Reference No: PROD0057(A)Pages: 12 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: The case explains the way a company has prepared its plans for developing and introducing a new product to the market. It highlights the difficulties it had to face while going through the technological change, i.e., applied research, development, marketing and after?sales service. It also highlights the need ... More
Reference No: F&A0057(A)Pages: 9Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: This series enables students to understand the complete accounting cycle. The cases list the transactions that have occurred over a two month period. The student is required to journalize the transactions, post the entries into the ledger accounts, summarize the ledger accounts, prepare a trial balance and finally prepare the ... More
Reference No: MAR0071Pages: 15Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: The case involves the students in a realistic situation wherein they have to understand the consumption behaviour and buying pattern of the consumers with regard to bread, and develop a distribution plan for a large public sector bakery set up in Ahmedabad, keeping fully in view the types of retail ... More
Reference No: P&IR0039Pages: 7 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: The case relates to a change in the size of lift from 5" to 6" in the roto coner section of the winding department in the subsidiary of a foreign company, and the consequent human problem of resistance. ... More
Reference No: F&A0091Pages: 22 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: Essentially pertains to the company's annual report which reports a profit for the year under consideration while the balance sheet shows an accumulated loss. In the computation of this profit, items like depreciation, preference dividend, amortised expenses, etc have been excluded. In the class, the relevance or otherwise of the ... More
Reference No: P&IR0023Pages: 7Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: Describes the tactics and strategies used by professional union leaders in motivating the workers in a plant to organize a union under very adverse circumstances; the union becomes a force to reckon with. The case brings out the role of leaders in organizing a union. ... More
Reference No: F&A0053Pages: 12Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: Relates to the accounting treatment of receipts following import entitlements arising from export sales. When such receipts should be recognized as income and how they should be reported in annual reports can be discussed. ... More
Reference No: ECO0080Pages: 11Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: The case represented the emergence of the modern business in the context of changing environment .It also illustrates on one hand the impact of education in business activities and on the other the futility of the popularly held view that caste presented people from going to business ... More
Reference No: F&A0083(B)Pages: 11 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: Executives of the mills are working on the loan arrangement to be made with their bankers for meeting the working capital requirements in the next year. The case provides an opportunity to determine the amount, timing and type of loan. It explains the various methods of financing working capital requirements ... More
Reference No: F&A0084(A)Pages: 12 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: This is a case on capital expenditure control. The procedure adopted in the company is exemplified by describing how a particular project was planned and put through. In the class the discussion is about whether this is the best way of planning and implementing the project within the company objective. ... More
Reference No: OB0043Pages: 5 Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: A manager of a medium?sized engineering factory was faced with the problem of retrenching two hundred and seventy?five production workers. The case describes the process of retrenchment, which, though, of great material advantage to the company, raises some questions about professional ethics, as well as the long?term ... More
Reference No: F&A0094(B)Pages: 7Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: The company, which has been valuing closing stock at sales value, switches over to valuation at direct costs. After a few years, it goes back to its original method of valuing stocks. In the class, the effects of changeover are assessed; the real reasons why the company made the switchovers ... More
Reference No: PROD0059Pages: 8Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: This is an introductory case that describes in general terms the basic elements of a production system as existing at facility of a mass producer of garments. ... More
