...the current business strategy pertaining to AAA and the offer from Business Center Inc. Background In order to define what AAA should do in this kind of a situation we must first look at the background of the company. The company has been in business for 28 years and their sales volume is about $40 million which speaks volume about the company’s experience and market share in the industry for office and stationery products which is specialized in the production and sale of file folders, file markers and labels and a variety of indexing systems. AAA has a big name in the industry due to its diverse use which is due to the variety offered by the company which includes files for oversized blueprint and engineer drawings, see-through files for medical markets and grease proof and water proof files for marine, oil field and other hazardous environmental markets. However, the raw material for the FILEX line of file folders are easily available and even though the competitors are small, they are always ready to cut prices in order to have more market share. The amount of sales with respect to Business Center is worth 30 percent of the total sales which makes the company the biggest client for AAA. Considering that the 150 retail stores where Business Center sells its products, there are discussions within said stores about possibly forming potential buying groups, in order to purchase large quantities at discounts. Problem Stasia Acosta is the marketing manager of AAA Office World...
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...AAA Office World Basic Marketing Nineteenth Edition William D. Perrault, Jr. Appendix 1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Problem 4. Name Brand vs. Private Label 5. Target Market 6. SWOT Analysis 6.1. Strengths 6.2. Weaknesses 6.3. Opportunities 6.4. Threats 7. Recommended Marketing Strategy 8. Bibliography Introduction 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 to AAA and the offer from Business Center Inc. Background In order to define what AAA should do in this kind of a situation we must first look at the background of the company. The company has been in business for 28 years and their sales volume is about $40 million which speaks volume about the company’s experience and market share in the industry for office and stationery products which is specialized in the production and sale of file folders, file markers and labels and a variety of indexing systems. AAA has a big name in the industry due to its diverse use which is due to the variety offered by the company which includes files for oversized blueprint and engineer drawings, see-through files for medical markets and grease proof and water...
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...AAA Strategic Marketing Plan Karolyn Scheib, Aurelia Okafor-Smith, Angie Boyd, April Blood, Kirsten Fayette-Ryan MKT/421 March 3, 2014 Theodore Framan Intro……………. Organizational Overview (1) AAA is a non-profit organization that founded in 1902 and serves 53 million members across the United States and Canada (AAA MountainWest, 2013). Since 1925, AAA offers insurance, traveling plans, and roadside assistance (AAA MountainWest, 2013). AAA offers a club membership that distributes automotive and travel needs to its members. In addition to AAA member services, AAA promotes itself through product and service improvements and community outreach (AAA MountainWest, 2013). AAA fights for better roads, participate in traffic and pedestrian safety endeavors, energy issues, geographic information systems, environmental concerns, and other automotive issues (AAA MountainWest, 2013). These components allow AAA the opportunity to market themselves beyond their current membership. For example, on Earth Day 2000, AAA clubs collected 7,500 used batteries and properly disposed of them to keep landfills clean (AAA MountainWest, 2013). AAA has a long-standing history of automotive and travel products and services for its members. Despite the history of consumer satisfaction, AAA has also shown a community commitment in its outreach programs. Importance of Marketing for Organizational Success Marketing is a very important part of any organizations success. Marketing allows...
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...AAA Transportation Paper OI/361 Abstract AAA Transportation is an interstate company that focuses on transporting wholesale products in refrigerated trailers around Midwest this company is located in Waukegan,WI. On the other hand, AAA Transportation has new owners that are planning to make some positive changes that can potentially raise the company's growth becoming more successful. The new owners want to add a delivery of nonperishable products, such as canned foods, to their delivery routes, allowing AAA to expand the area they cover and to provide expanded service to their existing customers. Taking in consideration that many of the routes do not require a full load, there would be enough of room to add nonperishable goods. In addition, the new owners plan to provide the delivery at a lower charge than the customers are now paying. Two of the company's employees Vernon and Bud are opposed to the changes of the new owners. Vernon directs the company's drivers and Bud works in the corporate offices. Vernon does not think that expanding the core business is a good idea, while Bud thinks that AAA is not capable of competing with existing companies that provide the same nonperishable products. Vernon and Bud have been with AAA for more than 20 years and both have a high influence between the rest of the employees. This paper will go over the mental model/mindsets including the impact of the two coworkers, the four steps...
