CASE ANALYSIS: EDMUNDS CORRUGATED PARTS & SERVICES I. Problem Identification 1. Demand on Edmunds Corrugated Parts and Services products are diminishing. 2. Remote location of its business. 3. High price of ram material. 4. Difficulty of replacing hardworking and loyal existing employee. II. Objectives 1. To keep the company of its current standing in the market in the future. 2. To develop new parts and products that will compete on new trends of shipping products. 3. To find other
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12/31/93 B/S‚ what amount should Thorn report as noncurrent deferred tax liability? D. 75‚000 5. On 1/1/89‚ Park Co. signed a 10-yr operating lease for office space at $96‚000 per year. The lease included a provision for addt’l rent of 5% of ann. Company sales in excess of $500K. Park’s sales for the year ended 12/31/89 were 600K . Upon execution of the lease‚ Park paid $24‚000 as a bonus for the lease. Park’s rent expense for the year ended 12/31/89 is: C. 103‚400 6. Wall Co. lease office premises
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and a person’s maximum willingness to pay for the product and the net profit and benefit he will receive from the transaction. Question 2A Which variables (in the dataset or not) do you expect to have a significant impact on the demand for shipping? Do you expect these variables to have a positive or negative effect? Do you expect a small or large effect? Capacity - Carrying capacity of the inland ship in tones This variable has a positive effect on the demand function. A larger capacity
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The Introduction of Shipping Containers Until the 1960s‚ shipping had not changed much in decades. Handling cargo was a labor-intensive activity‚ and transportation costs and times—whether by land or by sea—were huge obstacles to trade‚ often making transcontinental‚ let alone global‚ and trade economically unfeasible. However something happened that changed that. That was the invention of the shipping container. The birth of the shipping container dates back to April 26‚ 1956 when a crane lifted
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(a) A leading DIY company is considering expanding its customer base by analyzing the two possible options. The management evaluates the alternatives of increasing the online sales or opening a retail store. The budget is important for implementing the decisions made by the management. The management is choosing the alternatives based on its objective to increase its sales in the upcoming years. These objectives may be stated in terms of the number of units to be produced‚ the desired quality‚ the
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| | |1 |Critically assess the key drivers of the Shipping Industry. |1 | | | | | |2 |To what extent are firms in the Shipping Industry likely to achieve what Hitt et al.‚ |6 | | |describes
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Porter Five force Model The shipping industry is nowadays a contestable business especially for the container business which occupies more than 80% of the international trade. Therefore‚ it is better to 1) examine the intensity of competition in the industry and hence 2) industry profitability since competition can drive down the rate of return‚ so it is easier to investigate the way to formulate thee competitive strategy in this industry. Therefore‚ the company can 3) identify the position in the
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P 16-3A On December 31‚ 2008‚ Ramey Associates owned the following securities‚ held as a long-term investment. The securities are not held for influence or control of the investee. Common Stock | Shares | Cost | Hurst Co. | 2000 | $60000 | Pine Co. | 5000 | $45000 | Scott Co. | 1500 | $30000 | On December 31‚ 2008‚ the total fair value of the securities was equal to its cost. In 2009‚ the following transactions occurred. July 1 Received $1 per share semiannual cash dividend on Pine Co
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Based on the Culver’s website and their ‘Our Story’ page‚ Culver’s goes to great lengths to maintain their mission statement. Their mission statement is that “Every guest who chooses Culver’s leaves happy” (Culver’s‚ 2016). One of the ways Culver’s strives to achieve this is how they train their crew members who are also called the True Blue Crew. As a past employee of Culver’s I can attest that one of the main goals of Culver’s is to provide fast‚ friendly service. They train their employees to
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distribution for fitting discrete data: revival of the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution Galit Shmueli‚ University of Maryland‚ College Park‚ USA Thomas P. Minka and Joseph B. Kadane‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ USA Sharad Borle Rice University‚ Houston‚ USA and Peter Boatwright Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ USA [Received June 2003. Revised December 2003] Summary. A useful discrete distribution (the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution) is revived and its statistical
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