Oakville‚ California produces three varieties of wine: Merlot‚ Viognier‚ and Pinot Noir. His winemaster‚ Kyle Ward‚ has identified the following activities as cost pools for accumulating overhead and assigning it to products. For each of Verde’s fifteen activity cost pools‚ identify a probable cost driver that might be used to assign overhead costs to its three wine varieties. 1. | Culling and replanting. Dead or overcrowded vines are culled‚ and new vines are planted or relocated. (Separate vineyards
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1. Airborne Express is an air express transportation company that is engaged in delivering small sized packages and documents around the United State of America and to and from many different foreign destinations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and identify the problems and issues Airborne encounters on a daily basis using Porter’s five forces framework. Porter identified five competitive forces that help shape every industry and market place in the global economy. These competitive forces
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Airborne diseases refers to any diseases which are caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air. These viruses and bacteria can be spread through coughing‚ sneezing‚ laughing or through close personal contact. These pathogens ride on either dust particles or small respiratory droplets and can stay suspended in air and or are capable of traveling distances on air currents.[1] Often‚ airborne pathogens or allergens cause inflammation in the nose‚ throat‚ sinuses and the lungs. This is caused
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following information for a one-year project‚ answer the following questions. Recall that PV is the planned value‚ EV is the earned value‚ AC is the actual cost‚ and BAC is the budget at completion. PV ¼ $ 23‚000 EV ¼ $ 20‚000 AC ¼ $ 25‚000 BAC ¼ $ 120‚000 a. What is the cost variance‚ schedule variance‚ cost performance index (CPI)‚ and schedule performance index (SPI) for the project? Cost Variance = EV-AC = $20‚000 - $25‚000 = -$5‚000 Schedule Variance = EV-PV = $20‚000 - $25‚000 = -$3
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generated 23.08% to Hilton’s revenue in 1998. This shows that the program also helped to boost up Hilton’s revenue. Since Hilton is running above breakeven‚ the revenue generated by the program is considered as profit generating revenue. Therefore‚ the value of the program is: ($158 – $750/365 days) x 8‚543‚800 nights = $1‚332‚364‚647 Since HHW runs the program not as a profit
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The 13th Airborne Division was an airborne formation in the United States Army during World War II‚ and was commanded by Major General Eldridge Chapman.[1] It was officially activated in August 1943 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina‚ remaining active until February 1946‚ but never saw combat. After activation the division remained in the United States to complete its training. This training was completed by September 1944‚ but had to be extended by a further four months when the division provided
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Innovation A Driver for Value Creation by QMD Innovation and Value Creation Technical Committee http://www.asq-qm.org/innovation-and-value-creation What Is Innovation? In – nova – tion means …..doing things….. In - a new – way So‚ how can we define innovation? >>> Quality Management Division Innovation and Value Creation Technical Committee What Is a Definition of Innovation? Innovation is: The successful conversion of new concepts and knowledge into new products and processes
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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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Harvard Business School Airborne Express Case Study Q1. How and why has the express mail industry structure evolved in recent years? How have the changes affected small competitors? The Express mail industry in the United States had a volume of $16-17 billion on expedited shipments in the year 1996. In the years before shipment volumes has risen 15-20% per year. However due to higher competition prices have fallen which resulted in a rise of only 10-15% in total revenues. As an example of
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Abstract This paper is written for the accounting theory course as a course project. This paper discusses the differences between the historical cost accounting approach and the fair value accounting approach. The discussion will focus on the debate on using which accounting approach. We begin by stating the definitions of both concepts and discussing them thoroughly‚ then we state the main advantages of the two approaches followed by comparison between them. The last section of this paper discusses
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