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Bruxelles Services Linguistiques (BSL)
Soler, Edi; Peñalva, FernandoCase C-811Accounting and ControlBruxelles Services Linguistiques (BSL)" presenta la situación de una de las mayores empresas del sector de la traducción a nivel mundial, ubicada en Bélgica. Una pronunciada caída en las ventas y rentabilidad de BSL, en un periodo en que la facturación del sector había crecido, junto con el aparente aumento en los servicios adicionales que conlleva el proceso de traducción hacen que la empresa decida replantearse el sistema de costes y proponer u...Starting at €8.20
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Tidal Cloud: Cost Allocation in the Cloud - Teaching Note
Raney, RobertTeaching Note CT-38-EAccounting and ControlThis case uses a contemporaneous setting to introduce core managerial accounting concepts related to cost allocation, cost systems, activity-based costing and cost analysis for strategic decision making. The case is set in July of 2016 with Tidal Cloud, a late-stage startup with three products that differentially consume indirect costs of the company. Tidal has benefited from a period of high growth and the potential of a lucrative exit is on ev...Starting at €0.00
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805-EAccounting and ControlIn Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL), the participant plays the role of the hotel's general manager, Sofie Keller, who must make several decisions to improve the profitability of the business. The main ones are: to decide whether to keep or stop offering the conference service, and to analyze how to react to the steep discount on the room price offered by a competitor with similar characteristics. Both decisions are framed in a context of crisis cau...Starting at €8.20
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Schneider Electric: Linking Pay to ESG
Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-804-EAccounting and Control, Corporate GovernanceMarch 20, 2020 was a day of great concern for the board members of Schneider Electric (Schneider). The rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic around the world was a source of anxiety not only because of the risk it posed to public health, but also for the dramatic economic consequences of the sanitary crisis. That day, the stock price of Schneider Electric had plummeted to 69.72 euros from more than 100 euros on the day of the last board meeting, Febr...Starting at €8.20
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Becker Textilwerk GmbH
Soler, Edi; Peñalva, FernandoCase C-810Accounting and ControlEste caso trata sobre una empresa alemana, Becker Textilwerk, que produce fibras textiles de alto rendimiento y que contó con unas ventas totales en 2016 de más de 1.200 millones de euros. Becker trabaja a plena capacidad, y debe tomar una decisión sobre la petición de un cliente para que le aumente sustancialmente el descuento que actualmente recibe. En caso de denegar el aumento, el cliente dejará de comprar a Becker y acudirá a un competidor. ...Starting at €8.20
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Glassy Lenses
Serrano, Alejandro; Sabrià, Frederic; Grandes, Mª JesúsCase P-1201Accounting and Control, Service and Operations ManagementGlassy Lenses, un fabricante de lentes oftálmicas, tiene una planta en Francia que puede seleccionar convenientemente a diario qué pedidos de los que le llegan va a asumir, pero los cuellos de botella pasan de una sección a otra, dificultando así la planificación y ejecución de la producción. Ayuda a la dirección de la fábrica a elegir correctamente entre las distintas familias de productos y, de ese modo, maximizar el beneficio.Starting at €8.20
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805Accounting and ControlLe Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL) permite poner al participante en la piel de la directora general del hotel, Sofie Keller, quien debe tomar varias decisiones para mejorar la rentabilidad del negocio. Las principales son dos: decidir si mantener o dejar de ofrecer el servicio de conferencias y analizar cómo reaccionar ante el fuerte descuento en el precio de habitación ofrecido por un competidor de características similares a las de su hotel. Ambas...Starting at €8.20
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Investment Strategies and Berkshire Hathaway
Palencia, LuisCase C-734-EAccounting and ControlAn average investor, Josu Short, reviews Berkshire Hathaway's 13-plus-one points of the "contract with shareholders" present in each of the company's annual reports. Apparent inconsistencies and financial paradoxes are presented.Starting at €8.20
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Tennis Herrenberg
Thomas Klueter; Luis Palencia; Juan Carlos Vázquez-DoderoCase ASN-84-EAccounting and ControlThe Tennis Herrenberg case deals with an easy-to-understand business which paves the way to discussing important business issues (overall profitability and profitability by business line, balance and settlement sheets, cost allocation and transfer pricing, cost streamlining and savings, drivers of various businesses, selling points, etc.) and governance issues (partner relationships, duties to third parties, etc.).Starting at €8.20