To provide background regarding the Empress Luxury Lines case‚ in the case Kevin Pfeiffer‚ a computer technician initially told Antonio Melendez that it appeared that top management found a way to fund the computer system upgrade that he requested two years prior. The beginning of this originated from problems incurred with the computer system when it was hit by a power surge from fierce thunderstorms from the night before. When this occurred‚ Phil Bailey‚ who was Kevin Pfeiffer’s supervisor was
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Case Study: Allure Cruise Line – Challenges of Strategic Growth and Organizational Effectiveness Who are the “major players” in the North American cruise industry? The “major players” in North America cruise industry are‚ Carnival‚ P&O Princess (P&OP)‚ RCC and Star Cruises Group accounted for 69% of capacity in 2002. In 2006‚ with P&O Princess now part of Carnival‚ the top three reached over than 79%. In progress the top three “major players” would increase to 81% by 2010. With the emergence of
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purpose of budgeting is to estimate and predict the future financial performances. There are different types of budgeting‚ which are incremental budgeting‚ zero based budgeting; priority based budgeting and rolling budgeting. The format of preparing budgeting may be similar but each of the basic approaches has relative advantages and disadvantages. Incremental budgeting is also known as traditional or annual budgeting. It’s a method of budgeting based on the past and actual results‚ for example
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Carnival Cruise Lines is the largest cruise company in North America and carries more than 60‚000 passengers a week. The Carnival experience is the standard against what past cruisers judge their later cruise experiences. Carnival has captured the "fun" psychographic and has a strong reputation for an enjoyable‚ relaxed cruise. Furthermore‚ Carnival has a strong market expansion strategy for selling the mass-market cruise category and first-time cruisers. They have a clear vision and knowledge about
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In this case‚ Aline Deneuve was the director of training in her company. And the company wanted to give a corporate retreat to the employees. As a director‚ Aline would like to know the employees’ attitudes. So she chosen five random people to talk with and got their attitudes to the new retreat. But‚ to her surprise‚ the bad morale and poor efficiency management system was existed in the company. Every person’s problems and Why did these occur Heather was the first person Aline meet. She was the
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Livent‚ Inc.- An Instructional Case‚ The former senior management of Livent engaged in a multi-faceted and fraud accounting since eight years. As a further result of the scheme‚ Drabinsky and Gottlieb’s elaborated their Fraudulent Kickbacks‚ Fraudulent Manipulation of Livent’s Books and Records to accomplish in quarterly periods and meet the earnings which they provided to Wall Street analysts. Further more three Accounting Manipulations were found by transferring production costs for shows to fixed
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Business Economics Case Number 6 Topic : Elasticity of Demand Objective: a) To apply the concept of elasticity of demand b) To correlate elasticity with decision making Part -I President Mr. Chatterjee of Indian Institute of Business Economics (IIBE)‚ India is concerned about the financial state of his institution. Last year there was a loss of Rs.1.5 million and the trustees are getting restless. Currently there are 1000 full-time students‚ out of that 700 are degree students from
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1. The cost of a computer system installed last year is an example of: (Points: 2) a sunk cost a relevant cost a differential cost an avoidable cost 2. In evaluating different alternatives‚ it is useful to concentrate on: (Points: 2) variable costs fixed costs total costs relevant costs 3. Relevant costs in a make-or-buy decision of a part include: (Points: 2) setup overhead costs for the manufacture of the
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Relevant Costs and Decision Making 4.16 A. The fixed overhead cost will be the same regardless of which method Regina Corp goes. Based on the analysis of Yoklic‚ they will incur the additional cost of $6 per unit by purchasing the subassemblies versus manufacturing them. B. The $50‚000 that is saved by eliminating the fixed overhead reduces the cost for outsourcing. This will give Yoklic an overall $20‚000 savings for 5‚000 units by purchasing externally versus manufacturing internally
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2.3 Incremental vs Radical Innovation To summarize‚ incremental innovation compared to radical innovation: Incremental innovation is based on iterative efforts to provide new benefits‚ features‚ and improvements to products in the existing market based on existing technologies (i.e. improvements within a given frame of solutions [X6]). Examples of incremental innovation are improvements of the fuel efficiency of the combustion engines in vehicles‚ or technological improvements that make it possible
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