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Participants’ Manual – Part II
Initial Situation
Version 14.2
Standard Scenario
Table of contents
1 Decisions ......................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Participants‘ reports ....................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 No. 2 Market results and Value of Inventory ..................................................................................... 2
2.2 No. 3 Production Lines – Environmental Technology........................................................................ 3
2.3 No. 4 Human Resources and Product Development......................................................................... 4
2.4 No. 5 Cost Type, Cost Center Accounting ........................................................................................ 5
2.5 No. 6 Cost Accounting (Unit-of-output costing) ................................................................................. 6
2.6 No. 8 Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet ........................................................................ 7
2.7 No. 9 Financial Report and Cash Flow Statement ............................................................................ 8
2.8 No. 11 Out-of-Line Situations .......................................................................................................... 10
2.9 No. 12 Market Research Report I.................................................................................................... 11
2.10 No. 13 Business Report on the Industry.......................................................................................... 12
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1 Decisions
You will find information about the current situation of the COPYFIX Inc. below. To get a first over-
view, you will be provided with the decisions taken by the previous board for period 0. Moreover,
you will be also provided in the following chapter with all necessary reports of COPYFIX Inc. of
period 0 to analyze strengths and weaknesses of COPYFIX Inc. This analysis should be the basis
of your decision-making process.
COPY I
Market 1
Price (unit) 3,000 EUR
Sales
COPY I
Purch-
asing
COPY I
Production Volume 40,000 Units
Maintenance 1.5 mEUR / Line ------ mEUR / Line ------ mEUR / Line
Rationalization 0 mEUR / Line ------ mEUR / Line ------ mEUR / Line
COPY I
Planned
Market 1
figures
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2 Participants‘ reports
Note: The valuation of inventory of finished goods (here COPY I) meets the costs of goods
manufactured.
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Note: Fully depreciated production lines are still available for production. The maintenance
factor is displayed as a figure that has been rounded up.
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Note: The product development expenses of 1.5 mEUR spent on "Technology" corre-
sponds to the R & D cost center’s “Wages and Salaries” expense of 1.50 mEUR.
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Note: Cost type accounting includes all of the costs incurred by the company.
The overhead cost of 41.50 mEUR is the total cost for all of the cost centers to-
gether.
Direct costs are costs which are tied directly and immediately to COPY I.
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Note: Cost unit accounting works out step by step (job order costing) the costs in-
curred for COPY I.
The finished products of COPY I enter the finished goods inventory at the
value of the cost of goods manufactured (CGM).
The cost of production is the total cost incurred for one unit of COPY I.
Overhead costs: costs that are traced to a cost center (see previous report.)
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Other expenses = Total costs which appear under "Other costs" in cost-type accounting
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The Cash-Flow shows a company’s ability to finance new investments without additional capital. It
can be derived by adding depreciation expenses plus the increase in the pension reserve to the
after-tax profit
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Hinweis: The return on equity is calculated on the basis of the owner’s equity at the beginning
of the period.
Planning quality Possible ratings on the index range between –1.0 and +1.0:
Best = +1.0 for an absolute difference of approximately 0.0.
Worst = -1.0 for a large absolute difference.
Cum. earnings value Cumulative earnings value from the previous periods
(mEUR) + Earnings value for the period
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Note: The R & D expenditures are the sum of the costs for technology, ecology and
value analysis.
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