Birch Paper Company Relevant Information & Equations 1) Birch Paper Company is a producer of paper‚ paperboard‚ and corrugated boxes. The company is integrated‚ consisting of four separate production divisions. One of its divisions‚ Northern Division‚ asked for bids on a special corrugated box. It requested bids from one of its sister division (Thompson Division) and from two outside companies. The issue at hand is whether Northern should accept a bid from its sister division or from one
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Birch Paper Company Birch Paper company is a medium-sized‚ partly integrated paper company‚ producing white and kraft papers and paperboard. The company has four producing divisions and a timberland division. The responsibility structure of the Birch Paper Company and all of its divisions is a Profit or Investment Centre‚ which is stated in the case: For several years‚ each division had been judged independently on the basis of its profit and return on investment. Top management had been working
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Case 6-2 Birch Paper Company 1 Case 6-2 Birch Paper Company "If I were to price these boxes any lower than $480 a thousand‚" said James Brunner‚ manager of Birch Paper Company’sThompsonDivision‚ "I’d becountermanding my order of last month for our salesmento stop shaving their bids and to bid full-cost quotations. I’ve been trying for weeksto improve the quality of our business‚and if I turn around now and acceptthis job at $430or $450 or somethingless than $480‚I’ll be tearing down this
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Lab Name:Titration of NaOH Author: Simon Sun Lab Partner: Jason Lee & Fiona Wang Date: March 10th & 17th Introduction： The purpose of this lab is to observe the titration between acid and base‚ and calculate the morality of unknown solution base on the volume required to reach equivalence point and stoicheiometry. There are two groups of experiments. The first one is the reaction between nitric acid and sodium hydroxide which is a reaction between strong acid and strong
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BIRCH PAPER COMPANY Overview Birch Paper is a classic case that provides an excellent opportunity to present‚ analyze‚ and evaluate transfer pricing issues. In only two pages‚ the case presents a common business situation involving the relationship between three divisions and suggests several typical transfer pricing solutions: (1) at variable cost; (2) at full cost; (3) at full cost plus profit; (4) at market price; and (5) at a negotiated price. This setting facilitates the discussion of the
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Case Analysis of Women’s Health Agency (WHA) Rohan Kumar Jha(34093) Sahithi Katikaneni(34094) Sanjay Makwana(34095) Santosh Kumar(34096) Sudhir Kumar(34103) A) Situation analysis:- Women health agency is an endeavour to provide FP services to rural poor women in developing countries where Islam is main religion‚ so women are only limited to house hold hence to utilize women resource they started to provide FP services which include simple contraception methods. Within six months
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Birch Paper Company Information given (All costs are for quantity of 1000) 1. If Northern accepts the bid from Thompson Thompson companies Out of Pocket costs for 1000 boxes = $400 70% of Thompson Out of Pocket costs = Selling price of Southern division (line and corrugating medium) Hence‚ selling price of Southern = 70% * 400 = $280 Hence‚ Out of Pocket costs for Southern = 60% 280 = $168 2. If Northern accepts the bid from West No out of pocket costs Thompson and Southern 3. If Northern accepts
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of this case is whether the Northern Division of Birch Paper Company should buy corrugated boxes for a new product internally from the Thompson Division at a transfer price higher than the market price‚ or from one of their external suppliers. Also‚ should the vice president of Birch Paper Company take any action on the bidding price or final purchase decision for one internal division to another internal division? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Birch Paper Company is a medium sized‚ partly integrated
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Birch Paper Company Individual Case Strategy & Key Success Factors: Birch Paper (BP) company is structured in such a way that it is decentralized‚ and each division acts as a profit centre. Furthermore‚ it uses vertical integration with examples such as Timberland division supplying pulp‚ and the Thompson Division (TD) providing printing and colouring. This strategy‚ which composes of decentralization along with the design of profit centres indicates a profit
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they could protect the king. The castle was under siege for months which meant that no one could get in. However‚ Colonel John Birch who was on the Parliamentarian side decided to launch a cannon filled with gunpowder into the castle. This was called Roaring Meg‚ it landed in the North tower destroying most of the castle. After this the Royalists surrendered‚ Colonel Birch then slighted (intentionally destroyed) other parts of the castle to prevent it from being used form the Parliamentarians. The
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