Case Presentation Curled Metal Inc. (CMI) faced a pricing and channel marketing decision for metal pile cushions utilized during pile driving. CMI’s approach to metal pads has significant efficiency advantages over currently used pads available in the market. However‚ CMI has to take into account several barriers to entry into this market. The primary barrier is that most companies viewed role of pads as a necessary accessory or tangent item instead of viewing them as a potentially value adding or
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Case Analysis: United Beverages‚ Inc. United Beverages’ CEO is debating with his department heads on the course of action the company is going to take in the future. Their flagship product‚ GangBuster‚ has been highly successful for the past 5 years. However‚ they have been thinking of entering the market for Energy Drinks for kids. Paul Diaz also comes up with a revolutionary idea of the dual-drink‚ having two separate flavored drinks in a bottle and being able to mix both flavors. Due to the limited
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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2. How much value is generated from cost savings associated with the project? In order to answer this question‚ we need to pay attention that all the revenue we used should be the number before tax‚ then Cost Baseline-Cost Upside=Net Income of Upside-Net Income of Baseline+ Revenue of Baseline-Revenue of Upside=693492‚ which is the value gathered from cost savings in five years. 3. How much value lies in improved revenues? As shown in the Excel above‚ the improved revenue accumulated in five
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1. Describe in words how costs are assigned in the Wilkerson’s current costing system. Discuss the pros and cons of this system. Wilkerson uses a simple traditional cost accounting system in which each unit of product is charged for direct material‚ direct labor and overhead costs. Material cost is based on the prices paid for component under annual purchasing agreements. Labor cost is charged to products based on the standard run times for each product. Labor rates‚ including fringe benefits
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COPYRIGHT MATERIAL M-Tel Call Centre data: What does it tell us? In May 2009‚ Esther Ching is three months into her role as manager of the complaints section of a call centre‚ located in India. The call centre is owned and run by M-Tel‚ a Malaysian telco company. Her section handles all billing complaints and service difficulties. The main products are landlines‚ mobile telephones and internet access. She is required to present a report about the performance of her section‚ as part of the regular
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This is expected to bring down the R&D expense from about $ 10 million a year to just over $ 6 million. New orders: The company’s geographical diversification efforts have started to bear fruits as several significant new orders flowed in toward the end of the December quarter. New orders
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and Apple Computer‚ Inc. Case Analysis Dubinsky’s primary mistake was relying on her position and reputation rather than mounting an effective‚ persuasive‚ and fact-based argument. As noted by Jay Conger in The Necessary Art of Persuasion‚ today’s employees are not content to accept a decree from above and seek to understand the reasons behind a decision. She should have taken Jobs’ JIT proposal seriously from the beginning and‚ as soon as she heard of it‚ worked to make her case affirmatively using
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are used for prediction it will help to predict the post-operative status of the patient more accurately while HB does not matter Block 1 Omnibus sig 0.0000 Neglekark R square 0.548 Cox & Snell R-square 0.458 The omnibus test is showing that the logit model is expected to have enough better accuracy then fluke while Neglekarke R square is showing that about 55% increase in accuracy is expected if we use logit model to predict post-operative status of the patient Variables in equation with B coefficients
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APPROACH The corridor rule is a materiality rule that requires disclosure of a pension actuarial gain or loss‚ if the gain or loss exceeds 10% of the greater of the Pension Benefit Obligation (PBO) or the fair value of plan assets. If this is the case‚ then the corridor rule allows this actuarial gain or loss to be amortized gradually over time into the income statement. Overall‚ the corridor rule can be seen as having a smoothing effect with respect to reporting pension gains and losses. The corridor
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