Biovail Business Memo In 2003 Biovail Corporation announced that it will miss its 3rd quarter earnings target by $25-$45 million‚ attributing $10-$15 million to a recent shipment loss. Being one of Canada’s largest publicly traded pharmaceutical companies with stock listed on both the Toronto and New York stock exchanges‚ the news raised concerns in the financial circles over the company’s accounting practices. Even Biovail’s claim that the shipment loss presented a revenue value of over $10 million
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Sub issue: Other than having fraud conducting of revenue recognition‚ Biovail Corporation also has overestimated the amount of Wellbutrin XL on the truck. The company estimated that revenue associated with this shipment was in the range of $10 million and $20 million and confirmed that the manufacturing cost value of this shipment had been fully insured. The trooper estimated that the truck was about one-quarter full. After the investigation done‚ the analyst stated if there had been $20 million
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truckloads of product are actually required to carry $10 million of product? Show your calculations. A) Find the volume of the truck: Interior dimensions of the truck = Interior volume of the truck = = B) Find the manufacturer price (Biovail) for one tablet: Wholesale price for one tablet = $2.83 Distributor price for one tablet = Producer price for one tablet = [Since Wholesale margin is 35%] [Since Distributor mark-up is 400%] = $0.3679 C) Find no. of tablets
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should the company recognize revenue based upon the two possible FOB structures mentioned in the case? In order to recognize revenue‚ there are four conditions must be met as according to GAAP. First‚ there must have persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists. Although the case does not provide extra information in this aspect. It seems clear that there is an ongoing relationship between Biovail and the distributor and that certainly there was a bill‚ purchase order and/or invoice in order
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MEMO TO: Mr. David Maris DATE: September 9‚ 2010 SUBJECT: Biovail Concerns This report discusses the concerns regarding the Biovail pharmaceutical company and the causes‚ implication and ramifications of its recently released quarterly earnings guidance. Specifically‚ this report covers Biovail’s reasons for missing previous expectations for quarterly earnings and an analysis of the validity of these reasons. The focus will be on the assertion that a recent truck accident containing
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Enron Case Answer 1. Who were the key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by‚ the collapse of Enron? How and to what degree were they hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management? Outline: Key stakeholders involved or affected by the collapse of Enron How were the key stakeholders hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management The degree of Enron management actions’ hurt or helps to the key stakeholders The key stakeholders involved or affected by the collapse of Enron were thousands
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342 Case Questions 1. In the questions associated with the BEC case at the end of chapter 9. you were asked to modify the entity-relationship diagram drawn by the Stillwater student team to incluse any other entities and the attributes you identified from the BEC cases review your answers to these questions and modify the relations in BEC figure 10-2 to include your changes. 2. Study your answer to question 1. Verify that the relations you say represent the My roadway database are
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Saurav Mukherjee Course –PGDM (Marketing) SECTION – C Roll No. -10DM149 Answers for the Nestle Case Study 1.) Companies like Nestle who deliver products like baby food supplements have an inherent ethical responsibility towards the society. Since their products have a lot of potential for creating health hazards these companies have to make sure that they promote their product through the right distribution channels. They should ensure that all of their products should carry a hologram and WHO
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Nike Case – Spreading out to stay together 1. When Nike CEO Phil Knight stepped down and handed his job to Bill Perez‚ he stayed on as chairman of the board. In what ways could Knight’s continued presence on the board have created an informal structure that prevented Perez from achieving full and complete leadershipof Nike? Answer: Informal structures are the shadow organization that represents the actualworking and communication relationships that may not resemble the formal organizationalchart
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Nike Case Answers– Spreading out to stay together 1. When Nike CEO Phil Knight stepped down and handed his job to Bill Perez‚ he stayed on as chairman of the board. In what ways could Knight’s continued presence on the board have created an informal structure that prevented Perez from achieving full and complete leadership of Nike? Answer: Informal structures are the set of unofficial relationships between organization members. Potential advantages of informal structures: ▪ Helping people
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