Summary Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and also to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month and by the end of 1996 its income was low enough to necessitate a report to shareholders. Mrs. Bradley thinks the company just needs more time while Mr. Rowe feels it is time to reassess Prestige
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Case Analysis: Prestige Telephone Company Liam Hennessy‚ Xinyi Zhang‚ Yuan Chai‚ and Anthony Saba 1. Reasons for Continuing Losses Prestige Data Services’ main problem is that they have too many available hours that are not generating any revenue. In the first quarter of 2003‚ they have an average of 176 available hours per month of available hours. Its operations exact a huge amount of fixed costs to cover. If they could find more commercial customers for the available capacity‚ they could
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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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calculated as follows to demonstrate the financial impact to the Prestige Telephone: A To keep Prestige Data Service in operation‚ Prestige Telephone will incurre: Expense Lost of Subdiary Revenue Earned Space Corporate Service Total Expense $ 82‚000 21‚438 9‚240 15‚236 78‚962 Service fee paid to Prestige Data Service Net Loss in March Fee paid by Prestige Data Service B To close down Prestige Data Service‚ Prestige Telephone will incurre: Expense Sunk Cost Total Expense 178‚400 4‚560‚000 $ 4
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Prestige Telephone Company Scott Johnson‚ Nicole Phillips‚ Ashton Shuler‚ & Brandy Watts February 25th‚ 2014 Group Contributions Responded to all texts‚ discussion boards‚ and emails Participated in online chat and conference call Answered question 3 Provided the framework of how the case would be set up Suggested new ideas for later projects on how to discuss our topic Responded to all texts‚ discussion boards‚ and emails Participated in online chat and conference call Answered
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Title: PRESTIGE TELEPHONE COMPANY: A CASE ANALYSIS Point of View: Management Consultant I. Issues and Concerns: ■ In 1999‚ the Public Service Commission encouraged all public utilities to: 1. seek new sources of revenues and profits since heading towards deregulation; and 2. To reduce the need for rate increases. ■ Prestige Telephone Co. realized that a centralized service that could plan‚ control‚ and account for its own
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follows to demonstrate the financial impact to the Prestige Telephone: A To keep Prestige Data Service in operation‚ Prestige Telephone will incurre: Expense Lost of Subdiary Revenue Earned Space Corporate Service Total Expense B 82‚000 21‚438 Service fee paid to Prestige Data Service Net Loss in March Fee paid by Prestige Data Service 9‚240 15‚236 $ 78‚962 To close down Prestige Data Service‚ Prestige Telephone will incurre: Expense Sunk Cost 178‚400 4‚560‚000
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Basic: 1. Why does Harvard spend so many resources managing its endowment? Why not simply invest in Treasury Bonds and be done? 2. Why this emphasis on real returns as opposed to nominal returns? 3.How does HMC form its capital market assumptions? Why don’t they use past statistics to project the future? What do HMC’s capital market assumptions imply about the forward looking domestic equity premium? How does it compare to the historical equity premium? 4.If cash has zero standard deviation
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Frame the issue. Discuss the advantages and limitations of optimal portfolio allocation. HMC defined their Policy Portfolio to correspond to their benchmark‚ according to the modern portfolio theory (Markowitz‚ 1952)‚ whose goal is to minimize the variance for a given return. The main advantage of the optimal portfolio allocation lies in its ability to provide weights on how to invest a given amount of money based on a few inputs. Optimal portfolio allocation is easy to implement‚ yet it faces
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These numbers were obtained though historical analysis done by HMC and third-party analysts. b) HMC has as one of its objectives to maintain the endowment’s long-term purchasing power. By focusing on real returns‚ it gives the concerned parties at Harvard a clear view over the purchasing power’s growth of the endowment. c) From Exhibit 11 we can see that domestic and foreign equity yields the same real return‚ with a slightly higher standard deviation for the latter one. This would imply that they
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