...Colorscope Case Study 1. Competitive advantages of Colorscope Colorscope, which was founded in Southern California in 1976 engaging in providing the special-effects photography services to the local advertising agencies. Since the reputation has increased with the excellent sales performance in 1988, Colorscope main client was the giants in the field of entertainment and ad-agency. Therefore, compared with other competitors, the competitive advantages of Colorscope are: * Customer loyalty and business reputation. Since Colorscope has already founded for several decades it has established a fixed customer relation with the high value customers within the print and pre-press industry. For instance, as Exhibit 3 shows that some loyalty customers of Colorscope are the large national companies which ranked at top 15 in American printers, especially the Donnelly which has ranked at first in American printers with high level sales revenue. Therefore, compared with other companies, Colorscope can provide personalized service to the specific company which needs a specialized service. * Operational and training method. Under a unique training method, the employees of Colorscope grasp multitask working skills so that they can handle all works during the producing process. In addition, the operational method was significantly efficient with the appropriate work-flows and pre-press facilities before 1990, which means its productivity can be developed at a high level compared with...
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...Recommendations for COLORSCOPE INC. By GROUP – 2 (GROUP - CD) A report submitted in fulfillment of the assignments for MANAC - II WMP 2013 [pic] Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Noida Campus 2010 Date: 28/October/2010 |WMP6004 |AKSHAY BANSAL | |WMP6005 |AMIT AGARWAL | |WMP6007 |ANKIT SURI | |WMP6008 |ANKUSH VED | |WMP6009 |ANUBHAV KUMAR JAIN | |WMP6012 |BIKRAMJIT DEBNATH | |WMP6015 |CHANDER SHEKHAR SIBAL | |WMP6052 |SUROJEET SADHU | CASE NAME: ColorScope Situation: Colorscope is an example of a small firm seeking ways to compete in an increasingly intense competitive environment in pre-press printing. The external environment had changed with the advent of new technology, and new players entering the market had increased the supply side of the industry. Because Colorscope was not the market leader, its only option is to adopt a cost containment and quality control strategy. A simplified activity-based costing system was used to measure customer profitability. Complications: Colorscope found that many customers were unprofitable, and a few customers were responsible for most of the firm's profits. On further analysis, it was determined...
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...organizational change, management accounting techniques have developed and proliferated at an unprecedented rate in the last few decades. Some critics, however, have charged that the changes are a "reinvention of the wheel" every few years. To put these issues in perspective, let's look at a framework created to illustrate the distinctive nature of these techniques in an organizational change context. The framework considers such factors as user resistance and organizational culture that can influence the applicability and implementation success of the techniques. After tracing the history of management accounting beginning in 1850, accounting scholar Robert S. Kaplan comments, "Despite considerable change in the nature of organizations and the dimensions of competition during the past 60 years, there has been little innovation in the design and implementation of cost accounting and management control systems." (1) All the practices employed by companies and described in management accounting textbooks had apparently been developed by 1925, despite major changes in the nature and operations of organizations. To develop the field of managerial accounting, Kaplan and others encouraged academics to conduct field research and case studies "to describe and document the innovative practices that seem to work for successful companies." (2) The pendulum swung in the other direction over the next decade as a plethora of new "techniques" in the management accounting area, for example, activity-based...
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... | COST ACCOUNTING AREA: CONTROL IMBA NUMBER OF SESSIONS: 20 PROFESSOR: SALVADOR CARMONA □ Ph.D (Accounting). Universidad de Sevilla. □ Last version, November 2006 COURSE DESCRIPTION A cost accounting system collects and classifies costs and assigns them to cost objects. The goal of a cost accounting system is to measure the cost of designing, developing, producing (or purchasing), selling, distributing, and servicing particular products or services. Cost allocation is at the heart of most accounting systems. Cost behavior -how the activities of an organization affect its costs- is also fundamental to cost accounting systems. The data provided by a cost accounting system is used for various purposes, which include product costing, planning and control, and decision making. This course mainly focuses on the first of these objectives -products costing. COURSE GOALS Students, as future managers, will utilize, at a minimum, the output of cost systems, which are the primary internal information systems in a firm. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of cost accounting systems, which includes a familiarization with: The goals of cost accounting systems; the fundamental features and design of cost accounting systems; and the various uses of the data provided by cost accounting decisions. A sound understanding of these issues is necessary to interpret cost accounting system outputs; to transform them from...
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...School Publishing Case Map for Horngren, Foster & Datar: Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 10th Edition (Prentice Hall) This map was prepared by an experienced editor at HBS Publishing, not by a teaching professor. Faculty at Harvard Business School were not involved in analyzing the textbook or selecting the cases and articles. Every case map provides only a partial list of relevant items from HBS Publishing. To explore alternatives, or for more information on the cases listed below, visit: www.hbsp.harvard.edu/educators Case Title Institution, HBSP Product Number, Length, Teaching Note Geographical and Industry Setting, Company Size, Time Frame Abstract, Key Subjects PART ONE: COST ACCOUNTING FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1: The Accountant’s Role in the Organization Chapter 2: An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes Carver HBSP United States, Consulting Co. #199006 consulting, 10,000 7p employees, 1994 Daniel Dobbins Distillery, Inc. HBSP #189065 7p TN #189172 Tennessee, liquor distillery, 1988 The managing partner of a relatively new consulting firm is concerned because training costs at the firm's new training center are higher than expected. Analysis of actual costs compared to those expected is required. In addition, he is considering capitalizing some training costs for later amortization. A management control system for the center is also a priority. A distiller increases whiskey production and income declines because of accounting methods in use. Questions...
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