Title: PRESTIGE TELEPHONE COMPANY: A CASE ANALYSIS Point of View: Management Consultant I. Issues and Concerns: ■ In 1999‚ the Public Service Commission encouraged all public utilities to: 1. seek new sources of revenues and profits since heading towards deregulation; and 2. To reduce the need for rate increases. ■ Prestige Telephone Co. realized that a centralized service that could plan‚ control‚ and account for its own
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Summary Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and also to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month and by the end of 1996 its income was low enough to necessitate a report to shareholders. Mrs. Bradley thinks the company just needs more time while Mr. Rowe feels it is time to reassess Prestige Data
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Accounting for Decision Making (GSM5301) Case Study Report 6 Prestige Telephone Company GROUP 4 : LECTURER : Dr. Ahmed Razman HAND IN DATE : 26 March 2014 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and selling computer services to other organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month. Worse
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Case Analysis: Prestige Telephone Company Liam Hennessy‚ Xinyi Zhang‚ Yuan Chai‚ and Anthony Saba 1. Reasons for Continuing Losses Prestige Data Services’ main problem is that they have too many available hours that are not generating any revenue. In the first quarter of 2003‚ they have an average of 176 available hours per month of available hours. Its operations exact a huge amount of fixed costs to cover. If they could find more commercial customers for the available capacity‚ they could
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1. Prestige Data Services apparently has not lived up to its parent company’s expectation. However‚ based on the numbers‚ the Prestige Data Services appears to be rather potential after just two years of performance. Its revenue hours sold to outside firms have being growing‚ and the majority of Prestige Data Services’ costs are fixed costs‚ e.g.‚ rent‚ custodial services‚ computer lease‚ maintenance‚ etc. In order to determine whether or not the subsidiary is indeed “too good to give up‚” two
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Prestige Telephone Company – Case Study In April 2003‚ Daniel Rowe‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company‚ was preparing for a meeting with Susan Bradley‚ Manager of Prestige Data Services‚ a company subsidiary. Partial deregulation and an agreement with the state Public Service Commission had permitted Prestige Telephone to establish a computer data service subsidiary to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer service to other companies and organizations. Mr.
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1. Prestige Data Services apparently has not lived up to its parent company’s expectation. However‚ based on the numbers‚ the Prestige Data Services appears to be rather potential after just two years of performance. Its revenue hours sold to outside firms have being growing‚ and the majority of Prestige Data Services’ costs are fixed costs‚ e.g.‚ rent‚ custodial services‚ computer lease‚ maintenance‚ etc. In order to determine whether or not the subsidiary is indeed “too good to give up
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The Prestige Telephone Company 2- Assume that the total expenses are around the average of $ 231‚000. (By observing first three months’ results) If the total expenses are $ 231‚000 than the total revenue should be $ 231‚000 at the Break-Even Point. On the other hand if the company demand for service will be 205 hours ‚ which means company sales revenue will be $ 82‚000 (as the Public Service Commission’s restrictions says)‚ and the other revenues in the commercial sales assume that around
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: 8 Case Study : Prestige Telephone Company Background of Case Study In April 1997‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company (PTC)‚ Daniel Rowe‚ was making arrangements to meet with its computer data service subsidiary Prestige Data Services’ (henceforth PDS) manager Susan Bradley. This subsidiary performs data processing for the telephone company and sells computer services to other companies. In 1994‚ Rowe suggested that productive computer services subsidiary will decrease the telephone rate
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Prestige Case Study Accounting Currently there are only two variable costs of the company‚ but as Anthony RN (2011 p476)) states when products have different unit contributions and when the product mix changes one approach to the C-V-P analysis is to treat each product separate entity and to construct a profit graph for that entity. A prestige data service provides a service and so the variable costs are only Power and labour rather then products who would have materials included. The variable
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