MEMORANDUM TO: Richard Sullivan FROM: SUBJECT: Wriston Manufacturing Corporation DATE: June 9‚ 2011 Wriston Manufacturing Corporation (WMC) is faced with a Detroit plant that is no longer viable because of underinvestment‚ labour issues‚ and product-process mismatch. This has lead to low sales figures‚ low return‚ and high burden rates (as calculated by the company). The issues at the Detroit plant will be reviewed and options will be presented. A recommendation to address the Detroit
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Marriott Corporation The Cost of Capital Author Student Number 董晖 林桐 吴正浩 祝承懿 Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance‚ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Table of Contents Background The hurdle rate is the required return or opportunity cost of each division and company. Only project with positive NPV discounted by hurdle rate will be invested‚ and the total return of Marriott up to all projects invested. Though there are many subjective aspects in estimation
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Birla Corporation Case Business activities based on the recent developments The Given data states that Birla’s Profits had been increased from 4.19 crore in 2002-03 to 41.56 crore in 2003-04 and their 88.75% sales consist of sales from cement division. But this was the case in both years 2002-03 and 2003-04 which means those profits were achieved only by improvising on internal factors of the company like improvements in performance of Cement division by achieving the higher capacity utilization
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The initial strategy of the advent corporation was the intention of making products that were significantly different from other company’s products. Advent was an enterprise committed to the design and manufacturing of superior quality and high-performance products. Instead of competing directly with the experienced players in the market‚ Advent had the original intent to play it safe. The Advent Corporation had the idea of tapping the unexploited 5% of the home entertainment market which was less
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Service Corporation International This case entails Merger and Acquisition analysis of Service Corporation International’s (SCI). SCI has historically relied on growth through acquisitions‚ which has helped it with synergies due to the “cluster” approach. The growth through acquisition has turned out to be effective strategy to build on synergies by sharing various costs such as cremation‚ transportation‚ staffing‚ and inventory to achieve economies of scale. Further the three criteria of finding
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Assignment Week 3 Portal Corporation Brief 2‚ MBA733--E1WW Background Portal Corporation has two plants that manufacture laser printers located in Ogden & Sandy Utah. Currently the company is expected to produce and sell120‚000 laser printers in the upcoming year. If the company produces these at its current capacity usage‚ variable manufacturing cost will increase at both plants. In order to maximize on production and keep manufacturing cost to a minimum‚ Portal Corporation needs to determine the
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST AND EXTENSION OF THE BARTLETT AND GHOSHAL TYPOLOGY OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES Anne-Wil Harzing Version October 1999 A revised version of this paper appeared in Journal of International Business Studies‚ vol 31 (2000)‚ no. 1‚ pp. 101-120. Copyright © 1999 Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved. Do not quote or cite without permission from the author. Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing University of Melbourne Department of Management Faculty of Economics & Commerce Parkville
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Monroe College School of Business MG112 Winter‚ 2013 Acme Corporation Tautvydas Kieras Professor Borak 1. What are the potential ethical issues faced by acme corporation? The biggest ethical issue is that ACME is taking care of one of their biggest client needs to go to the adult entertainment club. If media finds out about Acme Corp is paying for clients to go to places like this‚ they are going to think that Acme Corp is bribing their clients to stay with them. 2. What should
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Current—noncurrent classification of debt | | ● LO1 LO4 | The balance sheet at December 31‚ 2011‚ for Nevada Harvester Corporation includes the liabilities listed below: Required: 1. | | Determine the amount that can be excluded from classification as a current liability (that is‚ reported as a noncurrent liability) for each. Explain the reasoning behind your classifications. | | | | Solution: 1.a. A Zero dollars will be excluded from current liability because it is callable within year
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I. Point of View This group takes the point of view of Mr. Ricardo Sarmiento‚ Vice President for Finance of First Farms Corporation (FFC for brevity). Mr. Sarmiento will present to the Board the financial performance and financial position of the company from 1993 to 1995. In the process‚ he will also make recommendations as to the feasibility of the proposed expansion. II. Case Context In 1995‚ FFC raised P1.1 billion from its initial public offering. P500 million of the proceeds was used as working
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