...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It is recommended that Jim Peterson use the following outline for the presentation to the board of directors at Midwest Ice Cream Company. Outline for Presentation • Introduction • Identify the problem • Analyse Figure 1 and Illustrations 1 - 3 • Commend the areas that did well • Discuss the corrective actions to consider • Make recommendations • Conclude the presentation The following case study provides Jim Peterson with all the necessary information to make a non-technical presentation to the board of directors. INTRODUCTION Budgeting is a vital element of the management planning and control process. Budgeting is the process that translates corporate intentions into specific tasks, and identifies the resources needed by each manager to carry them out. In the process, budgeting enhances communication and co-ordination of different administrative units, facilitates decision-making, and provides a framework for monitoring and for performance evaluation. All managers are responsible for preparing a budget. Since specific departments play important roles in improving various components of the balance sheet and the income statement, it is critical that they prepare their budgets in a responsible way. Once budgets are in place it is necessary to analyse the difference between the actual and budgeted costs (variance). A variance analysis involves the decomposition of the variance into the individual factors that caused the variance. Managers need...
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...to operations have actually decreased the favorable operating income variance by $46,000. Specifically, the major reason for the favorable operating income variance is the higher actual sales than planned sales of product D and product E. The planned product sales of product D was 20,000 units instead 36,000 units were sold and the planned sales of product E was 8,000 units, instead 28,000 units were sold. The basis reason for the favorable profit variance was that Midwest's actual sales volume was higher than forecast. How can an analysis of the profit variance highlight those areas needing management attention? The analysis of profit variance can show can highlight those areas that need management attention. Particularly in case of Midwest is that the variance due to operations was unfavorable. This means that areas where the costs have been higher than the budgeted costs require corrective measures. If we consider the manufacturing cost, the variable costs show that milk price variance and sugar price variance have been responsible for unfavorable variable costs. Similarly, higher fixed costs of repairs, electricity and water, and spoilage have been responsible for higher actual fixed costs. From the perspective of sales, the actual sales of Product A, B, C, and F have been lower than planned sales. Each of these areas needs management attention. The management needs to address those areas where the costs have...
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...Introduction Historical Information Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor is a popular, family-friendly pizza chain predominantly located in the Upper Midwest. Joe Whitty opened up the first Happy Joe’s Restaurant in East Davenport, Iowa on November 16, 1972. While working as a supervisor and a manager for Shakey’s Pizza, in the late sixties, he thought about combining a pizza and ice cream parlor because he always noticed customers walking down the street to get ice cream after leaving the restaurant. Joe had suggested this idea to the owner of Shakey’s but he had very little interest in pursuing it. After spending some time in Albuquerque, New Mexico operating three separate Shakey’s locations, Joe returned to Davenport, Iowa after nearly being fired for sponsoring a special needs party before asking his boss. Davenport is where Joe used to manage a SuperValue Bakery and then became the dietary director at Mercy Hospital after reopening the bake shop there by request of the nuns. (Happyjoes.com) When returning to Davenport, Joe was determined to pursue his dream of opening a different kind of restaurant. He wanted to open up a restaurant that would be family and kid oriented; one that combined pizza, ice cream. After many attempts to get a loan, the Figges of Davenport Bank saw some value in Joe’s idea and agreed to lend him thirty-thousand dollars to open up the first Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor. (Happyjoes.com) He wanted to create a restaurant that was different...
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...Amador Alan Castaneda MG 354 20th September 2015 Unit #5 Currently a company by the name of MooBella has created an ice cream machine that serves 4.25 ounce of your own favorite ice cream. The machine can also has two different types of ice cream one being premium and the other being light. It can also add 3 mix ins and has 12 different flavors of ice cream to choose from. MooBella has developed this great and new innovation. The machine is completely computerized. This ice cream machine is able to serve a cup full of ice cream in 40 seconds (Longenecker, Petty, Palich, Hoy, 2012, p. 470) . Currently MooBella wants to place these ice cream machines through out the United States but wants to know the best locations to put it at. If I were to say where the best locations are at I would say Anywhere in the Southwest, Southeast, Midwest, South, West Coast, and anywhere, where there is a huge event such as carnivals, concerts, and etc. The reason why I would say those particular geographical areas is because; in these areas there are typically the hottest when it comes to the summer. As we all know everyone loves to have an ice cool treat in the summer heat. To be more specific I would put it near a large body of water. In the west coast, I would put it on the busiest part on almost all beaches where there high areas of traffic. By doing this you put it in an area where everyone has probably been in the sun for the past 2 hours at least and would probably want a nice cold...
