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Allen, Brandt R.
The Real Green IT Machine (B): Sensitivity Analysis of a Proposed Capital Investment
Lynch, Luann J. Allen, Brandt R.
C-2351 | Published August 05, 2014 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is a follow-up to UVA-C-2295. The analysis of the proposed new data center suggested that the project’s net present value was negative—not by much, but by enough to be of concern. Scheduled ... Read More
Pensions and Financial Reporting
Allen, Brandt R. Brownlee, E. Richard II
C-2340 | Published February 07, 2013 | 7 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note serves a wide audience. At Darden, it is used in two elective courses: Financial Reporting and Analysis and Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation, as well as in the open execu... Read More
Derivatives and Hedging
C-2341 | Published January 29, 2013 | 3 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note is a valuable read in any finance or accounting course that is covering the risks of derivative securities. In October 2011, MF Global Holdings LTD, a New York City brokerage company, filed ... Read More
Understanding Basic Financial Statements
Allen, Brandt R. Sack, Robert J.
C-2335 | Published October 02, 2012 | 11 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes balance sheets, income statements, and statements of owners' equity and serves as an introduction to basic financial statements. Read More
Better Buy, Inc.
C-2330 | Published October 26, 2011 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case pertains to one of the most important topics in financial accounting and reporting: revenue recognition. It is intended for use in a required MBA financial accounting course or in an MBA ele... Read More
Breeden Security, Inc. (A)
Allen, Brandt R. Rotch, William Lynch, Luann J.
C-2307 | Published October 27, 2009 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Breeden Electronics USA is a start-up division of a German company. It plans to produce two products, both electronic signaling devices. Herman Klein, the division president, has asked his controller,... Read More
BW Manufacturing Company
C-2294 | Published July 08, 2009 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A small manufacturer of gas grills is making final changes to its 2009 operating budget and considering several changes in pricing, advertising, and product availability. This short case addresses the... Read More
Global Fabricators, Inc.
C-2296 | Published May 20, 2009 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ideal for MBA students, this case presents an exercise that tests students' knowledge of financial accounting and reporting and how the tax system affects financial reporting. Students are asked to co... Read More
Financial Impact of Nuclear Power Plants: FirstEnergy and Davis-Besse
Allen, Brandt R. Simko, Paul J. Cross, Tom
C-2232 | Published April 06, 2009 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 2002, during a scheduled refueling outage, workers at FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant found a football-sized hole in the reactor head caused by boric acid corrosion. Redundant s... Read More
Financial Impact of Nuclear Power Plants: PSEG and Hope Creek
Allen, Brandt R. Simko, Paul J. Cross, Tom
C-2233 | Published April 06, 2009 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is about the financial impact of negative publicity and a company's reaction. A Public Service Enterprise Group had ownership interest in five nuclear power plants, three of which were locat... Read More
Financial Impact of Nuclear Power Plants: Dominion Resources, Inc.
Allen, Brandt R. Simko, Paul J. Cross, Tom
C-2234 | Published April 06, 2009 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Dominion Resources was the fourth-largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States with seven nuclear reactors in operation. Two of the reactors had been acquired in the past five years: ... Read More
The Real Green IT Machine (A)
Allen, Brandt R. Lynch, Luann J.
C-2295 | Published March 20, 2009 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A large bank is attempting to cost justify a proposed, large (60,000-square-foot) data center based upon energy savings achieved principally through the green technology of water cooling and energy re... Read More
An Overview of Financial Statement Analysis: The Mechanics
Allen, Brandt R. Simko, Paul J.
C-2255 | Published August 23, 2007 | 26 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
On September 20, 2000, Jonathan Weill, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Dallas, Texas, published a piece questioning the profitability and accounting of Enron Corporation. He based his article on a s... Read More
Enterprise Systems at ICL
C-2251 | Published February 08, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Senior management of a large company learns that its largest and most important information systems project will be eight months late. The developers used the latest technology (web-based, distributed... Read More
World Portal
Allen, Brandt R. Cross, Tom Sack, Robert J.
C-2225 | Published July 15, 2005 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
World Portal was a successful Internet portal. They had just received a letter from a Wall Street analyst expressing skepticism about their financial statement transparency. How would they respond to ... Read More
Data Services at Armistead
C-2164 | Published December 17, 2002 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Data Services provides flexible, scalable data processing and information storage to the fast-food industry. Sales have grown steadily, but the company has operated at a loss since its founding five y... Read More
Greenlawn Commercial Package Business
C-2161 | Published May 29, 2002 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used to study cost-based decision analysis. It has incremental, variable, semi variable, and sunk costs in a classic cost-price-volume situation, set in a service business. Read More
Dell Computer: Business to Business Over the Web in 2001
C-2153 | Published February 28, 2001 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"Dell Computer: Business to Business Over the Web" (UVA-C-2144) describes the Dell business model and its adaptation to the Web in detail. This second case provides an update through March 2001 and co... Read More
Ford's E-Business Strategy
Allen, Brandt R. Davis, Edward W.
BC-0145 | Published May 05, 2000 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed to facilitate a discussion and analysis of Ford Motor Company's e-commerce strategy in 1999-2000. It presents an independent analysis of costs and savings along the automobile-in... Read More
Business to Business on the Web: Buying and Selling
C-2143 | Published June 30, 1999 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note discusses business-to-business electronic commerce, especially buy-side and sell-side applications in the supply chain. Read More
Dell Computer: Business to Business Over the Web
Allen, Brandt R. Payne, Graham
C-2144 | Published June 30, 1999 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Six years after dropping out of college to focus on his own business reselling PCs and preformatting PC hard disks, Michael Dell had grown his company's annual sales to more than $500 million. Dell Co... Read More
Global Marine Partners
Allen, Brandt R. Conroy, Robert M.
F-1243 | Published March 31, 1998 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Not often when one makes a decision are the results so quickly realized! Back in July 1998, when the exchange rate was JPY145 (Japanese yen) to the U.S. dollar, Charles Bobbin, treasurer of Global Mar... Read More
Performance Measurement at Thomas J. Lipton
Allen, Brandt R. Rotch, William Roberts, Evan
C-2125 | Published April 09, 1997 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Lipton has about 50 branded product lines, each of which has a product-line income statement. For many years, the company had used trading profit as a key measure of performance. In recent years, howe... Read More
Brown-Forman: Profiting on Corporate Computing
Allen, Brandt R. Lennon, Richard
IT-0011 | Published September 12, 1996 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Brown-Forman installed a profit-center control system for its information services department (IS) in 1991. The results were dramatic: costs were flattened, backlogs disappeared, and cooperation impro... Read More
Starbucks
IT-0012 | Published September 07, 1995 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores information systems (IS) and technology as key to retail success. In 1982, Starbucks creates an alternative to the corner tavern or pub and experiences incredible success. By the mi... Read More