Sloan School of Management Colorscope‚ Inc. What is the external environment that Colorscope currently faces? Cheaper technology is lowering entry barriers. Better technology is eroding quality-based competitive advantage. Intense competition from small stand-alones‚ large national chains‚ and backward (vertical) integration by large printers. 15.963 [Spring 2007] Managerial Accounting & Control 2 Colorscope‚ Inc. Intense price pressures
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Background Case : The main line from the colorscopeinc background are the corporate was found in march 1976‚ the first target customers is local customers (small agencies)‚ and after that colorscope growth significantly that thing can be proved in 1988 sales colorscope over than USD 5 Milion and they served Big Customer‚ since growth they invest capital expenditure in order to improve services. In 1990 when the overall technology growth rapidly and there are more competitor than before‚ this situation
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Case of Colorscope Inc By Patrick Nedved Vanessa Osborne Danielle McCarthy Table of Contents Executive Summary The current costing method that is being used is completely misrepresenting customer profitability and costs of rework completed. Colorscope exhibits a flawed pricing strategy‚ inaccurate financial reports and losses to the company as a result. Using a more relevant costing method has proven that Colorscope is losing money through missed opportunities for jobs with extra
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Case Overview/Introduction Justin Anson Distillery‚ Inc. is a company that produces quality whiskey and distributes their product throughout America. The company has recently has been trying to expand and increase their production. In order to increase their production they need to obtain more barrels in which they can age their whiskey for the necessary 4 years. This is going to incur the company many more costs in their production and also increase their inventory levels. It is now the firm’s
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Colorscope Report Background Colorscope‚ Inc. which was founded by Andrew Cha in 1976 operates mainly in the pre-press house or “color separator”. It has achieved an impressive sales performance. With Colorscope peaking in 1988 with 5 million dollars sales‚ Donnelley‚ the largest printer in the world‚ offered to acquire Colorscope for approximately 10 million. However‚ it is because Cha’s overconfidence in his existing base of high-margin clients and ignorance of the business trend‚ Cha declined
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outsource city services through competitive bidding. Do you think that’s a good idea? What are the concerns the city should consider? Colorscope‚ Inc. Instruction: 1. What was the value statement of Colorscope to customers? In other words‚ why would any customer go to Colorscope instead of other large printers? We are going to analyze cost structure of Colorscope using a departmental cost allocation method. This is a two stage system. First categorize cost to different production centers (= departments
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Colorscope Inc Which jobs are profitable for Colorscope? Why? Jobs where there are rework (customer initiated or not) always result in losses. Therefore‚ if the incidents of house errors are reduced‚ profitability of Colorscope can be improved (our team note that this impact is small)‚ and if customer initiated rework is charged to the customers at a price that commensurate with the cost incurred‚ profitability of these jobs can be maintained. Most of the jobs that Colorscope completed
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Colorscope 1. Why would any customer‚ let alone large advertising agencies and departmental stores‚ go to Colorscope rather than go to large printers listed in Exhibit 3? Before desktop publishing became popular‚ Colorscope had a competitive advantage through its expensive proprietary computer equipment that could produce complicated print special effects. Colorscope had also been able to build strong relationships with valuable customers through the years and had a good reputation for providing
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Company overview Colorscope is a small vibrant firm in the graphic arts industry‚ trying to find a way to compete in a growing competitive environment in the pre-press printing sector‚ which is due to the new technologies coming to the market‚ that made a change the competitive position of the company. The impact of the external environment Problem Identified: Lowering of the barriers to entry due to the cheaper technologies implemented in the market Advanced technology grinding
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(1) Citibank (a) Why has Citibank introduced a Performance Scorecard? What are its advantages and disadvantages? (b) Assume you are Lisa Johnson. Complete Exhibit 1 to evaluate James’ performance. (2) Colorscope (a) Why would any customer go to Colorscope rather than the large printers listed in Exhibit 3? (b) Set up a two-stage cost system to figure out the profitability of different jobs. Choose resource drivers to allocate the cost of resources to cost pools. Then choose
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