Global Bike Inc. has a pragmatic design philosophy that comes from its deep roots in both the offroad trail racing and long distance road racing sports. Nearly 20 years ago, its founders designed
their first bikes out of necessity—they had races to win and the bikes that were available at the time
did not perform to their extremely high standards. So, they took matters into their own hands and
built legendary bikes that would outlast and outperform the competition. From these humble origins,
Global Bike Incorporated was born and continues to deliver innovative high performance bicycles to
the world’s most demanding riders.
This heritage of entrepreneurial spirit and quest for design perfection is still the cornerstone of GBI’s
corporate philosophy. GBI produces bikes for the most demanding competitors—whether the
competition is on pavement or dirt, for money, fame or just bragging rights.
John Davis earned his racing scars in the mountain racing circuit in America, where he won numerous
downhill and cross country championships. Early on, John realized that the mass produced bicycles
available were inadequate in many ways for the type of racing he was doing. So, John stripped four
of his old bikes down to the bare metal and rebuilt them into a single “Frankenstein” bike that he rode
to win the national championship. Once news of his Frankenstein bike got out, John’s friends and
even his competitors began asking him to build them a Frankenstein bike too. While recovering from
an injury in 1990, John started producing the first series of Frankenstein bikes in his garage—each
one custom built from cannibalized parts from other bikes. As more and more orders came in, John
successfully expanded Frankenstein Bikes from his garage operations into a full blown manufacturing
facility in Dallas and began producing custom trail bikes which he sold through a network of
specialized bike dealers throughout the country.
CASE STUDY Financial Accounting Review Practice Set Assignment Overview This assignment is a review of general financial accounting principles and procedures. In this assignment you will create general journal entries for a series of transactions. You may optionally show the impact of these transactions on a set of t accounts and you must create a trial balance and adjusted trial balance. You will then close out the income statement accounts as you would at year end. In a continuation of this assignment later this semester (see Module #10), you will explore how your journal entries might be created in an automated system by entering your “manual” journal entries into the SAP ERP system. The SAP system will then be used to produce a set of financial statements (balance sheet and income statement). If you fail to successfully complete the Excel portion of this assignment it will be impossible to complete the SAP portion. Global Bike Inc. (GBI) We will be working with a company called Global Bike Inc., (GBI). Information regarding GBI follows. Company History Global Bike Inc. has a pragmatic design philosophy that comes from its deep roots in both the off road trail racing and long distance road racing sports. Nearly 20 years ago, its founders designed their first bikes out of necessity—they had races to win and the bikes that were available at the time did not perform to their extremely high standards. So, they took matters into their own hands and built legendary bikes that would outlast and outperform the competition. From these humble origins, Global Bike Incorporated was born and continues to deliver innovative high performance bicycles to the world’s most demanding riders. This heritage of entrepreneurial spirit and quest for design perfection is still the cornerstone of GBI’s corporate philosophy. GBI produces bikes for the most demanding competitors—whether the competition is on pavement or dirt, for money, fame or…
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