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...Nick Yacovazzi When people think of ice cream some typical memories come to mind such as warm summer days, wearing shorts, and laying out by the pool to name a few. However, for the artisan ice cream phenomenon called Jeni’s Ice Cream is not bound to these, for they have a line out the door every night even when it is below freezing outside. The rapidly expanding business has stores in over for states from the Midwest to the Southeast. The company prides itself on its diversity, organic, local atmosphere, and cultured characteristics, boasting that, “We create ice creams we fall madly in love with, that we want to bathe in, that make us see million-year-old stars. We devour it out of Mason jars, coffee mugs—whatever we can get our hands on. Handmade American ice cream = Bliss with a big B. Every single thing we put in our ice cream is legit. Generic chemist-built ice cream bases and powdered astronaut-friendly gelato mixes? No, ma’am. We build every recipe from the ground up with luscious, grass-grazed Ohio milk. With that exquisite base, we explore pure flavor in whatever direction moves us at any moment, every day, all year.” For our industry analysis, we will discuss the history of Jeni’s Ice Cream, what makes the company so unique from other competitors, a macro analysis of their stores and distribution, as well as the ice cream industry as a whole, and the future of this highly successful entrepreneurial firm. The company was founded by Jeni Bauer, a former student...
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...| Understanding Position Marketing | Culvers, Dairy Queen, McDonalds, Burger King | | | 6/25/2013 | | Culver’s (Fresh Quality Food) Culver's Franchising System, Inc. operates a chain of casual restaurants called Culver's Frozen Custard. The company began with a single restaurant in Sauk City, Wisconsin, (1984) and as of 2003 had roughly 200 stores, almost all run as franchises. Most Culver's restaurants are found in the Midwest, though the company also has outposts in Texas and Kentucky. Culver's restaurants occupy a middle ground between fast food and family dining. The average restaurant seats 120 patrons, and the average check is $7, $2 higher than McDonald's. The principal menu items are a butter-basted hamburger called the Butter Burger, and a high-fat ice cream known as frozen custard. The chain began expanding rapidly in the mid-1990s, and its sales have grown at a rate far outpacing the industry average. The company is owned and managed by Craig Culver and his family. Culver’s has achieved great success through word of mouth. Culver’s offer butter burger’s and frozen custards as a part of their prize winning menu. Also Craig Culver visited franchisees unannounced, paying meticulous attention to the cleanliness and appearance of the restaurant. I mention this in the marketing comparison, because Culver’s has restaurant quality food with the drive-through and speed of fast food service. This was achieved because one person required higher expectations...
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...Week 3 Assignment from the textbook Nancy Schwartz ACC/400 February 8, 2016 Lee Kroll Exercise 20.1 Listed below are nine technical accounting terms introduced in this chapter: Variable costs Relevant range Contribution margin Break-even point Fixed costs Semivariable costs Economies of scale Sales mix Unit contribution margin Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms. For each statement, indicate the accounting term described, or answer “None” if the statement does not correctly describe any of the terms. a. The level of sales at which revenue exactly equals costs and expenses. Break-even point b. Costs that remain unchanged despite changes in sales volume. Fixed costs c. The span over which output is likely to vary and assumptions about cost behavior generally remain valid. Relevant range d. Sales revenue less variable costs and expenses. Contribution margin e. Unit sales price minus variable cost per unit. Unit contribution margin f. The reduction in unit cost achieved from a higher level of output. Economies of scale g. Costs that respond to changes in sales volume by less than a proportionate amount. Semivariable costs h. Operating income less variable costs. None E20.7 MURDER TO GO! writes and manufactures murder mystery parlor games that it sells to retail stores. The following is per-unit information relating to the manufacture and sale of this...
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...Case 24-4 Midwest Ice Cream Company (A) QUESTIONS Explain in as much detail as possible where all the numbers for Steps 1-4 would come from. (You will need to use your imagination; the case does not describe all details of the profit planning process.) We can get the numbers from the company’s records and its external environment. We can use the following from the company’s records: • Management’s short term and long term plans; • Accounting reports such as financial statements; • Source documents such as official receipts, purchase and sales invoices and vouchers; • Communications/directives from management that affect in one way or another the company’s budgeting process; and • Previous budgets and comparisons with actual performance. The following factors from the external environment can be used: • Trends in the market where the company operates; • Existing economic conditions and issues; • Competition; and • Environmental factors, such as weather conditions. Step 1: Establish standards for selling price, variable expenses, and marginal contribution per gallon. The company’s accounting personnel can use current prices and records for determining material costs. These can be traced trough source documents such as official receipts and invoices. In the problem, advertising expense has been considered as part of the variable cost because management decided to have an allowance of 6 cents per gallon for this expense for...
