Problem As the financial consultants of Catawba Industrial Company our aim is to determine the best course of action to pursue with respect to the introduction of the new proposed light weight compressor. This course of action must remain within the production capacity restrictions the company faces. Alternatives Status Quo: The company will continue to produce the standard compressor to satisfy the requirements for the automatic paint system and the demand that currently exists for this
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bab Catawba Industrial Co. case study Report Submitted By: Bhawna Dudeja Sec- E PGP20112051 Q1 Is the company correct in its practice of not manufacturing standard model compressors on Sundays because of the accounting loss incurred on each unit? Ans. Acc to case study from Monday to Friday they are producing 20 units and getting the profit per unit is $1800 and on Saturday they are producing 4 units and profit per unit is 450 and on Sunday
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CATAWBA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY 1. Is the company correct in its practice of not manufacturing standard model compressors on Sundays because of the accounting loss incurred on each unit? As per the cost structure given in the case‚ Selling costs‚ Sales and Administration costs‚ Depreciation and other manufacturing overheads have been considered to be variable costs‚ i.e. per unit costs and hence have been accounted for in the calculation of profit and loss. As such‚ this methodology is resulting
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Frame the issue. Discuss the advantages and limitations of optimal portfolio allocation. HMC defined their Policy Portfolio to correspond to their benchmark‚ according to the modern portfolio theory (Markowitz‚ 1952)‚ whose goal is to minimize the variance for a given return. The main advantage of the optimal portfolio allocation lies in its ability to provide weights on how to invest a given amount of money based on a few inputs. Optimal portfolio allocation is easy to implement‚ yet it faces
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Basic: 1. Why does Harvard spend so many resources managing its endowment? Why not simply invest in Treasury Bonds and be done? 2. Why this emphasis on real returns as opposed to nominal returns? 3.How does HMC form its capital market assumptions? Why don’t they use past statistics to project the future? What do HMC’s capital market assumptions imply about the forward looking domestic equity premium? How does it compare to the historical equity premium? 4.If cash has zero standard deviation
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These numbers were obtained though historical analysis done by HMC and third-party analysts. b) HMC has as one of its objectives to maintain the endowment’s long-term purchasing power. By focusing on real returns‚ it gives the concerned parties at Harvard a clear view over the purchasing power’s growth of the endowment. c) From Exhibit 11 we can see that domestic and foreign equity yields the same real return‚ with a slightly higher standard deviation for the latter one. This would imply that they
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The Harvard Management Company (2001) Case You will design an excel spreadsheet that allows you to answer the following questions: i) Given figures in Exhibits 4 and 11 what is the expected return and volatility of the policy portfolio? ii) Find an efficient portfolio having the same expected return as the policy portfolio but lower volatility. iii) Find an efficient portfolio having the same volatility as the policy portfolio but higher expected return. iv) Repeat question ii
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Case#4- Federating Insurance: Targeting Small Businesses 1. When looking at an automobile industry the Federated macrosegmentation would be taking a company like BMW and looking at the market segments in a broader view. For example‚ the owner of the branch must make sure their employees are happy with their job. The macrosegmentation of this would be employee performance. Federated plays a role in this because with great performance comes incentives. Federate gives insurance incentives to BMW
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Title II Eligibility Period ISSUE The DDS proposes allowance for this claimant with an EOD of 6/30/16. The evidence in file shows a later onset date is warranted and the claimant was not insured for title II benefits at the time the disability began. CASE DISCUSSION & POLICY ANALYSIS (INCLUDING SPECIFIC REFERENCES) The claimant is a 31-year old filing a concurrent claim with an AOD of 07/25/2012 due to Psoriatic arthritis‚ cataracts‚ hepatitis C‚ s sesamoiditis‚ depression‚ anxiety‚ iritis‚ pilonidal
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one must be authentic‚ or true to oneself. Catawba‚ as a whole‚ is enriched by the shared experiences and authentic investments of its student body as they further learn who they are and how to live according to who they are. Describe an incident (or a series of incidents) in which you felt you were living most authentically. How do you believe this situation (or series of situations) revealed the true you? Finally‚ looking forward into your future Catawba experience‚ how will you invest your true
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