There was an interesting article that was shown on the news recently. This article involves the printer giant Lexmark and a small company from Charleston, WV called Impression Products.. Lexmark as everyone knows, manufactures printers and the cartridges that are made for those printers. Lexmark printer cartridges have a computer chip on it that sends metadata to Lexmark for tracking purposes. The company Impression Products refills and refurbishes the ink cartridges manufactured by Lexmark and sells them to consumers cheaper than Lexmark. This action would send Lexmark and Impression Products to America’s highest court. Lexmark filed a lawsuit against Impression in U.S. Supreme court in 2010 in the state of Ohio. They claimed that they had
This case involves a male and female Hispanic, entering TJ Maxx during business hours, and concealing various items in their bags. The suspects attempted to leave the store without paying for the items. Loss Prevention Agent Sergio Castro made contact with the suspects at the front entrance and retrieved all of the loss except for a black Michael Kors purse, valued at $159.99.
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a. Familiarize yourself with the internal control system for acquisitions and cash disbursements by studying the information in Figure 10-12 and Figure 10-13.
Bed, Bath and Beyond (BBBY) currently has $400 million more in cash than they need for ongoing growth and operations requirements. While the company is financially sound analysts and investors worry about the company’s capital structure decisions. Investors do not want to see that much cash on the books and worry that the current capital structure is not the most effective for the future. They prefer that BBBY change their capital structure by paying out excess cash and issuing debt. This could allow BBBY to improve their return on equity and raise earnings per share. Given the low interest rates available it seems like the perfect time for BBBY to add debt to its capital structure. Until now they
As the Independent Auditor I would require from Pinnacle, the client a Management Representation Letter. This is a letter an auditor is required to obtain from management at the conclusion of fieldwork, confirming representations explicitly or implicitly given to the auditor, indicating and documenting the continuing appropriateness of such representations, and reducing the possibility of misunderstanding regarding the representations.
As Star River is a private company and has not issued stock, we need to make several assumptions when calculating market value of equity and price of equity. Analysis of similar companies reveals that Wintronics, Inc. and STOR-Max Corp. are the most similar firms in the market. To calculate Star River’s market value of equity I used market to book value method. I found M/B for Wintronics to be 4.4 (market price per share/book value per share) and 3.9 for STOR-Max. an average M/B ratio is 4.15, so multiplying Star River’s book value of equity of 47004 by 4.15 I found Star River’s market value of equity to be SGD195,066.6M. Average beta of these two companies is 1.615. The global equity market premium is 6%, and I use 10 year Singapore T-bond yield of 3.6% as my risk free rate.
Sensormatic manufactures, markets, and services theft detection devices and pioneered the merchandise security business. Its current manufacturing operations occur at Deerfield Beach plan between two separate departments of systems production and tag production. Sensormatic currently purchases polypropylene and ABS parts from Canon Plastics and Piedmont Plastics for its alligator, half alligator, and other tags. Now it is evaluating whether to make or buy plastic parts while at the same time considering the adoption of a radically new process technology to make 'throw away' tags that would simplify assembly and is
Case Analysis Success in the folding carton industry Pitts has been extremely aggressive in positioning Carded Graphics within the folding carton industry. This industry prints and cuts paper and glues it in a way that allows subsequent unfolding and filling by the customer. The industry is facing ever shorter lead times and must satisfy even more complex customer requests, particularly regarding printing capabilities. The large printers have secured the ultra-high-volume noncustomized business (printing boxes for commodity products), and Carded Graphics must be able to fill the customized small-run business. Pitts took a major step in purchasing a state-of-the-art printer. It is the main feature of Carded Graphics’ operations, putting the company ahead of
It might not be in the retailer’s best interest to perform such upgrade, as the new system will replace three of the existing legacy systems in terms of ordering and fulfillment. The IS department will perceive such upgrade as a radical move and is expected to show high resistance in response to it. Even though Zara has a decentralized decision making process, the retailer’s IS department exercises absolute autonomy on the IT infrastructure and design. The fact that “only one person had left the department” in the past 10 years further confirms that the retailer is suffering from cognitive and action inertia, and thus creating a huge barrier for such
Assuming that Kodak Gold Plus sells about 20% of its yearly sales during off-seasons, the resulting cannibalisation will amount to:
1. How would you characterize the office supplies industry in 1985? What was the approach of large distributors and wholesalers to the small business segment? Why? Who served large accounts? (10)
Corporate finance is important to all managers because it allows a manager to be able to predict the funds the company will need for their upcoming projects and think about ways to organize and acquire those funds.
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Fourth, it should improve its technological measures to prevent counterfeit sales. One of the issues affecting the company is the sale of counterfeit items. The company has filed lawsuits against ToysNet and Joana Ferreira in 2016 for selling counterfeit items (Rao, 2016). Lastly, Amazon should roll out its own online payment system to counteract the security and privacy concerns of its many customers.