3217 DECEMBER 9, 2008 WILLIAM E. BRUNS SHARON M. BRUNS SUSAN HARMELING Merrimack Tractors and Mowers, Inc.: LIFO or FIFO? Ricardo “Rick” Martino, president and chief operating officer of Merrimack Tractors and Mowers, Inc., of Nashua, New Hampshire, felt that his job had grown much more complicated during 2007 and 2008. Merrimack was a major regional manufacturer and seller of large commercial grass mowers based on a design developed by his grandfather in the years after World War II. The
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sells fashions and accessories from all over the world. The results of operations for the last quarter of 2011 are as follows: Sales AED 500,000 Cost of Sales 345,000 Gross Profit 155,000 Selling Expenses 55,000 General & Admin Expenses 20,000 Total Operating Expenses 75,000 Net Income AED 80,000 Additional Information: 1. Sales and Cost of Sales are expected to increase by 10 percent in each of the next two quarters 2. 80% of the sales
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Communication in organizations encompasses all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is passed up, down, and across the network of managers and employees in a business. These various modes of communication may be used to disseminate official information between employees and management, to exchange hearsay and rumors, or anything in between. The challenge for businesses is to channel these myriad communications so they serve to improve customer relations, bolster employee satisfaction
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SUBJECT: Important Risk Analysis: Assessment of Audit Risk The objective of this memo is to introduce the financial position of Hormel Foods Corp. and provide the general assessment of the company’s audit risk. The overall assessment of risk of material misstatement is moderate. This memo presents the potential high-risk areas as followings. Revenue Recognition GM’s major sources of revenue is manufacturing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores. It also supply branded
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To: Iman EL Meniawy From: Mathieu Theriault, Consultant for Ram Horn Consulting. Date: November 24, 2014 SUBJECT: Canadian Operations Analysis Memo Thank you for allowing me to work and share my findings of Cameco to you. As requested, I have evaluated the business, industry, and issues Cameco currently face. My analysis uses a few citations related to the industry. Based on my analysis, here are some of my thoughts on current opportunities, threats and
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and located on the right side of the store in the middle of all the food aisles. This business memo includes the exchange functions of the different brands of cereals, the competitive environment, the demographics as well as the shopping patterns of customers. To begin with, the exchange functions of the cereals in the Meijer cereal aisle included a common pricing strategy with nothing below two dollars and nothing above five. Their packaging included famous people on the cover along with slim people
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Case Memo: PatientsLikeMe Background: PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. Similar to TripAdvisor, it has large UGC information and get paid by the 3rd party ( partnership w/ pharma company) But the difference lies in 1) it focus on more professional area(health-care), requiring more specific and deep-diving knowledge 2)has closer user bond, a sense of belonging in
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| Cost Club | Memo To: Pat Quintana From: Cherie Hands-Dixon Date: September 12, 2011 Re: Messages The Cost Club Store in Anderson wanted to downsize the workforce by firing two of their employees for no reason given. It was stated in the previous e-mail the general manager must supply information for terminating these two employees. Otherwise
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iour” (2008) Melissa S. Baucus et al explains how “Employees are told to relax standards as they seek to innovate and, to enhance creativity”. The authors described the four prescriptions that are stimulated among in-dividuals in order to make them more crea-tive which are: New Product Development and Ethics From New Product Development (NDP) to Sustain-able New Product development (SNPD) The present review aims at being a summary of the main academic articles about project in-novation and the
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topic and generate ideas Activity B – Organize ideas into a coherent text structure Activity C – Compose a first draft Part 3: Revising (40 marks) Activity A – Evaluate a text Activity B – Organize a text Activity C – Revise a text General Instructions The writing tasks you will complete in this assignment are based on real-world scenarios that describe a variety of situations. 1. Read every activity and scenario carefully in order to understand the problems that the
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