Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product W48470.

Despite strong recent performance and investor interest, Shanghai-based Popup Union, China’s first pop-up retail service provider, had confronted heightened uncertainty, intensifying competition, and limited remaining cash.<br><br>In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was disrupting global markets and negatively affecting physical retail, its founder and chief executive officer faced a critical strategic decision about whether to (1) .....more

Teaching note for product W48469.

Flow Carbon Inc. (Flowcarbon), based in New York City and backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists, offered a blockchain-enabled trading platform for project developers to sell carbon credits through digital assets known as tokens. Since raising US$32 million in 2022, Flowcarbon had aimed to tap into the growing market of companies offsetting their carbon emissions through carbon credits. However, this endeavour had proved to be difficult .....more

Teaching note for product W42621.

Corporate ownership structure shapes corporate governance in profound ways, impacting decision-making speed, risk management, strategic alignment, and firm performance. The effectiveness of governance mechanisms varies with ownership structures, from sole proprietorships to shareholders in public firms, as each structure entails unique challenges in balancing control, oversight, and incentive alignment. This note explores governance strategies across .....more

A balance sheet is a key financial statement that provides a snapshot of a company’s financial position at a specific point in time. This note offers a concise overview of the basics of the balance sheet.

On January 2, 2018, the chief executive officer of a private company in Karachi, Pakistan, Imaam Spinning Mills (Imaam), was planning to expand the company’s product line and enter the weaving business by setting up a new weaving plant. He asked his chief financial officer to conduct a financial evaluation financial evaluation of the project. To do so, she needed to calculate the weighted average cost of capital, using the comparative method to calculate .....more

Teaching note for product W34046.

Annie Anthony, the chief financial officer of Liz Motor Corp. (Liz), was attempting to use capital budgeting to evaluate an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) project using all the available quantitative and qualitative information. Anthony had planned an ESG project, which would help the company adopt solid-state battery technology for most Liz electric vehicles and reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by 39 per cent, .....more