Course: CORPORATE FINANCE (FIN 6160) Case study: "MIRACLE LIFE‚ Inc" Miracle Life Inc.‚ founded in 1980 by Angela Simpson‚ is one of the companies possessed the largest global marketing network in the world which sells products to control overweight‚ nutritional supplement products and personal health care products with the goal: "to improve health and happiness of people around the world. " From the early years since its establishment‚ the company has gained strong growth
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performance method to calculate the true economic profit of a corporation. EVA can be calculated as Net Operating Profit After Tax minus a charge for the opportunity cost of the capital invested. EVA is an estimate of the amount that earnings differ from the required minimum rate of return for shareholders or lenders. The difference can be both a surplus and a shortage. EVA has a greater power to explain market value than other traditional accounting measures do. Q2. What are the advantages and disadvantages
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------------------------------------------------- G R O U P C A S E 3: H O S P I T A L S U P P L Y‚ I N C Given Information: Hospital Supply‚ Inc.’s Normal Volume (in units per month) | 3‚000 | Regular Selling Price (per unit) | 4‚350 | Costs per Unit for Hydraulic Hoists | | | Unit Manufacturing Costs: | | | Variable Materials | 550 | | Variable Labor | 825 | | Variable Overhead | 420 | | Fixed Overhead
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1. Do a traditional SWOT analysis (strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats) of Calgene’s situation in the spring of 1995. Strengths R&D abilities in bioengineering technology Competitive advantages in bioengineered product licenses and regulatory agency approval to market tomato (and other bioengineered products) Competitive advantages in already test marketing "MacGregor’s Tomatoes" Competitive advantage of being "closer" to mass marketing its tomato Success of industrial
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Nike Inc. Case 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? WACC is weighted average cost of capital‚ which is the expected rate of return on average from all the company’s existing debts and securities. It takes into account all different types of financing in the company’s capital structure. The reason it is important to estimate WACC is because it measures what it costs the firm to take on a project based on its current Debt and Equity mix. When the
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Case 4.4 Waste Management‚ Inc. Question 1 Three conditions are often present when fraud exists. First‚ management or employees have an incentive or are under pressure‚ which provides them a reason to commit the fraud act. Second‚ circumstances exist - for example‚ absent or ineffective internal controls or the ability for management to override controls – that provide an opportunity for the fraud to be perpetrated. Third‚ those involved are able to rationalize the fraud as being consistent with
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Manufactured Homes‚ Inc. QUESTIONS: 1. Identify the accounting policies of Manufactured Homes which have the most significant impact on the company’s financial statements. What are the key assumptions behind these policies? Do you think that these assumptions are justified? 2. Evaluate the company’s financial and operating performance during 1986 and the first nine months of 1987. 3. Given the company’s business strategy‚ accounting policies‚ and recent performance‚ what is your assessment of its
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Página 1 9-100-055 REV: FE BR UAR Y 14‚ 2002 VG NARA YAN AN LI SA M BRE Owens & Minor‚ Inc. (A) Era janeiro de 1996. José Valderas‚ vice-presidente da divisão de Owens & Minor (O & M)‚ um $ 3 bilhões distribuidora de suprimentos médicos e cirúrgicos‚ estava dirigindo de volta ao seu escritório Savage‚ Maryland. Sua mente estava processando a notícia que acabara de ouvir. Sistema Único de Saúde Ideal‚ um hospital não-for-profit cadeia que nos últimos 10 anos tinha comprado suprimentos a partir de
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Game Shop‚ Inc Why was GSI’s production quality control better than its billing performance? The GSI’s production quality control had checks that had been built into the system. There were a number of personnel in place to ensure that these controls were in place and working properly at any point in time. There were no controls in place for the billing process‚ the company did not have a set of written billing instructions‚ and the managers did not know how to use the billing instructions available
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Buyers 11 3.3. Internal analysis FCA/CSA Matrix 11 3.4. Oreo Campaign in Romania 12 Appendix 1 (Financial Data) 13 1. Kraft Foods Int Kraft Foods is the world ’s second largest food company with revenues of $49.2 billion and earnings from continuing operations before income taxes of $3.6 billion in 2010. Kraft Foods was incorporated in 2000 in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They have approximately 127‚000 employees worldwide‚ and they manufacture and market packaged food products‚ including
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