Castle Corporation Case Summary

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In short to summarize, Sweet Dreams Inc. (SDI) is a mattress manufacturer that started to experience issues in their business during the recession that began in the early 90 's. They relaxed their credit standards in the hopes to boost sales as they were experiencing difficulties with low sales volume. It also took on long term and short term loans. This in turned caused more issues with lows sales, high inventory and high COGS. Because of issues with high inventories, accounts receivables and insufficient funds to cover their expansion, SDI began delaying payments on their loans to their bank, First International Bank. In regard to the common size balance sheet, it shows that total assets decreased every year while the inventory percentage

Even more, since a 401(k) plan is not insured, it is possible to lose money based on the investments you have invested in. Risky investments are meant to either result in a large capital gain or a large capital loss; however, remaining conservative will not guarantee you payout you desire. Therefore, it is recommended to spread out your investments to minimize the possible capital losses (Advantages and Disadvantages to 401(k) Plans, (n.d.), p. 1). Consequently, employers are able to limit employees on how much they would like to contribute; with this intention, the employee would not be able to save as much as he or she wants

o Employees of the company would lack trust among themselves as well as will lose sense of community. o Community was misloaded by the company to treat the pain specified on the packaging relevant to that product. This would have resulted in going against the Corporate social responsibility that the company needs to follow.

In the situation Betsy should not divulge Crago plans to bid on the Farley contract because it would be going against another customers trust. If Betsy were to make this unethical decision she would gain a reputation as an untrustworthy saleswomen, thus hurting herself, her company, and any customers to whom she violated trust. Although, it could mean more business as well as more money, it is not worth the high stakes as well as becoming a dishonest person, due to the want for more money. Another way to which Betsy should consider the situation is that Mitch may be testing her trust by asking her to disclose information about another client and if she fails the test then she could potentially lose two big accounts. Once trust in business is lost, there is very little a person can do to recover.

Hence Gail’s inadequacy of information and comprehend of IIA's code of ethics influences her to unfit for the internal audit director position B. The ethical dilemma mark faces might have been avoided by the

Expectation damages would have left Walgreen’s indifferent between the damages and performance by Sara Creek. Walgreen’s expected to make a certain profit, but would lose profit from a competing store and pharmacy as the anchor tenant. The difficulty in this case, and expectation damages in general, is that the value of performance is sometimes hard to quantify. Calculating expectation damages involves projecting future revenues and costs of Walgreen’s without the presence of Phar-Mor and determining the impact of the addition of Phar-Mor. The court determined that there was too much uncertainty in this calculation to award damages, but for the sake of argument, let’s say that Sara Creek would have paid damages monthly.

In the article, What is a life worth, by Amanda Ripley, a tragedy that took place on 9/11 makes the government establish the amount of money a loss ' life is worth. Money isn 't going to bring back a loved one, but it does seem unconstitutional to others that one others loss is worth more than theirs. Victims families argue about how the amount of money given is not enough for their pain and suffering as "Others can 't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved ones value". Money was the only thing the government had to offer but they didn 't do it in the correct way. I don 't believe that a life should have a dollar value, since

Their cost does not count the damage they cause to the environment because of this renewable energies are more costly. Onshore winds is the only renewable energy with a cost of production as low as fossil fuels. Mandle states that there is a bias in our political funding. Our government does not want to invest in these new technologies because they are do not want future generations to suffer from tax increases. Mandle explains that not addressing the climate change situation will cause more damage to future generation than some tax increases.

Objectivity states that members must not compromise their professional or business judgement because of bias, conflict of interest or the undue influence of others. Providing misleading information (Langfield Smith, 2015). Providing misleading information and supporting Richard department will be considered to be unfair and bias. Priscilla should make decision that is in the best interest of the company and avoid any bias judgement due to her personal relationship with

This made the Scanlon Plan into a vicious cycle: company became non-profitable and had no ability to pay extra bonus to their employees, consequently, employees were unmotivated resulting lower productivity and quality, and the distrust diffusion made Engstrom harder to get out the crisis. Their manager Bent thought it is the time to change to make a turnaround. Listed are the primary factors that contribute to the current situation:  Single incentive method Scanlon is a bonus based incentive plan, but it relies too much on the bonus to motivate. Employees are expected to receive monthly bonus payments.

This is due to the fact that these vendors have this misconception that such organizations do not pay use taxes or sales taxes on the purchases that they make. This might appear like a very good deal in the beginning but later it can create major problems in case the vendor has to go through an audit and it is found that the vendor should have charged certain

A stock price this low had some investors concerned that a hostile takeover of the retailer might become a possibility. The new CEO, Frank Blake, recognizing that the corporate culture would not sustain a profitable company, started to make changes within the organization after his hire in January of 2007. Nardelli had taken The Home Depot from 1,134 stores in 2000 to 2,000 stores in 2005, with a plan on opening another 400-500 additional stores from 2005 to 2010 (The Home Depot, 2005). Frank Blake recognized The Home Depot had become too stretched and needed to focus on rebuilding the customer service that once had made The Home Depot a strong contender among retail stores and the number one home improvement retailer. This caused Blake to stop the expansive store growth, close 15 underperforming stores, sell the newly acquired supply, and close the EXPO design centers.

You feel as if you 're being greedy Many people do not contact an attorney because they feel that their injury will become all about the money. But it is about the money. It is about getting fair compensation for your injuries, and this is not likely t happen when you are offered an amount by a lawyer representing an insurance company.

Also the recession took the focus off of Sears failing because all businesses were decreasing in sales. In 2009, Richard Gerstein, then senior VP-marketing at Sears Holdings, was quoted at saying, "A lot of things are coming together at the right time to help us succeed.” Their profit margin was at its lowest in 2012 resulting in a net loss of $500 million that year. One reason this could have happened was in 2012 CIT Group decided to not give loans to