1. Describe in words how costs are assigned in the Wilkerson’s current costing system. Discuss the pros and cons of this system. Wilkerson uses a simple traditional cost accounting system in which each unit of product is charged for direct material‚ direct labor and overhead costs. Material cost is based on the prices paid for component under annual purchasing agreements. Labor cost is charged to products based on the standard run times for each product. Labor rates‚ including fringe benefits
Premium Cost accounting Cost Costs
COPYRIGHT MATERIAL M-Tel Call Centre data: What does it tell us? In May 2009‚ Esther Ching is three months into her role as manager of the complaints section of a call centre‚ located in India. The call centre is owned and run by M-Tel‚ a Malaysian telco company. Her section handles all billing complaints and service difficulties. The main products are landlines‚ mobile telephones and internet access. She is required to present a report about the performance of her section‚ as part of the regular
Free Service of process Complaint Pleading
Plastic bags have become an ever-growing issue with the increasing predicament of pollution into today’s society. Single use plastic bags are made from petroleum products and therefore affect fossil fuel supplies. The sourcing and manufacturing process of this product plays a part in environmental pollution‚ and is therefore a contributing threat to the environment (Clapp & Swanston‚ 2009). This critical economic overview of a plastic bag tax shall examine and analyse both the positive and the negative
Premium Carbon dioxide Greenhouse gas Pollution
Visual Categorization with Bags of Keypoints Gabriella Csurka‚ Christopher R. Dance‚ Lixin Fan‚ Jutta Willamowski‚ Cédric Bray Xerox Research Centre Europe 6‚ chemin de Maupertuis 38240 Meylan‚ France {gcsurka‚cdance}@xrce.xerox.com Abstract. We present a novel method for generic visual categorization: the problem of identifying the object content of natural images while generalizing across variations inherent to the object class. This bag of keypoints method is based on vector quantization
Premium Machine learning
by themselves and this is what we see every day. Keeping the social issues in mind the two novels that we will be talking about are Hana’s suitcase which is nonfiction and the paper Bag princess which is a fantasy story (fiction). Their main leads are Hana Brady from Hana’s suitcase and Princess Elizabeth from Paper bag princess. They aware us with the social issues taking place with regards
Premium Sociology Fiction Literature
issues and try to solve them. It is remarkable that all literary works deal with various social issues. Authors explore‚ show and develop them in different ways. This helps a reader to understand the concepts of these social issues better. The Paper Bag Princess written by Robert Munsch‚ and Hana’s Suitcase written by Karen Levine are two significant pieces of literature that deal with similar social issues. Their main characters‚ princess
Premium Sociology Psychology Family
Brown vs. Board of Education Brown vs. Board of Education‚ in 1954‚ was a major case that dealt with the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the decision did not succeed in fully integrating public education in the United States‚ it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and sent the civil rights movement into a full revolution. This case was presented to the court by Oliver Brown was against the
Premium Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court of the United States Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
150-05 September 11‚ 2013 Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka In 1954 there was a specific Supreme Court case that caused a lot of controversy in the world: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. This cause came about because an 8-year-old little girl‚ Linda Brown‚ was denied permission to attend the elementary school 5 blocks from her house because she was not white; instead she was assigned to a nonwhite school 21 blocks from her house. (Brown v. Board of Education ) Her
Premium Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court of the United States United States
Answer 1. SWOT analysis of The Fashion Channel The Fashion Channel (TFC) is a 24*7 cable TV network which is exclusively dedicated to fashion. It was found in 1996 and since then it has been witnessing continuous upswing. According to an annual demographic survey‚ TFC is having approximately 110 million subscribers of cable & satellite television. But‚ due to increasing competition with other fashion channels‚ it is in the need for developing a modern and updated brand strategy. SWOT analysis
Premium Marketing Advertising
Q3. What are the prospects for the industry going forward? 1.Though the average level of profitability in the pharmaceutical industry has been declining over time (In 2002‚ the average ROIC in the industry was 21.6%; by 2006‚ it had fallen to 14.5%)‚ historically‚ the pharmaceutical industry has been a profitable one. Because- Name of industry | Average ROIC(Between 2002 and 2006) | Pharmaceuticals | 16.45%(large) | computer hardware | 12.76% | Electronics | 3.88% | 2. The prospect
Premium Pharmaceutical industry Pharmacology Generic drug