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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Broadband-X: Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation
Mustafa Fatih YegulExercise IVEY-9B20E021-EInformation TechnologiesBroadband-X, is a small-sized electronic contract manufacturing company. The company had been using QuickBooks accounting package and Excel sheets to manage its processes. As the company grew, Brian, the owner, noticed that the current model was not capabStarting at €8.20
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BeanCountr Inc.: A Financing and Investing Exercise
Ian Dunn; Kaitlyn OhExercise IVEY-9B21B006-EAccounting and ControlIn April 2020, the owner and founder of BeanCountr Inc. was reviewing her company’s financial performance for its third fiscal year. The company was a financial technology start-up located in London, Ontario, Canada. The owner had already reviewed the company’s operating decisions over the past fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2020. She was now eager to review the company’s financing and investing transactions.Starting at €8.20
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Financing New Technology Ventures
Frederik J. RiarExercise IVEY-W24752-EFinanceemmtrix Technologies GmbH (emmtrix) was a spinoff company from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, a leading German university, and a result of an excellent-rated research project. At the end of January 2019, the emmtrix founders were preparing for a mStarting at €8.20
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Volkswagen Group: Adapting in the Age of AI
Ning Su; Yulin Fang; Duan YangExercise IVEY-9B19E016-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2016, the Volkswagen Group (VW Group) announced a new future program, Together–Strategy 2025, which outlined the company’s ambition of becoming “a world-leading provider of sustainable mobility” by 2025. The VW Group made it clear that innovation and tStarting at €8.20
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CapitaMalls Asia: A Buyout Offer from CapitaLand
Ruth S.K. Tan; Zsuzsa R. Huszar; Weina Zhang; Shao Yu HongExercise IVEY-9B19N012-EFinance, StrategyOn April 14, 2014, CapitaLand Limited, a Singapore-based real estate company, launched a voluntary conditional cash offer of SG$2.22 for each share (SG$3.06 billion in total) of its subsidiary commercial property development and management company, CapitaMalls Asia Limited (CMA). CMA’s principal business strategy was to invest in, develop, and manage a diversified portfolio of real estate used primarily for retail purposes in Asia. CapitaLand’s o...Starting at €8.20
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Travelling Thai Ltd.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica KellyExercise IVEY-9B12B017-EAccounting and ControlA company that has a fleet of food trucks serving Thai food has issued bonds twice since its incorporation. Because the company has reached a level of maturity and is in the sixth year of operations, it is able to recall a portion of one of the bonds. The other bonds mature. Students are asked to record the transactions related to these bonds.Starting at €8.20
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Fresh Air Communications
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica KellyExercise IVEY-9B12B019-EAccounting and ControlA large, well-established telecommunications company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, has decided to begin an overhaul of its infrastructure, beginning with a small pilot project. The case centres around the bonds used to finance this project, the short-term investments made with portions of the bond proceeds, and the company's outstanding common shares.Starting at €8.20
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Mama J's Marmalade
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhExercise IVEY-9B14B002-EAccounting and ControlIn 2013, the chief executive officer of a marmalade manufacturing company needs to update his accounting records for the fiscal year. In order to complete this task, he gathers the previous year's financial statements and a list of cash receipts and disbursements for the current year in order to perform a financial analysis.Starting at €8.20
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Mystery Corporations Challenge
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Eeshan Paranjape; Evan HuangExercise IVEY-9B14B005-EAccounting and ControlThe case presents students with common size balance sheets, financial ratios and related financial information. Students are required to correctly identify a series of corporations in distinctive industries based solely on their analysis of this financial data.Starting at €8.20
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Revenue Maximization: Apartment Rental Units
Karen Shastri; Steven OnaitisExercise IVEY-9B17B003-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipIn the summer of 2016, a real estate investment company was planning management and budgeting for apartment rental units in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a U.S. city with a large student population. The company needed to determine the various unit agreement terms—by year, by semester (fall, spring, and summer), and by month—using software to find optimal rents. Using Excel’s Solver tool, the optimal rents needed to be determined and incorporated into...Starting at €8.20