Working Capital Simulation Richard Hughes FIN/571 January Nineteenth‚ 2015 William Stokes Working Capital Simulation Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) is barely breaking even and is strategizing on methods improve its growth and cash flow through capital budgeting. This paper will discuss the decisions the CEO made in each area of the 3-phase process‚ and evaluate how the decisions affected SNC. The numbers in this analysis are in thousands. Background SNC provides dietary supplements to individual
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Executive Summary Statement of Problem Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a proprietary hospital management company that owns and manages chains of hospitals on a for-profit basis. HCA is currently facing a complex financial situation with their ratio of debt to total capital approaching 70%‚ as opposed to a target ratio of 60%. While some investors welcome HCA’s more aggressive use of leverage‚ others are worried that HCA’s capital structure could decrease the company’s current A bond
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The Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (A) CASE 4 Group 3: Antonio Carlos Teles Caleia #1028 Federica Carcani #2258 Edoardo Covicchio #2259 Leandro José Pereira Domingues #1023 Francesca Romana Gambini #2260 Mergers‚ Acquisition and Restructuring (TB) Prof. Josè Neves de Almeida Q1. The rationale behind the intention of CSX to buy Conrail is mainly to anticipate a proposal from the other big player in the market Norfolk Southern. Both CSX and Norfolk Southern have basically the same
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business‚ but he is debating whether to start a S corporation or a C corporation due to potential environmental factors associated with his business. He wants to maintain a limited liability and wants to avoid double taxation by paying himself a salary equal to his companies before tax earnings. He also would like to issue preferred stock to his son in the future to keep his interests in the business. He was advised by his friend to choose a C Corporation to maintain maximum flexibility in the business
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Case 1: Corwin Corporation Table of Contents Summary of Findings…………………………………………………………… 3 Background Information……………………………………………………….. 3 Problem Statement……………………………………………………………… 5 Analysis of Alternatives………………………………………………………… 5 Detailed Recommendations……………………………………………………. 6 Implementation and Evaluation……………………………………………….. 7 References……………………………………………………………………….. 9 Case 1: Corwin Corporation Summary of findings This case is about a reputed rubber component manufacturing
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THE ZALE CORPORATION Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America. The Company has significant brand name recognition as a result of each of its brands’ long-standing presence in the industry‚ having 2.349 stores in the United States‚ Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company´s vision “provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price” has remain the same since its first store opening in 1920´s. The Mission of Zale Corporation
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Chapter 4 Case 2: Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing Solution: 1. An activity-based costing system may be appropriate for Wall Décor‚ when overhead allocation based job-order costing provides product cost distortion. As seen on previous case‚ this distortion happens when one product is manufacturing in high volume and the others are manufacturing in complexity as well as in low volume. In this situation Wall Décor should change its costing system for selling its high volume produced
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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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position to carter to this increase in order in the future‚ they are in for a heavy loss and as a result they might even consider an employee redundancy plan also. After this meeting trade unions requested some conditions also. Problem Statement In this case we can identify several Management issues which influenced for the smooth functioning of the company. Those issues as follows; Issue 1 Organization decided to increase their production and implement an incentive program for employees who had produce
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Case study 4-2 1)What rationale is offered by Ocean Spray in support of the idea of using a 3PL? Do you agree with the reasons cited for the interest in 3PL? Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc. offered several reasons for using a 3PL for their transportation and logistics area. They looked at the transportation within the logistics chain and realized there was a lot of variability in this area. The company decided that it wants to centralize and bring all of it’s transportation logistics into uniformity
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