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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page paper presenting a current situation at this company and the result of capital budgeting analysis assessing whether the company should expand its current computer system. Net present value is positive, and based on conservative estimates of net cash inflows resulting from the addition. The paper recommends that the company proceed with the project. Includes a table of the Excel analysis; PowerPoint presentation is not attached but is available. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSacctMgtMIdecide.rtf
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Measurement, Inc. is a private company located in Durham, North Carolina. It develops, administers and scores achievement tests for public school systems on the state level as its primary
business. As such, its "product" is a service rather than a tangible item that can be ordered and shipped. It is a company heavily dependent on its data
processing function, yet the data processing manager struggled for some time to gain approval for development of a website for the company. It was only the complaints of customers
who preferred communication through email that convinced the companys founder to admit that the Internet was more than a passing fancy that would never be important to Measurements business.
The company has grown at exponential rates over the past several years, and the growth anticipated for the future is even more impressive as
public school systems are held to greater accountability by legislators and parents. Now that customers - i.e., state education departments - have gained access to Measurement through email, increasing
numbers of them are requesting online administration of Measurements tests. The same data processing department that consisted of four programmers and a manager a decade ago now numbers more
than sixty employees, four managers and a senior manager who reports directly to the president of the company. This senior manager is the same one who pushed email on
the president, and she is the same one who went to the company a decade ago believing she had found a small, "safe" job managing four programmers.
The senior manager has a solid background in physics and in large mainframe systems, and she is a knowledgeable and efficient programmer in her own right.
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