Acting as an outside consultant‚ what would you recommend that Pepe do? Give the data in the case‚ perform a financial analysis to evaluate the alternatives that you have identified( Assume that the new inventory could be valued as six week;s worth of the yearly cost of sales. Use a 30 percent inventory carrying cost rate.) Calculate a pay-back period for each alternative. In this case‚ Pepe Jeans has enjoyed considerable financial success with its current business model. However‚ on the other
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Pepe Jeans Case The main advantage of Pepe not carrying inventory is obviously the cost savings‚ as it is usually not efficient or cost effective for that matter‚ to carry excess inventory. The downside is not having enough pairs of jeans on hand to ship to stores when demand is high. An inventory would help alleviate this. The six month lead time is both an advantage and disadvantage for Pepe. The long lead time is positive in that once a retailer places an order‚ they only have a week to
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(Insert Title) In “Shiloh‚” by Bobbie Ann Mason‚ the reader is able to glimpse the beginning of the end of a marriage. Mason allows the audience to see the different strings unravel as the character’s separates from each other‚ emotionally‚ mentally and physically. In “Shiloh‚” a woman’s husband‚ Leroy‚ has been in an accident and is no longer able to continue with his work of truck driving. The woman‚ Norma Jean‚ is unable to cope with her husband being home all of the time and begins to find
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A Broken Wing What is it like to be free? Bobbie Ann Mason‚ the author of "Shiloh" puts Norma Jean Moffitt through different tests in her life before she can find her freedom. Mason introduces us to a character who yearns to be free from her husband and mother. Throughout Norma Jean’s life she has dealt with many difficult and trying times that sometimes may not make sense to her and finally this thirty-four-year-old woman is ready to spread her wings; fly away and see what it is like
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Growing up in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country Part of growing up is about discovering different things about yourself‚ and that includes your identity. Bobbie Ann Mason writes about a young woman searching to find herself in the novel In Country‚ while trying to put together the missing pieces of her life‚ which was caused by the Vietnam War. Sam is confronted with the fact that she knows nothing about her father or the war that caused his death. At the beginning of the novel‚ Sam sees her father as
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Shiloh is a famous battle field that the Confederate soldiers fought on in 1862. In the short story “Shiloh” written by Bobbie Ann Mason a different war took place. The main characters Norma Jean and Leroy battle with the memory of losing their child during their younger years. Even though this death wasn’t anyone’s fault this event still put a strain on their battle field which is their relationship. This tension was never acknowledge until Leroy returned home after many year as being a truck driver
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A Case Study of Interstate Business College Three Men and A lady 1. Based on the information you have gathered during your first task‚ what discrepancies/irregularities exist in Shawn Davidson’s file? * Signatures on Enrollment Agreement do not seem to be the same (pg. 507) * 1st Enrollment Agreement Total should equal $9995.00 (508) Total Tuition 8750.00 Textbooks (approx.) 970.00 Application Fee 0.00 Lab Fee 200.00 General Fee 75.00 TOTAL DUE 9‚995
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Financial Analysis Retailers estimated that Pepe Company would increase its sales by about 10% by using a flexible ordering system. Now the current sales are £ 200‚000‚000. Hence 10% of £ 200‚000‚000 is £ 20‚000‚000. Thus a flexible system would lead an increase in sales of £ 20‚000‚000. Profit before taxes (PBT) at the rate of 32% would lead to an increase in in PBT of £ 6‚400‚000 (32% of £ 20‚000‚000). Alternative 1: Decrease in lead time would lead to an increase in costs by 30%.Currently
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Fraud Fraud is listed by the 2003 UK Threat Assessment issued by the National Criminal Intelligence Service as one of the seven most significant threats facing the world1. What is a Fraud? A fraud is when one party deceives or takes unfair advantage of another. A fraud includes any act‚ omission‚ or concealment‚ involving a breach of legal or equitable duty or trust‚ which results in disadvantage or injury to another. In fact‚ in a broad strokes definition‚ fraud is a deliberate misrepresentation which
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business environment. Trends observed indicate a need for increasing secure management. Review of scholarly journals‚ industry publications and text books were performed to gather data. Findings support that implementation of fraud reporting mechanisms assist in detecting fraud. Abstract 3 Introduction 4 What is Password Hashing? 4 Defined 4 Hashing Methodologies 5 How Password Hashing is Used 6 Add SALT for Taste? 7 Who Should Care and Why Hashing is Important 8 Individual Users
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