percentage for Bridgestone’s next annual budget? WACM = Contribution Average/Total Revenue WACM = $3,500,00/5,000,000 WACM = 70% 2. What does a high weighted average contribution margin (WACM) percentage mean for the management of Bridgestone? 3. Is Bridgestone able to plan for breakeven or a modest over-recovery of expenses (or profit) for the next year? If the center achieves breakeven or a modest over-recovery and you are concerned about events that could cause a potential loss, what would
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Bridgestone Case Analysis 1. CM/Total Rev = WACM 3,500,000/5,000,000 = .70*100 = 70% 2. A high WACM means that a high percentage of every dollar earned is profit. This means that Bridgestone is keeping the variable costs at a relatively small proportion of the total costs. The fact that the Margin of Safety is $9,000 out of $5,000,000 in revenue might be taken as an indication that they are not doing a good job of controlling overhead, depending on how you define overhead. 3. The
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BRIDGESTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS FOR PLANNING AND CONTROL I. INTRODUCTION Bridgestone Behavioral Health Center, a medical center for comprehensive outpatient substance abuse treatment center positioned at the Midwest United States and has been operating since 1985. Some of the services offered by Bridgestone grouped generally are counselling, crisis intervention, detoxification and methadone maintenance. Under these services they offer patient assessment
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percentage for Bridgestone’s next annual budget? WACM = Contribution Average/Total Revenue WACM = $3,500,00/5,000,000 WACM = 70% 2. What does a high weighted average contribution margin (WACM) percentage mean for the management of Bridgestone? 3. Is Bridgestone able to plan for breakeven or a modest over-recovery of expenses (or profit) for the next year? If the center achieves breakeven or a modest over-recovery and you are concerned about events that could cause a potential loss, what would
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Throughout the years this company has been in some stiff competition; like all companies go through that produce a certain product that is vital to the needs of companies, businesses, and individual needs. The competition has been Firestone, Bridgestone, and Goodyear. Although Michelin tires are by far the better product in the tire business out of the three brands, now that the economy is at one of the worse points ever; individuals are looking for the least expensive brand and product. When
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automotive industry. Since their early uses, there have been safety concerns for tires. This prompted many tests ensure the safety of the product. There are countless numbers of tire manufacturers. For example, alphabetically there is Avon, Bridgestone, Dunlop, Firestone, Goodyear, and Michelin, just to name a few. Two of those manufacturers, Firestone and Michelin, have both had major controversies surrounding the use of their tires. Firestones controversy was with the Ford Motor Company in
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a) Economic point of view b) Legal point of view c) Moral point of view III) Benefit from the company’s credo and mission statements a) Johnson & Johnson b) Bristol- Myers Squibb c) Merck Corporation d) Bridgestone Tires IV) Conclusion Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Crisis Brief History During the fall of 1982, on September 30, Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke received the horrible information that several
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The Organizational Structure of Bridgestone Corporation Deanice Delamar MGT/230 September 9, 2012 Professor Trammell The Organizational Structure of Bridgestone Corporation Bridgestone Corporation is a functional organizational, started in 1931in Japan by founder Shojiro Ishibashi, using an English translation of his surname for the name of the company. As Japan's automobile industry grew, The Bridgestone Group expanded its business to become Japan's largest tire manufacturer. The company
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Do you think Bridgestone should have manufacturing facilities in US? Why? Why not? Bridgestone is currently world’s 3rd largest tyre manufacturer with a market share of 10.2%. Its revenues are skewed in favour of Asia and Oceania market where its competitors Goodyear and Michelin are trying hard to make a dent to its business. Moreover Bridgestone’s market share in US (US accounts for 45%of the world tyre market) is just ~2%. 1980s is seeing a lot of consolidation in the tyre industry and three
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On August 9, 2000, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it would recall more than 6.5 million tires, most of which had been mounted as original equipment on Ford Motor Co. Explorers and other Ford light trucks. Bridgestone/Firestone had become the subject of an intense federal investigation of 46 deaths and more than 300 incidents where Firestone tires allegedly shredded on the highway. The Firestone tires affected were 15-inch Radial ATX and Radial ATX II tires produced in North America and certain
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