Cost drivers‚ as propounded by Porter (1985) are the structural causes of the cost of an activity in the value chain. They determine the behaviour and level of costs within an activity. A cost driver can be completely‚ partly or not at all under the control of a firm. It is therefore important for a manager to understand these factors because according to the Neo-classical model of the firm‚ the firm’s objective is to maximise profit by producing a given level of output at the minimum cost level
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Table of Contents Executive Summary2 Background3 Objective3 Results Obtained4 Recommendation4 Rationale5 Managerial Report6 Appendix11 Executive Summary background Darby Company manufactures and distributes meters used to measure electric power consumption. The company has production plants in El Paso‚ Texas and San Bernardino‚ California. The company also has three distribution centers in Fort Worth‚ Texas; Santa Fe‚ New Mexico; and Las Vegas‚ Nevada. The company has nine customer
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Managerial Perspective ACC/561 February 10‚ 2014 Seth Jardine Activity-Based Overhead Rate R&D activities fall into four pools. The four activity pools are market analysis‚ product design‚ product development‚ and prototype testing. The annual costs are $1‚050‚000 for market analysis‚ $2‚350‚000 for product design‚ $3‚600‚000 for product development‚ and $1‚400‚000 for prototype testing. The total estimated drivers for each activity are 15
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Managerial Accounting Reality Check Summaries Professor Shin Hee-Lim Shin 1001006 Reality Check – What’s your blog’s ROI? Summary ROI has been always one of the important factors to determine how profitable the business is doing. However‚ for until last few decades‚ ROI was only implementing to evaluate the hard assets like buildings and equipment. But in nowadays‚ many companies are using ROI to evaluate the investment in technology‚ such as blog. As a following example‚ it shows that
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ASSAIGHNMENT NAME | DIVYA J.JATHANNA | ROLL.NO. | | COURSE | MBA-SEMISTER-1 | SUBJECT | MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS | SUBJECT CODE | MB0042 | LEARNING CENTER | TRACKS INDIA INFOTECH - 01508 | ASSIGHNMENT NO | | DATE | | SET 1 1) Mention the demand function. What is elasticity of demand? Describe the determinants of elasticity of demand. Answer: Demand function: The demand for a product or service is affected by its price‚ the income of the individual‚ the price of the other
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Price Elasticity: Price Elasticity is used to explain the degree of responsiveness of the demand for a product to a change in its price. Ep=Percentage change in quality demanded/Percentage change in price (Ep=Price Elasticity) Practical applications of Price Elasticity: 1) Helps in fixing the prices of different goods: It helps a producer to fix the price of his product. A higher price is charged if the demand for the product is inelastic and a lower price is charged if the demand for the product
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5. Managerial Grid The x/y axis on the grid consist of two behavior dimensions‚ concern for people and concern for production. Concern for people is the degree to which a leader considers the needs of employees when deciding how tasks or jobs should be done. This can be personal or professional development. This behavior dimension moves along the y-axis. Concern for production is the degree to which a leader emphasizes objectives and productivity goals when deciding how tasks or jobs should
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ACT 5733 – Advanced Managerial Accounting Fall 2012 HW #3 Question #1 Consider the following potential investment‚ which has the same risk as the firm’s other projects: Time Cash Flow 0 -$95‚000 1 $20‚000 2 $24‚000 3 $24‚000 4 $24‚000 5 $24‚000 6 $32‚000 a) What are the investment’s payback period‚ IRR‚ and NPV‚ assuming the firm’s WACC is 10%. b) If the firm requires a payback period of less than 5 years‚ should this project be accepted? Answer: Yes it should accept
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owned by its stockholders. This could range from a single shareholder in a closely held corporation to hundreds of thousands of shareholders in a publicly traded organization. Furthermore‚ some of the key terms that associated with Corporate or Managerial finance would be Liability - financial claims towards an organization assets which is not consider equity‚ Cash flows which consider money moving through companies‚ Corporation which is a distinct legal entity and Assets that could help the business
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MEANING OF MANAGERIAL ECONMICS (M.E) Managerial economics/applied microeconomics can be defined as the use of economic analysis to make business decisions involving the best use of organizations scarce resources/the application of economic theory and the tools of analysis of decision science to examine how an organization can achieve her objectives most efficiently. M.E may also be defined as the study of economic theories‚ logic and methodology‚ which are generally applied to seek solutions
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