Mid-Town Office Products Case Summary

A salesperson’s career depends largely on the respect that others have for him. Without respect, Willie cannot sell himself to his family, friends, or clients. Willie understands this, and takes pride in the positive reputation he thinks he has with buyers across the country. In this way, Biff is a client of Willie’s, who purchases the wisdom that his father has to offer.

Dakota Office Product (DOP) is a reputational merchandiser that is expertized in regionally distributing stationary supplies ranging from traditional office supplies to specialty copy paper. By using a typical business model, DOP ships the items from manufacturers and unloaded in its distribution centre. Based on daily orders from commercial business and institutions, those storages are delivered to customers by cartoons. In order to attract more new businesses, DOP adds “Desktop” delivery service to providing package delivery service to individual customers. Later on in 1999, electronic data interchange (EDI) was introduced to the market, which allows customers make quick online order. Despite few customers has switched to this new service, DOP is still bearing an increasing cost and first loss in its historical record in 2000 financial year.

Upon learning that most advertising agencies required prior sales experience, he moved to Chicago to accept a job offer with Northwest Airlines as a salesman. During this job, he would report to his designated field office and learn from his supervisor where he would be working that day. His primary task was selling “flight-perk cards” to various businesses for $400. Since this was his first job, most of his communication was in the form of face-to-face interactions with potential buyers. The job security was relatively low considering that there were many other salesmen doing the same work.

Both the family, and the Wal-Mart acknowledge that the family was detained. The Wal-Mart associates believed that they had the right to stop the family based on the assumption of shoplifting, although they should not have physically restrained the family from advancing out of the store, nor denied Debra McCann’s offer of verifying the family’s identity.

When a certain point is reached regarding a company’s success, a set of different opportunities arise and partnerships may unfold. However, with every possible strategy available, risks and benefits also come into play; without discarding any of them beforehand, every option is a strong candidate until a final decision is made. In this case study we will analyze the current business strategy pertaining

A bill-and-hold transaction is when the seller bills the customers for a product and records it as revenue, but does not ship the product to the customer until a later date. FASB states that revenue can not be recognized until the product is shipped to the final customer. Kelly Electronics will be receiving the products by March 31, 2017, but the final customer, Victor Systems will not, so under FASB, revenue should not be recognized until the goods are shipped to Victor Systems. The SEC also has certain criteria that needs to be met before South City Electronics can recognize this revenue. A few of these criteria’s are: “the risks of ownership must have passed to the buyer”, “the buyer, not the seller, must request the transaction be on

The Richland Area Office would like to refer Mr. Casey Campbell to Mr. Birt Dowling for a psychological evaluation. Would it be possible to arrange for a morning appointment with Mr. Dowling? Mr. Campbell is available to meet with Mr. Dowling on any Monday morning in July after the week of July 3,

Hobby Lobby Stores is a chain arts and crafts store around the nation. The owners, which is the Green Family, based a lot the their business and primary rules of their Christian faith. They have filed a court case to not provide birth contraception for their employee’s benefits for health. They feel birth contraception is unmoral and goes against their religion, which is what bases their crafts store. The Greens sued Kathleen Sebelius, who is the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on September 12, 2012 for the requirements of providing birth contraception. The court allowed their request of not providing this benefit to Hobby Lobby’s employees.

NCB is a manufacturer and distributer of a wide range of office products. In Canada, NCB uses several distributers in different regions. One of the major distributers is Harrison Stationary and Office Supply LTD. Harrison had distributed NCB’S products for over 50 years and NCB was the largest supplier of Harrison. In January 2003 Harrison was acquired by the president of the company and four senior officers. Most of the acquisition cost was financed by bank loans. Since the acquisition, Harrison had difficulties to pay NCB for the goods and the account receivable reached to unacceptable level. In September 2005 the Harrison account was 156 days old and amounted to $ 4.4 million. In

Develop an activity-base cost system for Dakota Office Products based on Year 200 data. Calculate the activity cost-driver rate for each DOP activity in 2000.

Urban Outfitters inappropriately handled this crisis because the company maintained that this controversy was only a misunderstanding, and therefore lied to the public about the initial motivation to sell this unethical product. As a matter of fact, Urban Outfitters justified its choice of selling this “one of a kind” Kent state sweatshirt instead of apologizing sincerely. According to the company the red color and holes on the sweatshirt are “discoloration from the original shade of the shirt and the holes are from natural wear and fray”. In this case, the firm minimized its responsibly by denning its initial intend that “it was never our intention to allude to the tragic events”. The retailer asserted that the connection with the Kent State shooting was a coincidence. “Our

(If the company produce the BB first, the company will buy 4000 labor hours, and it will use 2500 for BB and the remaining hours to produce WRM = 1500.

Exactly. Non-Folsom resident making political plans on behalf of the Chamber... The Chamber of Commerce is a FOR-PROFIT entity operating as a NON-PROFIT entity in which Folsom tax payers are footing it's bills like a $1 rent for historical piece of land on Sutter. The Chamber at one time was extremely important for Folsom; that time, the CEO Roger Zittel put the businesses of Folsom before anything else AND didn't take a $200,000 annual salary like good old Joe. The everyday folks at the Chamber are hard workers, putting in major time and effort to help local businesses; but the Executive level, most of the Ambassadors and the Board members are all part of this so called "political elite class' effectively deciding Folsom's future. Demanding

MediSys is a U.S.-based medical device manufacturer. It has been developing IntensCare project, a new medical system for monitoring patients in intensive care units. This project represents the most ambitious move in the company’s 10-year history. The company had invested large finances in this project and the market eagerly awaits its launch. The product development team consisting of people from several functional areas of the company, has been working on the product for six months but is now facing significant problems with the product design, clinical testing, meeting the production deadlines, and their own group dynamics. The pressure had also increased because of competitors also planning to launch similar products within the year. Several team members are concerned about meeting the team 's goals. The relationship between team members is quite tense and it doesn’t promise much progress.

2.   Mean service time = travel time + repair time = 1 + 1.5 = 2.5 hours