INTRODUCTION Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903‚ in Dearborn‚ Michigan. It is one of three leading automotive manufacturing companies in United Sates and grew to reach revenue of more than $144 billion with 370‚000 employees and operation spanned 200 countries. In the 1970’s‚ the automobile market for the major auto-makers‚ General Motors (GM)‚ Ford and Chrysler was crunched by competition from foreign manufacturers such as Toyota and Honda. The automakers faced the need to continue
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Solution to Case 1 Cash Flow Analysis Signal Cable Company* * Note to Instructors: When assigning this case‚ inform the students that the firm’s stock price has recently dropped from $7 per share to $5.50 per share. Case objective: The objective of this case is to cover financial statement analysis and cash flow analysis‚ with a particular emphasis on liquidity and net working capital. Student Preparation time: Approximately 2 hours. Answers to questions: 1. Why has the stock price fallen
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Company X would like to have a method to be able to quantitatively analyze if there’s a business case for creating production cells in the factory. The company currently operates in a job shop based manufacturing environment in which similar machines are grouped into functional departments. This means that the parts are moved from department to department through the manufacturing process. The company currently does not have any production cells‚ neither have they identified products which together
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BIRCH PAPER COMPANY CASE ANALYSIS Executive Summary Birch Paper Company is a medium sized‚ partly-integrated paper company. It produces white and craft papers and paperboard. It has four producing divisions and a timberland division – The Thompson division converts the paperboard output into corrugated box and prints and colors the outside surface of the box. The Northern division produces the paper box‚ while the Southern division supplies the corrugating medium and inner and outer liners. Timberland
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suggestion to close SDS instead of keeping it. However‚ if they close SDS‚ the change in their net income will be: Exhibit 5 They will save costs in maintenance‚ power‚ and so on‚ but they will lose the rent profit $8‚000 if there is no other company rents that floor. Besides‚ they need to outsource and the outsourcing cost will be 205 hours * $800 per hour = $164‚000. Therefore‚ as it is shown in Exhibit 5‚ their extra cost of closing SDS will be $94‚356. If they don’t rent the place to other
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Financial Case Study on The Quality Furniture Company Introduction The Quality Furniture Company was a high-quality home furniture manufacturer. Its headquarters was in Scranton and distribution depends on the department stores‚ independent home furnishing retailers and regional chains. The Lloyd’s‚ Inc and the Emporium department store were two of them. The Lloyd’s‚ Inc had been a customer of Quality Furniture for over 30 years. It always kept the good relationship and credit with Quality Furniture
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Jordan Company Solution Jordan Company has two departments‚ X and Y. Overhead is applied based on direct labor cost in Department X and machine-hours in Department Y. The following additional information is available: Budgeted Amounts Direct labor cost Factory overhead Machine-hours Actual data for Job #10 Direct materials requisitioned Direct labor cost Machine-hours Department X $180‚000 $225‚000 51‚000 mh Department X $10‚000 $11‚000 5‚000 mh Department Y $165‚000 $180‚000 40‚000 mh Department
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accounts payable increased very much. And we can may be assume that there are also gains from the company’s activities. Thus‚ accounts receivable slightly increased‚ in parallel with the company’s activities we can also assume that company sales increased. Company is not in trouble with receivables. ANSWER 3: Retained Earnings didn’t increase by the amount of net income for the month because‚ Diane Maynard got a dividend of 11.700 USD which she then used to repay her loan. Thus Retained
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Internet Case for Chapter 2: Operations Strategy in a Global Environment Johannsen Steel Company Johannsen Steel Company (JSC) was established by three Johannsen brothers in 1928 in Pittsfield‚ Rhode Island. The brothers began JSC by concentrating on high-quality‚ high-carbon‚ high-margin steel wire. Products included "music wire" for instruments such as pianos and violins; copper‚ tin‚ and other coated wires; and high tensile-wire for the newly emerging aircraft industry. JSC even pioneered
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Printing(Thompson div) 25 Own Supplies 312(432-5-36) Total 391 As shown in the calculations above‚ Northern should accept the bid from Thompson division as it has the lowest cost if all transfer prices within the company were calculated at costs. Incurring the lowest costs would also enable Birch Paper Company to earn the highest profits possible. 2. As alternatives for sourcing exists‚ Mr. Kenton should be permitted to choose the alternative that is in Northern division’s own interests. The transfer price
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