Ferdousi ID: 091-11-724 Sec: A Working Capital Management. Daffodil International University. 1 Introduction There is a trade-off between liquidity and profitability; gaining more of one ordinarily means giving up some of the other. Liquidity means having enough money in the form of cash‚ or near-cash assets‚ to meet your financial obligations. Alternatively‚ the ease with which assets can be converted into cash. Profitability is a measure of the amount by which a company’s revenues exceed its
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Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis Customer profitability analysis Topic Gateway Series No. 55 1 Prepared by Jasmin Harvey and Technical Information Service January 2009 Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition‚ a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they
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Customer profitabilty analysis idetifies customer service activities and cost drivers and determines the profitability of each customer or customer group. Here‚ customer service include all activities to complete the sale and satisfy the customer including advertising‚ sales calls‚ delivery‚ billing‚ collection‚ service calls‚ inquiries and other forms of customer service. Customer profitability analysis allow managers to: Identify most profitable customers Manage each customer’s cost-to-serve Introduce
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In my view‚ all the workplaces should have limited internet access as it affects the overall productivity of the company because of the lack of work-efficiency of every individual. There are two reasons in support of my opinion. Firstly‚ now days‚ Internet has a lot of entertainment than knowledge. And people are prone to watch more of entertainment shows than reading any useful information from websites which would enrich one’s knowledge. For instance‚ today’s internet has so many social networking
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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Improving Employee Productivity As you may already know‚ improving the employee productivity is one of the most important goals in any business. But‚ in spite of this‚ a lot of human resources professionals do not consider this field very relevant. Even though most of the human resources professionals do admit that their job is all about establishing schedules and rules concerning people management‚ only a few of them succeeds in bonding all these connections‚ in order to be able to increase
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A customer profitability analysis is an evaluation process that focuses on assigning costs and revenues to segments of the customer base‚ instead of assigning revenues and costs to the actual products‚ or the units or departments that compose the corporate structure of the producer. Approaching profitability from this angle can sometimes provide valuable insights into how each step of the process of designing‚ manufacturing‚ and ultimately selling a good or service incurs cost and generates revenue
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Appendix B Profitability Analysis Solutions to Questions B-1 Absolute profitability measures the impact on overall profits of adding or dropping a particular segment‚ such as a product or customer‚ without making any other changes. B-2 Relative profitability involves ranking segments‚ each of which may be absolutely profitable‚ for the purpose of making trade-offs among the segments. Such trade-offs are necessary when a constraint exists. Otherwise‚ they are not necessary. B-3 Every business
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to the economy. Businesses also allow the economy to work more efficiently. When businesses compete with one another‚ they improve their efficiency and help the economy grow. They also help the economy grow through innovations of various sorts. No market economy can thrive without businesses. Business is important to a country’s development because business can improve a country’s economy and‚ thereby‚ help with the process of development. However‚ businesses can‚ at times‚ harm a country’s
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and domestic life. This essay will argue with the fact that longer hours may have detrimental effects on work life balance and productivity. Work life balance has been defined as a phenomenon whereby optimum prioritisation between work and life aspects are achieved (Maxwell & MacDougall 2004). Nevertheless‚ many employees are unable to achieve an appropriate work life balance and this causes serious impacts on the health and individual wellbeing that effect work productivity. Achieving a good balance
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