Competitive Advantage Multiple Choice 1) The competitive strategy followed by an organization is derived from its ________. A) function B) structure C) profits D) goals Answer: B Page Ref: 48 Difficulty: Easy Study Question: Study Question 1 2) The competitive strategy of an organization determines its ________. A) industry rivals B) short-term goals C) value chains D) structure Answer: C Page Ref: 48 Difficulty: Easy Study Question: Study Question 1 3) In which of the following situations
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identification. 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8 2. Nominal accounts. 4‚ 7 3. Trial balance. 6‚ 10 4. Adjusting entries. 8‚ 11‚ 13‚ 14 5. Financial statements. 6. Closing. 12 7. Inventory and cost of goods sold. 9 8. Comprehensive accounting cycle. *9. Brief Exercises Exercises Problems 1‚ 2 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 17 1 2‚ 3‚ 4 1‚ 2‚ 7‚ 8 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ 10‚ 20 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ 10‚ 12 11‚ 12‚ 15‚ 22‚ 23 1‚ 2‚ 4‚ 6 13‚ 14‚ 16 1‚ 4‚ 9‚ 10‚ 12 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ 10 11 14‚ 15 1‚ 2‚ 6‚ 12
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In Honor of the Lusitania The Lusitania‚ a luxurious (unsinkable) ship‚ is currently sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One of the many stories written about the Lusitania includes characters my age‚ Elsie and Frank. The author makes us feel close to the main characters by telling us that they had lost their mother. This means the father of Elsie and frank needed to care for them on his own. The Lusitania a supposedly “unsinkable ship” met its fate at the hands of a German U-boat
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Rand McNally Maps Out a Trip into a Digital Future In 1856‚ William Rand and Andrew McNally founded a small printing shop in Chicago which they called Rand McNally. The company did not begin printing maps until 1916‚ but it has been the leader in maps ever since‚ credited with creating the mapping conventions for our current numbered highway system. In 1924‚ Rand McNally published its first Rand McNally Road Atlas. The various versions of this atlas have sold 150 million copies in the years since
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MGT 623 Ocean Carriers Case Study 1) Do you expect daily spot hire rates to increase or decrease next year? According to the Case description‚ Exhibit 3 showed order booking and delivery schedule for bulk capsizes for coming years from 2001 to 2004. It was larger than the number of current fleet size in Exhibit 2. Thus‚ the spot hire rates would likely to decrease since capsizes are available. 2) What factors drive average daily hire rates? Daily hire rate were determined
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Space exploration is crucial to new discoveries in science‚ that will benefit society. Space exploration has changed the world around us by providing an inside look worlds around us‚ even in our own solar system. The ability to travel through space has given us a new perspective on our solar system‚ by being able to view how nature works outside of our own planet. Earth is a unique planet. So unique that our technology today has not discovered any other planets or satellites that could sustain human
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Blue Ocean Strategy August 21‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Blue ocean strategy is a concept written to question the standard five forces concept of marketing. The idea is to move out of the quote “red ocean” where there are sharks always competing into the “blue ocean” competition of your own where other competition is nonexistent. A red ocean is easily understood since it “represents all the industries in existence today” (Kim & Mauborgne‚ 2004). Blue ocean focuses on potential
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Blue Ocean Strategy The high growth and profits an organization can generate by creating new demand in an uncontested market space‚ or a "Blue Ocean"‚ than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers for known customers in an existing industry. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. To understand what Cirque du Soleil has achieved‚ imagine a market universe composed of two sorts of oceans: red oceans and blue oceans. Red oceans represent all the industries
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Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans‚ caused by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere‚ Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH > 7)‚ and the process is a shift towards pH-neutral conditions rather than a transition to acidic conditions (pH < 7). Ocean alkalinity is not changed by the process‚ or may increase over long time periods due to carbonate dissolution. An estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide from human activity released into the atmosphere dissolves into
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This research project investigates how the pH of ocean water affects the mass of the shells of sea organisms. People who might benefit from this project are Oceanographers and Fisheries. The resources used included an article from the website Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History‚ called “Ocean Acidification” by Jennifer Bennett‚ an interview with Dr. Andrew Dickson‚ a professor of marine chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography‚ University of California‚ San Diego‚ and an
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