Happyland Construction Maulik Patel Maulik.patel@westburne.ca Module – 2 Happyland Construction Inc. is an engineering firm involved in design and construction of oil shale plants. It is building a plant in Blissful Valley‚ which is part of Mirth County‚ in the Province of Giggle. Happyland is a world leader in designing shale oil plants and has about 100 employees working on site. Happyland has been advised that a new crane has to be used on the site – the GargantuLift 6000 by Mega Corporation
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Executive Summary Happyland Construction‚ an engineering firm engaged in the design and construction of oil shale plants‚ is building a new plant in Blissful Valley that requires the use of a new piece of equipment‚ a new crane. The GargantuLift 6000 crane model produced by Mega Corporation is the recommended crane by engineering‚ maintenance‚ finance‚ purchasing‚ and management staff. Senior management needs to decide whether it is more beneficial for Happyland Construction to purchase the crane
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MAKE OR BUY Management decision should be based on careful consideration of all the factors‚ including implication as regard to tax liability. Keeping view various tax implications that are relevant while taking some specific management decision under different provision of Income tax Act have dealt with: Make or Buy: One of the vital investment subject to the influence of tax factor is “Make or buy decision”. Most of the companies have to decide sometimes or the other whether they should buy a
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Outsourcing‚ Make or buy (Outsourcing in personal computing industry Dell‚ Acer‚ HP) What can outsouce? What can produce? Why are they doing it? Outsourcing is a task or the process that the employee within the business could able to perform it however‚ the organization itself is contracted to third party to perform that function internally or certain period of time without purchasing it as a service. For example‚ Dell has been outsourced some of the production units to China and India to cut
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The following is the general methods research on Make or Buy analysis: The make-or-buy decision is the act of making a strategic choice between producing an item internally (in-house) or buying it externally (from an outside supplier). The buy side of the decision also is referred to as outsourcing. Make-or-buy decisions usually arise when a firm that has developed a product or part is having trouble with current suppliers. Make-or-buy analysis is conducted at the strategic and operational
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Make or buy decision Definition of ’Make-Or-Buy Decision’ The act of choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier. In a make-or-buy decision‚ the two most important factors to consider are cost and availability of production capacity. An enterprise may decide to purchase the product rather than producing it‚ if is cheaper to buy than make or if it does not have sufficient production capacity to produce it in-house. With the phenomenal surge in global
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boards in house to keep the proprietary circuitry safe (they never thought about what happens if a competitor gets their hands on a module after it’s sold and “reverse engineers” it). Sam makes the following agreement with his engineers (he’s a good guy and wants to keep them happy): “You perform a make-buy analysis for the circuit boards and‚ if the cost of in-house production is at least 5% less than cost of procuring them from one of our proven suppliers‚ we’ll produce them in-house.” The
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Write a short paper describing the advantages and disadvantages for using internal resources (make) or using outside resources (buy) for the development of a new system in an organization. The interior and exterior resources both are very useful for the advance of a new system especially when combination takes place its turn out to be great. There are internal resources such as IT department analyst and other expert persons‚ hardware‚ and software‚ financial plan and time line. The external resources
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Outsourcing and make-or-buy decisions. What cost factors should influence the decision on whether to outsource the payroll functions? Horngren‚ Sundem and Stratton (2004)‚ say that "When managers consider the make-or-buy decision for services‚ it is often called outsourcing" [1‚ p255]. Outsourcing "( ) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specialises in that operation" [2]
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accounting information is used for short term decisions --Make or buy decision analysis Introduction A main meaning of management accounting information is considered to support decision making for business organisations‚ for a foremost principle of rational decisions is the maximisation of financial benefits (Drury‚ 2009). This report will discuss the management accounting information and techniques used in short-term decision-making. Make or buy decision will be put forward in this report as one
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