Harnischfeger Corp 1. Describe clearly the accounting changes Harnischfeger made in 1984 as stated in Note 2 of its financial statements. On page 17‚ note 2 states that in 1984 Harnischfeger altered their depreciation from a direct method to the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes. They also included the products purchased from Kobe Steel‚ LTD and sold by them in their net sales instead of stating only the gross margin per unit. An adjustment of the residual values on certain
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Ryan R. Montenid November 15‚ 2014 Strategic Management Dr. Gloria Chavez Building Competitive Advantage through Functional-Level Strategies: Xerox Corporation 1. Identify how the changes that Xerox undertook after 1980‚ helped the company to improve its efficiency‚ quality‚ innovation and customer responsiveness. Xerox underwent series of improvement after its 1980 downfall. First‚ Xerox had changed its waste management by decreasing the number of defective products and
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the 5-year target for generating capacity from 6‚300 to 15‚000 megawatts (MW). The financial requirements were formidable. Adding 12‚000 MW to Calpine ’s current 3‚000 MW electric generating portfolio would mean building or acquiring 25 new electric power generating plants‚ Moreover‚ at a cost of roughly $500‚000 per Megawatt (MW) for a BB rated company with total assets of only $1.7 billion and a debt-to-capitalization ratio of 79%‚ financing would not be easy. To get to 15‚000 MW in five years‚ they
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Flexible Labour Markets. - Benefits and Disadvantages Flexible labour markets involve a minimum of government intervention‚ they are labour markets which work efficiently and are competitive. Many supply side economists argue flexible labour markets are of great importance in reducing unemployment and improving the competitiveness of the economy. Advantages: 1. Opportunity to exploit 24-hour economy 2. Contributes to an improvement in the inflation-unemployment trade off 3. Flexible wages
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CASE 1. COMTEC CORPORATION I. The Summary. The text tells us about the situation which took place with one of manufactures of microcomputers in Cambridge‚ Compec Corporation. It has some serious financial problems according to slow sales of its primary product (the Comtec 100 Microcomputer) in both domestic and international market. The president of the Compec‚ Dr. Daniel Needham made a decision to hire a seasoned consultant‚ Ms. Roberta Malcolm‚ to suggest recommendations for saving the
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Hello Dr. Love and classmates‚ In forum 4‚ Jodi Dressler responded to a discussion about whether or not spanking is an effective way to teach children right from wrong in her post titled "Spanking: A Useful Tool." In her post she states "I don’t see anything wrong with an occasional‚ well timed‚ swat on the backside. I feel that the key‚ though‚ is to explain to the child what they did wrong‚ how they need to make it right and balancing the spanking with lots of love." (Dressler) She then goes on
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knowledge that the Black Plague terrorized and then transformed Western Europe. By the time it was over in 1351‚ the epidemic had killed between 25% and 50% of the population (Napp). People neither understood where this atrocity came from‚ nor how to protect themselves. Many people often only associate negative effects with the Black Death; however‚ although awful effects did spawn from this epidemic‚ it also opened the way for many important positive effects to happen too. The Black Death led to the
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know the importance of the tool control program I am about to‚ in detail‚ explain to you. Hopefully my mistakes will not be repeated. There is a tool control program active in every shop. This program is very important to the safety of the helicopter and the men and women that maintain them and fly them. This program is the responsibility of each and every mechanic‚ avionics man‚ air framer‚ flight equipment men and women‚ pilots and crew chiefs. Basically‚ the tool control program established
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The Gift of Fear 1. The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Decker related to our class in the number of ways. Clearly this story showed a breach in Civil Inattention.Civil Inattention is an acknowledgment of others without imposing on them or being noticed (Week 3 Lecture). The young man in the story breached this by committing Stranger Intervention. Stranger Intervention according to Philip W. Davis means exactly how it sounds. Strangers intervene in a situation. Another concept that was greatly seen in
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Gendered Division of Labor as a Unified Systems Theory Glenn’s race-gender analysis of labor provides a unique insight to social feminism. In Gender‚ Race‚ and the Organization of Reproductive Labor‚ she analyzes society’s form of social reproduction—this gendered division of labor. I believe that Glenn’s inquiry leans more towards Young’s approach of a unified systems theory as opposed to Hartmann’s dual systems theory. Dual systems theory highlights two distinct spheres: capitalism and patriarchy
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