminate against Chaney? It is unethical for the managers of Plainfield Healthcare Centre to honour their white patients’ requests
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