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...AAA Office World (AAA) I. Key Facts 1. AAA Office World is a manufacturing company making office supplies. 2. Stasia Acosta must decide whether she should permit her largest customer to buy some of AAA’s commonly used file folders under the customer’s brand rather than AAA’s own FILEX brand. 3. If Stasia refuses, this customer BCI will go to another file folder producer and AAA will lose this business. 4. AAA’s refused this proposal twice in the past because of the company policy to avoid one company dependency and not to brand the product by customer name or logo. 5. BCI is a nationwide distributor of office supplies with 150 retail stores accounted for 30% of AAA’s business and its own brand on more than 45 high sales volume office supply products. 6. FILEX brand file folders accounted for about 35% of the 30% BCI volume of AAA. 7. AAA has been in business 28 years and has a sales volume of $40 million. 8. About 40% of AAA’s file folder business is in specialized line such as files for oversized blueprint and engineer drawings and waterproof files for marine and other hazardous environment markets. 9. AAA’s target markets are 10 regional stationery suppliers (40% of total sales) each provider has 6 branches and does sales directly to some retails and large corporations, BCI (30%) with 150 retail stores, and more than 40 local stationary (30%) with one wholesale and three retail stores. 10. The commonly used file folder...
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...the American Accounting Association (AAA), the ability the organization can attribute to my professional career and knowledge, and how this knowledge can be an attribute to my career success. How it will also help me to develop strategies and skills that will in the long run allow me to be a great asset to any agency in which I choose to work for . Describe AAA The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in accounting education, research, and practice (AAA, 2010). The AAA, founded in 1916, was first known as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting until 1936 when the association name was changed. The American Accounting Association is composed of voluntary persons and professionals that are interested or involved in accounting, accounting education, and research (AAA, 2010). American Accounting Association Mission The American Accounting Association mission is “to further the discipline and profession of accounting through education, research, and service” (AAA 2010). The Association acknowledges that its members share a number of common values, which include the importance of their personal integrity, their objectivity, sense of community, open communications, respect for each other, high ethical values and personal behaviors, and an obligation to serve important stakeholders, including the broader society within which we operate. This statement is an expression of the values the AAA share and designed to serve as a broad...
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...2012 Assuming the role as part of the Human Resources management team for AAA Transportation, located in Waukegan, WI. AAA Transportation is an interstate trucking company that focuses on transporting wholesale produce in refrigerated trailers around the Midwest. AAA Transportation has been recently acquired, and the new owners coming to take over the company, want to plan and make some changes that add more services than are currently offered. The changes the owners plan to make are to add the delivery of nonperishable food products such as canned foods, spices and sugars to the delivery routes. Considering that many of the routes do not require a full load and, there is plenty of space left for the nonperishable food products the new owners want to take advantage of this. The new owners also plan to provide the delivery at a much lower rate than they are currently paying their competitors. Vernon and Bud, two of the company’s strongest employees, are not responding to the changes the way the new owners would have liked. Vernon supervises the company’s drivers and Bud works in the corporate offices. Vernon does not think expanding the core business of AAA Transportation is a good move for the organization. Bud does not think AAA Transportation is strong enough to compete with the competitors currently delivering nonperishable food products. For more than 20 years, Vernon and Bud have been employed by AAA Transportation and have a reputation with other employees. This paper will...
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...21 6 pm Tsang Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 20-30 002 Intermediate Financial Acct 1 Dec 21 6 pm Tsang Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 20-30 ACCT 351 003 Intermediate Financial Acct 1 Dec 21 6 pm Tsang Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 20-30 ACCT 352 001 Intermediate Financial Acct 2 Dec 21 9 am Cecere Aaa - Zzz ENGTR 0100 ACCT 354 001 Financial Statement Analysis Dec 22 2 pm Scott Aaa - Zzz GYM Fieldhouse 28-31 ACCT 354 002 Financial Statement Analysis Dec 22 2 pm Scott Aaa - Zzz GYM Fieldhouse 28-31 ACCT 361 001 Management Accounting Dec 11 2 pm Parent Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 1-11 ACCT 361 002 Management Accounting Dec 11 2 pm Parent Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 1-11 ACCT 361 003 Management Accounting Dec 11 2 pm Parent Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym 1-11 ACCT 362 001 Cost Accounting Dec 17 2 pm Levy Aaa - Zzz GYM Studio 1 1-3 ACCT 385 001 Principles of Taxation Dec 15 2 pm Goldsman Aaa - Zzz GYM BLEACHERS 1-5 ACCT 385 002 Principles of Taxation Dec 15 2 pm Goldsman Aaa - Zzz GYM BLEACHERS 1-5 ACCT 453 001 Advanced Financial Accountin Dec 14 9 am Scott Aaa - Zzz GYM main gym ACCT 463 001 Management Control Dec 11 2 pm Levy Aaa - Zzz GYM Studio 2 1-7 ACCT 463 002 Management Control Dec 11 2 pm Levy Aaa - Zzz GYM Studio 2 1-7 ACCT 475 001 Principles of Auditing Dec 16 6 pm Cecere Aaa - Zzz GYM Studio 1 1-4 ACCT 486 001 Business Taxation 2 Dec 15 9 am Goldsman Aaa - Zzz GYM main...
