MID TERM ESSAY Course: CORPORATE FINANCE (FIN 6160) Case study: "MIRACLE LIFE‚ Inc" Miracle Life Inc.‚ founded in 1980 by Angela Simpson‚ is one of the companies possessed the largest global marketing network in the world which sells products to control overweight‚ nutritional supplement products and personal health care products with the goal: "to improve health and happiness of people around the world. " From the early years since its establishment‚ the company has gained
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MATTHEW YACHTS‚ INC. This is an excellent case to address the characteristics of process-oriented vs. repetitive vs. product-oriented production. 1. Matthew Yachts is profitable‚ thanks to its custom-designed yachts. Its management experience appears to have competitive advantage in custom-designed yachts‚ hence the higher profit margins. However‚ since the demand for the “fixed” design is growing‚ expansion into this area‚ with its repetitive-oriented layout and procedures (see Table 7.2 and
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Manufactured Homes‚ Inc. QUESTIONS: 1. Identify the accounting policies of Manufactured Homes which have the most significant impact on the company’s financial statements. What are the key assumptions behind these policies? Do you think that these assumptions are justified? 2. Evaluate the company’s financial and operating performance during 1986 and the first nine months of 1987. 3. Given the company’s business strategy‚ accounting policies‚ and recent performance‚ what is your assessment of its
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Component Technologies‚ Inc 1) Prepare the manufacturing staff’s calculations for the three alternatives (please refer to the attachments): a) In the first set of calculations‚ the staff used a discount rate of 20%‚ a five-year time horizon‚ and ignored taxes and terminal value. What is the relative attractiveness of these three alternatives? During the period of 5 years (from 1994 to 1998)‚ if the discount rate is 20%‚ Waltham plant is the only one that has a positive amount in NPV. The
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File-It Supplies Inc‚ Present Situation Patsy Akaka is the marketing manager of File-It Supplies which is a file folder manufacturer that has been in business for 28 years. Other primary lines they are file markers‚ labels and indexing systems. On the other hand 40% of FIS´s file folder business is in specialized lines including oversized blue-print and engineer drawings for several high tech industries. Even though the company has a unique knowledge in the field‚ Patsy is facing a complicated
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Case Study: MagRec Inc. 1. Place yourself in the role of the manager. What should you do now? After considering what happened‚ would you change any of your behaviors? If I were the manager in the situation that she is currently in I would apologize to Dinah. I would apologize because: 1) Dinah was honest and reported the file when she could have disposed or disregarded the file‚ 2) Dinah could have taken the file directly to Partco without MagRec’s knowledge and completely undermined MagRec’s
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Kraft Foods Romania Kraft Foods Romania Tudor Corneliu Master Fabiz‚ An II‚ Gr. II 12/23/2011 Tudor Corneliu Master Fabiz‚ An II‚ Gr. II 12/23/2011 Contents 1. Kraft Foods Int 1 1.1. History 2 1.2. The Business 2 1.3. Sales evolution 3 1.4. MNE characteristics 4 2. The internationalization process of Kraft Foods 5 2.1. Kraft Foods in Romania 5 2.2. 2008/2009 turn around 6 3. Kraft Foods strategic management 7 3.1. Kraft foods mission‚ vision
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SEE’S CANDIES INC. Swiss Market Strategy MGMT 335 – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Professor: ALFRED SIU 1 INTRODUCTION Charles See founded SEE’S Candies Inc. in 1921 in the city of Los Angeles‚ California. Charles See was a visionary who approached the confection business with a simple view. He decided that no image would better reflect the personality of this venture than that of his mother. Apart from using her recipes as a foundation‚ See knew that keeping things in the family was the only
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Quasar Communications Inc. There are four divisions in this group and every division has different issues. The essential reason is the absence of coordination. The R&D project management has two main issues. The first one is lacking of communications between different divisions. It must work with each division and make the integration and no divisions are independent. The root cause of the problem is that processing program about the project is not systematic. The vice president should project
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Introduction The company was established in 1980 by Eugene Mercan and the first product was a desalinator. In 1996‚ the product line included desalinators‚ particle filters‚ ozonators‚ ion exchange resins‚ and purifiers. In 1996‚ sales revenues was almost $400 million (annual growth average 12% for past five years)‚ with an expected profit close to $50 million. In 1999‚ water purifier was added to product line by using brand name “Delight”. The company has identified a market for its water purifier
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