ELEKTRA PRODUCTS‚ INC. CASE ANALYSIS REPORT I. BACKGROUND: As to the Company: Elektra Products‚ Inc. is an 80 year old company‚ publicly held and had once been a leading manufacturer and retailer of electrical products and supplies. Challenges that have to be addressed: In recent years‚ the company experienced a host of problems as follows: declining market share due to increased foreign and domestic competition; new product ideas were few and far between; departments such as manufacturing and
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of this thesis work. 3.1 Minimum viable product concept for developing countries The concept of minimum viable product was introduced in an internal event at Dräger‚ which was to present innovative ideas. The term ‘Minimum Viable Product’ (MVP) means that a product with basic features to satisfy its customers. It can be better explained with the help of figure 8: Figure 8: Minimum Viable Product [Source: Internal] The requirement of the customer in this case is to have a vehicle to travel from one
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Case 8.1: Stalwart Industrial Products Case Summary: Stalwart Industrial Products is a manufacturer and seller of a wide variety of industrial tools that they sell to numerous resellers and end users. The company was founded in 1935 and prides itself on producing quality tools that last for a very long time. Stalwart’s national sales manager‚ Tom Beesman‚ has been well regarded as a successful leader since taking over his position three years ago that has helped to guide the sales force to
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Office Dakota Products Case Analysis Course: BUSA 5061 Managerial Accounting Students Name: Teresa Willette Professors Name: Dr. Conner/Dr. Pollard Date 3/20/2011 Executive Summary The following analysis is written for Dakota Office Products to evaluate current business operations and recommend future actions necessary to ensure company success. In the analysis of the company we will identify inefficient business practices that have led to the companies first profit loss in its history. We will evaluate
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This report is taking a deeper look at Eco-Products‚ Inc. past financial performance and projecting the future. The company was founded by Kent and Steve Savage in 1990 in Boulder‚ Colorado. The company is a lead supplier of environmentally friendly food service products in the United States. The margins were low and the salaries were small. The company was financed by family and friends up to 2005‚ when they received their first line of credit from the bank at $30‚000. This line of credit reached
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Description In ACC 301‚ you discussed the Dakota Office Products (DOP) case and were asked to design the ABC system. For this assignment in BCOM 250‚ you will take what you learned in ACC 301 and write a report recommending that DOP use activity-based costing to determine its pricing to customers. You do not need to go into deep detail about how you would design the ABC system. You will work with a team of 4-5 people to produce this deliverable. Assume that your group is part of the accounting staff
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assigned and allocated to products and services delivered to clients. This system has proven beneficial for companies where production operations are high labor intensive and overhead costs are smaller part of total costs. Nowadays‚ when automation and technology are ubiquitous overhead costs make up much higher percentage and are often lumped together with direct labor costs. An ABC approach would be much more appropriate for the DOP’s business as it will calculate costs of products and services based
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determination for individual customers - wrong cost determination for new services provided by DOP (to small charges for the “desktop” delivery‚ then the actual cost of it) 2. Develop an activity-base cost system for Dakota Office Products based on Year 200 data. Calculate the activity cost-driver rate for each DOP activity in 2000. Activity cost-driver rates: Activity One: process cartons in and out of the facility Rate=(90% of Warehouse Personnel Expense + Cost o Items Purchased)/cartons
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Market Analysis for case of Giant Consumer Products: The Sales Promotion Resource Allocation Decision by Yujun(Monica) Wang‚ ywang29@nd.edu; Ji(Shirley) Yang‚ jyang8@nd.edu Background As a market leader in frozen food industry‚ Frozen Foods Division (FFD) of Giant Consumer Product (GCP) has been proved very successful in the past 30 years‚ with national market share of 43% in the “Italian frozen dinners and entree offerings” subcategory. However in 2008‚ FFD were in sales trouble. The gross
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Case: Allied Office Products Company A costs Allied less money to service‚ they are also a much smaller source of potential growth for the company. Company B on the other hand utilizes far more services and has the potential to earn Allied much greater revenue. With the information we have from the new ABC costing scheme we now know that Allied should be charging far more for the services rendered to company B‚ and less for the services used by company A. Current information shows that company
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