EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Boston Creamery‚ Inc‚ is an ice cream company that manufactures and distributes ice cream to wholesalers and retailers. In 1973‚ the company had installed a new financial planning and control system that compares budgeted results against actual results and be able to highlight things that needed corrective actions or commend things that resulted in a favorable overall variance. This year‚ the division has a favorable operating income variance of $71‚700. Highlights: · Jim
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Body and soul You are running‚ eating carrots and checking your BMI all the time. This “being healthy” thing is starting to be annoying. But for being healthy you need to suffer... Right? Everyone wants to be healthy and you should‚ but some take it too seriously and won’t enjoy life with full strength. And some don’t give a damn and just eat anything they like and they don’t exercise almost at all. What should you do then? Well I think the best way is mix of both. Eating habits are
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Neo-Soul music isn’t just a genre‚ it’s a lifestyle‚ one that allows you to evolve and experience your own life in a different way. It takes the listener on a journey of detoxification and restoration. Neo-Soul is a term captured by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990’s. The music has a very distinguished and less conventional sound then R&B. Its music is made up of soul‚ jazz‚ jazz fusion‚ funk‚ pop‚ r&b and quiet storm. Developed in the late 1980’s-90’s as
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History of the BBC Founders: Jim Koch‚ Rhonda Kallman‚ founded in 1984 Koch: successful management consultant with the BCG(Boston Consulting Group);but wanted to do his family recipe. He believes : Domestic Microbrewery 可以打败 imported beers的弱点‚ by making consistently high quality---emphasized local character Background : Few craft brewers when BBC began. Critical element of Koch’s plan: use of established brewers’ production facilities: Pittsburgh Brewing Company
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Case 4: Boston Creamery Introduction A new financial planning and control system is only as good as a company’s capacity to implement it effectively. But most importantly‚ many employees see the new system as an end in itself‚ instead of a means to an end. The way standards are formulated play a crucial role in the results of these variances. For instance‚ management decided to use the sales forecasts based on what they made and incurred in the previous year. This would normally be the case
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The Soul and the Self There have been many ideas and ways of thinking about the soul and the self in our history. The development of theories of the self and personal identity dates all the way back to the ancient Greeks to present day. Philosophers and scientists have developed huge intellectual trends‚ controversies‚ and ideas that shape the way we think of ourselves today. The theories of the soul and self date back to ancient Greek times where ideas of Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and the materialistic
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Boston Marathon bombs: when was the moment of radicalisation for the Tsarnaev brothers? One was a pot-loving student‚ the other had begun exploring Islam in an effort to turn his life around. So how did Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev end up at the Boston Marathon finishing line with a willingness to kill? Image 1 of 2 The moment of the explosion at the Boston Marathon Photo 5:39PM BST 27 Apr 2013 As they hunched over the twisted bomb parts and pieces of shrapnel‚ some still bloody from where
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Noemi Solano Professor Oropesa Humanities 60-H April 1‚ 2013 “A Simple Soul” Gustave Flaubert’s short story “A Simple Soul” is about a woman of a simple mind yet a devoted heart‚ named Felicite. Although she suffered from the tremendous loss of her parents early on in her life‚ she continued to love unconditionally‚ even until her last breath. When she was 18 years old‚ she fell in love with a young man that left her for a rich‚ old woman “in order to escape the conscription…” Following this
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Afghanistan. No matter the place or the time people will always disapprove of death in photographs. It just seems like they feel it is disrespecting and disgraceful. I for one personally believe that some pictures should be shown in tabloids. Yes not all images should be seen by the public‚ but there is no better way for people to learn the truth particularly with the war on Iraq. The pictures of life and death are a mixed bunch. As such are the images taken by Stanley Forman on July 22‚ 1975‚ of the
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Boston Massacre The Massacre that was held in Boston Massachusetts on March 5‚ 1770 was a small yet horrific event. It started out as colonist teased and taunted the British soldiers. They also threw rocks and whatever else they could throw at them. The soldiers reacted to this by firing back at the colonist killing five people‚ three were killed on impact and two died later on‚ several were wounded. Immediately after‚ the colonist disappeared and the soldiers reported back to their barracks. Even
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