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1. Introduction Galvor had been an independent company in the electronic industry of electronic measuring and test equipment since 1946, under the management of Mr. Latour, who was its founder and president. In 1974, Galvor was sold to Universal Electric (UE). Mr. Latour then became the chairman of the board of Galvor and Mr. Hennessy, from the UE, was deployed as Galvor 's managing director. As parts of the transformation process from a small independent company to a part of a multinational corporation (MNC), Galvor had to change its planning and control system to comply with UE. 2. Planning and control system for Galvor as an independent company: The essential purpose of a company 's planning and control system is to make managers …show more content…

Next, in a large organization as UE, to ensure fairness in the compensation system, employee administration would need to be prescribed. All of these require a formal, sophisticated planning and control system. Though the implementation may be painful at first as complained by Galvor controller Barsac, UE was aiming to develop Galvor to be planning-and-control-savvy in the future, without which it would not be able to achieve the recent development as today. Moreover, the fact that UE was able to provide Galvor with necessary resource, better staff (reallocation of staffs from other UE divisions to Galvor), and technological add (IBM system), as well as professional help to implement the new practices proved that the imposition of this system was essential and justified. However, the extent to which UE should rely on the current system depends on several factors, as discussed below. 4. Extent to which UE relies on financial reporting and control: The company 's multinational strategy, and the difference in the culture of doing business in different countries would determine the extent to which it relies on such a comprehensive system of financial reporting and control. MNC may pursuit different strategy for the business units, for different reasons and thus, implies different coordination mechanisms. If the roles of the units are as marketing satellite, local innovator, they would need centralized decision-making, and intensive financial

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