ASSIGNMENT 2: PRADA Refer to the HBS case "Prada: To IPO or Not to IPO" and answer the questions below. Note: Complete the related textbook chapters (RWJJ Chapters 14‚ 15 & 19) before attempting this case. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM SAID TO BE FACING PRADA? Prada got some financial trouble. First‚ Prada failed for several times to IPO due to various reasons like SARS‚ financial crisis‚ etc. Second‚ because of the long-term debt maturing in one year‚ Prada needed to raise more than 1 billion euros
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Singapore. His sole trading activities for derivatives on the Singapore and Osaka Exchange lead the 233 years old bank into bankruptcy. Further below we discuss how the bank was lead into bankruptcy. Question 1 & 2 Nick Leeson‚ a young man from Watford in England joined Barings in 1989 from Morgan Stanley shortly after having graduated from University. His responsibilities involved doing settlement work and accounting and paying for transactions. Shortly after he was sent to their office in Jakarta‚
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campaign‚ as the company increased its Medicare eligible diabetes customer base from 17‚000 to 545‚000 in 2003. To qualify as capitalized expenditure as assets‚ the direct responses expenses had to prove that the specific advertisements generated sales. Leads normally did not qualify. It has to be narrowly targeted and the response needs to be tracked. The company ran various advertising commercials on the television with each commercial being given a separate toll free number. For each customer‚ the firm
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all of its products to either insiders or outsiders and if buying center can obtain all of its requirements from either outside or insiders. The market price then represents the opportunity costs to the seller of selling the product inside. In this case‚ Thompson division had been running over capacity and
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? “When AES undertook primarily domestic contract generation projects where the risk of changes to input and output prices was minimal‚ a project finance framework was employed.” Usually‚ project finance framework is used when the project has predictable cash flows‚ which can easily represent operating targets through explicit contract. When cash flows are certainty‚ the company can have
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The Brewster-Seaview Landscaping Co. Part 1 During the summer of my freshman year in college‚ I worked for a small private landscaping company planting shrubs‚ seeding new lawns‚ cutting grass‚ and tending flower gardens. The company was located in my hometown of Seaview‚ N.J.‚ which is a rural community on the coast about 80 miles from Philadelphia. The company was owned and run by Joe Brewster‚ a 45-year-old man who had lived in Seaview all his life. He had started the company some years ago and
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average client who receives treatment or intervention improves more than two-thirds of people who do not receive counselling (Landman & Dawes‚ 1982). This has supported the general efficacy of counselling interventions. Despite reviews of outcome studies negate claims of superiority for any one approach (Wampold‚ Mondin‚ Moody‚ Stich‚ Benson & Ahn‚ 1997)‚ evidences have shown the superiority of particular counselling approach with some problems or clients (e.g.‚ Beutler & Harwood‚ 2000; Paul & Menditto
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diversification of its interests. 2. Amazon is competing with Google and Microsoft because Google and Microsoft offer their customers rival computing solutions‚ including database management‚ storage‚ and running programs on remote servers. In short‚ Amazon‚ Google and Microsoft are all offering business solutions to companies. These solutions include Software as a Service (SaaS) and Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It is only a wise strategy for Amazon to compete with Google and Microsoft if Amazon
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Many jobs lost‚ communities devastated‚ memories and legacies taken away.. What could cause issues like these? The answer is the cod collapse… In 1992 when the cod fish was lowest ever measured‚ the government was forced to close the fishery in Newfoundland. The action taken by the federal conservative government put over 40‚000 individuals out of work. Cod is a popular food fish with a mild flavor‚ low fat content and a dense white flesh that flakes easily. In the UK Atlantic cod is one of the
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Case Study in Managerial accounting Case 1: Southwest Airlines Part A : General Information Company Name: Southwest Airlines Co. Company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange trade market (NYSE) with symbol LUV. Corporate Headquarters are located at the physical address: 2702 Love Field Drive‚ Dallas‚ Texas 75235. Corporate Web Site: http://www.southwest.com. Corporate Web Site for business travelers: http://www.swabiz.com/ Industry Classification Company operates in the Industrial
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