Business Finance Homework Help

Student should follow the basic case study format in answering the case studies.

• Introduction (examine the case and highlight or summarize the relevant facts pertaining to the case)
• Identify two (2) or more key Issues/ problems.
• Write the three (3) possible solutions for the Issues/problems identified in (b).
• Select the best solution from letter c and justify your answer.
• Recommendation and suggestions.

Case No.1

Mr. Said joined a large private
coal based power producing firm as a Graduate Trainee. After one year of
training at different facilities of the company he was finally posted at a
production unit. In the past one year of his service, Mr. Said had availed a
loan of RO 3000 from the company to pay off his education loan. He had tough
financial background and this benefit so early in the service won the company a
great admiration to Mr. Said for past several days Mr. Said has been making an
observation at this unit. Late in the nights the chimney of the unit spills off
an unusual black smoke. He noticed it for a few days until upon some enquiry he
found out that the ESPs (device to separate coal ash from the smoke finally
going to chimney) are switched off to save power as they consume a substantial
power produced to run them. Mr. Said knows that this is in violation of the
law. ESPs shall mandatorily run in a coal based power plant of a unit as this.
Switching them off in a running plant violates the environmental laws.
Moreover, in the long run this practice shall damage the atmosphere of this
area. He talks to his manager but the manager asks him to keep off this and
explains him that this company makes huge money saving power by keeping ESPs
off for a few hours daily. And he further cleverly says that no one can see
smoke late in the night in this less populated forest area. A few days later
Mr. Said gets a chance to see his unit head. He puts the issue back. The unit
head warns him of dire consequences if he further raises this issue. He also
threatens him to sack. Next morning Mr. Said is served with a show-cause notice
against some irregularities in his work and his identity card has been blocked
for an automatic attendance. His presence in the office was recorded in person
by another staff but without his signature.

Mr. Said wants to complain this
violation of environment to government authorities but in doing so he will
finally have to lose his job and loan repayment is a burden he cannot bear. If
dismissed on corruption charges, he faces a chance of career blockade

Case No.2

You are a trainee (electrical) in
your second year of training within a small practice. A more senior trainee has
been on sick leave, and you are due to go on study leave. You have been told by
your manager that, before you go on leave, you must complete some complicated
reconciliation work. The deadline suggested appears unrealistic, given the
complexity of the work.

You feel that you are not
sufficiently experienced to complete the work alone. You would need additional
supervision to complete it to the required standard, and your manager appears
unable to offer the necessary support. If you try to complete the work within
the proposed timeframe but fail to meet the expected quality, you could face
repercussions on your return from study leave. You feel slightly intimidated by
your manager, and also feel pressure to do what you can for the practice in
what are challenging times.