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...find out the truth in my research. Once I had been in a small resort city and asked an owner of a small ice-cream place why most of the workers were foreigners. She told me that usually foreigners are more reliable and responsible and are more afraid of losing their jobs then American workers. That was the reason why every summer she tried to hire foreigners as first opinion and only than American workers. Is this an example of discrimination? I would not say so. Employer is interested to hire employees that would be able to perform their job in the best way. It just happened so that in a low paid hard jobs immigrants perform much better then American workers. Not only because this “low salary” is much higher than in their home country, but also because American workers are not willing to work hard for low salary. As a result, I would like to say the undocumented workers are supporting current American economy. Currently there are 11 million undocumented workers in the U.S. Mexicans constitute the huge part of the undocumented population as 57%, 23% are from other Latin countries, almost 10% are from Asia, 5% are from Europe and Canada and 5% are from different countries of the world. Almost 66% of the undocumented workers live in only 6 states: 26% in California, 12% in Texas, 10% in Florida, 8% in New York, 4% in Illinois and 4% in New Jersey. The Rocky Mountains, the Midwest, and the Southeast are the high growth regions: undocumented population in these regions growth very...
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...Strategic Alliance- Group Project MARKETING STRATEGIES-615 Introducing to the world Biggest Alliance of the Year 2013 KetelBucks Star One Espresso Shot For People who want more from their Coffee Starbucks Company Profile Starbucks Background: Who are they? Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 20,891 stores in 62 countries, including 13,279 in the United States, 1,324 in Canada, 989 in Japan, 851 in China, 806 in the United Kingdom, 556 in South Korea, 377 in Mexico, 291 in Taiwan, 206 in the Philippines, 179 in Turkey, 171 in Thailand, and 167 in Germany. What do they produce? Starbucks locations serve hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee, full-leaf teas, pastries, and snacks. Most stores also sell packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and items such as mugs and tumblers. Starbucks Evenings locations also offer a variety of beers, wines, and appetizers after 4pm. Through the Starbucks Entertainment division and Hear Music brand, the company also markets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffee are also offered at grocery stores. StarbucksCompanyProfile Where are they located? Transcontinental (Europe and Asia) Africa South America Oceania Asia Europe North America Turkey Russia ...
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...I.Branches in the world and Vietnam: Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world ahead, with 21,160 stores in 63 countries and territories, including 12,067 in the United States, 1,570 in China, 1,451 in Canada, 1,070 inJapan and 793 in the United Kingdom. From Starbucks' founding in 1971 as a Seattle coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expanded rapidly. Since 1987, Starbucks has opened on average two new stores every day. Starbucks had been profitable as a local company in Seattle in the early 1980s but lost money on its late 1980s expansion into the Midwest and British Columbia. Its fortunes did not reverse until the fiscal year of 1989-1990, when it registered a small profit of $812,000. By the time it expanded into California in 1991 it had become trendy. The first store outside the United States or Canada opened in Tokyo in 1996. Starbucks entered the U.K. market in 1998 with the $83 millions USD acquisition of the then 56-outlet, UK-based Seattle Coffee Company, re-branding all the stores as Starbucks. In September 2002, Starbucks opened its first store in Latin America, at Mexico City. Currently there are over 250 locations in Mexico, about 100 of them are located in Mexico City alone. In August 2003, Starbucks opened its first store in South America in Lima, Peru. In 2007, the company opened its first store in Russia, ten years after first registering a trademark there. In 2008, Starbucks continued its expansion, settling in Argentina...
