CASE SUMMARY (PROBLEM STATEMENT) After sluggish sales growth in 1980‚ MEM Company‚ Inc. was considering ways to increase sales for the company ’s line of men ’s toiletries. Two main options surfaced; either 1) to expand distribution into food stores or 2) to introduce a new line called Cambridge. MARKET OVERVIEW The men ’s toiletries market was divided into three groups based on pricing‚ namely‚ exclusive‚ medium and mass priced category. MEM had competed primarily in the medium priced market
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Running Head: BUG‚ INC. PAPER BUG Inc. Paper Michael‚ Cherlunda‚ and Jason The Unersity of Phnix Busiss Law / BUS 45 Mr. Gs D mann May 11‚ 00 BUG Inc. Paper BUG Inc. is an American company that manufactures‚ designs‚ and sells electronic recording equipment (University of Phoenix‚ 2009). BUG Inc. ’s products tap into telephone wires and cell phone transmissions are records sounds through remote microphones (University of Phoenix‚ 2009). The clients of BUG Inc. are made up mostly of
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Instructor Resource Manual — Do Not Copy or Redistribute Asher Farms Inc. C a s e 2.4 PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS Relevant professional standards for this assignment are AU Section 310‚ “Appointment of the Independent Auditor‚” AU Section 311‚ “Planning and Supervision‚” AU Section 312‚ “Audit Risk and Materiality in Conducting an Audit‚” AU Section 314‚ “Understand the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatements” and AU Section 316‚ “Consideration of Fraud in
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TIFFANY INC. v. eBAY‚ INC. Facts: Tiffany Inc. authorized eBay Inc. to list its trademark on the e-market website. Many of these listings are authentic but a large number are also counterfeit. Ebay makes substantial investments in anti counterfeiting initiatives. It has developed and uses a fraud engine that finds listings containing obvious indicia of infringing activity. It also has established its Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program that utilizes a notice-and-takedown system under which trademark
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FROM: JMSB Students TO: Shareholders and potential investors of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. DATE: Tuesday‚ January 19 2010 SUBJECT: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. Analysis 1) Identification of issues: * Is Krispy Kreme’s a healthy company? * What had happened to the company? * Why were so many investors fleeing the popular doughnut maker? * Were the revelations about the company’s franchise accounting practices sufficient to drive that much value out of the stock? * Were
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HOME DEPOT‚ INC. in the New Millennium Tom Thomson‚ Suzanne Ma‚ Todd Humphrey‚ Owen Clements June 28‚ 2006 Agenda Background/History Current situation Accounting and Finances Growth Initiatives Financial Analysis Forecast HOME DEPOT Inc. Founded In 1978 in Atlanta‚ Georgia Largest Retailer of home improvement products Stores were warehouses and sold large volumes of goods at low prices Offered ‘how-to-clinics’ and knowledgeable customer service representatives Between
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Case Study of Just For Feet Inc. Xuan Zhang Q1. Prepare common-sized balance sheets and income statements and compute key ratios for 1997-1998. What were the high-risk financial statement items for the 1998 audit? * Common-sized financial statements: * Key ratio analysis: Liquidity and solvency: | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | Current ratio | 3.387 | 1.998 | 2.142 | Debt to equity | 1.117 | 0.672 | 0.720 | Times interest earned | 6.376 | 24.665 | 28.286 | Activity | | |
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Magna International Inc. 1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Magna International Inc. (Magna) is a manufacturer of automobile parts since its inception in 1957 (At the time was called Multimatic Investments Limited). Founded by Frank Stronach‚ Magna has since become Canada’s largest automobile parts manufacturer. Magna is the primary supplier of automobile parts to many car manufacturers‚ including General Motors‚ Chrysler‚ and Ford Motor Company. The following discussion will draw upon Magna’s management
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reasons for diversifying. Abstract Despite the different degree of competitions and the level of development in the market across the various types of industries‚ most firms are continuously and consistently looking for ways and opportunities to enhance their ability to grow or even to just maintain sustainability and survival in the industry. Firms carry out diversification such as developing new lines and products‚ joint ventures and acquiring firms in unrelated lines of business‚ to improve
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File-It Supplies Inc‚ Present Situation Patsy Akaka is the marketing manager of File-It Supplies which is a file folder manufacturer that has been in business for 28 years. Other primary lines they are file markers‚ labels and indexing systems. On the other hand 40% of FIS´s file folder business is in specialized lines including oversized blue-print and engineer drawings for several high tech industries. Even though the company has a unique knowledge in the field‚ Patsy is facing a complicated
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