Café Monte Bianco To analyze this case‚ the analyst conducted liquidity‚ solvency and profitability ratios for Cafés Monte Bianco along with sales and income projections for operating the business under both private label and premium brands. The analyst has found that the firm utilizes high leverage to achieve ROE. Further‚ it is the opinion of the analyst that the firm should abandon private label brands and market its own premium brand; thereby leveraging its industry reputation as a fine purveyor
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Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan "We are facing a decision that may well affect the future of our company. I expect that each of you has adequate information to support your arguments I don’t want to spend our time talking about what might be without actual data." Giacomo Salvetti‚ CEO of Cafes Monte Bianco‚ had called the second meeting to delineate the future of the company. Manufacturing private brand coffees for supermarkets in Italy had saved Cafes Monte Bianco three years ago
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Café Monte Bianco (CMB) has the hard decision of determining their next strategy. They are faced with a decision to either continue with their current mix of private and premium coffees or switch to a lower cost all private brand coffee. Giacomo is concerned about the perception of the company if they were to switch to all private brands‚ however‚ if it is in the best interest of the company to do so he is willing to explore that route. Since they are growing rapidly they need to determine which
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MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING AMIS 823 – Spring 2008 Course Syllabus INSTRUCTOR: Prakash R. Mulchandani OFFICE HOURS: M/W 3:30-4:30pm‚ and by appointment OFFICE: 432 Fisher Hall E-MAIL: mulchandani.3@osu.edu TELEPHONE: (614) 247-6267 FAX: (614) 292-2118 COURSE OUTLINE This course focuses on the strategic nature of management accounting and emphasizes the critical role that information plays in decision-making‚ strategy execution‚ and overall enhancement of a firm’s
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Cafes Monte Bianco Memo To: Mr. Giacomo Salvetti From: Andrea Yates cc: Prof. Susan Murray Date: September 5‚ 2013 Re: Private Label Per your request‚ I developed a profit plan and financial assessment for Cafes Monte Bianco possible strategy change to private label. I have determined we should look at maintaining our strategy of selling premium brand and private label coffee. Profit Plan Sales I forecasted sales for 2001 compared to 2000 would decrease by 3‚312‚408‚000 liras due
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Monte Bianco Case Team 5: Giulia Beltrame Antonio Silvio Buonamano Salvatore Cianci Alvise Pizzini 3. What assumption did you make to complete your analyses? How critical are these assumption to your conclusions? What other information would you ask to improve the quality of the analysis? Common assumptions: * among the assets‚ in the balance sheet‚ we consider cash as operating cash on hand that doesn’t produce interests and all operations are carried out through the credit
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Cafes Monte Bianco Case Context: The company located in Milan‚ Italy. It was found by Mario Salvetti as a manufacturer and distributor of premium finest coffees. The company faces a hard decision that may affect their future. The company wants to know whether or not they should keep working in the same investing. An important meeting was there among the top management team’s members to discuss the future of the company. The company’s performance was good in 2000. Profit was shown
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Introduction Cash management in this economic environment is crucial. Cash is the life-blood of any business. As the saying goes‚ “Cash is king”. With so many banks tightening credit standards due to what’s happening in the credit markets or within their own lending portfolios‚ it is crucial that businesses fully understand their cash needs in advance and make adjustments to their operations to ensure that cash is available. Otherwise‚ companies may find themselves in a liquidity crisis –unable
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Cash Budgets These are used by management as a guide to planning‚ control and decision-making. • So we can see when commitments are due so the business can make payments on time‚ maintaining a good reputation and being able to obtain credit • To show when the business has excess funds which should be invested to earn interest in either the short-term money market‚ in a fixed term deposit‚ in government stock or in an investment account (rather than a cheque account) • To control by
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To run a business needs cash. Cash Budget is a record of cash transactions that comes in and out of the business for a specific period of time. This helps in assessing the entity’s financial health whether there are sufficient cash for operations or too much cash are used. It also serves as a purpose of decision making on what amount of money can be granted to a creditor to avoid any liquidity in the business. Cash budget only records strictly cash movements. For example‚ Depreciation is not
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