Case analysis on Lucent Technologies: Global Supply Chain Management By‚ ROOPANVI DANDU Lucent Technologies: Global Supply Chain Management Lucent technologies are a manufacturing company that was a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (AT&T) until 1996. Lucent’s main product was the 5ESS switch. The switch was worlds most reliable and widely used switching system. Prior to 1996 the Asian supply chain has not been a high priority. The demand for Asian joint ventures
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Revenue-Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1) In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679m as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firm’s market capitalization plummeted by $24.7bn. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? The large drop in market capitalization is probably due to several factors. Historically‚ Lucent had successfully met analysts’ projections for
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Financial Reporting and Analysis – ACG6175 Date: 5/18/09 Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1 – In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679 million as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firms market capitalization plummeted by $24.7 billion. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? There is usually a grey zone between aggressive accounting‚ which
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Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 23 (2013) 1–24 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Pacific-Basin Finance Journal journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pacfin The role of the audit committee and the informativeness of accounting earnings in East Asia Tracie Woidtke a‚ Yin-Hua Yeh b‚⁎ a b Department of Finance‚ Corporate Governance Center‚ University of Tennessee‚ United States Graduate Institute of Finance‚ National Chiao Tung University‚ 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd.‚ Hsinchu
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ESTIMATING THE RISK PREMIUM USING HISTORICAL DATA: A CASE OF THE NSE Introduction This study seeks to estimate the risk premium of a company using historical data. Analysts use historical data to estimate the risk premium of a company’s equity. This is because the historical data is readily available from the company’s financial statements and the securities exchanges for example the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. Historical market data can be used to compute average returns and a measure
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Lucent Technologies Case Yulissa T. Ortiz Salgado March 30‚ 2013 Financial Reporting: Peeking Under the Financial Hood Mrs. Darcie Sargent The Lucent Technologies is a company that helps creating new revenue generating opportunities for customers through the communication service. We all know how useful and important communication services have become throughout the years. Lucent Technologies is compounded of three organizations around the products and they are: Integrated Network Solutions
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“Lucent technologies is a company that designs and delivers the systems‚ software and services that drives the next generation communications networks. They are backed by Bell Labs research and development” (Fraser & Ormiston‚ p 79‚ para 2). “They use their strengths in mobility‚ optical‚ access‚ data and voice networking technologies‚ as well as services‚ to create new revenue generating opportunities. This makes it possible to help them better manage their networks. Their customers include
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Revenue Recognition Policy (Note 2): A. Sale of goods Revenue Recognition According to the annual report ’s financial statement notes‚ CV Technologies (CVT) recognizes revenue when the title of goods is passed on to the customer‚ and when reasonable assurance exists regarding the measurement and collection of the consideration given. This means that once CVT ships its goods to their reliable customers‚ they will account for those goods as sold‚ and recognize the contract amount as revenue. This
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Lucent Technologies Caser University of Phoenix Axia College Acc 230 October 3‚ 2010 Lucent Technologies After reviewing the Case Review of Lucent Technologies‚ it was apparent the Lucent Technologies assets suffered a large decline between the years of 2003 and 2004. In 2003 the current assets consisted of 49.4% of their total assets while in 2004 the current asset percentage decreased to 48.5%. After a more close and thorough evaluation‚ it is apparent that the inventory did increase
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Oscar J. "Revenue recognition convergence: The contract-based model." Journal Of Corporate Accounting & Finance (Wiley) 22‚ no. 6 (2011): 87-92. The article “Revenue Recognition Convergence: The Contract-Based Model” is all about revenue recognition. It begins by explaining the conceptual background information to give you an overview of what revenue recognition is both in the US and internationally. Part of this section also discusses what problems have been found with revenue recognition. Because
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