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...Mental Model/Mindset Paper Working in Human Resources with the management team for AAA Transportation. The company is based in Waukegan, WI, and it is and interstate trucking company that focuses on transporting wholesale products in refrigerated trailers around the Midwest. There are new owners coming taking over the company, and they plan to make some changes that can potentially improve the company’s growth and become more successful. The Changes the owners plan to make is adding delivery of nonperishable products to the delivery routes. Considering that many of the routes does not require a full load, there would be plenty of room left for the products to fit. The new owners also plan to provide the delivery at a lower rate that the customers are now paying. Two of the company’s strongest employees are not responding to the changes the way the owners hoped. Vernon does not think expanding the core business is a smart move and Bud does not think AAA is strong enough to compete with the competitors that are already providing those services. Vernon and Bud have been with AAA for 20 years and have a high influence with the other workers. This paper will review the mental model/mindset and the impact it has on employees, the four steps to changing the mental model/mindset, the five forces that influence those mental model/mindsets, and examples of the mental model/mindset. Mental model/mindsets and their impact on you and your two coworkers. Mental model/mindsets...
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...1.0 Executive Summary AAA Transportation is a non-emergency medical transportation company. Non-emergency medical transportation businesses transport individuals, generally the elderly and disabled, who are not in an emergency situation but need more assistance than a taxi service provides. It has been delivering services for people with needs for over 15 year. For years the company’s main income came from transporting aged and disabled, where the main insurance was Medicaid. As the times are changing now, when more and more insurance providers and private management companies to perform non policy NEMT functions for services, Volga had to start winning its share in ever competitive New York Market. Taking into consideration that NEMT companies are prohibited from soliciting customers, AAA Transportation as a service provider has to increase the number of its wheelchair equipped vehicles, add vehicles with stretcher and add sedan’s to already existing fleet of 15. With the help of it marketing plan it intends to contract with various Long Term insurance companies who provide not only long term insurance help but offer transportation services. To get contracts with those companies we would have to prove that we excel in our services and provide our customers with timely and professional services. We also plan to expand geographically , where the services were only provided in one of New York Boroughs, we plan to expand to rest of the five boroughs of NYC. A sound marketing plan...
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...Name Kaplan University PA165 December 19, 2014 STATEMENT OF FACTS: John Stokely is a sales executive for AAA Auto Dealers, a local automobile dealership. Part of his job duties is to check on new orders at the manufacturing facility, which is 150 miles from the dealership. AAA Auto Dealers provides John with a dealer car to drive, as well as reimburses him for gasoline, food, and lodging. While driving to the manufacturing plant, John, accompanied by his boss, decided to stop by John’s cousin’s house for dinner. While on the way to his cousin’s house, John collided with a motorcyclist, injuring the driver. ISSUE: Whether AAA Auto Dealers are liable for John’s negligence? RULE: AAA Auto Dealer’s may be held vicariously liable for its employee's actions under the theory of respondeat superior for negligence committed within the scope of employment, citing Stropes v. Heritage Children's Ctr., 547 N.E.2d 244, 247 (Ind. 1989). ANALYSIS: Vicarious Liability imposes responsibility on one person for the acts of another because of a special relationship with that person; such as a parent or employer. Okrent, C., & J.D.. (2009). Respondeat Superior places responsibility on the employer for any acts or harm caused by its employees while working. Okrent, C., & J.D.. (2009). If an employee’s acts were authorized, then the respondeat superior rule applies. In Barnett v. Clark, Debra A. Barnett sought damages against Camille Clark, Trustee of Pleasant Township...
