For the exclusive use of K. NGUYEN S w W11208 VERTU: NOKIA’S LUXURY MOBILE PHONE FOR THE URBAN RICH Dr. Ken Kwong-Kay Wong wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The author does not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The author may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation prohibits any form of reproduction‚ storage
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caused by the change in capital structure‚ we prefer to use TEV/EBITDA multiple in this case. Amtelecom Group consists of two lines of business which has to been taken into consideration. We separately calculate the value of both companies and their summation. In this way‚ we get a relative conservative outcome which indicates the Enterprise Value of AGI is 56.9 million (Note 1). As it is mentioned in the case that AGI’s current stock price implied a TEV of 53.7 million‚ the stock is really traded
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Case Study –Yahoo! Inc. 1. Case Title Yahoo! Inc. 2. Brief History/Background of the Case Yahoo! Inc is an internet service provider that services both users and business globally. The company was found in 1944 by David Filo and Jerry Yang who were attending Stanford University(PHD Program). In 1995‚Yahoo!Inc was incorporated in Delaware and launched a highly successful initial public offering IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. Its stock rose to the high of $120 in
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The Laramie account is a big account. It is a big account because this is the first time they are having a full-scale audit of their financial statements and they are planning to go public and become an initial public offering (IPO). Since this is our first time this is happening we have to very careful with the analytical procedures. Analytical procedures are reasonableness test auditors compare their estimates of account balances with those recorded by management. Analytical procedures must be
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Natureview Farm Case Analysis – 5 November 2013 Natureview Farm is the leading manufacturer of refrigerated cup yogurt in the natural foods channel. From its founding in 1989 through 1999‚ Natureview grew its revenues from less than $100‚000 to over $13M by selling only 8oz and 32oz yogurt cups. However‚ in 1997‚ in order to fund strategic investments‚ Natureview received an equity infusion from a venture capital firm‚ which needs to cash out of its investment‚ forcing Natureview to either
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Blaine Kitchenware Case Write-Up 1. Based on available information of BKI‚ we believe its current capital structure and payout policy are not quite appropriate. First of all‚ the company is under-levered and over-liquid when it comes to its capital structure. This company in fact issued no debt in 2006. This may result from its conservative management strategies and the fear of risk involved in the process of debt raising. And since the company is totally equity financed‚ it did
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and managed to get a initial investment of nearly $2 million from Sequoia Capital whose most successful investment included Apple Computer‚ Atari‚ Oracle and Cisco System. After securing the second round of funds and launching a highly-successful IPO‚ the new Yahoo has been growing rapidly and‚ eventually‚ became one of the largest Internet companies as we know. Starting the business as the search engines and web directories company‚ Yahoo! Inc. has now become a leading global company in Internet
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and graphical display market rather than focusing on one market impacted execution and focus c. Underestimated technical hurdles and challenges to apply technology in particular application area like signage or e-readers d. Timing of IPO in 2000 didn’t work out well to raise more capital and spend more on R&D 3. If you led e-ink what market would you have targeted? My 4 steps strategy would have been following to license technology initially and build products eventually. a
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In order to decide on an IPO price‚ we must look at the current financial position of the company‚ as well as make projections for possible future scenarios. From the data given‚ we know that Prairie Home Stores (PHS) has a current book value of $80‚000‚000. With 400‚000 outstanding shares‚ the book equity per share is $200. There are two possible paths for future performance to consider. The first‚ a constant growth scenario‚ assumes that PHS will continue on its current trajectory of paying
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Case Study: Human Performance: Retronics Alderfer. C.P. 1969‚ An empirical test of a new theory of human needs‚ Organizational Behavior and Human Performance‚ 4‚ 142-175. Amason‚ A.C‚ Hochwater‚ W.A.‚ Thompson‚ K.R & Harrison‚ A.W. 1995‚ ‘Conflict: an important dimension in successful management teams’‚ Organisational Dynamics‚ vol. 24‚ no 2‚ pp. 20 – 35. Bandura A. 1997‚ Self-efficacy: the exercise of control‚ Freeman‚ New York. Bandura‚ A. 1977‚ ’Self-efficacy: towards a unifying
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