After the successful implementation of Lean manufacturing concepts at U.S. Navy Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Depot (AIMD) Lemoore, particularly with regard to the maintenance processes for the F404 engine on the F/A-18 Hornet, these concepts have became the standard by which production...

This case challenges students to apply financial reporting concepts pertaining, most notably, to liabilities and expenses in a specific corporate situation. In the context of an interesting, but noncomplex, technical accounting issue, students debate the best way for Adenosine Therapeutics to...

In this case students must ascertain what financial ratios they recommend the company focus on and they must also decide how best to communicate, explain, and bring to life those metrics so that the company's cadre of non-financial middle managers can most easily understand the significance of,...

This case raises the question, How does a company reasonably estimate and record entries for uncollectible trade receivables and under what circumstances are receivables written off as uncollectible? The required accounting transactions for the case involve estimating a receivables allowance...

Students are presented with the balance sheet, income statement, accounts-receivable footnote, excerpts from the footnote on significant accounting policies, and excerpts from Management's Discussion and Analysis from MGM Mirage's 2004 Annual Report, and are asked to respond to several questions...

Students are presented with the balance sheet and the statements of stockholders' equity from Dell Inc.'s 2004 Annual Report and are asked to respond to several questions regarding information in the materials. Questions center around common shares authorized, issued, and outstanding; treasury...

Students are presented with the balance sheet and the lease footnote from AMR Corporation's 2004 Annual Report and are asked to respond to several questions regarding information in the materials. Questions center around what can be inferred regarding operating leases and capital leases from the...

Tony Hamilton, brand manager for Distillers Delight in the United Kingdom, is preparing for his upcoming meeting with his boss, Charlotte Handy, managing director for the United Kingdom for Global Distillers, Inc., one of the leading companies in the alcoholic beverages industry. The purpose of...

In 2000, Breeden Electronics USA sold fewer RC1 units and more RC2 units than they had expected. Sales of RC2 units were to 18 mail-order companies that required special attention (more than required by the RC1 customers). This attention incurred unexpected costs. Marlene Baer, the controller,...

This case builds on the A case (UVA-C-2199). Marlene Baer, the controller of Breeden Electronics, recognizes that grouping all manufacturing overhead costs together and allocating them to Breeden's two products is not very accurate. She groups overhead costs by activity and then allocates them...