1. Is Boise Cascade Corporation CDPS a profit center? Boise Cascade’s Corporate Data Processing Services (CDPS) is considered a profit centre. A profit center is a business unit that is treated as a distinct unit within an organization‚ where expenses and revenues are calculated separately in order for profitability to be determined. CDPS was a division of the Corporate Information Services department within Boise Cascade Corporation‚ which was responsible for running the mainframe computer and
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Consider the following simplified financial statements for the Phillips Corporation (assuming no income taxes): | Income Statement | Balance Sheet | Sales | $17‚000 | Assets | $13‚127 | Debt | $7‚541 | Costs | 11‚730 | | | Equity | 5‚586 | Net income | ------------------------------------------------- $5‚270 | Total | ------------------------------------------------- $13‚127 | Total | ------------------------------------------------- $13‚127
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FBE 421 Marriott Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Founded in 1927‚ Marriott Corporation has become one of the leading food service companies in the United States. As of 1987‚ Marriott recorded a profit of $233 million on sales of $6.5 billion and retained a high sales growth rate of 24%. Marriott runs on three major lines of business lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurants. Lodging division which includes 361 hotels generated 41% of 1987 sales
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) 1. How does Marriott use its estimate of cost of capital? Does this make sense? Marriot use cost of capital as the hurdle rate (minimum rate of return required to accept the project) to discount future cash flows for the investment projects of the three lines of business (Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants). They use this rate to calculate NPV and net present value over cost to decide for the profit rate. Since cost of the project
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CAMBRIDGE SOFTWARE CORPORATION Cambridge Software Corporation is about to decide whether to offer multiple versions of Modeler‚ a new Lotus-1‚ 2‚ 3 compatible modeling software product. Software Market Research Group cooperating with Modeler Project team identified five segments as large‚ multidivisional corporations; corporate R&D and universities labs; consultant and professional companies; small businesses; and students. CSC has identified three versions to serve these segments. These versions
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International Drilling Corporation Case Write-up In the case study ”International Drilling Corporation”‚ Taylor described that the problem as many people either “didn’t know about what was going on” or “knew and just didn’t care.” Upon further inspection on the case‚ it was evident that many IDC executives were aware of company’s wrongdoings‚ but simply decided not to take any action. However‚ if I were Don Taylor‚ I would choose to report SEC. I believe this is the most ethical and logical decision
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SHOE CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS GROUP 8; SECTION B By IMPORTANT ISSUE * Incorporation of the rapidly changing styles in the production and the procedure to do the same * Problem between the Manager of styling and the Assistant to the superintendent of the Centerville plant‚ i.e. Lack of understanding and communication between the styling Department and the production Department. * Delay and ambiguity in the process of maintaining historical statistics on shipments (Bypassing
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XAVIER UNIVERSITY – ATENEO DE CAGAYAN CASE STUDY: INTERCONTINENTAL PHILIPPINES CORPORATION In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Subject Human Behaviour in Organization Submitted by: Hosni M. Ali Charmaine Fe S. Borja Noe Cataluna Eza E. Paguya Joanna Camille A. Sihay Submitted to: Dr. Alfonso B. Hortelano January 31‚ 2011 Problem: Sam’s unwillingness to work with the Office Services personnel‚ who were strikers. Objective: To have a smooth transition of
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News Corporation (News Corp) was formerly local newspaper‚ The News‚ established in 1923 in Adelaide‚ Australia by Rupert Murdoch’s father. With the helm of Rupert Murdoch‚ the 1980s News Corp has accelerated its development‚ not only focusing on traditional product areas of newspapers and magazines but also transforming into a vertically integrated global media group‚ with a place in all parts of that industry from newspaper to television‚ from magazines to film. Firstly‚ News Corp entered to
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Bilal Al- Qureshi‚ Said Business School‚ University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large‚ diversified chemical producer. In 1979‚ AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant‚ near Collinsville‚ Alabama. Dixon‚ a specialty chemicals company‚ was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The
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