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...Credit Crunch of 2007: What Went Wrong? Why? What Lessons Can Be Learned? First draft: September 2008 This draft: May 2009 John C. Hull* Joseph L. Rotman School of Management University of Toronto Abstract This paper explains the events leading to the credit crisis that began in 2007 and the products that were created from residential mortgages. It explains the multiple levels of securitization that were involved. It argues that the inappropriate incentives led to a short‐term focus in the decision making of traders and a failure to evaluate the risks being taken. The products that were created lacked transparency with the payoffs from one product depending on the performance of many other products. Market participants relied on the AAA ratings assigned to products without evaluating the models used by rating agencies. The paper considers the steps that can be taken by financial institutions and their regulators to avoid similar crises in the future. It suggests that companies should be required to retain some of the risk in each instrument that is created when credit risk is transferred. The compensation plans within financial institutions should be changed so that they have a longer term focus. Collateralization through either clearinghouses or two‐way collateralization agreements should become mandatory. Risk management should involve more managerial judgment and rely less on the mechanistic application of value‐at‐risk models. *e-mail: hull@rotman.utoronto...
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...John Stokely and AAA Auto Dealers Jennifer L. Beverly Kaplan University PA 165 Professor Fiano December 19, 2011 Memorandum of Law From: Jennifer L. Beverly To: Astrid Fiano, Esq. Re: John Stokely and AAA Auto Dealers Date: December 19, 2011 Question Presented Is AAA Auto Dealers liable for John’s negligence? Brief Answer AAA Auto Dealers is liable for Mr. Stokely’s negligence committed within the scope of employment. Mr. Stokely’s actions fall within the scope of employment because driving to the manufacturing facility was business related. Mr. Stokely’s boss accompanied him to the manufacturing facility. Facts John Stokely is a sales executive for AAA Auto Dealers, a local automobile dealership. He often drives to the manufacturing facility, which is 150 miles from the dealership, to check on new orders. John’s employer reimburses him for gasoline, food, and lodging, and provides John with a dealer car to drive. While driving to the manufacturing plant, John decided to stop by his cousin’s house for dinner. His boss accompanied him on the visit “to get a decent meal for a change.” While on the way there, John collided with and injured a motorcyclist. Discussion In the case of Largey v. Intrastate Radiotelephone, Inc a motorcycle driver was severely injured by an individual driver who the courts found to be an employee of the appellant. The court found that the driver...
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...Chapter 22 S Corporations SOLUTIONS MANUAL Discussion Questions: 1. [LO 1] In general terms, how are C corporations different from and similar to S corporations? S corporations are incorporated under state law and thus have the same legal protections as C corporations. They are governed by the same corporate tax rules that apply in the organization, liquidation, and reorganization of C corporations. However, unlike a C corporation, an S corporation is a flow-through entity and shares many tax similarities with partnerships. For example, basis calculations for S corporation shareholders and partners are similar, the income or loss of an S corporation flows through to its owners, and distributions are generally not taxed to the extent of the owner’s basis. 2. [LO 1] What are the limitations on the number and type of shareholders an S corporation may have? How are these limitations different from restrictions on the number and type of shareholders C corporations or partnerships may have? Only U.S. citizens or residents, certain trusts, and certain tax-exempt organizations may be shareholders, no corporations or partnerships. In addition, S corporations may have no more than 100 shareholders; family members and their estates count as one. C corporations and partnerships do not have a limit on the amount or type of shareholders or partners. 3. [LO 1] Why can’t large, publicly traded corporations be treated as S corporations? A publicly traded corporation...
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...i. The allocation of the current method of allocating of warehousing and shipping cost is not really correct. The current method is direct method which ignores In term of Shipping and Warehousing cost, low volume products should incur this cost instead of both high volume and low volume products. Because, high volume products are deliveried directly to customer so it does not incur the cost of shipping. The low volume products which are sent to distribution center incurred the cost of shipping and warehousing. However, the cost of shipping and warehousing are allocated to both high volume and low volume products. Therefore, this allocation method is incorrect. ii. ABC systems uses different cost drivers for different activities so that they are more accurate cause of cost because they indicate the cause and effect relationship between the cost drivers and cost objectives. Therefore, the final product will show the correct resource usage per product. We assumed that ABC systems is more appropriate for costing high volume, low volume because firstly, the activity cost pool do not have the same cost driver and secondly, two products use the activities different per unit oof products. Activity | Cost | Activity cost driver | Paper machine OPeration | | Machine Hours | Finishing machine operation | | Machine Hours | Design | | Design Hours | | | | iii. Total cost of Sand W: $1,160,000 ( $500,000+$600,000) Total quantity of LVP: $40...
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