Krispy Kreme Dougnuts: Empty Calories or Empty Profits? Case Study of the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), a once high flying growth stock has been hampered as of late with shareholder lawsuits. When sales growth and earnings began to drop significantly in 2003, the company blamed its problems on the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets like Atkins and South Beach at the time. But the SEC began probing Krispy Kreme's accounting for franchise buybacks and is now
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Eunice Eng Yoke Fang PBS1311031 Case Study (Galvaset) Company Background: Information Provided: Direct Labour Rate = $ 20 per hour Expected Production Level = 50 000 units Labor Hours Required = 200 000 hours Activity (Cost Driver) | Budgeted Costs for 2010 | Cost Driver Used as Allocation Based | Cost Allocation Rate | Material Handling | $ 325 000 | Number of parts used | $ 0.25 per part | Cutting & Lathe Work | $ 2 340 000 | Number of parts used | $ 1.80 per part | Assembly
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Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell[1][2] and Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg).[3] In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion, penetrating
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it has become an important part of how the beer making industry promotes and advertises itself. Current portrayals of corporate social responsibility in the beer making industry are misleading and do not show the true nature of these practices. Relatively little research has been conducted on how the beer making industry promotes corporate social responsibility in their attempt to promote and facilitate other business interests. This case study will attempt to investigate the beer making industry’s
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iii ABSTRACT With reference to K.C.B this research is carried out to investigate the challenges facing the banking industry in Kenya. The specific objectives are; to investigate whether theft cases in banks are a major problem, to establish if ATM card skimming is a problem to the banking industry in Kenya, to determine if high interest rates are affecting the banking industry in Kenya negatively, to find out if mobile money transfer services are becoming a competition to banks in Kenya. The sample
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WorldCom Case Study Update 20061 by Edward J. Romar, University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Martin Calkins, University of Massachusetts-Boston In December 2005, two years after this case was written, the telecommunications industry consolidated further. Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers
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Contents Key Players 2 Prosecution 2 Defense 2 The Case 2 Available Statistics 3 Political Spending 3 Prior Litigation 3 The Strategy 4 Liggett Breaks Away 4 First Round of Talks 5 First Round Negotiations 6 Problem Assessment after First Round of Negotiations 6 Solutions 6 Second Round of Talks 7 Second Round Negotiations 7 Problems during the Second Round of Negotiations 7 Third Round of Talks 8 Resolution of Issues 8 The Settlement 8 Key Players Prosecution
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Presented information is tentative for 2008 KOÇ UNIVERSITY MKTG 450-Selected Topics in Marketing Sales Management Fall 2008 Instructor: Ayten Kök Office: CASE Building-156, Phone: 338 1451, Email: akok@ku.edu.tr Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 15:30-16:30 or Friday by appointment Prerequisite: MKTG 201 Course Objectives and Overview Sales management which can be defined as the planning, implementing, and control of programs designed to achieve the sales and profit
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HAMMER# AND D.R. JORDAN## # Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU), School of Land and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. ## Hermitage Research Station, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Warwick, QLD 4370, Australia. E-mail: g.hammer@uq.edu.au Abstract. Progress in crop improvement is limited by the ability to identify favourable combinations of genotypes (G) and management practices (M) given the resources available to search
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WorldCom Case Study Update 20061 by Edward J. Romar, University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Martin Calkins, University of Massachusetts-Boston In December 2005, two years after this case was written, the telecommunications industry consolidated further. Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers
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