Case 1.1 - Enron Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast
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this case. If the inputs are not perfect substitutes‚ the isoquants will have a convex shape. The campaign manager should then spend the campaign’s budget on the combination of the two inputs will that maximize the number of votes. 5. For each of the following examples‚ draw a representative isoquant. What can you say about the marginal rate of technical substitution in each case? a. A firm can hire only full-time employees to produce its output‚ or it can hire some combination of full-time
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situation‚ their estimated per unit total cost‚ evaluation as well as a sourcing risk management plan for the supplier selected. Terms of reference To prepare sourcing strategies for key purchased items for Pacific Systems Corporation (PSC)‚ starting with selecting the most appropriate supplier for potentially the next few years Recommendations After carefully considering the estimated per unit total cost‚ SureTech did come out with the lowest cost at $162.5 per unit for year one of PSC needs
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you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing (ABC) in the Chicago plant as it is allocating its entire manufacturing overhead on the basis of just one cost driver: production run direct labor cost. Since overhead at the Chicago plant is high‚ accurate cost accounting system is required. Different types of
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Franc Ouedraogo Case Assignment: CUTCO Corporation 1) Direct selling is defined as any kind of selling that is made outside a fixed business location. Therefore‚ most of the company that use direct selling are not well-known‚ are small‚ privately owned or do not have physical stores. Direct selling is essentially a push marketing strategy‚ and the firms that use it do very little traditional advertising. Most of the direct sales take place in a residence and on a one-to-one basis. 2)
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Executive Summary Biopure Corporation was established in 1984 and is a privately owned pharmaceutical firm. They are trying to launch two new products: Hemopure (human market) and Oxyglobin (veterinary market). They are the only company aggressively engaged in the development of blood substitutes for the vet market. Biopure has invested $200M in the development of said blood substitutes. They currently don’t have any revenues with little to no debt and financing of $50M to support these operations
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Information Security Program Governance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) CSIA 413 February 8‚ 2015 Celida M Bruss Information policy and the protection of high value digital assets used to be the responsibility of a select group of practitioners. However‚ the ubiquity of information technology (IT) security policies and governance have been a long-standing part of many industries with far more “average-consumer” impact since the inception of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
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share (P0)? b. What is Gentry’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? c. Gentry can increase its debt by $8 million‚ to a total of $10 million‚ using the new debt to buy back and retire some of its shares at the current price. Its interest rate on debt will be 12 percent (it will have to call and refund the old debt)‚ and its cost of equity will rise from 15 percent to 17 percent. EBIT will remain constant. Should Gentry change its capital structure? d. If Gentry did not have to refund the
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Cost of Capital Jenny Lopez-Guerrero‚ Malika Hobheidar‚ Phyllis Hebert and Sierra Harkness FIN571 February 23‚ 2015 William Stokes Cost of Capital In the Wiley plus simulation (2012)‚ we are introduced to Pfizer‚ the world ’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company‚ Pfizer develops their own pharmaceutical products. Ahmed Singh‚ a consultant accountant who works for the Pfizer Treasury Department‚ explains that his role in the company is "to think and plan
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The primary advantage of a corporate form of business is that a corporation is a stand-alone entity‚ which means you are not personally liable for the assets and debts of the business. Incorporating protects your personal assets from lawsuits‚ debt collection and other business issues that can arise. The stand-alone entity also separates tax liabilities‚ which is another advantage. This means that the corporation’s taxes are separate from your personal tax liabilities. As a business
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