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The Delhi Land and Finance IPO: To Be or Not to Be
Nandita Yadav; Pratap Chandra BiswalCase IVEY-9B12N023-EAccounting and Control, Finance, StrategyDLF was the largest real estate player in India, possessing a strong home market in Delhi and Gurgaon (the National Capital Region, NCR). The Indian real estate market was growing rapidly, and DLF wanted to convert this growth opportunity into a country-wide presence by building significant land reserves. With huge debt on its balance sheet, the company decided to raise finance through equity. The stock markets were on a rise, and the timing was ...Starting at €8.20
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Agrawal Kitchenware Distributors: A Miscellany of Inventory Problems
Samriddhi Dhasmana, Sandeep GoelCase IVEY-W26014-EAccounting and Control, FinanceA recent master of business administration degree graduate, had discovered a problem with inventory management in her family’s business. Agrawal Kitchenware Distributors (Agrawal), a wholesaler and distributor of kitchenware items, appeared to be well-off according to its financials, but when she had toured the company’s warehouse, she discovered several problems with the inventory, and there was no management system that could identify, track, o...Starting at €8.20
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Anwal Gas Traders: Capital Budgeting for Expansion Project
Imran Yousaf, Frank Li, Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-W25080-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn February 2021, the owner of Anwal Gas Traders, a liquefied petroleum gas distribution company based in Sakesar, Khushab District, in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, was considering whether to invest in expansion. It would be the first significant expStarting at €8.20
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Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017
Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-9B21B012-EAccounting and Control, FinanceThis exercise provides the financial data of eight major companies operating in Pakistan in 2019 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It also provides a list of eight of the country’s main industries. Identify which company operated within which industry to test your understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, can you identify within which industry each company oper...Starting at €8.20
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Snowman Logistics Ltd: What Ails It?
Nikhil RastogiCase IVEY-W28603-EAccounting and Control, FinanceSnowman Logistics Ltd was publicly listed in 2014 at a huge premium to the issue price. The company was the first pan-Indian player in the temperature-controlled logistics industry, which was largely unorganized and fragmented. Changing consumer preferences and increasing demand for processed food were expected to drive the business’s growth rates and profitability. However, India updated its accounting standards in 2019, which impacted Snowman’s...Starting at €8.20
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The Game of Financial Ratios
Pooja Gupta; Madhvi Sethi; Darroch A. RobertsonExercise IVEY-9B17B001-EAccounting and Control, StrategyThis exercise revolves around the rivalry between two financial analysts. Upset by their constant game of one-upmanship, an advisor to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India came up with a challenge for them to prove who was better. He provided them with financial data for the financial year ending March 2014 from 10 anonymous companies and asked them to match the financial data with specific industries given in a list. The challenge was timed...Starting at €8.20
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Dr. M. L. Dhawale Trust Hospital - Towards Sustainability
Gayathri Sivaraman; Vasant SivaramanCase IVEY-9B10B010-EAccounting and Control, Finance, StrategyThis case deals with a rural charitable homeopathic hospital in the state of Maharashtra, India, set in the year 2008. The hospital, Dr. M. L. Dhawale Memorial Trust's Rural Homeopathic Hospital, is one among many clinics and hospitals run by the Dr. M. L. Dhawale Memorial Trust (MLDT). Dr. Navin Pawaskar, the head of the hospital, has to make recommendations to the management team to improve the profitability of the hospital and be financially s...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group
Healy, Paul M.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-113059-EAccounting and ControlTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The company has witnessed a turnaround in recent years and regained lost market share. However, in recent years, concerns about investor protection has increased financial sector regulatory over...Starting at €8.20
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Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Freed, PamelaCase HBS-108057-EAccounting and ControlTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, a major microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty alleviation, while simultaneously reaching out to higher-income customers. The case explores how Ujjivan can grow,...Starting at €8.20
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AquaSafi Purification Systems: Changing the Operating Model
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Ryan RegoCase IVEY-9B17B013-EAccounting and Control, StrategyAquaSafi Purification Systems Pvt. Ltd. (AquaSafi) was a social enterprise that aimed to provide clean water to people in the developing world. The organization assembled and sold its water purification technology, at cost, to villages and non-governmental organizations in rural India. Before deciding to change AquaSafi’s current operating model, the executive director thought it would be useful to perform a cost/benefit analysis to see how the c...Starting at €8.20