Week 4 Discussions Strat and Man

Week 4 Discussion - At a Crossroad – Strat Man

As a CEO of a low tech, high volume, low margin industrial cleaning supplies (chemicals) business, you are at a crossroads in the company’s ability to grow and remain profitable. Currently that company designs its own products in house but employ third party manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and distribution for your products.

You have numerous but small competitors that are fully integrated and have solid value chains.  Your entire market base is located in the Mid-West of the United States. You are evaluating expansion opportunities into the rest of the United States and possibly into Canada and Mexico where the latter countries have currently no competition in our core product mix.

Please use the information found in Chapter 6 of the text and decide if the company is ready to expand and what expansion strategy model they should use? Remember that margins are low and they cannot be compromised with hurting the company’s finances? 

Reference:

Chapter 6

Title: Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage  Author: Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble, & Strickland  Publisher: McGraw Hill Irvin  Ed/Year: 21st Edition; 2018  ISBN-13: 9781259899645

Week 4 Discussion - The Big Bath -

Managerial Acct

This week's Discussion comes from your text, Chapter 7 on page 264. Please read the background for the "Performance Incentives and Goals" and utilize the internet to research the term "Performance Based Pay".

After reviewing your Internet results prepare several discussion points that focus:

· The name of the company.

· Do they appear to reward their CEO in an excessive manner for the performance based on last year's results?

· Do you feel that the majority of executives in the United States are over compensated and if so why do you feel this way?

Reference:

Chapter 7

Text: Managerial Accounting Author: Crosson and Needles Publisher: South-Western; Cengage Learning Ed/Year: 10th Edition; 2014 ISBN: 978-1-133-94059-3