Case Study – Prestige Telephone Co. Company Profile Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to sell computer services. The company was opened in order to bring in additional revenue in order to offset increases in telephone rate increases. Throughout the three years of being
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Case Study : Prestige Telephone Company Background of Case Study In April 1997‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company (PTC)‚ Daniel Rowe‚ was making arrangements to meet with its computer data service subsidiary Prestige Data Services’ (henceforth PDS) manager Susan Bradley. This subsidiary performs data processing for the telephone company and sells computer services to other companies. In 1994‚ Rowe suggested that productive computer services subsidiary will decrease the telephone rate rise’s
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The Prestige Telephone Company 2- Assume that the total expenses are around the average of $ 231‚000. (By observing first three months’ results) If the total expenses are $ 231‚000 than the total revenue should be $ 231‚000 at the Break-Even Point. On the other hand if the company demand for service will be 205 hours ‚ which means company sales revenue will be $ 82‚000 (as the Public Service Commission’s restrictions says)‚ and the other revenues in the commercial sales assume that around
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results of operations of Prestige Data Service. Is the subsidiary really a problem to Prestige Telephone Company? Consider carefully the differences between reported costs and cost relevant for decisions that Daniel Rowe is considering. 1. The prestige Data Services grew from the needs of the Prestige Telephone Company to meet their needs of data handling at the time but the problem now is that the company is still operating at a loss. But is that a problem for the parent company? We do not think so‚
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The current situation of Prestige Data Service revealed a few problems‚ which had mis-presented the performance of Prestige Data Service and misled the manager’s decision making. First of all‚ the current accounting report did not reveal the real contribution made by Prestige Data Service to its parent company. According to the restriction of the state Public Service Commission‚ the average monthly charge for service by the subsidiary to the parent not exceed $82‚000; therefore the intercompany
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Case Study Prestige Telephone Co. CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS Jan Fixed costs: Space rent Custodial services Computer leases Maintenance Depreciation Power Wages: Operations Systems development Admnistration Sales Sales promotions Total fixed costs I Corporate services Total fixed costs II Variable cost per hour: Power Wages operations Materials Variable unit cost per hour 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Feb 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Mar 8.000 1.240 95.000 5.400 26.180 Average 8.000 1.240
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adjust different variables (fixed cost‚ variable cost and price strategy) to maximize the bottom-line or top-line to either maximize profit or minimize the operation cost. Provided the data as below‚ 3 variable costs indentified‚ they are power‚ operations‚ material. They are proportional to the revenue intake. Data provided Estimated changes January February March January February March Revenue hours Commercial 123 135 138 86 95 97 30% drop in sales Total revenue hours
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Prestige Telephone Company – Case Study In April 2003‚ Daniel Rowe‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company‚ was preparing for a meeting with Susan Bradley‚ Manager of Prestige Data Services‚ a company subsidiary. Partial deregulation and an agreement with the state Public Service Commission had permitted Prestige Telephone to establish a computer data service subsidiary to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer service to other companies and organizations. Mr.
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Accounting for Decision Making (GSM5301) Case Study Report 6 Prestige Telephone Company GROUP 4 : LECTURER : Dr. Ahmed Razman HAND IN DATE : 26 March 2014 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and selling computer services to other organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month. Worse
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The company was opened to bring the additional revenue in order to offset the increases of telephone rate. Throughout two years of being in operation the subsidiary has been unprofitable
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