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...P’s-Product, Place, Promotion, Price. New 4 P’s-People, Processes, Programs, Performance. OLD FOUR P’s PRODUCT-Starbucks is the world’s largest purveyor of coffee with over 20,000 store in 61 nations. The company originally started out as a Seattle based coffee house that was known for offering exclusively dark roast coffees. When Starbucks was originally establishing itself and growing in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s dark roast coffees were publicly perceived as being of higher quality. Starbucks purchased Tazo Tea in 1999 thus improving its tea offerings. Lighter coffees were not added until around 2010. The array of products now offered at Starbucks locations has expanded significantly in the last decade and now includes numerous varieties of coffees and coffee products, full leaf teas, snacks, pastries, sandwiches, music CD’s, and many others. The whole bean coffee and Starbucks ice cream are now available in grocery stores as well. A small number of Starbucks locations now also sell alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine. Virtually all locations offer at least a few food items. (Reuter’s Jan 24, 2013.) PLACE-Starbucks Company data suggests that there are currently about 20,366 locations in 61 countries. The company started out in the pacific northwest and grew slowly until the early 1990’s when the growth was explosive. About 35% of the stores are considered stand alone where the Starbucks building sits separate from...
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...CHAPTER 14 Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. The six steps in the decision-making process are as follows: • Clarify the decision • Specify the criterion • Identify the alternatives • Develop a decision model • Collect the data • Select an alternative 2. The managerial accountant’s role in the decision-making process is to participate as a proactive member of the management team, and, in particular, to provide information relevant to the decision. 3. A decision model is a simplified representation of the choice problem. Unnecessary details are stripped away, and the most important elements of the problem are highlighted. 4. A quantitative analysis is expressed in numerical terms. A qualitative analysis focuses on the factors in a decision problem that cannot be expressed effectively in numerical terms. 5. The result of a quantitative analysis is that one alternative is preferred over the next-best alternative by some numerical amount, such as profit. The amount by which the best alternative dominates the second-best alternative establishes a “price” on the sum total of the qualitative characteristics that might favor the second-best alternative. Suppose, for example, that a hospital’s board of directors is considering establishing an outpatient clinic in one of the two suburban communities. The quantitative analysis of the decision...
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...formulated mixture of cow’s milk, flour and sugar. Nestlé’s first product was called Farine Lactée (“cornflour gruel” in French) Henri Nestlé. The product was first used on a premature baby who could not tolerate his mother’s milk or other alternative products of that time. Doctors gave up on treating the infant. Miraculously the baby tolerated Henri’s new formula and it provided the nourishment that saved his life. Within a few years the first Nestlé product was marketed in Europe. In 1874, Jules Monnerat purchased the Nestlé Company. Nestlé developed its own condensed milk to contend with its competitor, the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company made products like cheese and instant formulas. The two companies merged in 1905, the year after Nestlé added chocolate to its line of foods. The newly formed Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company had factories in the United States, Britain, Spain and Germany. Soon the company was full-scale manufacturing in Australia with warehouses in Singapore, Hong Kong and Bombay. Most production still took place in Europe. The start of World War I made it difficult for Nestlé to buy raw ingredients and distribute products. Fresh milk was scarce in Europe, and factories had to sell milk for the public need instead of using it as an ingredient in foods. Nestlé purchased several factories in the U.S. to keep up with the increasing demand for condensed milk and...
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...534-7556 Fax: (717) 534-6550 E-mail: mpogharian@hersheys.com Matthew F. Miller Investor Relations Manager Tele: (717) 534-7554 Fax: (717) 534-6550 E-mail: mfmiller@hersheys.com Prepared by: The Hershey Company Investor Relations Department 100 Crystal A Drive, P.O. Box 810 Hershey, PA 17033-0810 Internet: www.hersheys.com The Hershey Company Fact Book Table of Contents Page(S) 3 4 5-24 Mission Statement Acquisition/Divestiture Summary Key Corporate Events Financial Data Summary of Statements of Income - GAAP: 2010 & 2009 Summary of Statements of Income - Pro Forma: 2010 & 2009 Six-Year Consolidated Financial Summary Quarterly Performance (2010, 2009 & 2008) 2002 – 2010 GAAP & Non-GAAP Annual EPS Capitalization Financing Arrangements Long Term Financial Objectives Capital Expenditures Depreciation Cash Flow Analysis Share Repurchases Economic-ROIC HSY Stock Statistics Key Management Hershey Executive Team Operations U.S. Confectionery Industry U.S. Market Share U.S. Classes of Trade U.S. Snack Market Hershey Products Hershey Canada Hershey Mexico Hershey International Commodities Cocoa Sugar Hershey Manufacturing and Distribution 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 34 35-36 37 38-39 40 41-42 43-44 45 45 46-47 48-50 51 52-53 54-55 56 57 The Hershey Company What it means to stakeholders Consumers Delivering quality consumer-driven confectionery experiences for all occasions Employees Winning with an aligned and empowered organization…while having fun ...
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