Case Analysis – Southwestern Ohio Steel Company‚ L.P.: The Matworks Decision Submitted by Group -19‚ BBMK Section B Anish Sengupta (13407) Pushkar Parashar (13439) Payal R Singh (13533)
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Southwestern Ohio Steel Limited Partnership (SOSLP) was considered to be one of the industry leaders in technology and service. SOSLP sells to approximately 500 customers‚ twenty five of which produces about two-thirds of the company’s sales. Dan Wilson‚ vice president of sales at SOSLP‚ had recently received a letter from Matworks requesting SOSLP to provide sponsorship for an upcoming Matworks annual sales meeting. Dan needed to decide if providing sponsorship was feasible keeping in mind that
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implications of whether we decide to sponsor Matworks’s sales event or not‚ are manifold and need to be explored from the point of view of various stakeholders of Southwestern Ohio Steel LP (SOSLP). To analyze the situation before us‚ I will look at the industry and major stakeholders in our decision in turn. Analysis of the Industry The steel service industry has two major characteristics; costs of transportation over long distances are prohibitive and suppliers are essentially homogenous and highly
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WRITTEN ANALYSIS & CASES Assignment 1:Southwestern Ohio Steel LP Letter of Transmittal From: South western Ohio Steel LP XYZ 16th Jan ‚2009 Manager‚ Sales To: Dan Wilson‚ Vice President ‚ Sales Subject: Decision report on letter from Matworks which requests sponsorship Please find attached the decision report on Matworks. I have prepared a detailed report outlining the implications for each possible
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debt and or equity MEANING OF FINANCE ------------------------------------------------- Finance is the study of how investors allocate their assets over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. A key point in finance‚ which affects decisions‚ is the time value of money‚ which states that a unit of currency today is worth more than the same unit of currency tomorrow. Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level‚ and expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three different
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SOUTHEASTERN STEEL COMPANY Dividend policy Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a new continuous casting process. SSC’s founder‚ Donald Brown and Margo Valencia‚ had been employed in the research process (which Brown and Valencia had developed)‚ they decided to strike out on their own. One advantage of the new process was that it required relatively little capital in comparison with the typical steel company‚ so Brown and Valencia have been able to avoid issuing new
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controversial topic. Excellent use of facts to support his/her claim. 1. Whether or not Ohio Art Company’s decision to shift production offshore was ethically wrong is a controversial topic. In strictly business terms‚ Ohio Art Company (OAC) did not break any laws or perform an illicit act; OAC’s decision to offshore was one that had few other options – if the company did not find ways to lower production costs‚ the company would have eventually gone bankrupt. If production had not been moved‚ OAC would
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of the P&L: Proposed Model Ehud Lurie‚ CPA (Isr.) Shlomi Shuv‚ CPA (Isr.) 1* 1. Introduction Profit or Loss‚ or more commonly known as Profit and Loss (P&L)‚ has always been a significant statement for most reporting entities. The primary reason lies in the fact that the P&L is the basis for evaluating the ability of reporting entities to generate profits in the future. This issue is reflected‚ among others‚ by the various earning multipliers which are used often in appraising companies and in
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that something major just happened in their life and will either change to try and avoid another similar situation or will deny the fact that they have to change. In the two stories “Love in L.A.” and “A & P”‚ the message in each story is about the characters ability to change. Sammy from “A & P” was able to change his life‚ maybe not for the good‚ but was able to pursue his dreams even if it meant losing a solid job and not
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INTRODUCTION Shaped Alloys Ltd is a local company supplying aluminium cowlings‚ mouldings and structures for the MOD(Navy). They have been in this business for over thirty years. Due to the downturn in the government market they have been working on other products that they can produce effectively due to their extensive experience in light alloys. The purpose of this report is to produce a marketing communications report that define the two markets the company operates through its B2b and B2C models
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