State University of New York BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY School of Management Fall 2011 Class: Mgmt 501 Accounting for Managers Mondays: 4:25 – 5:50 pm LN 2403 Wednesdays: 4:25- 5:50 pm SL206 Instructor: Anna M. Addonisio, CPA, MBA Email: aaddonis@binghamton.edu Phone: 777-4941 Office: Library North Room 2430 Office Hours: by appointment Text: Financial and Managerial Accounting, by Needles, Powers, & Crosson, 9e edition, Houghton Mifflin Co. (required) Cases: Harvard Business
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delivery system over more traditional oriented approaches. Integrate that model with advances in technology (video capture, podcasts, virtual reality), the sport psychologist has the opportunity to help an athlete enhance their performance like no other time in history. Imagery conducted for sport performance is referred to as sport imagery, but can be used interchangeably with the broader term mental imagery (Taylor and Wilson, 2005). Several other terms including mental practice, mental rehearsal
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worth of cameras for police officers, parking enforcement workers, and building and fire inspectors. The New York Police Department, the nation's largest urban force, has studied how Los Angeles is incorporating body cameras and is planning its own pilot project. A law in New Jersey, signed this month, requires all municipal police departments to buy car-mounted or body cameras, and creates a new fine on drunken drivers to help pay for it. And the United States Border Patrol, with more than 21,000
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MATTEL: A Case Study | October 22 2012 | Case study discussion taken from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business “Unsafe for Children: Mattel’s Toy Recalls and Supply Chain Management” | Rob Breakiron Wenyao Ma Alek Shnayder Jiajie Wang | Contents Introduction 2 Why do companies outsource? 2 What were the primary causes of Mattel’s recall problems? Where these the result of outsourcing? 4 What actions were taken by the principals in the case to address the recall problems
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Reggie Geiger Economics May 9, 2012 Final Project: A New House - Decision The first principle I would use in the decision to purchase a home. Would be the First Principal the Principal that people face trade off, when you make any kind of a decision to buy you always face tradeoffs. A Trade off is a decision to give something up so you can obtain another thing that you feel is more important in the long run after weighing the options. An example of a trade off to purchase a home would be the
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Case Study: United Way of America, 1992 Prepared by Dr. Martha Dede Spring, 2008 A MATTER OF GOVERNANCE: UNITED WAY OF AMERICA, 1992 Organization Thumbnail United Way of America (UWA) was incorporated in 1932 with the mission “[t]o improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities”. Since, UWA has been a significant constituent in the flywheel of American philanthropy. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, UWA is comprised of 1,400 dues-paying and another 700 non dues-paying
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several case studies were researched and commented on their business continuity planning. Subprime crisis which caused the collapse of Lehman Brothers has caused a significant stir in the financial industry. Many counterparties ended up with huge exposure and default due to the fall of Lehman Brothers. However, Euroclear was able to manage the crisis well after it activated its crisis management plan which has been developed before the crisis. Similarly, terrorist’s attack on New York World Trade
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Maintain Sales in the US and Western Europe with New Products Sales of traditional carbonated sodas are flat or declining in the United States and much of Western Europe. In 2005, for the first time in 20 years the number of cases of soda sold in the United States declined. Case volume in 2005 was down 0.7 percent, to 10.2 billion cases. Coke's flagship brand, Coca-Cola Classic, was down 2 percent, and original Pepsi from PepsiCo was down 3.2 percent.”1 This trend is continuing; when Coca-Cola reported
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acquired almost $500 million along with a $31 million dollar New York apartment and several rare paintings, which came under scrutiny by both federal prosecutors and the company. With Kozlowski as chief executive officer he made Tyco into a giant conglomerate mainly through acquisitions. Tyco has two major segments; fire protection systems and security systems is incorporated in Switzerland and has operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. At its peak, Tyco had a market value over $100 billion
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general sales manager for POP Productions of New York. POP is one of the largest producers of live entertainment, including Broadway musicals, off-Broadway musicals, concerts, and classic and contemporary plays. As the POP Production sales manager, your key responsibilities are to book POP’s productions with the most prestigious theaters across the United States. Your goal is to structure contracts that are profitable for POP. After sell-out shows in New York, POP Productions is planning a national
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