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Toddler Treasures, Inc.
Brownlee, E. Richard IICase DARDEN-C-2306-EAccounting and ControlStudents must determine the price (rate) and quantity (efficiency) variance for materials and labor used in manufacturing a new product, along with delivery variances. Does the company product manager's decision to change materials appear to be a good one? This start-up company grew from a cottage industry to a manufacturing company.Starting at €8.20
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Toddler Treasures, Inc. - Teaching Note
Brownlee, E. Richard IITeaching Note DARDEN-C-2306TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2306Starting at €0.00
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Giberson's Glass Studio
Brownlee, E. Richard IICase DARDEN-C-2205-EAccounting and ControlEdward Englehardt Giberson, the proprietor, is a skilled glassblower whose business is on the verge of bankruptcy. He works in his studio almost every day, and his products sell reasonably well. On average, he has at least a two-week backlog of orders. He realizes his prices are too low, yet the artistic nature of his products makes it difficult to set prices based on any systematic assessment of demand or comparison with similar products. In des...Starting at €8.20
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World Wildlife Fund and The Coca-Cola Company: A Global Partnership for Freshwater Conservation - Teaching Note
Brownlee, E. Richard IITeaching Note DARDEN-ENT-0204TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product ENT-0204Starting at €0.00
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Wilmont Chemical Corporation
Brownlee, E. Richard IICase DARDEN-C-2207-EAccounting and ControlThe Wilmont Chemical Corporation produces a variety of industrial products, including a specialty chemical called SC. The company uses an actual costing system and the LIFO inventory method. At the beginning of each year, the company’s controller estimates the total direct cost (omitting any manufacturing overhead allocation) per unit of producing SC. Unfortunately, the market demand and selling price are difficult to predict, as are the raw mate...Starting at €8.20
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Present Value Applications - Teaching Note
Brownlee, E. Richard II; Wiese, CatherineTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2100TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2100Starting at €0.00
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World Wildlife Fund and The Coca-Cola Company: A Global Partnership for Freshwater Conservation
Brownlee, E. Richard II; Elias, AllisonCase DARDEN-ENT-0204-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is used in Darden's "Economics of Water" course elective. Suzanne Apple, senior vice president of private sector engagement at World Wildlife Fund-United States (WWF), was preparing for an important meeting with her counterpart at The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC). The two companies had formed a tremendously successful partnership several years earlier that focused on freshwater conservation and other environmental issues. With the original ...Starting at €8.20
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LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd.: An Outsourcing Decision to India
Haskins, Mark E.; Simko, Paul J.Case DARDEN-C-2440-EAccounting and ControlThis case, based on general business experience, casts students in the role of analyzing the financial effects of a possible outsourcing decision. Lee and Marcia Mills, owners of LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd. (LOPP), a Canadian company that designs, manufactures, and installs outdoor play equipment, are faced with a decision pertaining to whether LOPP should outsource the company’s back-office information technology enabled services (IT-ES) f...Starting at €8.20
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The "What If" Effects of an Income Tax Rate Change: A Deferred Tax Focus
Haskins, Mark E.; Simko, Paul J.Case DARDEN-C-2448-EAccounting and ControlA change in the corporate US federal income tax rate necessitates an adjustment to a company’s balance sheet deferred tax account. Stephanie Allen has been tasked with determining the projected effects of several “what if” changes in the corporate income tax rate on her employer’s (Software for Seniors, Corp.) and a peer’s DuPont ratios and earnings per share performance measures. This general experience-based case uses data created by the autho...Starting at €8.20
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Sonvilier Pen Company: An Outsourcing Decision
Simko, Paul J.; Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2406-EAccounting and ControlThe COO for Sonvilier Pen, an elite manufacturer of high-quality ballpoint and fountain pens, had gotten a proposal to outsource two pen components to Li Manufacturing, a specialist in the molding and production of intricate metals, located in southeastern China. The proposal was intriguing, but there were a number of factors for the COO to consider before making a decision.Starting at €8.20