A United States Citizen Working Abroad
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Accounting
Transport Corporation of India (C): Dealing with Shortcomings in Service Quality
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Chardonnay Shortage at Mondavi Winery
The Mondavi winery is battling the Chardonnay wine shortage. This deficiency will disrupt your positioning in wine cellars and affect your results. It allows students to discuss how these temporary but financially significant shocks can be communicated to the capital markets and other Mondavi stakeholders. Mondavi’s problems in meeting previous earnings forecasts below also allow …
Sonvilier Pen Company: An Outsourcing Decision
The COO of Sonvilier Pen, an elite manufacturer of high-quality ballpoint pens and fountain pens, had received a proposal to outsource two components of the pen to Li Manufacturing, a specialist in the shaping and fabrication of intricate metals in the southeast of China. The proposal was intriguing, but the COO had to consider several …
General Electric: Valley Forge (A)
A collection of 8 vignette instances designed to learn in a single study room session. This case describes a ability trouble withinside the manner that General Electric has billed the authorities below a big protection contract. Designed to permit college students to speak about what movements pinnacle managers and the Department of Defense have to …
Origins of National Income Accounting
Set in the Great Depression, this case examines the origins of the national income state in the United States. Notable is Senator La Follette’s 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin compiling statistics on national income.
FAG Kugelfischer : A German Restructuring
A large German manufacturer of ball bearings and precision machinery has run into serious financial difficulties due to poor management practices, a hasty takeover of a former East German ball bearing company and a downturn in the industry. The company is hiring a German professional restructuring manager who has been involved in “American-style” liquidation practices …
FinePrint Company (B)
Supplement to case UV1722. John Johnson, the owner of the FinePrint Company, is presented with several opportunities to consider: (1) whether to accept a onetime special printing order (the A case, UVAC2193), (2) whether to outsource some of his printing to another printing company (the B case), and (3) whether to both accept the onetime …
Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group
Founded in 1986, Noble Group was a major commodities trader based in Hong Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble changed its business strategy to an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce raw materials, but instead developed raw material sourcing capabilities by working …
Aussie Pies (C)
Aussie Pies, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2005 after Anna Amphlett and Andrew Ferris discovered Australian meat pies while on vacation in Australia. Meat Pie, a hand-sized pie with pies filled with minced meat and gravy, is eaten as a take-out snack in Australia. To obtain funding from Bank of America, the company’s …