1. Cost Leadership In cost leadership‚ a firm sets out to become the low cost producer in its industry. The sources of cost advantage are varied and depend on the structure of the industry. They may include the pursuit of economies of scale‚ proprietary technology‚ preferential access to raw materials and other factors. A low cost producer must find and exploit all sources of cost advantage. if a firm can achieve and sustain overall cost leadership‚ then it will be an above average performer in its
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Plagiarism is when someone uses someone else’s work without giving them credit. “According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary‚ "plagiarize" means: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one ’s own to use (another ’s production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source” (Plagiarism.org‚ 2013) Plagiarism is not being truthful about your own work and trying to rewrite in
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I admit I made a mistake Over stepping some boundaries which made me look fake. I always said I would never do the things I did‚ and that is the reason it is so hard for you to forgive. It’s been so long‚ so many times we said we’d try only to turn around and make each other cry Remember how it was when we first started out‚ So much alike‚ we shared every thought We fell so fast‚ maybe fell in love too soon Made a huge decision that now we cannot undo. I admit my mistakes
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Range of grade and pay systems / structures‚ their ‘fit’ for organisational context and link to strategy 1. Pay structure (3 or 4) Broad-banding Job family Spot rates 2.2 Performance Appraisal Armstrong (1998) points out that the performance appraisal schemes is essential for organization which often contain ratings of performance factors‚ such as volume‚ quality and knowledge of work‚ dependability‚ innovation‚ staff development and communication and an overall rating. Clive
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1) A $100 deposit today that earns an annual interest rate of 10% is worth how much at the end of two years? Assume all interest received at the end of the first year is reinvested the second year. 2) An investment of $100 today is worth $116.64 at the end of two years if it earns an annual interest rate of 8%. How much interest is earned in the first year and how much in the second year of this investment? 3) Which of the following investments has a larger future value? A $100 investment
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Islamic Economic Studies Vol. 4‚ No. 2‚ May 1997 THE USE OF ASSETS IJARA BONDS FOR BRIDGING THE BUDGET GAP MONZER KAHF* A shari‘ah compatible fixed-return financial instrument is needed in an Islamic economy. This paper explores the potential of ijara (renting)-based financial instruments to meet this need. The paper proposes ijara-bonds as marketable Islamic financial instruments for resource mobilization in the public sector as well as an instrument for monetary policy. Private companies
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Economic Cost of “Power Outages” By Dr. Aisha Ghaus-Pasha Table of Contents Page No. 1. Causes of Power Outages 1 2. Quantifying Outage Costs 2 3. Incidence of Outages 4 4. Pattern of Direct Costs 5 5. Types of Adjustments to Outages 5 6. Extent of Recovery of Output 6 7. Total Outage Costs to the Industrial Sector 6 8. National Costs of Load Shedding 7 9. Policy Implications 9 9.1. Investment in Power Sector 9 9.2. Load Management
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predatory pricing allegation against BuyGasCo Corporation ("BuyGasCo"). It speaks only to the nature of the cost accounting system that we‚ as students of accounting‚ think to be appropriate for addressing the issues presented by cases of this general type. We offer our views on this subject out of concern about the allocation of indirect costs used in assessing the appropriate gasoline cost value in State of Florida v. BuyGasCo Corporation‚ 2003-05143 (D. FL. 2003). We regard the allocation system employed
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TYPES OF COSTS Introduction :-Production is the result of services rendered by various factors of production.The producer or firm has to make payments for this factor services. From the point of view of the factor inputs it is called ‘factor income’ while for the firm it is ‘factor payment’‚ or cost of inputs.Generally‚ the term cost of production refers to the ‘money expenses’ incurredin the production of a commodity. But money expenses are not the only expensesincurred on the production
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What is cost of capital? The cost of capital is the cost of obtaining funds‚ through debt or equity‚ in order to finance an investment. It is used to evaluate new projects of a company‚ as it is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company‚ thus setting a benchmark that a new project has to meet. Importance The concept of cost of capital is a major standard for comparison used in finance decisions. Acceptance or rejection of an investment project depends on the
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