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The British Parbaked Bread Ltd.
Ormazabal, Gaizka; Soler, EdiCase C-782-EAccounting and ControlFounded in 2010 by its current CEO, Alisha Balasubramanian, The British Parbaked Bread Ltd. (BPB) manufactured parbaked bread in the United Kingdom. Since the start of its operations, BPB had experienced spectacular growth. In the fiscal year 2013 the firm's sales were £13 million. Prompted by the company's rapid growth, Alisha and Li Yan Chen - the firm's CFO - had decided to implement a new information system to measure BPB's performance on a m...Starting at €8.20
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La empresa Larsen: Una decisión de compra
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-100Decision AnalysisLa empresa noruega Larsen es un fabricante de muebles de tamaño mediano. Su directora de compras tiene que decidirse entre dos ofertas, una de su proveedor tradicional (pequeño y fiable pero cuya calidad ha decaído) y otra de un proveedor más grande (un 2% más caro, pero con una calidad ligeramente superior y capaz de servir pedidos de mayor volumen). Otros factores son el sistema de incentivos de la directora de compras, la relación entre los pr...Starting at €8.20
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The Larsen Company (A): A purchasing decision
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-100-EDecision AnalysisThe Larsen Company is a small furniture manufacturing company in Norway. Its purchasing manager has to decide which one of two offers to accept, one from its traditional supplier (small and reliable but offering declining quality) or another from a larger supplier (2% more expensive, offering slightly higher quality, and able to serve higher volumes). Other factors are the incentive system of the purchasing manager, the relation between the owner...Starting at €8.20
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The Larsen Company (B): What ChatGPT would do
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-101-EInformation TechnologiesThe Larsen Company (B) case provides the answer that ChatGPT 4.0 gives to the question posed in the Larsen Company (A) case and to some additional prompts.Starting at €5.74
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The British Parbaked Bread Ltd.
Ormazabal, Gaizka; Soler, EdiCase C-782Accounting and ControlFundada en 2010 por su actual directora general, Alisha Balasubramanian, The British Parbaked Bread (BPB) fabricaba pan precocido en el Reino Unido. Desde el inicio de sus operaciones, BPB había experimentado un crecimiento espectacular. En el año fiscal 2013 las ventas de la compañía fueron de 13 millones de libras. Debido al rápido crecimiento de la empresa, Alisha y Li Yan Chen -la directora financiera- habían decidido implementar un nuevo sis...Starting at €8.20
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Salers Dairy Products
Soler, Edi; Esteves, Joel; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-781-EAccounting and Control"We could revisit the cream issue but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. The Spaniards will never accept the deal?" Manuel Da Silva, sales manager of the Portuguese division of Salers Dairy Products, said these words at a meeting held in January 2013 at the factory in Fundão, a beautiful town located in eastern Portugal. That morning, Paulo Moreira (the CEO of the Portuguese division) and the rest of the Fundão factory's top management team wer...Starting at €8.20