Company Background Birch Paper Company was a medium-sized‚ partly integrated paper company. It had four producing divisions‚ namely Northern Division‚ Thompson Division‚ Southern Division & one unnamed Division and a Timberland Division. Birch Paper was producing white and kraft papers and paperboard. A portion of its paperboard output was converted into corrugated boxes by the Thompson Division‚ which was also printed and colored the outside surface of the boxes. Company policies The management
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Case 6-2: Birch Paper Company 1. Which bid should Northern Division accept that is in the best interests of Birch Paper Company? Northern Division should accept the bid of the Thompson division even though the bid from West Paper seems at first to be the best choice. In you calculate out the cost you find that Thompson actually has the lowest costs associated with them. Costs for Thompson are as follows: Linearboard and corrugating medium: Cost $400x70%= $168 plus Out of Pocket: $400x30%=120
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Financial Controllership Assignment Case Analysis Transfer Pricing BIRCH PAPER COMPANY “If I were to price these boxes any lower than $480 a thousand‚” said James Brunner‚ manager of Birch Paper Company’s Thompson Division‚ “I’d be countermanding my order of last month for our salesmen to stop shaving their bids and to bid full-cost quotations. I’ve been trying for weeks to improve the quality of our business‚ and if I turn around now and accept this job at $430 or $450 or something less than
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BIRCH PAPER COMPANY CASE ANALYSIS Executive Summary Birch Paper Company is a medium sized‚ partly-integrated paper company. It produces white and craft papers and paperboard. It has four producing divisions and a timberland division – The Thompson division converts the paperboard output into corrugated box and prints and colors the outside surface of the box. The Northern division produces the paper box‚ while the Southern division supplies the corrugating medium and inner and outer liners. Timberland
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Birch Paper’s current transfer pricing policy and rewarding system as given‚ Mr. Kenton should accept the West Paper Company bid for $430. By accepting this bid‚ the Northern Division will incur in the lowest cost possible and be able to generate a higher mark-up when selling the product. Because the division will be rewarded based on its own profit‚ this is the best decision. The company currently has a competitive profile‚ in which the divisions are measured based on profit generated and are incentivized
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The Kardell paper mill was established at the turn of the century on the Cherokee River in southeastern Ontario by the Kardell family. By 1985‚ the Kardell Paper Co. had outgrown its original mill and had encompassed several facilities in different locations‚ generating total revenues of $1.7 billion per year. The original mill continued to function and was the firm’s largest profit center. The Kardell family no longer owned shares in the firm‚ which had become a publicly traded company whose shares
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President Birch Paper Company Although the current financial implications for Birch Paper Company are not substantial‚ as the contract in question is less than 5% of the volume in any division‚ it is imperative that Birch Company establishes and addresses its transfer price policies and procedures with each division. This will ensure that the divisions are not putting their objectives ahead of the Company’s and as a result‚ not maximizing the overall revenues and profits of Birch Paper Company. This report
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Purpose: The purpose of this memo is to explore the issues facing Hammermill Paper Company as the company seeks to communicate a new planning process to its five‚ relatively autonomous‚ operating divisions. Summary of Changes In an effort to improve the flow of planning information between Hammermill Paper’s corporate division and the operational divisions‚ a new planning procedure has been designed. This new procedure is to be a flexible‚ two-way process. The hope for the new planning and communication
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Which could you still learn? Which do you have to be born with? THEORY-1 POINT WHAT IS MANAGEMENT 1. The need for effective managers has never been greater. We are living in an era of accelerating global competition. Pressures from foreign companies are causing many managers to reassess their approaches as they strive to be successful in a formidable competitive environment. More than ever‚ managers operating both globally and domestically require the best ideas that the field of management
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